Don't.

dont what?

dont what?

Meh. Sniping's fine; just don't do it to exclusion, especially in Skirmish.

A sniper's focus and purpose is to kill people, tidily, from long range. If killing people gets you closer to achieving your objectives, it's a net positive. If not, it's K/D padding.

Most Skirmish matches are not won on kills. If you cannot stop or slow a hostile offensive or effectively support your own (by softening up hostile defenses, for example), you need to find something else to do for a while. Constantly ask yourself whether what you're doing will aid your team, and you won't come across as a kill-farming jerk.

(Also, the "head glitch" is a terrain modeling issue that will never look like any kind of abuse while you are using it-- it's just making good, traditional use of cover. It looks different from the other side.)

yeah, like you're completely in the open but no shots at all will register. so basically its a terrain rendering exploit. you know what happens when they fix exploits, right? the people using them get caught flatfooted and killed. A lot.

supposedly the headglitching exploit will be fixed come may 6th, so most sniper's days are numbered right now.(they'll give up when they realize that they can now be shot just like everyone else.)

Maybe so, but I can't say I remember ever being in squad with a guy who said, "I'm going to get up on top of Sniper Mountain on Manus Peak to exploit the head glitch."

Like I said, it looks like totally fair play from the sniper's point of view. Head glitching is something other people do.

One fun side note is that it's not consistent even now. Not knowing what the glitch's parameters are, the "glitching" sniper has no way of knowing when his slight movements carry him out of the protected area, so occasionally checking back and trying that shot again produces satisfyingly bloody results.

They move? I've never seen that. they just sit there, presumably with a **** bottle, poopsock, and an nanohive lodged in their colon.

If you can't tell, I don't like snipers, and they know they're headglitching. Why else would they be in uniform spots on each map?

Ok, well I played a bit earlier, and I have to say,s niping is fun.

Ive been doing pretty well, depending on the map.

I have to say I prefer ambush(getting the kills to win) alot more fun, but ive been getting annoyed when I dont find a good spot.


^^

I love the default and the one shot to the head thing.

I always aim for head.


Uh the tactical sniper?


Um can you guys explain it to me?

how good is it?

what can it do cmopared to a basic sniper that does dmg per shot?

Ok, well I played a bit earlier, and I have to say,s niping is fun.

Ive been doing pretty well, depending on the map.

I have to say I prefer ambush(getting the kills to win) alot more fun, but ive been getting annoyed when I dont find a good spot.


^^

I love the default and the one shot to the head thing.

I always aim for head.


Uh the tactical sniper?


Um can you guys explain it to me?

how good is it?

what can it do cmopared to a basic sniper that does dmg per shot?

It all just depends on your playstyle.

Sniper Rifle: 5 shot clip, more damage, slower ROF.
Tactical Sniper Rifle: 3 shot clip, less damage, much higher ROF.
Charge Sniper Rifle: 5 shot clip, shitload of damage, slow ROF. With this variant you hold down the fire button and release to shoot once charged.

It all just depends on your playstyle.

Sniper Rifle: 5 shot clip, more damage, slower ROF.
Tactical Sniper Rifle: 3 shot clip, less damage, much higher ROF.
Charge Sniper Rifle: 5 shot clip, shitload of damage, slow ROF. With this variant you hold down the fire button and release to shoot once charged.

You forgot to mention that the Tactical Sniper more zoom on the scope. It's slightly better for extreme range counter-sniping, but not as effective in close quarters because of it.

Ok between sniper rifle and tactical.

How is the recoil on the tactical?

Is the tactical more reliable for headshots? Body shots?

I'm pretty sure the zoom fidelity is the same. The Tac AR has an increased zoom fidelity but I haven't noticed anything for the sniper rifles.

Last time I looked at sniper descriptions, zoom fidelity was mentioned for the Tac Sniper, and while I haven't used them since the last reset, they DID have a slightly higher zoom back then. It wasn't a huge difference, but it was enough for me to notice. I'd be inclined to defer to your (more recent) experience in this case though, since I haven't looked at it in a LOONG time.

well "reliable" is probably the wrong term.. It's entirely dependant on skill, and with the same (if not, very similar) zoom fidelity there is really much of a muchness. A headshot will do 195% of the damage though, so you'll OHK more with the standard sniper rifle when you get a head shot

It does, definitely, have better zoom. I switched over to it from using charged snipers a few days ago, and the difference is significant.

Now, when I say "significant," please understand that I mean enemies at extreme range are made out of a dozen or so pixels instead of six.

It is NOT the Thale's, which comes with God's own eyeball (and ability to smite).

I literally just tested it, measuring an object (the same object in both instances) in my FOV against the scope HUD. It was exactly the same. I would suggest that any impression of better zoom is a placebo effect

Don't.

As a new player, DON'T snipe. You'll hurt your progression, you'll be struggling to get isk and especially SP.

Only thing good about it is that (in the current chromosome build) you will upgrade the same light weapon skills which help the tool you SHOULD be using: The assault rifle.

Assault rifle is the bread and butter, master it first. Get a setup with what you can get decent isk and SP. And no don't think sniping gives you ok without really going assault (with uplinks or nanite injectors).


EDIT: If you only spec into sniping, you're too specialized. In many skirmishes you are not needed or you are at serious disadvantage. Let alone ambushes...