I think it's fine right now, but inconsistent.

Supposedly when we get precision rifles (minmatar sniper rifles), all the caldari ones will work like the charge sniper.

I love my sniper rifle. I just started to really build a silent killing machine. I mean I am really going hardcore ninja here. I use my proto suit and my Thale yes I said Thale sniper rifle and I go huntin wabbit. SHHHHHH be very very quite. Leave the weapon alone, what is wrong with players always wanting to change things. Leave it be unless it has a problem that prevents it from working like a glitch. If it works leave it the F alone and I must say it is only one of a few that works the correct way. I gave up my proto Heavy because of the glitches that is why I went sniper.

I'm a sniper and I love to snipe. I love redline sniping if it is beneficial. Sometimes it can be. I move around where I can be useful and have been useful many times where just being another assault wouldn't have helped.

I'd like to see sniping nerfed so that only those who have skilled into it can benefit though.


Make it like an actual rifle for sniping (there is no such thing as a sniper rifle in RL) only a rifle that is good for long range shots and therefore gets adopted as a sniper rifle.

Make it single shot and then you have to reload.

Make it more powerful per shot.

Make the skills give the rifle its power and usefulness even more so than they do now.

Allow for better identification of specific targets so a squad leader can mark a target that is being especially tough and the sniper can do what a sniper's job is mainly for GÇö to take out specific, hard targets.

question, how old are you?

Old enough to drink young enough not to be collecting social security. Does this answer your question?

Only the charge sniper has a charge because the snipers have a 'miniature' railgun system. The order of railgun power is this:

1. Forge Guns

2. Large Railguns

3. Sniper Rifles

4. Small Railguns

So it makes sense that only the most powerful sniper requires charge...

There is the general feeling that sniping is way too easy within the DUST player-base (or at least the people that aren't yoloswag sniper 420 Q. scope mastaz ). This is to no surprise to me. The rail sniper rifles we have in this game are Caldari and anything Caldari in this game is easy mode, taking little to no thought to do well with due to the current nature of the game.


With that being said
That's the way the Caldari fight, they take a very low risk route by fighting from afar and striking instantly and it make sense, it honestly does. All races have their own fighting style and that's one of the awesome and unique things about the EVE universe.

I agree that since the Caldari Sniper Rifle is rail based it should be near instant, highly accurate and powerful.

What it shouldn't have however is
1.little to no recoil that allows you to make follow up shots in less than a second.
2. A large magazine capacity for a weapon capable of such power
3. No charge time even though it operates just like a rail gun in every single way

If the listed items above were taken away along with the addition of a slight increase to Sniper Rail Rifle damage (along with a stun affect bonus maybe?) and more racial sniper variants that all have their advantages and disadvantages I think it would make DUST just a little bit more of a tolerable place.

I can only hope to think that CCP made the sniper rifles like this temporarily because of the lack of other racial variants.

This topic is so unbiased

I don't get why it's overpowered. A single shot cannot take down anyone but a scout suit. Sniping is not easy - it's about the same as using other weapons, it has it's nuances and difficulties to work around of.

gtfo
You just want to keep your easy mode weapon.

I'm not nerfing this weapon I'm saying that a sniper rifle should require more skill than it currently requires. I even said that it should get a damage increase in addition to the skill required.

Go play CoD if you want insta win rifles so much.

I'm not saying the weapon is OP. I'm saying the weapon is too easy to use. Like too many other weapons in this game.
We need to start rewarding players based on their capacity and not just because they can spam a button.

I think dropping the sniper rifles to one shot then reload is a bad idea. They're fairly weak as
they are now imo. And I rarely snipe these days. And I rarely die to a sniper rifle unless I've
already been tagged a few times by something else.

I suppose I would be okay with a bolt action sort of function but then my geek side says
it's a sci-fi shooter so no.
If it moves to a reload after every shot deal then those T5 rifles should be able to one shot
high tanked proto heavies, headshots only. As well as body shot all other protos and drop
them no problems.
I'd be okay with that.
Though that may just be me...

have you even used it? If so, how many kills did you get and how helpful were you to your team? If you think its easy you're either an incredibly coordinated fps gamer or a moron, and I'm willing to bet it's not the former. I'm sick of seeing this judgement get thrown around like nobodies business, especially when the people who are doing it have strapped into a sniper suit once, maybe twice. Complaining about things like this is the reason why we can never have nice things

I love my sniper rifle. I just started to really build a silent killing machine. I mean I am really going hardcore ninja here. I use my proto suit and my Thale yes I said Thale sniper rifle and I go huntin wabbit. SHHHHHH be very very quite. Leave the weapon alone, what is wrong with players always wanting to change things. Leave it be unless it has a problem that prevents it from working like a glitch. If it works leave it the F alone and I must say it is only one of a few that works the correct way. I gave up my proto Heavy because of the glitches that is why I went sniper.

Use it a damn lot get out of here ****.

Like a poster here mentioned earlier I want this weapon to be associated with skill. Not guys that are poor at this game It's easy to tell between the ones that are actually good with this weapon and saying it's fine and the people that are scared to lose the only weapon they can use without dying.

I could make several points with other weapons but this is a sniper rifle thread discussing the sniper rifle, not wanting to nerf it, not wanting to buff it.

Sniper Rifles are fine.

Nerf Sniper MDs