The OP is correct. Sniper fits can be powerful yet inexpensive, die rarely once you get the hang of it, and rack up kills. Decent snipers will easily place highly in matches, and sit atop piles of ISK at the end of it.

This obviously needs to change.

Sniper skill cap is as high as anything, though. It's a game of target aquisition and precision, with battlefield awareness focus.

And don't forget mind reading, you have to pick up and memorize as many different habits and strafe styles as you can.

Indeed, but... wait... omg... OMG.... Sleepy's Back?! I must have missed your return announcement! Welcome back man, are you planning to start in on Dust again or are you just policing the forums for easy trolls?

So true~



Errr... Why?

I'm just a warrior of the forums atm.

And I'm not important enough for a return announcement the only reason why I made it public I wasn't going to be playing dust for awhile is because I had no access to my corp chat.

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The real problem is the fact that players refuse to focus their efforts on killing snipers and instead focus all efforts onto objectives.

While this will win the match, it will not kill the camping snipers.

The phrase, I believe, is that you cannot have your cake and eat it.

Put time into actually practicing sniper hunting, instead of constantly running across the same open ground from the same spawn points and dying, then venting on the forums.
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People always complain about something they cannot 'seem' to defeat.

Teamwork = dead snipers.

Dust is all about the teamwork.

If you're not prepared to work together, play CoD, and that isn't a trolling comment, it's my honest opinion.

Yes, hill camping snipers are an annoyance, but they are also predictable.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

The real problem is the fact that players refuse to focus their efforts on killing snipers and instead focus all efforts onto objectives.

While this will win the match, it will not kill the camping snipers.

The phrase, I believe, is that you cannot have your cake and eat it.

Put time into actually practicing sniper hunting, instead of constantly running across the same open ground from the same spawn points and dying, then venting on the forums.

My two cents.

Again, my comment is in no way meant to anger anyone, it's just a point of view from playing Dust.

Its CCPs game design. You can't blame people for choosing the path of least resistance.

With a sniper you can fight with almost no attrition(Death), which in turns saves you money, you always end up with a profit both in terms of Isk and the 'all important' K/D ratio. This means you can afford the best equipment and still project force across the battlefield without fear of losing too much 'pro gear' because you're way behind the action. Counter snipers? Please. A sniper dies once, then repositions themselves with view of the enemy while blocking the view of the enemy sniper.

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I'm not really sure how to counter the goto sniper culture. I've suggested doubling the cost of all sniper rifles. Removing the militia BPO might be a good idea (arbitors can still keep thiers - mainly because the suit sucks). It might be a non-issue once corporations become more than an intresting side note and we have district warfare.

Do you agree? Disagree? State why.

Easy exploitable way to gain large sums of isk in matches while padding stats, I can't imagine how that could ever be a problem

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Snipers are fine stop trying to funnel the game so everyone just ends up playing frontline roles

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Snipers are fine stop trying to funnel the game so everyone just ends up playing frontline roles

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Snipers are fine stop trying to funnel the game so everyone just ends up playing frontline roles

Snipers are fine. Nobody is saying they arn't but there is a logistical unbalance that needs to be addressed.

In my opinion though it's the same as people who sit at the back and do nothing for SP and isk. Only they have a dropsuit and weapon designed to occassionally get some extra cash.

And thats fine.

Only the game encourages EVERYONE to do this, at least in instant battle. Everything should have consiquences, sniping has the least attritional consiquences of all the classes.

At the very least sniper rifles should have thier costs increased to counter balance thier relatively low risk. You can still snipe, it should just cost you more to do so, in terms of isk.

Dust has yet to balance the sniper in my opinion. Why is every other gun limited by a hard range cap except for the sniper rifle? No reduced damage, no sharpshooter, no bullet drop. Additionally, there is no effective way to drop a sniper outside of your range outside of an orbital strike.

Dying by an unknown sniper in an unknown direction is extremely frustrating. Revealing a location of sniper is important via a mechanic like a kill cam (probably not suitable for dust) or a scope glint like how battlefield 3 approaches it. Additionally, once a sniper is found, I should have some sort of capacity to kill the sniper with the gun I wield and DUST does not provide that unless I walk around with a forge or another sniper rifle (which ultimate contributes to the problem)