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| Re: What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #41978] |
Sat, 23 August 2003 03:57   |
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cowmisfit
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| MasterShake |
DISCLAIMER: I just bought this game today, and i am very new to it.
with that said.....
I enjoy being a Sniper.
I'm not a griefing 'haha i pwnz you cause you can't hit me' guy though. I just enjoy being a sniper. In my last team-based FPS, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I was a Sniper 90% of the time. and I had a ball. it was challenging (especially since in RTCW you only had the sniper rifle, and that's IT. no worthwile secondary weapons.).
like I said, it was fun and challenging. no better satisfaction than taking out a turret gunner that is holding your teammates at bay, with a precise, perfectly aimed and lined up headshot, then watching your teammates take the opportunity to advance to the next obstacle. my favorite opponents to play against, were other Snipers. in RTCW, the Sniper game was a 'game-within-a-game'. while everyone else was storming the fort, or manning the machine guns...the snipers were on another wavelength, duking it out from long range with the opposing teams long range threat. going 1 on 1 with an opposing sniper in the middle of a base assault was the most fun i'd had in a while, though i beat some snipers, and some snipers beat me.
so now I move on to C&C Renegade. I figure out how to get my hands on a Sniper Rifle, and I head on out, to find me a nice perch. I get to my perch, set up, and get ready for some headshots.....and i see a MILLION tanks rumbling by shooting rockets. I feel absolutely useless. 
it seems to me as if this game is more about 'who's got the bigger tank'. in RTCW a sniper, medic, etc. were important parts of the team, almost essential to success. yet i find from my limited play time in this game, that all you really need is a bunch of tanks.
so before I resign myself to join the Super-Tank army, or the ranks of those who ONLY play on 'Sniper Only' servers....i pose this question:
is there any room in this team-based game for a dedicated Sniper? I want to play on the normal, Team Servers, and be involved in massive battles, but i wish to do so as a Sniper, and i wish to have a purpose or ability to contribute to my team. from first impressions though, it doesn't look too good, and i'll be hopping in the tanks very soon, never to touch a sniper rifle again.
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A sniper may not seem important at first because you cant do shit to tanks..i know when i first started i was all about get in a tank and blow shit up because i was like you and said i cant do shit with all the tanks around me. But once you practice switch around characters and get really good at snipen like me(yes i am very cocky and confident in my self LOL) you will relize you can do just as much as them by taken out engis enemy snipers taekn out ur engies and blow the shit out of any buggy humvee or plane. LOL and The ranks of the SNIPER ONLY server people are higher in my opinion it takes way more skill to snipe then to set in a tank and shoot at a building. So play get good and find your groove. 
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #56467] |
Mon, 01 December 2003 01:49 |
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| azngqboy |
i owuld liek to say, i also care much for turrets (for gun posts in certain maps) i always believed they are key killers (ive seen uncareful meduim tanks klilled by them)
to the story of snipers
they provide
-antiair, hurt them before they are in range
-really good for camping vechiles, get in the base, and hawk the airstripe and WF, after all, its only an all tank game if they can get to one!
-they provide an painfully good anti-"anti-vech infantry" removal, only takes one! lol
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i always watchout for the turrets
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #56552] |
Tue, 02 December 2003 10:50 |
azngqboy
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all right, here is a sad story, im a blackhand (chaingun) and i see a havock, it is mesa, we have no power, havock is cheaping me out, so i get him down to about 10 HP, and i got no bullets, so we run around he cant hit me, and i can't load my pistol fast enough, then there goes the turret .. hehehe
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #57040] |
Sun, 07 December 2003 11:02 |
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amid_tha_rubble
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one thing to say:
you wouldn;t believe how many n00bs get out of their tanks in the middle of a battlefield. I usually enjoying sniping them off when they try to repair, then it's just a short walk and you've got yourself a free tank. I've gotten 12+ tanks for free in one game doing this...and they never learn!
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #60012] |
Wed, 31 December 2003 19:25 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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It's always good to have some snipers in a game, especially so if it's degenerating into an all-tank game like it normally does in field. Once supporting engineers are gone from a tank front [for the uninitiated, snipers do this] then that front can and will crumble against another equal, even slightly inferior, front with supporting engineers. And naturally, they are also quite useful in mostly infantry wars. I say there's not much reason for a 1000 sniper unless you're playing with 30+ people somewhere like City_Flying [skyscrapers by enemy's base] or somewhere else that has a good vantage point. Then, if the enemy loses their barracks/HoN, then a 1000 cred sniper in a hard-to-get spot rips through free infantry in their own base like wildfire. No more messing around with difficult headshots when you can hit someone in the toenail and boink them.
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #60198] |
Thu, 01 January 2004 23:20 |
azngqboy
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yes Fields without Snipers = YOUR TEAM LOSSES! i mean, i was nod yesterday, and we had 3 artillery, i was in a Stealth Tank, NO ONE WAS DEFENDING ARTILLERY, they jumped out and repaired them selves! i mean my team wasn't workin as a 'team' (we did win though), we did how ever have 2 ppl as a 1000 snip the whole game, that owned gunners/Ions/Engy's like hell, i mean i was at 120 Hp in my Stank for about 10 minutes, and all i could do was hit the harvy, and waht ever med or mrls came out, ugh, knowing that they where pinned and that we had the game, i busted in and shot at the WF (i also C4ed it from the outside cause i got in enough), after that i used the chaingun balck hand, and supported the tunnel, we just spamed n tunnel nuked the bar and tib. lol (snipers also won that) .. vary fun(ny)
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #60487] |
Sun, 04 January 2004 00:52 |
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IRON FART
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Snipers ar there to kill attacking enemy units, give cover fire to weak units such as engineers who have lots of destructive power to buildings, but weak anti-infantry weapons.
Also to defence beacons, and to kill enemy engineers repairing a building or explosive.
But by far the most useless use of sniping in an AOW game (all out war) is when people crowd up in tunnels and start firing at each other. They waste their money when they get killed, and each one of those snipers could be driving tanks and actually help win the game.
I've been in games where I have lost because more than half of my team was sniping and refused to rush or buy a tank.
But most people still have fun doing it, so there isn't any stopping them.
But you have fun sniping? Well you are having fun, which was the point of the game. So its ok.
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| Super soldier of doom [message #60627] |
Sun, 04 January 2004 21:15 |
furyman77
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IF you go to a server that spawns weapons, spend some time picking up some weapon spawns, and going back and getting that free refill, then you have full ammo on the newly acquired weapon. NOD Stealth Black hand and alternate weapons like a sniper riffle is allmost invincible.
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| Re: Super soldier of doom [message #61916] |
Wed, 14 January 2004 07:08 |
DragonSniper
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| furyman77 |
IF you go to a server that spawns weapons, spend some time picking up some weapon spawns, and going back and getting that free refill, then you have full ammo on the newly acquired weapon. NOD Stealth Black hand and alternate weapons like a sniper riffle is allmost invincible.
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LOL SBH's wish they were invincible with sniper rifles lol. I have not been in an infantry only or sometimes even sniper only games where some1 bought an SBH so that the could kill us without us seeing him and i have always seen him die usually before he gets a chance to kill someone because he is too stupid to move around while shooting and most of the time they figure that since they are invisible they can use the scope and kill us that way, well what happens when u miss????? bang ur dead then cause for most SBH players takes too much time for them to unscope and move behind something without being noticed. My opinion is that the SBH's are the most easily killed and weakest characters in Renegade but hey if you think your a good SBH player come find me in a game and try me. well gotta go.......................snipe ya all later :twisted:
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