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5 years ago

Is it me or are snipers just bad?

Theyre so useless. Way too hard to hit someone with the shot. Why is there both travel time and drop off on the shot??? It makes it so inconsistent at hitting anyone. And then when you do it does lik...

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maximas1986

5 years ago

@BaldWraithSimp You are right , snipers are good but only when it's working the way it's supposed to be.
Sentinel have a very strange bullet drop which feels inconsistent,each shot acts differently
The rest is just useless as a high damage long range weapon for the same reason that you mentioned which is this game is fast paced game so when you land a shot at someone 300 or 400 meters away most probably you will not get this chance again and the target will run away with a broken shield at most

DarthValtrex

Hero (Retired)

5 years ago

@maximas1986 The sentinel and TT have the exact same bullet speed.. The Longbow is slightly slower with the bullet speed.

Switching between the Sentinel, TT and Lonbow can be tricky because the different bullet drops and the different speeds. Longbow you have to lead your shots a bit more. Sentinel you really have to compensate for bullet drop and so on. It's all mute in shorter distance but longer ranges it becomes really tricky. You also have to sort of guess where the enemy is going to lead shots accurately. When I switch between the 3 I typically miss a full magazine or two as I adjust for the differences. Do it all on mid range optics as well, so I don't have the range finder helping me.

If you want to get good at sniping run mid range and just learn how to compensate for range without the range finder. When I was first starting out with it, I would carry a 6x slap the 6x on to find targets/range, switch to the 2x-4x and start shooting.

hayhor
Hero
5 years ago
@DarthValtrex I completely agree. We do not want a bunch of one shot snipers in this game.

And it is a good thing snipers behave differently. If they didnt what would be the point in having multiple?
DarthValtrex
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
@hayhor I agree. I like the snipers as they are and I carry them fairly frequently. I tend to look at the map and ring to see if they are even going to be an option. Some of the rings make it very difficult to use a sniper so there is no point in carrying one. I could probably get a 4k and 20 bomb if they made the Sentinel a 1 shot kill gun. But it's not really something I want to see in the game or deal with. Plus when I want a 1 shot kill gun, I just go after care packages and hope to find a Kraber, few rounds with that and I've had my fun.

If Salvage is going to be in ring and I can hold that tower then I'm going to do it. Similarly with either of the diving boards. KC seems like the better map to run snipers IMO. It has a ton of areas that provide good high ground for sniping. Places where you don't have to worry about someone walking up from behind and killing you.