greenhaven wrote:
1. Unless you've cut your thumbs off, or someone else wipes your ass for you, I doubt that's true. And if you cut your thumbs off, holding the TP would be difficult.
2. That's a tall order, seeing as how most snipers idea of their kit involves pressing 5 and double clicking. However, even if you do kill one person, there's still five others. Let's say one medic falls back to revive him. Even then, you still have four, or more if there's multiple squads or just more people. The four people rush in to cap the flag. Also, you don't have to have everyone hidden from your view. Just one person to change the flag.
3. So you killed one support guy. Now, Random_Support's squadmates know where you are, and are more than obliged to inject a stream of hot lead into your skull.
4. Gunners don't have to distinguish between kits. They just have to distinguish between teams. They are also remarkably attracted to enemy troops, and your dark ghille suit standing out against the light ground seems to register in the gunners mind as 'shoot here for two points.' Even if the helo gunner misses you, which isn't likely, any decent armor driver will be happy to pick up the two points.
5. So you've sequestered yourself in a corner. As you pointed out, red tags don't just stand out through smoke. I'm sure you've played enough BF2 to know that person in a corner = easy grenade kills. Also, depending on the angle from which the squad has attacked, they can just pull out their guns and shoot you from outside claymore range.
6. We're already assuming ideal circumstances, which is how our sniper hit a good portion of our squad with headshots through smoke, and finished the rest off with pistols, let's just say they do stick together. I don't know about you, but to a medic, those two people that your claymores killed, and the support you killed with a pistol, those look pretty damn tempting. Not to mention the sniper that has used both clays, and is out of sniper rifle range, armed with a pistol. That looks pretty tempting too for the squad, now fully revived.
Wtf? It isn't the job of the sniper to eliminate the entire fucking enemy team. And if he did wipe out your entire squad before getting killed, he can still sit there with a grin on his face and a chubby below. Personally I take it as a compliment if 6 guys are pissed and chasing me - and that is 6 guys leaving the rest of my team alone.
A decent sniper can at least knock a couple of members out of an assaulting squad before they close distance, lay claymores and retreat - causing healthy damage to the enemy.
A better sniper can work with the team to cover his own squad advances, pick off entrenched/difficult enemy troops and provide yet another direction of fire to duck away from.
Otherwise - for the love of god realise that having 7 kits in the game is all part of one big army toolkit. If you have a tank in front - flick out the swiss-army blade that has AT or ENGO tattooed on it. Got pwnt doing that? call your medic over. Other than tea-bagging (non-class specific skill) most roles on the field have their uses.
The sniper is there to a) kill people longer range b) provide recon at longer range c) harass the other guys as much as possible <insert claymores here>.