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Yeah, you may be a moderate exception, but they're still overall worthless.
I've watched 3 games just this week where teams lost because the last guys alive were Snipers who were too wrapped up in kill-whoring to cap a point so their team could respawn (they were playing Lone Wolf as usual). They sat up in their cozy little snipe-spot and kept TRYING (not succeeding) to kill the enemy until they were hunted down and terminated with the score being somewhere in the 100s to 0.
The whole time I've been playing I think I've seen a Sniper kill a helo pilot maybe twice, and the time it took them to do it could've still been better spent capping a point, period.
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Then naturally we have divurgent opinions. Some guys as snipers are trying to be kill whores, and I guess I'm the exception, while I do want the kills (a leftover from the straight fragfest days of CoD?) I also want to help the team as whole in a support role. Fending off other classes trying to get to the cap point. And you can't tell me that the majority of the people playing BF2 don't want a ton of kills.
As far as trying to shoot the chopper down with the Barrett and being and getting a kill here and there, it doesn't hurt to try. Plus If you can get a chopper every once in while it's kind of nice. Sometimes I feel as if the sniper bashing is by people that aren't good snipers, and/or get killed by them a lot. In your case though, you are approaching the game in a more tactical fashion, and your focus is on cap points (I could be wrong). As well as seeing your aforementioned games lost due to some guys not trying to take a cap and let others spawn. Which is lame, I agree, and I can appreciate that viewpoint.
Ok, I'm done with the sniper good/bad thread, I just want to enjoy the game in spite of the lag, and work well with my team.
Thanks for all the other strategery!
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