Quote:In the past, it had the (unfair) advantage of headshotting when you shoot above the shoulders. Combined with the fact that all the other guns were pretty weak (maybe except the noobmachinegun), it made it teh king.Hardly, the true reason sniper was king was because switching to another weapon would instantly reset the "wait time" between sniper shots, allowing you to greatly speed up it's firing rate. Sniper > Pistol > Sniper > Knife > Sniper, etc.
When that got fixed way back (in 0.94 I think, sad day :S) then it was in balance with the other weapons for a while...but armor has always hit snipers hard :(