This wouldn't solve anything. If the enemy is behind the redline or 1 cm away from the red line, how much more likely are you to be able to kill them? Moving snipers onto the actual battlefield and off the mountains way off to the side or behind the lines can be done, as the other guy said, through making sniping take skill, and making long shots harder than close shots.

The game should not ever revolve around snipers. The fact that the "job" of a sniper can ever be to cause the amount of damage they can is evidence of the fact that they're not in-line with other methods of playing. The fact that I, as a sniper, can kill 4 or 5 people as they move from one objective to another and necessarily cross open ground to get there is absurd.

Planetside 2 is exactly where Dust needs to be, and the fact that most snipers can't accept that only illuminates the kind of sense of entitlement sniper players currently have. Sniping is by far the safest, most powerful, least demanding way to play this game. Its power is unmatched, the ease of use for sniper rifles is unmatched, and the ISK/SP required to be dominant is minimal. Even a militia sniper rifle with militia everything else will allow a totally new player to two-shot people from across the map. Any sniper who knows what they're doing can shut down entire avenues of approach, all on their own, with nothing the enemy can realistically hope to do aside from something suicidal which may buy them a minute of reprieve at best. That is unacceptable. Dust will never gain the kind of traction it needs to so long as ****** methods of play like spamming grenades or being a sniper remain as imbalanced as they are.

Boo hoo hoo. Mommy, I got shot whilst playing an FPS. Thats not fair!

Are you sure you're playing the right genre?

It should revolve around the people who are actually on the ground, in the middle of the fight, engaging people and themselves being engaged. Infantry of any weapon type or dropsuit type, vehicles, and so on. Snipers are not active participants in the game. They are alone, not interacting with anyone in a meaningful way, and are only apparent to themselves via counter-sniping, and to the people whom they shoot and injure/kill at random periods. As the OP's video points out, they aren't creating any fun gameplay themselves.

They aren't "supposed" to do anything. All they should be doing is what makes gameplay fun. Four people in a squad hitting an objective, getting killed in seconds by one person when they person gets a bit lucky and doesn't miss any shots, with no way to defend themselves against that person, is not fun gameplay.

I assume all you do is snipe considering your defence of snipers in total disregard of logic, so you should know that "someone should be counter-sniping" is a meaningless statement. There could be 10 people on the enemy team counter-sniping for that one squad advancing, but some sniper vantage points are totally safe from enemy snipers unless those snipers are in specific areas, relatively far afield.

This just isn't the point. It doesn't matter if you can get them. It doesn't matter if they are or are not OP. The point is that snipers are no fun in the game for anyone but themselves. I don't mind dying in an assault fight, or against most any other weapon, even grenade or tank (at least, current tanks - tanks a couple of builds back or whenever were just plain annoying).

There is no "should be". It's a game. The only "should be" is that it should be fun. Being one-hit-killed from 500 m wouldn't be fun. I know, because a couple builds ago it was easy to do just that as a sniper against most non-heavies with simple body shots. That is not good gameplay, and any attempt at realistic justification you may try is totally irrelevant.

For me, sniping is the way I can be the most successful, and economical soldier possible, while at the same time helping my team as much as I can. The way I see it, my role is to deplete the enemy's clone supply, and cover whatever objectives I can. Plus I keep enemy snipers off my team by being constantly aware of common sniping spots.

If you're being sniped a lot, it is entirely your own fault. The majority of the kills I get are from enemy players making mistakes. The good players are the ones I almost never see, because they know the sightlines, and they never stay still. And don't think you're safe because your in an lav or dropship, I've sniped people out of both

You can get pretty similar KDR to tank users as a sniper, except you can run a militia sniper setup for free, while tanks cost at least 100k at their crappiest.

First off... Ballistics added? Really? You do realize that the round from sniper rifles are, as per the description, traveling at over 8000m/sec, or 5.44 miles per second. At the ranges they are used at, there won't be any noticeable travel time or ballistic drop.