I completely believe you when you say you don't play a sniper. Sniper vantage points on most maps allow you to see huge areas at a time. When a sniper is able to shoot anything in a given third of the map, and can shoot the rest of the map if he repositions himself by walking a few metres, what exactly is the sight line you're avoiding? You could hide behind a box all game, but that only protects you from one side, and is probably not very fun.

The bottom line is that sniping is incredibly powerful, incredibly easy to do, places snipers in very little risk if they have a brain, and there is, realistically, nothing you can do as an infantry person other than ensuring you remain constantly in motion. Sniping is not fun to deal with as an infantry guy, as as the video points out, it adds nothing to the game other than causing you to randomly take damage or die with no recourse.



Not really. You just walk up to them and shoot them and they die without a fight. Maybe they spam grenades before you drop them, but they're dead. It isn't a challenge to kill them and is only satisfying because snipers are annoying. Much of the time snipers are so far away from you, and in difficult terrain, and safely protected by their own team, that killing the sniper in a method other than through sniping them yourself is unrealistic.



90% of the maps are open terrain. If you want to attack an objective, you need to cross open terrain. Using your logic, only the people hiding in the MCC are the ones who don't "deserve" to die to snipers. Boy, that surely sounds like a fun game to me, the one where you never move out of cover so that you don't get sniped.

Is killing a sniper fun?

I always laugh when people suggest using vehicles to counter snipers as if that means there isn't a problem. Sniper rifle costs 5k ISK or something minor like that. You can go out in a militia suit and a 5k rifle and two-shot most people from across the map. The "solution" isn't to bring in a vehicle worth tens of thousands of ISK and charge them down, as if killing them once will solve the problem. The solution is to make sniper rifles have power in-line with their cost, and in-line with their difficulty of use.

And I spent the past two builds as a sniper. I had a KDR of around 14 and thousands of kills across both builds. I know what works on snipers and what doesn't. I'm not missing out on anything. Bar none the only reliable way to deal with snipers is to counter-snipe them. And even though I've tried to stick to non-sniper weapons this build exclusively, sometimes I find myself having to resort to overpowered sniping to deal with overpowered snipers. Not very fun.

I have never been killed by a dropship crashing into me as a sniper. Seems like an awfully expensive way to buy yourself 2 minutes without one sniper killing your guys. If you are serious about countering snipers, as I said, the only reliable method is through sniping yourself. As an added pro tip, if you use a sniper rifle and move about the battlefield as a regular infantry guy might, rather than staying way in the back or flanks like most snipers do, you can often catch enemy snipers unawares, as they won't realize the guy running around down there isn't a harmless AR-packing grunt, but in fact an enemy sniper.

Note that this is a bit dicey a tactic as you're obviously vulnerable to enemy infantry whilst doing it, but if you can do it properly you can get several kills on enemy snipers without being a tool and crashing a 50k ISK vehicle into them.