Board Thread:Respawnables Discussion/@comment-26814398-20160117061826

Well this guide is to help you guys out there who want to snipe better. Now, this guide will help SAS users, AMS users, and DMR users. IF you want a guide for the original sniper or the hunter rifle, sorry go home those fire too slowly and have too low damage to do any good other than during easter.

Anti-Material Sniper

One of the original weapons of the game and can still wreck if you know how. Best tip I can give you is, use spotter.

When someone is rounding the corner, highly recommend firing a shot missing on purpose right before you shoot to kill. Then the recoil of the gun will push your crosshairs up to auto-aim on someone's face. IF you spam the fire button you can easily get 3 kills in 2 seconds like this.

Camping is the best way to play this weapon, the agility is low, and you can't aim a headshot quickly due to how it auto-aims toward the body.

As always, you must practice with this to get good. Developing good aim will take time.

Semi-Automatic Sniper

A great sniper rifle, and yes I still recommend using spotter with this and all snipers.

Now it's unavoidable that some people will run 30% hp or the biker's bundle. To counter this, at least one of your shots must be a headshot in order to drop them without reloading. I highly recommend slightly flicking up after your first shot so recoil from the first shot will push the second shot into a headshot. This is very difficult to do, but practice should make you able to consistently do it mid-long range.

It's a good idea to aim for headshots in general, because if your first shot misses, well the headshot will kill them, and often times your first shot will hit and your second shot will miss, so yeah aiming for a headshot is a very good idea.

Quickscoping: This is the first sniper released where you could quickscope. Quickscoping is pressing the aim/scope in button and firing before it fully scopes in then scope out. This method is very useful because it allows you to quickly get someone who appeared out of nowhere or get someone when your first shot missed. This is a very useful technique to get down for short-mid range. Practice by memorizing the center of your screen and try it out in missions. A game that helped me learn how to quickscope really well before doing it in respawnables was a game called modern combat 4.

Sniping with this in general: Make sure the recoil doesn't move your aim out of the second shot. This will hurt you and make you miss the second shot a lot on moving targets. Keep your aim steady and predict where people will go.

This sniper is very versatile. IT can eliminate people at long range, short range, and mid range. Due to how much agility it has, you can also easily run and gun with it. So with this you can camp, or run and gun, your choice. Make sure you don't get too far away though,  damage falloff applies to this gun at way closer ranges than any other sniper rifle.

Final Tip: Wear at least 10% accuracy with this, this sniper has the worst accuracy of all snipers and I find it tends to miss a lot at long range if you don't wear accuracy.

DMR-003

The king of the snipers. This sniper looks bad*ss. It's performance is no slugger either.

This sniper is a true one shot kill, so just aim and shoot. Use spotter and shoot someone's face off right as they round a corner. This is the sniper you can make everyone rage with.

Aiming: Make sure you learn how to aim without auto-aim before using this gun. Auto-aim on this gun doesn't take over until you've moved your crosshair over someone.

Quickscopes: Quickscoping is one of the best techniques for this gun. You will be using it a lot with this gun, make sure you get it down. Already explained it in SAS so not gonna get too far into it. IF you can quickscope, this gun will just destroy and you can defend yourself against shotguns.

Just like the SAS, this gun is very versatile and can camp or run and gun. I tend to find better results when I camp though. It's so much fun to frag the entire enemy team really quickly from a distance.

All The Snipers

NoScopes: Ok let's be honest, a lot of people wanna noscope with snipers and think it takes a ton of skill. Well here's the truth, it sorta does but it sorta doesn't. When you noscope, the bullet will go in a random direction probably not at the center of your screen. It's very lucky based and is a last resort if someone gets into the position to circle strafe around you. Other than that, it's safer to quickscope.

Airshots: Oftentimes, someone will move of a ledge or something and be airborne for a little bit. For many snipers, it's hard for them to hit you. But vs someone who can aim this is a bad thing to do. It makes your pathway way more predictable and gives the sniper a free headshot since they're falling.

Counter Sniping: If someone else is sniping and they're really good at it, just snipe yourself. If an enemy is sniping and they're really good like you can wear 21% agility and still get your head shot off then you definately need to counter snipe because otherwise you're just gonna die everytime you peak around the corner. I feel like whenever I snipe and the enemy isn't sniping, I have all the time in the world to line up my shots and own everyone easily.

Hope this guide helped you guys. These are some tips I found during my journeys of sniping. Sniping is a very fun thing to do :), and AMS is still the best gun in the game for headshot kills. 