-Author: Rinas Rylos
-Rank: C.E.O.
-Corporation: Rinas' Raiders (R.R.A.S.)
-Date: 115.06.23
Had some odd battles today. Seemed as
though they'd take their sweet little time getting started, with
nearly minutes passing before a shot is fired. Not that it doesn't
take a while for the opposing teams to find each other, but several
consecutive contracts in you begin to wonder, shit, maybe the battlefields are
getting a little too big? Not that I'd mind if they were bigger,
personally. A bit more space and sniping would get a hell of a lot
easier, though they'd have to change the fucking scopes so we could
actually see a decent distance away first. Out of all the complaints
I always hear and read, the one about what shit scopes the sniper rifles are fitted
with doesn't ever seem to enter into anyone's head. I suppose I go
against the grain when it comes to sniping though, given how often I
do hear bitching about snipers in the hills and whatnot, but that's
less due to how overly powerful they are and more with how everyone
and their fucking mother decides to grab an SR and head for the
boundaries when the going gets tough. Protip guys; Picking an
extremely situation weapon and leaving yourself alone in an easily
visible position while you fail to hit every person you aim for is not productive to the team!
Heh...Reading that back to myself, I guess I sound a little bitter about the whole sniping situation, but it's a legitimate grievance; Too many idiots decide that, regardless of the rest of the situation on the battlefield, it's time to switch over to their shitty little sniping dropsuit and begin uselessly pissing away ammo as shot after shot manages to somehow miss the people climbing up the hills after them. Now, look: I'm all for taking the head off some idiot five hundred meters away with a miraculous shot that manages to splatter their insides all over the murdertaxi they're currently driving around in, that's just plain fun, but there's a time and place for it, and even then there shouldn't be any more than a few snipers per team. Ideally, you've got one looking out for the others on the opposing side while leaving the other duo free to thin out the ground troops. In practice, you've got about five or six all either clustered about, ripe for the picking, or you've got them spread around uselessly about the larger battlegrounds, utterly failing to do anything besides make easy targets for people willing to make a quick trek up to whatever perch this “expert” sniper has decided they will decimate the other side from.
Now, I think it's fair to mention that I'm guilty of a good bit of this myself, or at least I used to be. Even after the government's "training", I was such a fucking clutz with one of them that you couldn't tell my ass from my elbows from the fucked up form I'd take with one. Thankfully after a few impromptu lessons with a more seasoned merc I was able to get the hang of it. Still, sniping is a bit more...situational, than I think most newbies believe it is, and I doubt that the battle academy lasts long enough for those of them that could be decent snipers to really get a feel for when it's the right time to bust out the rifle and head for a tall place.
TL;DR: Sniping. What a clusterfuck.
Heh...Reading that back to myself, I guess I sound a little bitter about the whole sniping situation, but it's a legitimate grievance; Too many idiots decide that, regardless of the rest of the situation on the battlefield, it's time to switch over to their shitty little sniping dropsuit and begin uselessly pissing away ammo as shot after shot manages to somehow miss the people climbing up the hills after them. Now, look: I'm all for taking the head off some idiot five hundred meters away with a miraculous shot that manages to splatter their insides all over the murdertaxi they're currently driving around in, that's just plain fun, but there's a time and place for it, and even then there shouldn't be any more than a few snipers per team. Ideally, you've got one looking out for the others on the opposing side while leaving the other duo free to thin out the ground troops. In practice, you've got about five or six all either clustered about, ripe for the picking, or you've got them spread around uselessly about the larger battlegrounds, utterly failing to do anything besides make easy targets for people willing to make a quick trek up to whatever perch this “expert” sniper has decided they will decimate the other side from.
Now, I think it's fair to mention that I'm guilty of a good bit of this myself, or at least I used to be. Even after the government's "training", I was such a fucking clutz with one of them that you couldn't tell my ass from my elbows from the fucked up form I'd take with one. Thankfully after a few impromptu lessons with a more seasoned merc I was able to get the hang of it. Still, sniping is a bit more...situational, than I think most newbies believe it is, and I doubt that the battle academy lasts long enough for those of them that could be decent snipers to really get a feel for when it's the right time to bust out the rifle and head for a tall place.
TL;DR: Sniping. What a clusterfuck.
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