Ive been playing FPS games for a while, and depending which game, it always seems like sniping takes the most skill.

This is depending of course on the FPS.


Games like battlefield or Dust, where headshots are quite needed for OHK's,


seem to be where snipers have to hae the most skills, just to do well.


Ive also noticed alot of these maps are close quarters, which means a sniper is out of his league really.


ive also noticed assault rifles have a really good accuracy at all ranges, and that you can easily sinpe with one too.

anyways,


am I wrong to assume that as a sniper, I take the msot skill to be the best on the battlefield?

or perhaps, its my weapon, the basic sniper that is pretty needed for skill.

getting a kill on a moving target is always hard.

Any brain dead idiot can sit on a mountain and shoot at the occasional enemy that enters their line of sight. Sniper rifles in this game use hit scan, so no, it doesn't take skill to use one.

am I wrong to assume that as a sniper, I take the msot skill to be the best on the battlefield?

what is hit scan?

I'd say (speaking as a frequent sniper myself) that as a dedicated sniper, you need the most skill to turn the tide of a match.

Snipers are very good at killing. They are not so good at turning the tide of battle, and a close-quarters battle with everybody dancing around everybody else is rarely going to have a different outcome because you were shooting into it. Not "never," but rarely.

As a sniper, the most vital function you typically perform for your team is taking out hostile snipers so that they can do their jobs unmolested. This does take skill (and some understanding of how the map works and why-- beware the misnamed "head glitch"), but, because snipers are typically motionless, the easiest prey for a sniper is another sniper.

What takes the most skill? Eh ... it depends on who you ask. Every role in DUST requires a goodly dose of it; this is not a forgiving game. Even heavies tend to die horribly if they get in over their heads, which they find easy to do.

I suppose the best answer to the question, "What takes the most skill?" is another question:

"At what?"

If your reticle is over the enemy when you fire, you will hit them.

No bullet drop, no travel time, you just hit.

anyway, so in thsi game, sniping is actually really good to be ompared to other FPS's?

Ive been playing FPS games for a while, and depending which game, it always seems like sniping takes the most skill.

This is depending of course on the FPS.


Games like battlefield or Dust, where headshots are quite needed for OHK's,


seem to be where snipers have to hae the most skills, just to do well.


Ive also noticed alot of these maps are close quarters, which means a sniper is out of his league really.


ive also noticed assault rifles have a really good accuracy at all ranges, and that you can easily sinpe with one too.

anyways,


am I wrong to assume that as a sniper, I take the msot skill to be the best on the battlefield?

or perhaps, its my weapon, the basic sniper that is pretty needed for skill.

getting a kill on a moving target is always hard.

So I do not need to lead a target, if my reticule is over the target, boom auto hit?

the whining on the forums are to be taken with a grain of salt.

Have you ever been anywhere on the internet where this isn't the case?

Like, EVER?

This is some sort of awfully written troll post, right? No matter how skilled you are, you'll never be a useful sniper. Stop thinking you will be. Just man up, shoot mans with useful guns, and stop hiding in the redline.

In DUST, the combination of server-side hit detection and hitscan damage modeling on snipers means that, instead of leading for bullet travel time, you're leading for your latency.

If you've got consistently low ping all the time, meaning the game always puts you on your local servers AND you have top-quality internet connection (needs to be better than anything available where I live), then hitscan means you'll hit every time if you line up the shot exactly on the target.

If you have 100ms ping, you have to lead your shots by 0.1 of a second, if you have 500ms ping, and are somehow staying connected to the game, you need a half-second lead time on your target for the shot to connect. If a target is in line of sight for an enemy sniper, and not changing direction for more than half a second, either you did REALLY well or they screwed up.

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As a non-sniper who lives with a sniper, I can honestly say that picking up the game and being able to say "I'm a sniper" doesn't necessarily take any skill. You can FEEL competent as a sniper without really providing benefit to your team. Playing as a Shotgunner, if you're doing badly, you will ALWAYS feel like you're failing. Often, a Shotgunner will feel like they're failing miserable and still not only come out positive, but their kills will have been on critical targets that turned the tide of several major encounters.

Of course, counter-balancing that easy sense of accomplishment is the fact that a truly useful sniper is rarely the one with the best K/D, because they put themselves into risky positions to counter-snipe, or to clear objectives, or to hit that Logi first so he doesn't get the Heavy back up when your teammates take him down, or softens up a few enemies for your team and only collects the Assists instead of kills.

Being a good sniper is more often about knowing WHEN and HOW to engage than just about lining up your shots correctly.

Unless you are using the sniper at shotgun ranges in Dust, it takes about 0 skill to sit somewhere high on a mountain and take shots at people unaware you are there.