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.

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.

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.

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 be against that, but I'm talking about lasers here. I'm surprised that there are no laser sniper rifles mentioned yet, especially when Gallente weapons are close range and lasers are mid/long range.

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 did this to a sniper once , he kept trying to move and I would move with him... ****** thing is we lost the match, and I didn't earn anything, other than pissing him off

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.

why do we have a plasma (gallente sniper rifle right now)

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.

http://dust514.com/news/blog/2013/07/weapon-ranges-in-uprising-1.2-and-beyond/

Derp! you are right. Something isn't right with me today. I slept through my alarm.

I could care less about them being on the other team. As a logi bro I hate when they are on my team getting 4/0 in a match. because that's fewer people on the front lines that are pushing for objectives, and that I can't get points from.

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).

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 I'm hacking, and snipers don't have my back, part of me really wants to say that you aren't doing your job. I just don't see how you all think that you are that effective when there are 4 of you doing a awfully terrible job and stealing eachothers kills sitting on a hill that only lets you see like one and a half of the least popular objectives on a map.

Also, as an Amarr Logibro it's really hard for that namecalling to stick to me.

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

Trying to portray yourself as an elite sniper? Looking down at all the little 'pawns' running around the field? Maybe you do support your team but from your perch I'm inclined to think you are one of the worthless ones.

I have a fit with prototype sniper rifle that I use about 1 in 3 matches. It can also engage at close range. Once I've picked off the red snipers and forge gunners I'm down in the trenches hacking and killing with my team.

LOL so hard!!! I am by no way equating Dust snipers with RL military/special forces Snipers. Maybe this is the problem. Do you snipers really think you are somehow especially badass like this guy or something?

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.

I grab my zero SP invested free starter fit that comes with a free sniper rifle and I track down those "elite" snipers.
I then place my free sniper rifle one foot from the back of said "elite" sniper head and bong! +50 and boy!! does it tick them off! when they loose a Thales to scrubby sniper me in free fits with zero sp invested in sniping...lol!