Not till they do something about the redline.

All I can tell you is go watch somone good, like Forks, if you cant do what he does, usually with a charge and NOT in the redline then you lack skill. Its not the gun, its the gun game.

Aim for the head or take multiple shots.

Quit asking for easy mode.

By the way, light damage mods are being buffed.

Learn to headshot.

yet there's talk about rebuffing light dmg mods. vicious circle much?

Some math.

Let's take a Thales. 355.3 base damage. Now we add commando cko for 10% extra damage, throw on 3 complex mods for ~14% extra damage, and then prof 5 for an extra 15% damage, although this is only applied to armor.

So math on total shot damage is 355.3 + (355.3x0.14) + (355.3x0.1) + (355.3x0.25). The last parentheses only applies to armor, but we will include it for these calculations. The final number we get is 529.397. This is not enough to kill even some scouts, and that's assuming the suit has no shields.

So let's take into account headshot damage. We get 926.44475 maximum possible damage, making the assumption the target has no shields and is not a sentinel with rail damage resistance.

This is the maximum possible damage a sniper can do, and a third of the equation (the largest modifier as well) proficiency, doesn't even apply to shields, making this number even lower. Take into account shields 10% resistance to snipers, and the number drops lower still.

If you have a 450 HP militia scout, you're probably scrubby enough to sit in the redline with your sniper rifle. That statement alone about your scout tells me enough. My proto scout doesn't even have 450 HP..