Rifleman Archive
Thread: I don't FEEL like a sniper....
I was thinking about some possible additions to Rifleman, that would make the pvp aspect SOOOOO much more fun. At master rifleman...give us some kind of skill that allows us to go invisible on overts radar. It just doesn't feel right having to run away from people constantly because they know EXACTLY where I am just by tabbing. If I am a "Master Sniper", I think I should be able to hide from people and pick them off until they figure out where I'm at. I'm not saying make you invisible on the screen....just on radar, so they can't instantly know right where you are and tab on to you. I know some non-rifleman will complain about this....but personally, I think it fits quite well in rifleman.
rLHitman wrote:
If I am a "Master Sniper",
Last I checked my title is Master Sharpshooter. We are not Snipers we are soldiers and gunners mainly.
Anyways this is a dead horse, we are what we are, and it seems everything is going to change and we have to wait to see what will happen.
Ya know when i beta tested this game I was a Sniper too. After getting the hell beat out of me constantly by every body out there and theid children, I dropped it because of this very thing.
What the hell is the point in being a sniper if you cant hide? Why the hell do riflemen even have this stupid arse title if their positions are always compromised by the dam TAB key?
I am not even in a ranged profession and I completely agree with this...this is a awesome concept and should be considered.
If anything allow snipers to hide and after the first shot they then do a die role and suffer the chance of being located...then with every shot the chance goes up until they are finally red coned on the hud!
doing headshots on corellian butterflys and meatlumps was the closest feel to sniperI got in this game 
I would love for somthing like this but i think the biggest issue is the turrain... we can shoot through mountains for goodness sake... All a sniper would need to to do hit would be sit on the oposite side of a large mountain and BANG...youhave your enemys dead before they even get a chance to know where the fire is comming from.
If they could fix that issue and make turrain and obsicle that you would have to avoid then i think it would be AWESOME idea
Courtesy of dictionary.com:
sniper: a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place
sharpshooter: one skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman
Even though the Sniping Accuracy line title is "Sniper" and has a special called "Sniper Shot" all it provides to the profession is greater accuracy at range, a special to bypass the game mechanic required to kill other players, a broken special that has the best damage multiplier of our single target random pool specials, and a special that bypasses the random pool mechanic of the game and target a specific pool. The concealment line (poorly named "Hunter") was where they decided to dump our ranged defense. Counter-sniping? All we have there are state attacks, area attacks and state defenses. Special abilities grant speed, melee defense, and more state & area attacks.
If you ask me we are more like mobile infantry with great accuracy at range and some poorly named trees, titles and specials that lead people to believe that we are something we are not.
Also another fact I hate about you guys is conceal shot. Why is it that when u use conceal shot on a group of aggros that the target doesnt know where you hit him from but everybody esle in the group knows exactly where you are and come running......not a very good "Conceal" shot.
Sniper means Sniper...either give these guyus some real sniping skills or take away the title from the tree.
I feel like a hick with a shotgun smoking some grass...
Equip the laser, pop a muon, then:
/strafeshot2; /ui action toolbarSlot09;
Which btw yields a nice spam 