Closed Alpha Test & Deth..
Re: Return of the Preplanned infantry squad
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Which is still harder than just holding shift, pointing your crosshairs at the target, and pressing fire for an instant one-hit-one-kill.
Dunno. Move mouse up on one, hold shift on the other, not really THAT much harder. Also, try using the sniper - it isn't instant. If the target is moving at all, you have to aim slightly ahead of them. A Sniper can also only hit one target at a time, meaning if everyone mvoes at the same time, less people will get damaged.
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Point taken, but you're still vulnerable to gas grenades and pretty much anything with a blast radius - most of all other PMG's.
If you see a guy sitting behind a shield pumping PMG bolts over it, can't you just have someone go PMG and counter his fire by placing some well-aimed bolts behind his shield
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And this doesn't apply to snipers? Snipers are vulnerable to explosives, PMG's and other snipers. If I see a sniper bolt regularly blasting my guys, I move into a position slightly away from them, as a sniper, until I locate the guy. If I can't get him from there, I'll move closer, jumping over buildings and avoiding everything else until I know the threat is eliminated.
Perhaps you weren't keeping the enemy as supressed as you thought? Or maybe you were. Zaphod doesn't get much congrats or thanks for decimating the enemy team with his sniper. He gets recognised as a brilliant sniper because of how often he plays the game coupled with the fact he is bloody good. Same for me, I don't usually get any thanks or post-game congratulations for a brilliant beacon/mounted gun emplacement. I just get recognised for the amount I play and the fact I am good at it. I've yet to see anyone who has been recognised as a "Good" mortar user. Infact, I can think of only a couple of really good HWS users.
I'm not looking for congrats, I used that last line as a bit just to underline my point - that even though sniper rifles do a better job at killing enemies and are easier to use, they don't get nearly the amount of flak PMG's do.
I disagree that the sniper is easier to use, tbh. Yeah, it's easier to hit, but it takes alot more skill to clear a group of enemies with a sniper than it does with the mortar. Easier to hit, harder to kill.
DUKE815: Teamwork's complicated. I've found that ramming a Lambda with a Y-wing at full boost is most effective.
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