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Subject: What is wrong with camo sniping?

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: Sentox6
Posted by: tsujen
Some people think it's cheap to use it, but you're playing to win the game right? I don't care about honor in the game and if someone thinks i'm bad for using it, i'm in it to win it and gonna use any tactic to do that.

I have no issues with this argument.

It is not, however, an argument for active camo to be in the game.

It also does not change the fact that AC is not the most effective AA for supporting your team as a sniper. AC, by its very nature, only serves as a crutch. It helps you if you cannot snipe effectively while under fire, or defeat enemy snipers. If you could do both those things, the obvious choice would be to take sprint and increase your mobility.

So if you want to take camo and snipe because you do better with it, fine. That's your choice. Just don't pretend that somehow makes you some brilliant strategist or the more skilled player. You've chosen a sub-optimal loadout to cover your deficiencies. I don't see what's so bad about admitting this either. I'm bad at the game. My universe doesn't collapse when I admit this.

I hope you know, the thread topic is "what is wrong with camo sniping?"

  • 01.08.2012 6:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: TurnedSculpture
I hope you know, the thread topic is "what is wrong with camo sniping?"

Holy hell. How dense must you be?

That's been answered about a hundred times over in this thread already. It encourages selfish play and lets people get kills with minimal effort. It's not well balanced with the majority of the game. Camo sniping is easier even than Jetpack rockets.

[Edited on 01.08.2012 6:14 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2012 6:13 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.



Posted by: Sentox6
Just don't pretend that somehow makes you some brilliant strategist or the more skilled player.

Um....

  • 01.08.2012 6:15 PM PDT

Herp derp.

I am loling.....
so....
hard...

  • 01.08.2012 6:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: TurnedSculpture

Posted by: Sentox6
Posted by: tsujen
Some people think it's cheap to use it, but you're playing to win the game right? I don't care about honor in the game and if someone thinks i'm bad for using it, i'm in it to win it and gonna use any tactic to do that.

I have no issues with this argument.

It is not, however, an argument for active camo to be in the game.

It also does not change the fact that AC is not the most effective AA for supporting your team as a sniper. AC, by its very nature, only serves as a crutch. It helps you if you cannot snipe effectively while under fire, or defeat enemy snipers. If you could do both those things, the obvious choice would be to take sprint and increase your mobility.

So if you want to take camo and snipe because you do better with it, fine. That's your choice. Just don't pretend that somehow makes you some brilliant strategist or the more skilled player. You've chosen a sub-optimal loadout to cover your deficiencies. I don't see what's so bad about admitting this either. I'm bad at the game. My universe doesn't collapse when I admit this.

I hope you know, the thread topic is "what is wrong with camo sniping?"


It is a crutch. It won't net you a lot of kills either. Oh, and AC snipers are generally bad and spend more time respawning then helping out. Food for thought.

  • 01.08.2012 6:20 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: Blackdog Rker

Posted by: TurnedSculpture

Posted by: Sentox6
Posted by: tsujen
Some people think it's cheap to use it, but you're playing to win the game right? I don't care about honor in the game and if someone thinks i'm bad for using it, i'm in it to win it and gonna use any tactic to do that.

I have no issues with this argument.

It is not, however, an argument for active camo to be in the game.

It also does not change the fact that AC is not the most effective AA for supporting your team as a sniper. AC, by its very nature, only serves as a crutch. It helps you if you cannot snipe effectively while under fire, or defeat enemy snipers. If you could do both those things, the obvious choice would be to take sprint and increase your mobility.

So if you want to take camo and snipe because you do better with it, fine. That's your choice. Just don't pretend that somehow makes you some brilliant strategist or the more skilled player. You've chosen a sub-optimal loadout to cover your deficiencies. I don't see what's so bad about admitting this either. I'm bad at the game. My universe doesn't collapse when I admit this.

I hope you know, the thread topic is "what is wrong with camo sniping?"


It is a crutch. It won't net you a lot of kills either. Oh, and AC snipers are generally bad and spend more time respawning then helping out. Food for thought.

Hmm.... Not too many kills? More food for thought.

[Edited on 01.08.2012 6:22 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2012 6:22 PM PDT

Posted by: Darkside Eric
So basically... Waypoint is pro-vanilla?

Posted by: Sentox6
Waypoint isn't pro-anything so much as they're just anti-intelligence.

Posted by: Sentox6
So if you want to take camo and snipe because you do better with it, fine. That's your choice. Just don't pretend that somehow makes you some brilliant strategist or the more skilled player. You've chosen a sub-optimal loadout to cover your deficiencies. I don't see what's so bad about admitting this either. I'm bad at the game. My universe doesn't collapse when I admit this.


