Ryme Intrinseca wrote:Sir Dukey wrote:Stop with the freking risk/reward. If you are not willing to do sh*t about it, then it's your own fault. My sniper suits costed 130k isk in 1.6 and were easily killable by a standard tactical sniper. Get good you scurbs and stop tying to keep a sh*tty weapon in the dirt. The only viable sniper right now is the thale's.
Snipers are an unliked class but you deserve to be sniped if you don't want to counter them.
I kill 90% of sniper I face with level 2 in sniper operation, a scout suit and a tactical sniper rifle and I best most lose over 100k isk per death when I start sniping.
They all need a zoom and damage buff.
Tactical needs it's clip size increased.
Charge needs a cooler word in front of the name, a damage buff and a huge zoom capability buff.
Basic needs a damage buff.
Don't be ridiculous, snipers already OHK half the suits in the game. Just how big a win button do you need? Maybe you think your rifle should be a laser pointer calling down infinite OBs?
Good snipers do fine with zoom and damage as it is. If they were any higher you'd have a lot of half empty battlefields with everyone hiding in the redline or tanks.
Here's the difference, and what you fail to understand simpleton.
Militia Sniper Rifle vs. Militia Drop Suit (MINIMUM 2 body shots for a kill / 1 head shot for a kill)
Prototype Sniper Rifle vs. Prototype Drop Suit (MINIMUM 3 body shots for a kill / 1-2 head shots for a kill)
*excluding heavies*
In their own tier.. Militia Sniper Rifle > Prototype
Balancing the Sniper Rifle might increase the percentage of one hit kills of a prototype sniper vs maybe a standard/militia drop suit. That's not what matters at all though. They're prepared to die a lot.
A cheap suit provides low risk of isk loss, so death is their reward.The people running those suits generally don't matter to the out come of a match. Anyone with a combat rifle / rail rifle with a prototype drop suit could attest. They serve one purpose and that's to increase that little number next to your deaths at the end of a match. It's not even generally required that you aim to kill these people. (the miracle of hip fire)