wearing suits that give us the ability to carry weapons that weigh as much as we do

We probably could carry weapons that heavy, but most of our weapons are only moderately heavier than their real-life equivalents. You could probably fire them without a suit (though it would be potentially lethal).

In most shooters that I've had the pleasure to play, they all allow you one key ability that I noticed right off the bat, is not available to us Dust Bunnies to make use of.

The ability to prone.

Any one whom has ever fired a gun knows that firing from a standing/kneeling position offers very limited accuracy over distances. Due to lack of muscle relaxation and other misc. variables that would compromise the integrity of your pattern down range.

It gives you advantages, such as making you a smaller target for hostile fire. It lets you make use of more cover (smaller chest high barriers that even though you are crouched behind, the tip of your helmet is still itching to sprout pink mist out everywhere.) Better accuracy down the range.

While also offering disadvantages. The primary one is movement restriction. you are much slower, and more likely not to dodge a spray of fire as you would be while standing/strafing. Lowered momentum into grenades thrown, or perhaps even the complete nullification of using grenades/equipment while in prone. Slower take off time to gtfoutta dodge.

I'm not sure how it would be implemented to be balanced. Considering Heavies in my theory would not be able to use prone, unless the penalty on time going prone to standing and vice verse were increased for their suit. Scouts of course being able to do it the quickest, leaving assault/logi in the middle..

But in conclusion, just the ability to use more cover, more effectively, would shut me up.

Now, how would you kill that sniper?

It's take at least 2 shots to kill most anything, and lining that itty bitty little pixel on that other itty bitty little pixel is quite hard.

This would basically make snipers invulnerable 100 yards and out.

In most shooters that I've had the pleasure to play, they all allow you one key ability that I noticed right off the bat, is not available to us Dust Bunnies to make use of.

The ability to prone..

In most shooters that I've had the pleasure to play, they all allow you one key ability that I noticed right off the bat, is not available to us Dust Bunnies to make use of.

The ability to prone.

Any one whom has ever fired a gun knows that firing from a standing/kneeling position offers very limited accuracy over distances. Due to lack of muscle relaxation and other misc. variables that would compromise the integrity of your pattern down range.

It gives you advantages, such as making you a smaller target for hostile fire. It lets you make use of more cover (smaller chest high barriers that even though you are crouched behind, the tip of your helmet is still itching to sprout pink mist out everywhere.) Better accuracy down the range.

While also offering disadvantages. The primary one is movement restriction. you are much slower, and more likely not to dodge a spray of fire as you would be while standing/strafing. Lowered momentum into grenades thrown, or perhaps even the complete nullification of using grenades/equipment while in prone. Slower take off time to gtfoutta dodge.

I'm not sure how it would be implemented to be balanced. Considering Heavies in my theory would not be able to use prone, unless the penalty on time going prone to standing and vice verse were increased for their suit. Scouts of course being able to do it the quickest, leaving assault/logi in the middle..

But in conclusion, just the ability to use more cover, more effectively, would shut me up.

GÖªBecause snipers are already hard to find. (nonsense, ever since they added the distance you were killed from, if you can't find the sniper that killed you, maybe you should take geometry again.)

GÖªBecause you are supposed to be doing something not lying on the ground (naps are needed from time to time, even for us immortals)

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i wish this is in the game but battle sizes should get larger.
and the redline needs to stop being a strategic area before this is implemented

This would also let DUST rise (or fall depending on your view) to the levels of other FPSs that have many YouTube videos of exploits based on their prone animations.