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From what non rifleman try to tell me we are suppsoed to be snipers, carbinieers are supposed to be machinegunners (although we have soldier and gunner as titles)

This is completly true. Yeah we can pretend and go down in the grass and sneak up on a gnort and do a conseal shot to take it out and think, wow I'm a kick arse sniper. But you do that out at say, a rebel factional base and what happens? Three or four shots before a Rebel spots you, either goes overt or GTEF's you so you have to get up, and spam strafe 2 and trun from that really cool guy in Clear and Present Danger to Frickin RAMBO.

Nothing is funnier than watcing a 5'2" 80 lb girl mow down 70 rebel NPCS and 10 or so PC's with a Laser (no t21's on tarq.) I was a riflewoman from Day 1. Started killing Kimas to get my Novice Rifleperson back when they were still slow (I didn't know it was a bug, thought they were just slow) Iwanted to be a small and agile sniper. Crawling though the weeds undected to put a rebel surface marshal in my scope and BLAM, one shot one kill. So I think in light of how the devs have made our profession, I am getting a sun guard, black metal bikini, maybe a night suster bracer, and composite pants with a duel bandolier. Dye my hair black, grab a lotted t21 (150-300 dmg 11 sec's they go for 500k on my server) and Tear it UP! Whoo hoo!

Quidium wrote:

From what non rifleman try to tell me we are suppsoed to be snipers, carbinieers are supposed to be machinegunners (although we have soldier and gunner as titles)

This is completly true.

Hate to disagree with you but Carbineers are not machine-gunners. That is the Rifleman. Hence the reason we have the Gunner title and all those AoE attacks. We can't really be Snipers either as the ranges are to short and the lack of a reliable one shot one kill (the snipers motto) skill. Though I think at lower levels the Rifleman usualy plays more like a Sniper. Using HeadShots, MindShots, and ConcealShot until we get the AoE attacks. Then we become the machine-gunners.

The Carbineer is more of an assault troop. Or should be. They carry basicly sub-machineguns. High rate of fire but less range than a rifle. Those are the weapons of assault troops. Good in closer quarters such as urban and other CQB areas.

Rifleman = heavy gunner.

Carbineer = assault troop.

Pikeman = meat shield.

The way the game actually ends up working makes it more like this:

Rifleman = Machine Gunner (think M60, SAW)

Carbine = Assault Rifle (M16)

Pistol = sub-machinegun (uzi)