Hi all. I've been playing as a while and I've tried every class so far. Some of 'em are simple, like the Support's 'Blast everything in sight' and some are more complex, such as the Commando. The Sharpshooter is one of the more complex ones in my opinion. As a sharpshooter, choosing targets quickly, knowing what targets are capable of, and knowing how to bring one down is essential.
Quite a few rookie sharpshooters are having serious trouble with this, doing such AWESOME things as blasting Fleshpounds on sight or trying to headshot Clots while a band of Crawlers are tearing your teammates apart...others are blasting away at the wrong enemies with the wrong weapons, making themselves near useless and ending up broke. This guide is a quick tactical guide to help you know what to shoot first and what to shoot it with.
As the title says, this is a field guide, based on my experience in the field. I haven't had time to test EXACTLY how many headshots with each weapon it takes to bring down everything, so if it's innaccurate, I apologize, but I can give a general estimate of things in the field. To keep this from being a "Wall of text", I'll put this into a couple of posts here as well. I've underlined and/or bolded a few of the more important points to take from this so they'll be easier to see and I've tried to make it as easy on the eyes as I can without going into a ton of advanced formatting.
NOTE: Most of this experience is from a Level 2 and Level 3 Sharpshooter perspective as that is what I consider to be an 'average' level (And it's what levels I've been at currently. Almost to rank 4, though!). If your level is lower, you'll notice that enemies take more shots to bring down, if it's higher, less.
Quite a few rookie sharpshooters are having serious trouble with this, doing such AWESOME things as blasting Fleshpounds on sight or trying to headshot Clots while a band of Crawlers are tearing your teammates apart...others are blasting away at the wrong enemies with the wrong weapons, making themselves near useless and ending up broke. This guide is a quick tactical guide to help you know what to shoot first and what to shoot it with.
As the title says, this is a field guide, based on my experience in the field. I haven't had time to test EXACTLY how many headshots with each weapon it takes to bring down everything, so if it's innaccurate, I apologize, but I can give a general estimate of things in the field. To keep this from being a "Wall of text", I'll put this into a couple of posts here as well. I've underlined and/or bolded a few of the more important points to take from this so they'll be easier to see and I've tried to make it as easy on the eyes as I can without going into a ton of advanced formatting.
NOTE: Most of this experience is from a Level 2 and Level 3 Sharpshooter perspective as that is what I consider to be an 'average' level (And it's what levels I've been at currently. Almost to rank 4, though!). If your level is lower, you'll notice that enemies take more shots to bring down, if it's higher, less.
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