I'm tired of headshots with the Charge Sniper Rifle not killing people. Like for real. Dude gets within range on me, and I send a round into the center of his skull at literally 9,000,000 mph (14,484,096 km/h).
And the game is audacious enough to still leave him with 30% of his armor! Nlgga I just removed 30% your brain! I hit the goddamn pineal gland! Fk you!

Give the 450% headshot bonus to sniper shots.

Outside the redzone.

See the hostility, my fellow snipers? If you dont speak up to CCP Rattati and get some love, no one else will.
Fools in here believe you getting a headshot with the hardest hitting sniper rifle means you didn't earn a kill. Then they call it a technicality and call you a scrub.

Fools, need some reading comprehension before they cry about redline sniping.

My fellow snipers, I am reaching out to you. *howls*
Answer the calllllll of your ally! May the lone wolfers rise up! May the overwatch sniper that guards his unit from above RISE UP! *howls*
Answer the calllll of your ally! May the Will of your Haters be denied! *howls*

You have no place in PC, they say! Your gun has no place on the battlefield, they say! Your purpose and roll is better off replaced with a shotgun, they say!
Their guns are allowed to work with one shot, but they say yours MAY NOT! They envy you... they call this "balance". Will you simply accept this?! *howls*
Answer the calllllll of your ally!

And that is the point is - it - not?
That the sniper rifle does not remove HP efficiently.
Effectively, yes.
Efficiently, no.

My fellow snipers, why would our enemies not take a sniper rifle short of a Thale's into a PC match...?

In attempting to troll.... thine enemies make thy case for the sniper rifle.
The weapon is a joke. Killing with it... is not enough to silence them... they must be killed by it... efficiently.

They're talking about a prototype weapon with an extremely slow RoF not OHKing someone, even with a 175% damage bonus.
I would be upset as well.

It's like if someone had a prototype breach forge gun, shot an HAV's weakpoint, and the HAV rolled away with half of its armor left.

No dude. I am a sniper, prof 4.

I agree with none of this, why should you OHK every suit in the game from 1-599 meters? I mean seriously, snipers like Pelognis and Nod Keras have been sniping for a long time, and they still are beastly.

This game is all about risk for reward. Sitting 300 meters in the redline is not risky, so is not very rewarding.

I have a question for you... Where on any of the maps can a sniper get a view of further than 120m with a target point wider than 5m?
I have yet to see a single map that actually allows snipers to play anywhere other than the hills.

There is no such thing as a sniper rifle in this game.
The weapons called smokers just need to be removed already. They don't ohk, they aren't accurate, they don't have variable zoom or any zoom for that matter. And the issues with lag and rendering at range reduce their limited effectiveness anyway.

Shanghai should have fired whoever handled sniper rifles along time agoand started over.
Too late now, just remove them/lock them rattati and apologize on behalf of your less competent coworkers.

That's the best case scenario at this point. If you want to snipe we can go play battlefield bad company 2 or bf3 because dice knew what they were doing back then.

Never understood how a headshot could be a damage multiplier in a game with active shielding that covers the whole body...

It's not exactly how most non~snipers see the issue; its the relative fact that typically speaking in r/l, armor value and placement is strongest in the center torso area and significantly weakens as you approach further away from it. It would've been a pretty interesting concept for Dust to have implemented where it did a better valuing of how this damage was calculated but I digress. A better example are actually shotguns oddly enough; if you aim at the center area around the chest of a heavy or an armor focused scout/logi then it's usually two shots most of the time with the shotgun. Likewise if you aim that lovely circle around their head you can often times score a single headshot kill.

Personally speaking a headshot multiplier for damage always did make sense for snipers but their (CCP) approach to how snipers should work are pretty odd to say the least; you either get fire rate and get multiple shots in with lower recoil or you get one "lucky" shot in and hope it does kill them instantly.

I actually find it a sort of joke that even hundreds of years from now snipers in this day of age have better optics than anyone in the future; adjustable zoom and better distance overall with better clarity. Then again I don't blame CCP as snipers tend to be a bane for FPS games in general.

Not all snipers camp. im a thale-style sniper, but i dont camp. i pick off a few targets, then i look for another angle to snipe from or i move to a new area where there are more targets.

anyways, i dont think a chrage sniper slug to the head should do much. we are talking about suits that are, for the most part, tough. they can survive explosions and missiles. so do you really think a tiny electromagnetically boosted slug is going to do anything?

Hacking? Everyone who wants to use a point does hacking, most often active snipers will be found around the objectives...

Profile dampening is almost indispensable... It helps you from appearing when someone hastily passes their vision over your location. More often than not, this will save your character. :/ Scanners are pointless if you are actually sniping, they get your scan, then move away from the location. Visual ID is a much more deadly venue.

Drop uplink... Many snipers will place an uplink on a desired location, so if they are killed, they can come back to the spot quickly. Such as the top of a tower etc...

I can tell from your responses, that you don't have much awareness of the field around you... You respond quickly without even trying to think of a reason that one might use something or another.
I can also clearly tell that you have never done sniping. I can tell you that from basic to Proto, there is only 20 hp difference in damage (10 per tier) DPS is around 100-110 for snipers, while assaults have what? 300-400 DPS (can't remember accurately, but that is close), not to mention that at range, you can miss a target directly in the center of your crosshairs, that is NOT moving due to buggy projectile pathing. Also, targets that are running can literally teleport across the region your bullet enters because of server latency not registering the body between two points.
It's not uncommon to empty an entire inventory of bullets and wind up with only 4 or 5 kills tops before having to nanohive back to maximum. Assaults on the other hand can get 2 or so kills per reload, making 12-15 kills per nano very viable.

If we were to reduce all assault weapons down to the efficiency of sniper rifles, I have no doubt in my mind that you would complain almost every time you logged on, and might even possibly quit the game.

It is a fact in this game that accuracy and skill weapons do FAR LESS damage than spray and pray guns, meaning skill is being sidelined for automated fire.

This whole post here reflects confusion.
You seriously just complained about a sniper doing his job, providing support fire and kills, and then praised players that actually do it.

Then you throw a clueless remark at me.

My friend, I AM a sniper that was invited to ring consistently for EoN when PC was in its prime. I got my consistent 20, 30, and more kills. Then I quit playing for nearly 7 months because CCP Remnant decided to design all future maps to prevent sniper activity, instead of rebalancing the gun. Stop making this about me. Your ad hominem for lack of argument is getting old. And if you couldn't tell that the OP was a light-hearted attempt to start a discussion, then you're even more clueless than your posts reflect.

The only reason I even bother to bring this up is because I have seen CCP Rattati, really take a proactive approach in fixing this games issues. Just him saying anything about it, shows more promise than anything before. It's a damn shame he wasn't here from the beginning.