If you're going to snipe, you might as well do it right and help your team out. The best applications for sniper warfare in CTF-Face are:
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<LI>Killing the flag runner
<LI>Supression of enemy snipers
<LI>picking off incoming offensive players
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These are in order of importance. Always keep your primary mission objectives in mind.
If you get the chance, try to grab the armor from the top of the tower. Many snipers don't always make the head shot, they go for the center-of-mass double-tap to make the kill. Armor will leave you a little more health if you take a rifle bullet, and enable you to make a getaway.
Each tower has a side that is distinctly darker than the other. This is where you want to be; it doesn't pay to be seen outright or silhouetted on the light side.
You want the tiny, narrow ledges, and you want to be as far back as possible. This hides the shells better. Don't go so far back as to lose your field of view though.
The moment you take someone down, you've given away your position. This is what the military teaches their snipers, and you'll survive a lot longer in UT if you believe this. If you've got another target that's just standing still, then what the heck, take another shot, but otherwise, pull out and find another spot. Better yet, change tactics for a few minutes. Grab a rocket launcher and help the offense, or defend the flag. Or maybe the Redeemer has reappeared.
Frankly, I only snipe when there are a lot of enemy snipers, or when someone is spawn-sniping. Changing tactics frequently keeps the enemy guessing and gives you more of the action.
Put a TL disc someplace secretive (amp room is usually a good place) and get to the ledges from the top of the tower. Remember that if you're going to snipe, you're going to be sniped as well. If someone shoots me and doesn't get the headshot with the first bullet, they've failed. The moment you take a bullet, jump off the side of the tower, switch to your translocator while falling, and
presto! you've saved your a
ss and are back in business.
-Wolf Blackstar
PuF: Bring on the pain!