Posting this here before Anti-Sniper extremists resort to using fallacies.

I don't see how Ive addressed redline sniping and the damage is bonuses are so small.......... but they will find a way

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No. Never. You people saying "nerf the range omg too op" need to stop. Snipers are meant to have long range, get over it.
And as to the reduction of dmg past 200-300m, get out. The description says it fires at 2,500m/s, so it wouldn't lose dmg over a bigger range ever.

And as to the "Yolo 360 no scopes" please go back to COD.

3. Range

I'm not comfortable with the effective 200m range you suggest.

At all.

Here's why:

I often snipe at the 200m range and it can really pucker your butt because you are very, very close to people who have weapons that fire much, much faster than you can. They can usually run towards you and close the distance pretty quickly.

You can feel their rage and see the hate burning in their bugged out little eyes.

You start off crouched, have to stand up, turn, then run like hell. These things can take a second or two - a scout or logi can really close the gap in that time.

If you decide not to run, any lateral movement or jumping by the guy closing on you is very hard to compensate for when you are scoped in. So getting off a shot can be a thrilling Vegas-like experience.

I've been there and these guys can turn a proto commando sniper suit to smouldering thread in about four seconds (no exaggeration). Then I'm off to the biomass vat, getting fitted for another clone. "Ahhhh, Mr. Poonmunch! So nice to see you again. Another rail rifle was it? I'm so sorry. Will it be the usual clone this time?"

The 200m sniping range is for the hair-on-fire-balls-to-the-wall-three-testicle-banging-the-whole-cheerleading-squad sniper. It is not for everyone and it certainly isn't an advantage on all maps. If I take that risk - and I do - I want some reasonable expectation that I'll succeed somehow. Sometimes success means that I get a hack, save a blue surrounded by some reds, nail a heavy or stop a hack. Sometimes success means I live with only a sliver of armor left, bleeding from my ass and limping badly.

Please be careful with suggestions like this.


Munch

Your suggestions give proto version of the sniper rifle (the charge) roughly half the ammunition per clip in comparison to the lower tier sniper rifles. Repeated reloads will severely reduce the overall rate of fire.

Add a fair amount of damage falloff.

The proto skill level of sniping has no sway when scoped in. So you want to eliminate sway from the lower tier variants/lower skill levels?

How do the three above changes incentivise skilling into proto?

Adding the headshot multiplier is a good idea. Headshots should be rewarded for the difficult shots they are. These should be instakills in my opinion.

Hipfire standardization isn't really something I'd expect from a sniper rifle in the present day. It would break immersion and to be honest, it isn't fair to people who have the balls and skill to get close enough to kill me. Think of getting close enough to a sniper to instakill them as the corollary to the sniper's one headshot instakill.

The rate of fire changes give the lower tier sniper rifles more damage output. This isn't a bad idea and would compensate for the crappiness of the lower tier sniper rifles. But lots of folks would complain.

The added damage might be helpful but a spreadsheet with data is needed to assess this.


Munch

Someone I've never even heard of is trying to change the whole dynamic of sniping.

Screwing with rate of fire and damage on a large scale? Nobody is asking for that.
(try your luck with the remaining racial sniper rifles that have yet to be released)

-increased head shot damage
-revisiting the current base damage

is enough.

Yeah I'm tired of non factor players doing 200 damage from red line (3 shot clip) with a 4 second reload too SARCASM.