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[Mindlog]

Small heads aren't necessarily bad. If you get used to shooting Geth in the head consistently, the other faction will be a piece of cake. As for stagger, unless it's a drone spawning behind you or whatnot, it's not that hard to avoid. By just keeping your distance and being somewhat situationally aware you eliminate 2 of the most annoying stagger units of the faction- bomber and hunter. 

Yup. The big specialty shot that helped was a Widow through a Pyro flashlight and into its tank.

This was all with the old Widow.

 

Next game better have a Widow.

[Pearl (rip bioware)]

It takes a lot of practice to be proficient with sniping. I think I spent a good 50 hours or so back when I was a new player just messing around in Bronze with sniper rifles, but it paid off. I can't really provide any tips that haven't already been said, but that match is a good way to see them in action. Just keep at it, and one day it'll 'click', and you'll find yourself hitting shots you didn't think you could.

[Brannigans 1ove]

My sniper kits are the SI and FQI for sniper rifles.  Cloak, stagger with energy drain or sabotage, line up a headshot, shoot.  Usually takes a little while to pick up the rhythm.  For pistols, I use the vanilla Asari Adept, stasis/headshot.  Only problem with the Asari are other players doing damage to your target whilst you're lining up the shot, and they fall out of stasis.

[JRandall0308]

I was really hoping to find useful advice in this thread.

 

You mean beyond all the advice that's already been offered? O... K...

 

Basically nothing substitutes for practice. Pick a character, pick a gun, pick an enemy, aim for heads. Do it over and over until you get better. *shrug*

[Marksmad is waving goodbye]

I was really hoping to find useful advice in this thread. I guess I still won't play on console.

With your reflexes you wouldn't find it hard. Console allows an entirely different sniping style based on quickscoping.

[D-Rock0713]

Basically nothing substitutes for practice.

This. Especially on console. You just have to put in the time and effort.

Little things will help, like knowing enemy movement patterns, gun recoil, etc.. but it still boils down to training your reflexes

[krjn09]

Up a little. For the quickscope style.

 

And practice. For other stuff.

[FireRider100]

I know some already mentioned stasis, but the best way to improve your head shot with a sniper is to use powers to either stop or stun the enemy down so they are easier to hit. Stasis, energy drain, overload, submission net can do this. Leading the target obviously helps, but with lag you can't be sure how much to lead the target. I have had sniper shots go straight through the enemy and cause no damage because of that. Whilst stopping or stunning the enemy suffers much less from lag issues.

[Terminator Force]

Vulnerability VI

Use targeting VIs to pinpoint enemy weak points. Aim will be autocorrected to maximize damage.

 

BioWare description says it does the headshot aiming for for you. I never tried this Gear (since I come with a built in Skynet one), but if BioWare says that's what it does, then who am I to argue?

[Learn To Love Yourself]

I love the Kishock.  It flings trash far away, where it belongs to be.

[valium]

after having full aiming control with a mouse and much much more visibility while running... I would probably get stomped on silver on console

[Caineghis2500]

There's no real secret tbh. Just practice with a sniper rifle considerably more than other weapon types and you'll get better over time.

[Excella Gionne]

You have to have good reflexes. I usually get a warm up by doing a quick bronze solo before I PUG. I play on Peasetree(Peasee for mainly solos), and usually with a Peasetree controller but my controllers have turned to crap. I now use my Peasefo' controller. Note that controller size does matter(LOLz!), and depending on the size of your hand to the controller you will need to adjust the aiming sensitivity to better your comfort with the controller. The smaller the controller, the lower the sensitivity. The bigger the controller, the higher the sensitivity. 

[Operator m1]

The short answer is practice. I suggest taking a valiant, and sniping a foot-soldier heavy faction on hydra's LZ, or london's balcony; it's good for learning these shooting styles:

 

-following the shot with just the scope

-following the shot with both scope and character strafing (both analog sticks)

-have the enemy walk into your waiting crosshairs by predicting where, and when an enemy's head will pass them (dragoons are prime targets for this)

 

You'll also have to learn to gauge enemy movement velocity to do any of this.

 

Get good enough, and you can even do some wicked shots like headshotting an enemy behind a wall that broke line-of-sight with you for just under a second without needing a thermal scope to know where their head is.

 

As for the close-up moments where you don't have as much time to do those things, you'll have to get used to quick-scoping as someone mentioned. Center your screen on your target, scope in, pull up a bit, shoot. If you know you can send the target into a stagger/combat roll with a shot to the chest, go ahead and bait that action.

 

SI is perhaps the training-wheels sniping kit, but damn effective at making the valiant a one-shot-kill against many things with energy drain.

 

I play on PS3 using the stock controller.

 

Again, it's all practice. I've been mostly sniping since demo, and I'm at the point where it's more effort to put how I snipe into words than it is to just do it. When you commit those styles to reflex, and not thought, along with earning 20 headshot medals before 25 kills by wave 3 without needing to stagger-cheese with energy drain/sabotage, that's when you know you're ready.

[Best VolusSupport NA]

As a decent sniper with the javelin in particular on console. I think the best way at least for me, was having no hesitation, like for example you wanna be 100% committed to the shot and not move your aiming reticle in the last split second that may cause you to miss. And also just like everyone has said before is just practicing aiming with what ever sniper your using. 

[Marksmad is waving goodbye]

If it's only for practice purposes, there's no shame in playing Bronze, which has the advantage of there being much less threat of actually dying, and a lot more mooks to practice on. If not enough mooks, the first few waves of Silver are filled with them, after all.