Tor77 wrote:
I disagree with you. Snipers are - generally speaking - a waste of digital skin. It's the most "selfish" class of all and all they do is hog up space to rack up kills. Most of the time they get 5-8 kills in a round unless they claymore-whore on Karkand. Oh look at me! I can stay on a roof top for 20 minutes without dying!
OK, it's not that bad but you know what I mean. The only times I play sniper is on larger vehicle maps when I'm a squad leader. Some might argue that they are lying prone and defending flags from a distant but most of the time they fail at that as well. Besides, those that argue about sniper being a l337 class are snipers themselves.
I have seen some sniper videos around here and although fun to watch you don't help your team out by lying on the US island on Wake taking out Solo Driver Bob.
Totally agree with Mason4 - add more points to valuable things like taking out enemy assets, killing the commander, capping flags alone etc. +1 to you Mason!
Every kills bring the ticket down, Sniper are one the most efficient to protect flags (right up there with Support). Yes I have less team point when I play Sniper, but that's because it is suicide to cap a flag by yourself as a Sniper if you have no claymore left. But I still cap flags when I can.
Because you usually get a high K/D ratio as a sniper, you actually help your team.... which is better... 40 kills for 34 deaths or 20 kills and 3 deaths? And I get that a lot lately with Sniper.
BTW, I play all the kits.... they all have they up side and down side, it is up to you to "exploit" the up side.
Last edited by Buzerk1 (2006-05-02 07:12:49)