How would that affect their mental health, already crippled by insecurity as they are?

Personally, the most useful thing about the sniper rifle is that some have bayonets which are very handy in the capture zone.

then tripwire should have the bayonet always activated on the sniper rifles for the sniper's protection.

As sniper player i feel offended

id feel better about snipers if, when shot by one. The map tilts upward and turns to reveal a neon yellow silhouette of my killer, with big red arrows pointing downward from the sky at all angles towards the sniper, maybe a guitar riff. Only for snipers though.

Very rarely does a sniper do anything. Some get a number of kills, but as they're not in the zone it's rare it affects their team's effort. Mostly it's a way for whoever has a fast computer and picks the class first to spend ages crawling to the edge of the map before getting two kills after ten minutes, then getting killed themselves when a player with a scintilla of awareness realises where the sniper is. My favourite was getting the guy on the water tower at Cu Chi from 180m with a MAT49.

Just play the zones and the wicked cool sniper kiddies will fail to annoy you. Since the zones are where the points are at, they're missing out by not being in them. When I play sniper it's mostly pistols in the zone, and shooting out from it to break up advances.

i think youre missing the point of this thread

How about my face to your foot style?

^^ now youre getting it.