I love NLB (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, February 16, 2015, 11:31 (3804 days ago) @ Chewbaccawakka

For me, it's so much being in the moment and knowing when I have an advantage and pushing it to the end... even if I do take a body shot mid engagement. But it's also knowing when I have the disadvantage and breaking off... even if the sniper hasn't actually fired a shot yet. My flinch reaction for breaking line of sight when seeing nothing more than the sniper scope light has saved me plenty of times! So has ducking for cover if I take a hit too early. Then there's also just breaking the engagement completely and going somewhere else if the sniper is entrenched or got off a particularly quick first shot.

At the same time I think snipers can also get overconfident. Too many times I'll ping them once or twice with a four shot kill gun and they'll step back out before their shields are recharged. Or they take one too many shots and flee way too late. It's especially silly when they do kill me... and then stay in the exact same spot. I don't care if I have the best line of sight in the world, if I kill you from somewhere you will not find me there next time. Maybe I'll just move one field of view to the left or maybe I'll be at a completely different angle, but sniping from the same spot is a death sentence no matter how good your location is.

You are right, of course, a high sniper is extra dangerous. I know I've been embarrassed a few times to die to someone who seemed to keep hitting me no matter what I hid behind only to see that they were up on something. It happens a lot more with people using normal guns though since its easier to see and track a sniper by the contrail and by the scope light. Do you have any favorite locations where you can hover and it from above cover? (I'd like to know so I can avoid them! :p)