Rebuilt my system, and was anxious to snipe a bit to see how it was.
I had an amazing round...
I'll start by saying my record number of points achieved as a sniper is 24, in a single life. It was on the Turbine map, and I only quit gaining points because the round ended... I didn't die.
So I jumped on my fave Warpath server last night, chose red, and sniper, and off I went.
Played a few rounds I was doing well enough (somewhere around a 1.75:1 k:d ratio), but here is one notable happenstance:
I respawned, and blue owned the middle point and was pushing toward our point 2, which is where most maps stall for quite a while as one team tries to break the defenses of the other. I walked out of the spawn point, saw a teleporter, and stepped in.... our engineer had built the exit and an engineer base inside the garage door of the middle point... basically behind enemy lines. I've never seen this done before, and didn't know if it was an exploit or not, but it basically allowed for an impenetrable staging point for our team. I stood inside and sniped out as my teammates opened the door, and was making quite a few kills. Took a lot of damage from time to time as demos lobbed in the grenades, but the dispenser kept me alive. This went on for about 3 minutes, then my team got organized, massed, and rushed out. The door opened, and I made 4 headshots in a row, with 4 rounds. Lucky. This allowed my team to capture the middle point, and rush to the enemy's point 2 (our point 4). I ran over to the crates, ran down the enemy's ridge, and started sniping around the corner. I quickly took out the enemy engineers trying to set up defensive positions, and then I took out their unfinished sentries. My team was able to then push on with minimal resistance and quickly take their point 2. I killed a couple more people up high and left coming over the narrow land bridge, waited about 30 seconds for my team to rush ahead, and then advanced my position to cover the long left hallway into the blockhouse. I immediately saw a sniper hitting our guys, and a long, lucky shot from my weapon hit him in the head.
At this point I'm sort of excited, because I was in the zone, had a bunch of kills, hadn't died in a long time, and figured I was going to break my sniper damage record....
Then we got a scout on the last point, and we won the game.
I was still pleased waiting for the next round to see how many points I had...
24. I had only tied my record, not broken it. Sigh.
Also, nobody was whining about snipers that round, I can tell you.