If you're skilled enough, the sniper is easily the best weapon in the game. If you can master melee sniping, you pretty much have a pistol that can kill in one shot and has a better range than the pistol.

ok when you put it that way gep is not a noob wep all the time but what i will say is if you ONLY use GEP or LAW or 20mm then it is noob i can understand killing someone once or twice with gep as "tactical' but when your talking about 4-10 kills in a row with GEP... like what mastershadow did (20-50) that is noobish but one thing about sniper in MP is the *loving* 1 shot then reload i hate that so no it does not make a good pistol melee snipeing is good to learn as a sniper if someone gets close range it is faster to melee snipe then switch than to switch that is what kills most snipers

I was bored and can't help myself.

Practice Makes Perfect.