The Sniper's Nest

I hate sniping.

Still love the Valiant/CSR Salarian Engineer.

There are ways to enjoy it though.

Hipfire Kishock is good and I like the HSol double-shot Widow. However, these two styles don't suit the notion of a "Sniper's nest." Heck, even my Sal Engy is mobile.

I looooove sniping in this game  Valiant QFI focused on headshots and Widow QFI just for the sheer stopping power are my absolute most favourite setups - though SI performs better with single-shot SR, as ED opens up other ammo types than phasics. Other infiltrators I enjoy are the Viper GI (the RoF increase is a huge boost IMO) and the Raptor DAI (hard on your mouse, but hits a sweet spot on Gold for me).

Among non-Infs, Kishock Vorcha Engineer is a blast to play; Valiant QFE is an interesting combo as well - balancing sniping distance with the traveling time of her powers is tricky. I almost never take the BW on gold anymore, but I found putting it on the Volus Sentinel to be an interesting challenge: no reliable staggering powers means going for headshots is pretty... challenging

My two cents, if you set up a sniping nest and camp it throughout the match, you are missing out! Stick with your teammates, find good cover, knock down whatever is giving your team trouble, watch their flanks! You can show your camping prowess when you have to defend that hack!

For players that know how to snipe some set-ups are among the most OP in the game, GI with BW or Javelin or DAI with BW etc.

There are plenty of total try-hards running those combos in the game, guess they are so bad they need over the top OP boosts to avoid ending up last on the score board.

My favourite set-up is SI with CSR, Indra, Widow or Valiant on Platinum or SI/QFI with Kishock or Mantis on Gold.

Does this count as discussion?

Agreed on the SI+Mantis. One of my regrets about the game that I never played DAI. I got it really early, when I knew nothing about the game and I can't use it well now as I never got around to it.



I know, it's just a good name for a sniping topic, not really a reference to the playstyle. You can't camp for long with a sniper rifle in this game (at least not on console).



So dirty. Loving it.

Only on consoles with no way of turning aim assist off.

I call haaaaaaaax space magic!

I did the Incisor Challenge on the Juggy. Took me like 3 games, but I did it. Also shamed a Jav GI in the process .

Speedy Gonzales is so fast, he doesn´t need to dodge to evade projectiles .

That was a mistake, should've been omni capacitor.