Melee is meant for those who get too close
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This is probably the main reason no one uses the sniper. Not enough reward compared to risk. Especially when the BR is laser accurate anyways.
You have a range of 50m or whatever with a sniper rifle, but you let the guy get within 3ft of you to shoot you with a shotgun. Thatās your fault chief. Aim better. How bad are you? You let a shotgun get that close when you had so much distance to be able to kill them
Thereās my bait reply to your bait post
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Shotty Snipers has been around since Halo CE, where the devs made a gamemode with the idea of one gun for extreme range domination and the other for close-quarters domination.
If someone is running around with a shotgun to kill you, then you have to work on your situational awareness since as a sniper, you should SEE all hostiles approaching your location.
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You should see all hostiles coming at you
My brother in Christ have you ever played on Aquarius
Yeah! At the ranges 4v4 Comp operates at, itās just notā¦ THAT much more useful?
Why are you sniping on Aquarius without one of your buddies to act as a guardian with a Shotgun?
Teamwork is essential to Shoddy Snipers with maps that have tight approach.
what dolt would use a sniper rifle on aquarius
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Makes sense for the long hallways and longer 2nd floor sightlines, but not so much so when players are running around with bulldogs in the more tight corners of the maps.
Ergo, teamwork.
Someone is sniping? Stick around them with a Bulldog to keep them safe from flanking maneuvers.
ā¦people in a snipers playlist that has Aquarius as a map
Admittedly thatās half the issue, that many of these gametype/map combinations shouldnāt be in the game at all
Oh wow, I never encountered that one. Thatās terrible!
Use it as a deterrent and on choke points, but if youāre bad the enemy will find that out pretty quick.
Either way think about the amount of times you need to push an objective by tower on live fire but thereās a sniper watching brutes/OS the majority of the team would swing round by mid or B to avoid that instant death or shield crack.
But yeah high risk, high reward. Seeing as iāve dropped and regained onyx 3 times this month iām probably taking too many risks so take all that with a huge grain of salt.
Well the shotgun in Infinite has unlimited damage range so itās practically a sniper.
lol, I have trouble with the sniper unless Iām playing Team Snipers - in which case I catch everyone lacking, haha. Soā¦ I tend to avoid the long rifle.
Hm. Noted.
Gottaā be real, heading into the third stage of my life Iām honestly content to hit Onyx once. Itāll mean I was good enough to do it.
Best in the series, baby!
I play team snipers to snipe, iām not doing nearly enough sniping for my liking.
The skewer isnāt a sniper in the same vein a spartan laser is not a sniper, both require the same amount of shot delay and are precise. I love the spartan laser but itās not a sniper or should be in the playlist, same with skewer.
Shotty snipes is a variation of snipers that shouldnāt be played often, there is no pure snipers, just shotty snipes.
Swat has the same problem. Not delivering on the base gameplay people want by only getting it occasionally, forced to play a lot of junk gametypes. I donāt see it as any different from quick play where people that just want slayer are playing obj 2/3rds of the time with no alternative (initially on release).
Maybe others are different but I remember snipers on Hemorrhage in Reach or Avalanche in 3. The games quite often wouldnāt get to 50, it was a slow campy mess the majority of the time.
Sometimes big maps play okay but maps the size of Launch site seems to be as large as it gets before it becomes a crawl. Infinite BTB maps are made for 12v12 and are just massive.
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Fair enough.
I guess they could increase the lobby size to 5v5 or 6v6.
Iād be happy to play with anyone who needs a hand in ranked, add me if youād like.
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This. And they call it āTeam Snipersā.
the skewer is a other version off the basic sniper.
the same with the Stalker Rifle is also a other version off the sniper.
its the same like the beam rilfe is and the binary rifle are also both snipers.
only the skewer is the banished version for the bruteās and stalker rilfe from the jackels.
its the same with the bimary rifle that is from the forrunners side.