This makes me sad for my scout suit. Stop it immediately.

I like to run around with knives/smg when I'm not sniping. Clearing out a point and securing the hack while taking out any re-spawns is fun. What I lament the most is the lack of a second equipment slot; not that I could afford the CPU/PG. Although, I am rather silly and typically run without shields/armor. I figure that any one who is going to counter-snipe me or find me unawares is going to probably win, unless I see them first.

More often than not, with shields, I am still a one shot for someone rocking proto snipers. I can survive fights well enough, even some sniper shots from weaker weapons, but 99% of my survival relies on out-flanking, out-strafing and hopefully out-thinking and gunning my opponent. I'm doing it wrong if they've come close enough to kill me. It's extremely satisfying to be able to out-flank a guy who was just coming at me and head shot him.

I find it amusing how many people struggle to fit a suit properly to snipe. To those of you fitting 3x CPU upgrades: wtf is wrong with your core fitting skills? You're wasting sooo many low slots. To those of you stacking 5 complex damage mods: really? the extra 2.8% and 1% damage increase is worth it for the respective 4th and 5th modules? Time to take a good look at the opportunity costs here....

EDIT: keep doing what you're doing, you're making it easier for me to collect those tears of yours

To stack Complex Mods, PRO Weapons, PRO Equipment, I'm not running a Logistics. I remove the CPU upgrades if I can fit something else instead, but last I checked my PRO Medium still needs them, there's nothing else to fit in to Low Slots as a Sniper anyway, Armor is useless, KinCats is a different class of sniper, so what else am I meant to fit?

Sniper fitting is the only fit I'm running my CPU upgrades on, even at that they're basic (MLT even, I can't remember) and Dampeners are completely useless and broken, core skills are all sitting at 3 and 4 right now.

Re-Read what you just quoted

so far the only fit i've seen posted here that I found viable is the heavy sniper, and he's right with that degree of hp it's quite hard to bring them down in a single shot.


my general style of sniping is between his and the standard scout sniper...of course I also ground snipe, and front line snipe. I generally don't snipe like any other sniper who has posted in here.

Ground sniping can be a lot of fun. I typically try to put myself close to the enemy and if I have to, I'll drop to the ground for some kills. It really depends how the flow of the battle is going. If I find a sweet spot that I can just pick off redberries, that's the best spot. Sometimes, I don't even go for kills. Watching redberries panic when they're hit by pot shots is amusing as well as disruptive to their fighting.