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by WinterClould » 18 Jul 2017, 02:41
When I Sniper Spec I always unload my rifle, put in a incendiary mag, chamber a round of fire ammo, unload that mag from my rifle, have cargo refill both the fire and marksman mags, then but the fire mag back in my gun. This leaves me with a loaded rifle with 15+1 rounds of incendiary ammo inside of it, two full marksman mags, and a full untouched flak mag to spair. No loose ammo so that shouldn't be "power gaming" right? I also always order more ammo from cargo and try to get them to give it to me before first drop but that's a 50/50 if they even bother ordering it. Even doing all of that I still feel like I just don't have the ammo to be able to adapt on the fly and do good damage against the xeno like I should.
Say I have marksman loaded to pick off boilers, I fire once and before I can get a second shot in a crusher is body blocking for the boiler. Now the smart thing to do is load flak and hit them both right? But I have a marksman bullet chambered already and if I want to get a shot of flak in I have to waste one of the very few bullets I have left just to get maybe one or two hits in with the flak before I have to waste yet another bullet switching back to marksman when the crusher gets sick of sitting there or the boiler gasses me and I have to pick new targets. If you try to switch your ammo to always fit the situation your going to end up wasting a lot of ammo or having to do something silly like loading one shot at a time from your mags and ejecting the mag before each shot which is just very silly, very time consuming and quite dangerous. As it is now I just burn through each mag no matter what my target is, even if that means I end up hitting a rav with Incendiary or a lone runner with flak. Swapping mags is a bigger waste then that.
I love sniping in this game, I really do. I'm never going to trade my sniper in for a modded out M41.. but, if I did... I'd probably be a bigger help to my squad and team in the long run. I'd save cargo points by not asking them to order ammo, Id be able to constantly keep fire on the xeno every chance I got. In the event that our SL goes down I'd be better able to lead better because I'd be able to focus on chat and those around me instead of just whats on other end of my scope. So many upsides to going Modded M41 instead of sniper. Having more ammo won't fix everything, like a sniper spec is still going to be a worse second in command then the lone wolf they normally are, no matter how much ammo they have. But still, more ammo would go a long way to making people actually take their sniper over a modded M41 and it actually being effective.
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