And if we're playing the link-to-stats game;

+42 no camo

+45 no camo

+54 no camo

[Edited on 01.08.2012 6:27 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2012 6:23 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.



Posted by: Sentox6
a sub-optimal loadout to cover your deficiencies.

So I'm not supposed cover them, but to show them to the whole game? I would rather be a "noob" than an idiot.

  • 01.08.2012 6:25 PM PDT

Herp derp.

This thread.....so many people with downs.

  • 01.08.2012 6:28 PM PDT

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Not the best game to support your argument, I'd really hope you wouldn't have to use camo to beat up kids that terrible. lolcolonels

  • 01.08.2012 6:30 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: Gyarados121996
This thread.....so many people with downs.

I know, I am having a blast.

  • 01.08.2012 6:30 PM PDT

Posted by: Darkside Eric
So basically... Waypoint is pro-vanilla?

Posted by: Sentox6
Waypoint isn't pro-anything so much as they're just anti-intelligence.

LOL this thread

  • 01.08.2012 6:30 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: Blackdog Rker
Not the best game to support your argument, I'd really hope you wouldn't have to use camo to beat up kids that terrible. lolcolonels

What happened to "Rank means nothing", the most used line in the forums?

  • 01.08.2012 6:32 PM PDT

Herp derp.


Posted by: TurnedSculpture

Posted by: Gyarados121996
This thread.....so many people with downs.

I know, I am having a blast.

Haha. I'm having fun watching these idiots.

  • 01.08.2012 6:33 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: Gyarados121996

Posted by: TurnedSculpture

Posted by: Gyarados121996
This thread.....so many people with downs.

I know, I am having a blast.

Haha. I'm having fun watching these idiots.

Nuff said.

  • 01.08.2012 6:33 PM PDT

I have no problem with AC snipers unless they are on my team, at which point I kill them take the sniper. AC snipers are horrible, and most stay in one position which gives them a very limited field to shoot.

  • 01.08.2012 6:34 PM PDT

Herp derp.

Almost 200 replies in one day. LOLOLOLOL

  • 01.08.2012 6:35 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: De1taDawg210
I have no problem with AC snipers unless they are on my team, at which point I kill them take the sniper. AC snipers are horrible, and most stay in one position which gives them a very limited field to shoot.

Thats funny, because I move around.

  • 01.08.2012 6:35 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: Gyarados121996
Almost 200 replies in one day. LOLOLOLOL

Not such a bad turnout.

  • 01.08.2012 6:36 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: nicksta14
Posted by: Sentox6
So if you want to take camo and snipe because you do better with it, fine. That's your choice. Just don't pretend that somehow makes you some brilliant strategist or the more skilled player. You've chosen a sub-optimal loadout to cover your deficiencies. I don't see what's so bad about admitting this either. I'm bad at the game. My universe doesn't collapse when I admit this.


And if we're playing the link-to-stats game;

+42 no camo

+45 no camo

+54 no camo

Nice team. Shame that if you aren't a part of one, some random will betray you about 45 thousand times.

  • 01.08.2012 6:37 PM PDT

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I wasn't talking about their rank. The bottom three on the enemy had no kills. Consider it an euphemism for bad. Depending on how you look at it, rank could mean POSSIBLE experience in the game.

  • 01.08.2012 6:38 PM PDT

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There's nothing wrong with sniping while camouflaged. It's the fact that you can spawn with that ability that's the problem. If it had to be fought over then nobody would complain (except the players who can't control camo)

  • 01.08.2012 6:38 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: Blackdog Rker
I wasn't talking about their rank.

Posted by: Blackdog Rker
lolcolonels

Quite the anomaly.

  • 01.08.2012 6:39 PM PDT

And so God called Moses to come forth but he came fifth and was therefore disqualified.


Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
There's nothing wrong with sniping while camouflaged. It's the fact that you can spawn with that ability that's the problem. If it had to be fought over then nobody would complain (except the players who can't control camo)

^ Truth ^

Isn't this just the best argument ever?

  • 01.08.2012 6:40 PM PDT

Herp derp.


Posted by: TurnedSculpture

Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
There's nothing wrong with sniping while camouflaged. It's the fact that you can spawn with that ability that's the problem. If it had to be fought over then nobody would complain (except the players who can't control camo)

^ Truth ^

Isn't this just the best argument ever?

Yep. Now I need my lolcorn.

  • 01.08.2012 6:42 PM PDT