[Coreldan]

I don't have the experience to talk whether or not snipers were useless, but in my head having less people defending while I push sounds useful to me. I never worked with snipers per se, but it was hard to shoot at the attackers trying to breach into CY when you would drop down to 35 health as soon as you peeked from your cover.

So, to me while they werent use per se in hacking/defending CC, they played some role with the empire actually getting that far. I guess many would at the hacking point switch loadouts and go indoors at a certain point, but also sniping re-secure teams sounds like something that gave the attackers more time as well, not to mention the intel the snipers could provide when they could see what was coming from a relatively good distance.

But as said, I don't have the experience under my belt to actually argue this. Just my thoughts.