They're a nuisance that offer no real benefits to the game.

1) They make what is a scattered match even more scattered. Oh gee, let's let people sit half way across the maps and take pot shots at each other! That'll surely make the battles feel engaging! The maps are massive enough as it is. Allowing people to take themselves completely out of the battle while still picking off anyone else actually in a battle seems pointless.

2) The only real counter to a sniper is another sniper. No other class has its major counter its own class.

If you can offer any benefits that can outweigh these two glaring disadvantages, I'd like to hear them. Otherwise they are quite pointless, and the game as a whole would be better off without them.

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.

And just wait until we get actual cloaking devices. If snipers can equip them, good luck finding any to kill. They'll just snipe, and cloak to hide from any counter attacks.

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.

And every other class can do that just as effectively.

Let me know of a unique feature that snipers offer.

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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This GTFO mentality is going to send this game straight into the gutter.

At least in Eve there is plenty of other things to do besides fighting. You're not going to get any new people to stick around if they continually get picked off by enemies they literally cannot see.

And in other FPS the maps are small enough that you can actually see snipers or there's bullet drop so they can't snipe clear across the map.

Dust 514 has the worst of both. Massive maps with no bullet drop off.

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.

If the laser has half the distance of a sniper rifle, how exactly is it helpful? Snipers will just stay out of the range and pick people off that way.

Stealth is almost as useless as it enforces my first problem, it scatters people so much that it's not much of a massive battle anymore. All it is is pockets of 2-3 people on massive maps.

And like I said, take them out and the game wouldn't be hurt at all. Battles would be closer together and it would feel like an actual battle, not being picked off by a person you can't even see.

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.

But Snipers aren't really used in battle. They're more for assassinating targets.

Realism doesn't always equal fun.

If people aren't having fun in a game, it's not going to last very long.

But Snipers aren't really used in battle. They're more for assassinating targets.

Realism doesn't always equal fun.

If people aren't having fun in a game, it's not going to last very long.

*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.