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Pandora Mars
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.06.24 23:53:00 -
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An open thread, just to discuss how different players find out different ways to spot a sniper.
Of course there are many unmistakeable factors involved by the presence of one of them in the battlefield. Direction of the shot (if you survive the first one), distance (if you fall), and much more. Snipers don't leave real traces (unless you find a nanohive on the hills, of course) but they are exposed when they shoot and there are many way to find them.
So I'm curious: I'm shooting you with my sniper rifle and you decide it's time to find me. How do you get me?
I'm curious because my way to see snipers is quite different from the majority of players, being a sniper myself.
If normally a player in the middle of the battlefield (assaulter, logi, heavy...) spends a minimum part of his/her time looking for snipers unless they're a serious problem in the current match, I constantly move my scope on the buildings and the hill profiles, because protecting my team from enemy snipers is the most important part of my role (besides being my team's eyes and calling out enemies) and even if many "snipers" don't understand this, you should take them out BEFORE dropping a nanohive and start to kill people.
So there are two main ways leading me to the sniper's den.
The first one is visual contact from my position. This must not be random luck but the reward for constantly checking the surroundings and desireable sniping positions...
The second one is... hunting. This might be luck as well, to be honest. Fail snipers take a spot, camp it and get as many kills as possible. Active snipers move all around the map, possibly avoiding plain open areas without cover. For every game I play I do at least a full "lap" around the map. You DO find a lot of snipers...
So it's your turn now. |
BOOOGERTRON BORTZORG
Expert Intervention
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.06.24 23:53:00 -
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Look into the enemy MCC or at the redline/thread. |
Crash Monster
Snipers Anonymous
765
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Posted - 2013.06.25 00:30:00 -
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If I'm not sniping I generally don't spend much time looking for them... I'd rather avoid being in their line of sight. When sniping, like yourself, I do a lot of scanning around if I don't have any immediate activity around me.
I probably stay still too long... but if people are doing a circuit around the edge there's not really many places on the edge you can move to and not run into someone eventually. I think the bigger issue is to look around you often enough. If you can spot people coming you should able to run off and evade or kill them.
If I get picked off more than once, and it's a sniper that gets me, I start searching from the top down (to avoid exposing myself to many places at once). Tops of buildings? Mountains? Places that aren't elevated that I'd possibly haunt? Unexpected low lying areas with good lines of sight? It's rare that I don't eventually figure it out and file it away for the future.
I don't look up into the MCC as much as I should I suppose... |
ADAM-OF-EVE
Svartur Bjorn
56
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Posted - 2013.06.25 00:40:00 -
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its ultimately a team effort,
you might be sniped at long range but for your team mates they might see the shot direction, a red berry might flash up for a sec to someone nearby or to someone on the deployment screen. you might even see a vehicle on the map off to the side or a dropship trying to gain altitude near any structure.
i do love giving counter sniper intel
+1 for target painter modules |
DEVILJIN 49
Red and Silver Hand
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.06.26 23:54:00 -
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Be your own Judge. What game looks like more fun to you? Dust.........Or this.........
Planetside 2
Coming to PS4 this year
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Ydubbs81 RND
Ahrendee Mercenaries
Omega Commission
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Posted - 2013.06.27 00:01:00 -
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You can't even hear the direction of where the shot is coming from this build. I wonder if it is a glitch |
VinceVon
Red and Silver Hand
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.06.28 00:25:00 -
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Be your own Judge. What game looks like more fun to you? Dust.........Or this.........
Planetside 2
Coming to PS4 this year
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