You just hate snipers don't you? Its ok I can always snipe with a forge gun.

Awwwwwww, I think someone is just mad because they get sniped by us snipers from 900 yds away. Po baby. Well, I'll tell you what, I will let you kill me a couple times in our next match together and then you can brag to your loser buddies about how you got 20 kills in one match. Ok bye now.

Whats 'range quit'? Shouldn't you be spending more time on the range?

Definitely sounds like you took a few to the rear though.

The pawns always go first. I see a whole bunch of you vanilla lowest common denominator types down there trying to hack stuff. You usually fail. Staying back as a sniper is not cowardice. It's how a sniper does his job. Look up the art of sniping on the internet. Deployable shields sounds like a quick fix CCP is giving you whiners down below.

if it's in a year snipers might have bigger better methods to snipe you.

I have a feeling that when minmatar precision rifles will be released, all caldari sniper rifles will require a charge. I remember seeing on the patch notes a while back (chromosome, I think) that CCP was going to try releasing that, but didn't.

I think it would be a useless balance change that would **** alot of people off.

on the other hand I DO love some close range sniping tools =)

of course it's the AR, it's the most versatile and useful weapon in the game without even looking at it's special weapon types.

pretty soon they will have racial AR's as well, and you can damn well be sure the rest of us won't be getting racial weapons.

Commando suit sniping can be effective if you run the charge for long distance and the tactical, thale, etc for shorter distance and counter sniping. Try it. Guaranteed 8 to 15 kills a match.

If you don't like snipers, crying isn't gonna do anything. Just do what I do and stand in front of them until they send you hate mail. Then calmly explain that you want them to help take the objective.

I wouldn't expect it any time soon. Mid-long range is the range of laser rifles.
Caldari and minmatar are the most obvious choices for sniper rifles, because they have the longest range in eve.

I thought the current sniper rifle is considered Caldari and a rail gun. The different models are probably place holders for the racial variants anyway. Maybe charged for Caldari, regular for Gallente and tactical for the Minmatar Precision Rifle.

If youGÇÖre carrying a drop shield, youGÇÖre allocating a slot, PG/CPU and SP to using that piece of equipment. As with anything else, you need to determine if the resources required to carry and use the drop shield is worth it over other options. I see them as having a relatively narrow scope of use, most likely for screening downed team mates for getting them up with a needle, and preventing a sniper or MD user from being able to easily cover a point. Can you link any info on how the drop shields will work? They might be useful for temporarily denying vehicles easy transit if they are GÇ£solidGÇ¥. They may be a double-edged sword if they glow like other equipment does (they might make a nice decoy for this same reason). IGÇÖm primarily a sniper, but I welcome anything that provides more combat options. I think it is rather narrow minded to denigrate anything that makes your own role marginally more difficult to fulfill, but makes the game more nuanced and fun (not that IGÇÖm making any sort of accusation as to the intent of the original or subsequent posters).

Anyway, call the guy in this video a coward. I'm sure he wouldn't understand the reference considering he's using the weapon the way it is supposed to be used.

Actual sniper

No, we are players who see the usefulness of the role instead of criticizing it for being useless because we don't prefer it. You seem to want everybody to just run vanilla assault. I can attest that that role is just as useless if it doesn't get support. I don't know where you are anybody gets the idea that we are thinking we are badass. You and other anti-sniper players are reading into things.

I'm talking usefulness with the role. A player that is not doing very well in his role is useless. That includes assaults and logis.