DUST Search - Some Sniper Love in an Otherwise Hostile World

IrishWebster wrote:

I'm a sniper. Lots of people hate me, but I don't care. My squad mates know that I'm super useful, NOT selfish at all and do what I do for the betterment of my team.

SO, lets give the snipers who DESERVE it some love, yeah?

Everyone tell a story of either you as a sniper or a sniper you know that is either funny, amazing, or just bad ass. I'll begin with funny.

I was lining up my headshot on a sniper yesterday, and when I pulled the trigger... BOOM. Only one quarter of his health is cleared. Now as any sniper knows, that means only one thing- I've hit a heavy. I put two more shots into him and he's down by three quarters of his EHP, when he ducks behind a pillar. I think, "Oh noes! Hees hidden and beeyond mai reech!" But what does Mr. Heavy McSniperpants do?

He jumps from his perch, landing some 100 meters below, killing himself and giving me a kill assist. LOL Dummy.

I hunt enemy snipers to make sure my assault team can handle their assault unimpeded, and I use a fit with a low scan profile so I'm hard to find. Sniping with a heavy suit is like standing in a nanohive bubble, jumping up and down with a bright flashy "HERE I AM!" sign, whilst firing off flares to mark your position. Fail. HUGE scan profile. But... jumping from your high haven of relative safety having no health with which to cushion your fall? Most unwise.

If you're gonna snipe, do it properly, or be doomed to failure. Lol

-Irish


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Vallud Eadesso Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 241	Posted - 2013.06.22 03:02:00 - [1] - Quote IrishWebster wrote: I'm a sniper. Lots of people hate me, but I don't care. My squad mates know that I'm super useful, NOT selfish at all and do what I do for the betterment of my team. SO, lets give the snipers who DESERVE it some love, yeah? Everyone tell a story of either you as a sniper or a sniper you know that is either funny, amazing, or just bad ass. I'll begin with funny. I was lining up my headshot on a sniper yesterday, and when I pulled the trigger... BOOM. Only one quarter of his health is cleared. Now as any sniper knows, that means only one thing- I've hit a heavy. I put two more shots into him and he's down by three quarters of his EHP, when he ducks behind a pillar. I think, "Oh noes! Hees hidden and beeyond mai reech!" But what does Mr. Heavy McSniperpants do? He jumps from his perch, landing some 100 meters below, killing himself and giving me a kill assist. LOL Dummy. I hunt enemy snipers to make sure my assault team can handle their assault unimpeded, and I use a fit with a low scan profile so I'm hard to find. Sniping with a heavy suit is like standing in a nanohive bubble, jumping up and down with a bright flashy "HERE I AM!" sign, whilst firing off flares to mark your position. Fail. HUGE scan profile. But... jumping from your high haven of relative safety having no health with which to cushion your fall? Most unwise. If you're gonna snipe, do it properly, or be doomed to failure. Lol -Irish I don't see the point of the sniper class, honestly. I mean, well done for being honest about being a dedicated sniper, that's a point of derision these days it seems. But I come from a much more tactical shooter background. I usually play stuff like ArmA2\3 in squads with MilSim rules and I consider it intense fun... But one thing it taught me is that snipers are good for one thing. Intel. The moment they fire their gun, they're not doing their job and therefore i'd rather have another gun in my squad. In Dust I admit it's perhaps not so clear cut due to the natures of the games, but when I'm rolling with my own friends and squads I just can't think of a reason i'd want a sniper over a heavy, or a logi, or hell another guy with a tac AC. Snipers who do their job (That is, provide intel and spend more time talking than shooting) are a decent asset. But the moment they sit out on the redline in the mountains they're now a useless piece of meat dragging the whole team's efficacy down. I genuinely cant think of a job a sniper does better than anyone else. Not one. They very occasionally annoy one and only one person on the other time. The size of health bars and the fact we're immortal and resawn (Unlike in ArmA) Means no one protects their vrtual lives and will just bumrush any sniper too lazy to relocate. I've been saying this since MPT days, but I just don't see how a class so focused around solo play and K\D padding fits into a team based FPS.