I got hit early tonight from a corner near the Red Zone. The Sniper has a very nice position, switched to Scout with Shotty, went searching, found, head shot from the back, shot uplink, shot hives and I felt good.

Why this is so hard for others do I still do not understand.

Stop trying to take away my gameplay experience just because you can't just run around blindly, spraying your AR all over the place, like a chicken with it's head cut off. Watch where you're going, move tactically, and HTFU.

I agree to some extent, I understand the whole vertical map thing they have going on but they need to focus more on indoor areas and such.

Whilst the two posters above me have had an "easy" time with snipers, I'll point out that there are many locations your little shotgun scout won't be able to reach. I go sniping with a Forge Gun on these points after placing an uplink and nanohives on a high point that is not reachable unless you have a Dropship. From this point unless you're a sniper, you won't kill me.

I also run a pretty meaty miron and guess whst comes out if you do that . Haha I cant count how many times iv drooed of a squad of heavies ont the roof of a tall building to hmg them lol . That or ill bring out my gunlogi with the particle accelsrator and spam the sniper with the rail gun . And no its not allways easy but its a chalange and fun . There are many ways to skin a cat and if your an adaptable soldier youll learn to deal with almost any situation.

True, but I've yet to be killed on that spot yet heh, Dropships usually die and I can see into the enemy redline so as they call them in I begin to shoot them down, just wait til I get that protoforge.

Poor level design and plain landscapes. Open battle locations with no in-door combat. Also size of the maps and lack of any method to deal with snipers except counter-sniping causes that camping and sniping is more profitable in term of KDR than actual Assaulting.

Note how it's been repeatedly stated that there isn't enough cover on most maps

I eat snipers for breakfast right after I fillet them.

Hell iv even ramed mr meode with my myron in a daft attempt to didtract him from my corp mates oncoming tank lol . Game ended with him on a skither of armour on his logi . I guess what im saying is were bit nuts at the shadow cavalry and will do almost anything yo try and tackle a problem on the battlefield

@Bacon, Try running up on a laser sitting on the strait pipe or bent pipe. With anything besides another laser rifle or a sniper rifle it is impossible to run up on a good laser or sniper camping these two spots as it is nothing but a long straight run to them. Many maps have locations like this where there is no cover to use to move up on a vigilant laser or sniper. Also I'm confused to how you beleive that a laser rifles damage is fine when at the end of their burn I die on first contact of the laser instantly.

* - except for the really tall structures.

@Bacon, Try running up on a laser sitting on the strait pipe or bent pipe. With anything besides another laser rifle or a sniper rifle it is impossible to run up on a good laser or sniper camping these two spots as it is nothing but a long straight run to them. Many maps have locations like this where there is no cover to use to move up on a vigilant laser or sniper. Also I'm confused to how you beleive that a laser rifles damage is fine when at the end of their burn I die on first contact of the laser instantly.

Also for snipers to be able to instantly re spawn at their nest unless someone goes way out of their way to climb ladders and find their drop uplink (which is almost always invisible anyways) is a bit overpowered. Edpecially when it comes to locations that can only be reached via drop ships. I know a few players that sacrifice a 200k isk dropship in order to get to certain spots where they are invincible as a laser.

The point is they made to many of these positions, making the game now a race to ladders. Often times I wonder where my team is then look on top of table top and find 10 of my blueberries, and not a single red dot in the area. The map design with the perches isn't a problem because snipers/lasers are invincible, its that they are encouraged to a point where you have more snipers and lasers than anything else on your team.