By all means no, do whatever you want. I'm saying that most of us specialise in certain weapons and armour. Where's the fun in playing a loadout for something your not interested in. It is a game after all

Nova knifers are not exactly in high demand but I've certainly been killed by a couple that demand respect (one was like I was fighting a f***ing Predator!) Should they be made to march on the front line and capture points while under enemy fire?

robot is a troll, stop answering him like his opinion matters.

most snipers are a waste of team slots, some seem to be learning the tricks of the trade in how to be useful to the team and for taht I am glad, but the ratio of garbage snipers to good sniper is horribly skewed.

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A good Nova Knifer is worth 30 snipers in my opinion. They may not get a lot of kills, but they play the objective like no one else.

your bias pos of a response is no better,.

There is a lot of players coming to Dust to build characters to use in a MMO, If someone wants to sit back an relax then all the power to them.

I dont see dust pubs as a place to be serious about winning, the Pubs is a place to farm SP,. thats it, period,. nuff said,.

The sooner people understand this is not some try hard FPS the better, people need a place to farm, people need PVE, and tryhards need arena PVP or ranked matchs.

Stop hiding in the mountains and take control of the points!

I would never expect snipers if the entirely team is losing when all points are captured and are losing terribly!

I think it should be clear to the other team that they wouldn't be credit if the team loses to the point where snipers are looking for target practice, go play an ambush match if you are looking for target practice!

It's funny but I would say that if I'm playing Skirmish because I want to take control of points and win, I would expect people to take over points and hold those points or to re-capture those points and to get help the team. Not camp and wait for the magic to have the tide change and have the other members of the team getting killed or trying to find ways to take control of the points!

Not only that, I also think they're losing because there like 6 to 8 players (half of the entire team) who are being snipers!, What's the point of entering a skirmish match then?

... and I do think people are abusing it. It's simple, take over the points and win the match!

I leave this here if you guys would like an idea of how to fix the situation.

http://youtu.be/DyII0o2N13A

Ok so opinions do count, but ya cant really take into account a "good" Nova Knifer and not take into account a "good" Sniper .

A good sniper who understands angles on the battlefield can be no where near an objective, but yet lock down that objective single handedly... going (6-0) in a skirmish is worth more than (15-2) if those 6 kills were against all hackers and his team was able to keep Objective C from being hacked all game...but because noone is really able to see the types of kills a sniper gets, the perception that we are useless goes overboard....I can't count how many times I have saved a teammate of mine from being killed because he wasnt aware of who was behind him, but of course he would never know that.....

even better....saving a noob scout from a heavy suit, cuz he wants to take him on thinking the strafing mechanics will help him lol

I just want the ability to add players to a list that makes them a different color when on my team so when im sniping i know who not to help and let the enemy team kill them rather than waste my time taking out a few of them before they reach them. then i can sit back and watch from 400m as a squad rolls over them over and over again because they suck more than they might realize without that unknown sniper that takes out part or all of the enemy coming for them. front line think snipers are easy mode because we don't run and gun mindlessly. they should make the game where we have 1 life per game so everyone plays to stay alive and then maybe we can get rid of the mindless run and gun tactics the front line mercs play.

sniper radios to front line merc your screwed. front line merc says why? Sniper says becasue you are all alone and the enemy is coming for you and im going to sit here and watch them kill you and after that i will kill them. lol. Now I like those tactics. I play my game and I dont care about a team that dont care about me.

your more useless then the snipers, only thing I hate more then snipers are people that are actively being a detriment to the team as opposed to passively being a detriment.

+1 sir. Today I watched a TM running from a squad. He turns a corner and prepares to meet his clone maker and then he witnesses a sniper at there best. As each one of the enemy squad rounds the corner I down them. By the third drop the others give up the chase and leave. To that player I was watching your backside and you are welcome because 5 vs, 1 was not a fair fight. So I evened the odds a bit. You may have not know who I was but a blue is a blue and a red is dead

Well, this just shows that sniping is too easy.
Snipers need weapon ballistics (drop off, travel time).

You're unable to complete a gramerically correct sentence. If it had been 1 or 2, I wouldn't have noticed. But 5? It was a small 60 second detour to express my displeasure.

All of the people who dislike redline play and suggest solutions to it seem to forget the whole point of the redline. The redline is there to prevent spawn camping and base-****ing. If you remove the redline or de-incentivize redline play, then the people who get forced into the redline by a vastly superior team will just have that much more to contend with. Instead, ask yourselves this: when was the last time a player in the redline proved to be a meaningful contributor to his own team? It's a cautious playstyle made for people who don't want to risk, similar things exist in Eve and are vital to the health of the player base. I suspect the problem will largely vanish when PVE is introduced as it will fill that niche. In the mean time, just grin and bear it.

Millions of years in the future

where there are immortals

our snipers still have bullet drop...


waaaaaiit wut?

When's the last time anyone say snipers in the top three of a team, out of curiosity?

If you have all SP invested into sniper you are an idiot (I can snipe just as effectively/or even more with 0 training and MLT gear)

Nova Knifers get A TON of hacks. They are constantly behind the red line. They take out forge gunners, guys at installation la and... Snipers l. When they aren't doing that, they are putting down uplinks, capturing points, supply depots, CRU's and installations, some even put down remote explosives and proximity mines.

A good Nova Knifer is worth 30 snipers in my opinion. They may not get a lot of kills, but they play the objective like no one else.