They cause such sweet tears, and tactics, area denial, restricting enemy movement, reducing enemy numbers, instilling terror and other such "scrubby" stuff.

I play a stealth assault suit. I have no problem killing them, so as I see it, a great counter to a sniper is in a stealth class. Not only can stealth player kill snipers and take out droplinks, if I can't find that, flanking the enemy and/or killing the logis behind everyone is very helpful to the team.

lol.. I love the tears. if your complaining about them then they are working as intended.
2. every other weapon, no really any other weapon just find them and shoot them I promise it work or your bad at FPS and should try a different type of game completely.

the counter to snipers is other snipers(counter sniping), stealth, or the laser rifle. point one on them for about a half second and they're dead.

seriously, laser rifles have half the range, much better power, longer clips, and none of that "I'm so ****ing wasted right now, dude" sway that snipers have to deal with. There's a reason you never snipers closer than 150 meters.

an smg couldn't could it, a LR could do that as well, but it has to deal with overheat, and gives away the user's position. the sniper on the other hand can do those things over a huge distance without giving his position away, if a sniper is pissing you off it means he's doing his job right, just because your angry that a sniper took you down a couple of times (btw a few things like zizzagging, stopping suddenly, and cover go a long way to reducing the amount of times you go down) doesn't mean they should be removed.

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Obvious troll profile. Try harder.

I've seen people snipe clear across the map on battlefield, a good deal of luck plays into it but it happens, and games like cod shouldn't even have snipers, the maps are way too small for them to even be used, and snipers are designed to take out targets long distances away, hell some rifles have maximum ranges of over a kilometre.

It's not snipers

it's how 90% of people use snipers

*sigh* maybe we should remove railguns as well, and LR's and everything that doesn't involve CQC while we're at it, that's really the kinda game we want, a ****** CQ cod clone. The fact is simple, their are quite a lot of bits of modern tech that are more than capable of making kills over a kilometer away, far out of decent view unless you have a magnification device, imagine what happens if you then go ten's of thousands of years into the future.

I bet you would really really hate rail tanks, big clear targets that hit from 550m away in a single shot and the choices for taking them down is much more limited. im like you would quit and never come back if you have a problem with snipers this bad... going to run that a bit more now, thanks!

A lot is apparently being planned for snipers.

Back in closed beta, players may remember the "experimental sniper rifle"- I never used this myself, but apparently it had much longer range, but had a dropoff on the shot.
It was also originally planned for the build we're in now that all sniper rifles would need to be charged up, but it didn't make it in time (check the chromosome patch notes)

omfg... i'll wait for when you do they are getting more common.

True, but cod clone doesn't necessarily equal fun either does it? Cod is just a lemming rush at each other with 11 year olds screaming at you down the mic, calling you a noob if you even try using a sniper scope like you're supposed too. COD is the most popular shooter because it makes every player think "I AM INVINCIBLE, I AM THE GREATEST PLAYER TO HAVE EVER DEIGNED TO PLAY THIS GAME, ANYTHING THAT KILLS ME MUST BE GLITCHED THEIR IS NO OTHER WAY I COULD DIE, I'M JUST SO GOOD, NOW STOP COMPLAINGING YOU SCRUBLETS AND LISTEN TO MY AWESOME MUSIC WHICH MY CHEAP HEADSET IS TOTALLY NOT MANGLING ENOUGH TO MAKE YOUR EARS BLEED". Not to mention the fact that what your asking for would remove 1 of the best and most useful roles (yes i said, thats my honest opinion on it, so f*ck you) from dust.

so, what have we learned so far?

-CoD kid wants every game to be CoD.
-DUST players realize that CoD is the cancer that is killing good games
-Kid thinks that if he whines hard enough, DUST will become CoD.
-Kid is wrong.

But thats what your basically aiming for, when you say a weapon should be removed because it doesn't mean every fight is a close quarter brawl.

we just have to hope for a larger player count, besides it depends on the map, some maps give you lots of small, long range engagements with one or two major ones like manus peak, others throw lots of large CQ engagements at you. depends on the map you get.

sorrry this post made me lol hard. Bullet drop isnt going to stop a good sniper. Example I play arma 1, arma 2 and VBS2 both are Milsims with real world bullet effect (wind, gravity, hearty, and etc) that doesnt stop me from sniping someone at 2,500 meters away 90% of the time.

Good sniper does in order
1st recon
2nd locate major threats
3rd Kill/ suppression fire

i bet your a CoD noob

Btw the arma series and vbs map are 20km x 20km

arrogant no . An Ahole yes. I'll guess ill correct you some more. You say snipers are rarely used. you are wrong there in rl world sniper are in almost virtually all battle either on your side or the enemies. And as others have stated the do more than just shoot they provide intel on troop movement and over watch that a sniper primarily job . Shooting and killing is secondary. Like other have said sniper with a mic is invaluable.

the only snipers that **** me off are glitcher sniper
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