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Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
6 years ago
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Sniping sucks

Outcome of a typical sniper game in a random squad on PC.
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ElBirri's avatar
ElBirri
6 years ago
@Anonymous what you talking about?
EryxApex's avatar
EryxApex
6 years ago

Repeatedly damaging/downing enemies, but never the whole enemy squads to get kills...

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    6 years ago
    Approved

    @EryxApexexactly.

    It's completely pointless to down players from long range in this game because they will get ressed and everyone has inventory full of shields and medkits.

    • EryxApex's avatar
      EryxApex
      6 years ago
      @Anonymous Sniping to keep a team pinned down while your own team flanks them, is a viable tactic, especially in WE map. Did it yesterday, with a Wingman, nontheless, paired with Peacekeeper for close quarters.
    • Biochemikas's avatar
      Biochemikas
      6 years ago

      It's not pointless. You're wasting their resources. The question is  though: do you benefit at all from it (how likely are you to need to fight that team) and is it worth the risk of revealing your position. Often the answer is - it's not worth it.

      Snipers should be mostly used for gatekeeping (when you have superior position and your enemy has to come to you if they want to live - they will be damaged from your snipers when they reach you), 3rd partying (griefing duty), kill stealing,...

      Just doing damage for the sake of doing damage is, of course, pointless (well unless your goal IS burning through their cells). A lot of ppl do that though.

      Still, full CQC loadout is generally more efficient.

      P.S. Charged rifle is the ultimate damage-farming weapon (just lazer em at 400+ meters - completely pointless gamewise, but you'll get those numbers safely) and hence one of the worst snipers (longbow and G7 have much higher dps, kraber has 1-shot kill potential) - yeah it took me a while to realise that, but that's simply the truth.

      So anyway: if you're shooting a sniper, make sure you have a clear answer of WHY you're doing it.

      • S_Dustt's avatar
        S_Dustt
        6 years ago

        Disagree on the charge rifle being the worst. The ability to do a bunch of damage without having to adjust at all is powerful and it has the potential to just do like 80 damage in one burst.

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