Recently I’ve been running into a lot of snipers that don’t project laser beams. Without the beam you have no idea that a sniper is there until the sound plays, and if I don’t see a visible beam my assumption is that they’re not aiming at me, which tends to get me shot.
This is something that’s easy to see after the fact if you get downed because the sniper will continue to shoot you and the laser beam is clearly missing.