| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #35966] |
Sun, 03 August 2003 17:40  |
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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.
WOL - soulclaws
GameSpy Arcade - Master_Shake
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #36062] |
Sun, 03 August 2003 22:32  |
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| kopaka649 |
| brent3000 |
or they can kill the engineers that rapier the tanks
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| warranto |
A team of snipers are useless, however a couple good snipers can assist everyone else by taking out the engineers that support the tanks, and any other infantry in the area. And as it was said, Snipers also do lots of damage to light armored vehicles.
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oh must of mist that bit 
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #36414] |
Tue, 05 August 2003 01:23 |
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| Archcasp |
| brent3000 |
| Archcasp |
remember there is sniper only severs on online play. promoteing: i have three of them in my sissy.
fodsvr02
crimson79
are 2 of the best sniper servers.
a sbh snipers are fun as hell in 52 player games...
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with you on that Archcasp 
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lol ok im lost? what you mean?
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52 player snipers only if cool
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #39866] |
Sat, 16 August 2003 09:45 |
Delta Xvii
Messages: 20
Registered: July 2003
Karma: 0
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The ramjet rifle is some futuristic version of a .50 cal. sniper rifle(although horribly de-tuned).
Snipers I think are in a league of their own, in any game that is. It takes considerable skill to play as a sniper in any game.
"I didn't come to play, I came to win!"
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| What role does a Sniper have, in a world full of Tanks? [message #40009] |
Sat, 16 August 2003 17:07 |
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| General Havoc |
Keeping out of site and pick of the poor engineers who are behind the tanks (waterfall on field is good for this as you can flank them and watch the tanks turn to scrap  Other than that you should defend your team from enemy snipers or find some idiot who gets out of their tank to repair it and kill them, then kill the line of people who try to get into the empty tank.
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i am on nod most of the time and i am the only one who ever cares about the nod turrents every one is going and getting killed in the middle and i am at the baes healing the turents as i am geting blown up by 2 tanks
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