Ideas on how to balance the sniper

I'm still not convinced, because of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRtJ9EJjebw&t=0m27s

If the weapon is hitscan, why did the aimbot of this guy miss twice? :?:

Because assassin head hitbox is off. Yes, assassin gets hack protection.

I never played sniper before, but they are not overpowerd at all :?:
I have no trouble killing a sniper

well even if the hit boxes were off, if he were using an aimbot it would be aiming for the hit boxes..

assassin dash + hit boxes off, is why hes hard to hit in general.

but more likely its just server lag, between when the aimbot said fire and when the command was given.. hitscan can work both ways on fast moving targets..

often times the reason you LEAD the target and get hits, besides huge hitscan is actually because you are unkowningly actually compensating for your own lag (human input lag) meaning the time your brain says fire and your finger can depress the mouse button.. the faster a target is moving the more you have to compensate for it..

but even if you had no lag, the hitscan is still rather large..

Either you're playing a different game or the tears are clouding your vision too much.

But continue writing essays about how you're bad at the game and can't deal with snipers, this thread still continues to be entertaining.

yeah that was a valid argument.. you're so PRO

go back to pretending you play comeptitively in this game.. that was hilarious as well.

Feel free to quote me talking about playing competitively.

I'll wait.

grats you learned to edit posts..

Feel free to quote the post where I talked about playing competitively.

I'll wait.

Hint: It'll say that it was edited.

And what's your argument about everything being so OP? That you are personally getting dominated a lot by things you feel are unfair?

You started out by writing vague suggestions, but now you are writing long paragraphs describing situations that all based on your assumptions.

You haven't even scored 30 kills in a single crossfire match, and you main Assault. Do you really want question anyone's skill? C'mon, be a humble man.

Meh, not sure why i'm even bothering. Like the old song goes, "Talking to you is like clapping with one hand."

because i kill turrets and money ball and bots above players.. I try not to ever clear 20 kills, maybe check out my win loss ratio

Didnt wanna hear any more crap so i went and played around where I just went for kills

EDIT:
42 and 6.. acheivement done.. as assault..

only proving that kd means nothing I coulda won that game 10 minutes earlier.. i purposely let their shields restore to farm more kills. Didnt buy juice once.. though if I had I probably coulda gotten close to 50 or 60 kills..

not saying there were good players, only one even put up a fight.. just saying to to prove that those achievements dont always mean anything..

Good for you. Now be a good boy and get over 9,000.

Seriously, though. Do you really think that this is about having a dumb achievement? Bleh, why do i ask dumb questions, of course you do.

You know what? You obviously think way too highly of yourself, so i'm just gonna ignore you just like i ignore the lawn and my girlfriend on Sundays mornings.

I have yet to hear how Snipers are OP when you can just stay out of their line of fire while still pushing the lane. The OMFG THEY'RE EVERYWHERE argument doesn't really fly.

You are aware that Snipers can sometimes muster up the courage to hit the W, A, S, and D keys in such a way and pattern that they can get an angle with which to kill you?
Like, slow me down if I'm going too fast for you or if this is branching out too far into the hypothetical, but I think I may have seen Snipers shift their wobbly little legs in such a way that it resembles some form of locomotion.

Kinda wondering, which map are you even thinking of?
If a Sniper is standing in, or on top of a lane, he usually has good coverage over that lane in each map.

Even if there is something in his way (like Grenade 3 lane pillars), I have fair success with using Ejectors, or trapping people in-lane with Ice Traps to kill them - or get a shot on them.

They're not, but some maps are so open that it is a PAIN to stay out of their line of fire, especially against 2 Snipers or more. Yes Ammomule & Grenade, I'm talking about you!

How does one stay out of a Snipers line of fire and push a lane when almost all of the maps are a direct straight line full of wide open areas? Snipers have a ridiculous line of sight on pretty much all maps in this game.

The map with the dome in center is one of the worst culprits since both exits of the spawn area are in a direct line of sight to any snipers. The fact they can be camped and just hold M1 with the machine gun sniper rifle endorsement is hilariously bad.

Then there's the map with the closed in building in the center that allows snipers to pretty much shoot directly in to your money ball area and have it almost impossible to keep turrets up.


The machine gun rifle needs to go. As I've said before, it's bullshit being gunned down by a Sniper Rifle from across the map with you unable to do anything about it.

... :| Are you having a problem with snipers being able to move around?! :lol:

Snipahs must deploy to shoot rifle dontcha know! *Frownyfais*

That made me :lol:

Mortar, predict, oneshot. It happens.