This is treading in dangerous water, I like using the sniper rifle, and the damage of anything short of a Thales only tickles amar assault's with 1100 armor or whatever they have. But the problem again is the redline.

You can buff damage and headshots but this will lead to an Iincrease in scrubby redline sniping. I know you are thinking 'That's perfect! I will fly to my perch and smash all of them with my sniper rifle from 300m! " But let's be realistic, out of all the scrub lord snipers, the number of symbiotic forks, liquid foxes, Diamond Cutters or whoever is very very small.

Think of how the redline railtank problem was discussed and 'solved' as a damage and headshots multiplyer buff will put redline snipers in the same QQ category. There are now on average 8 dropships called in per match where an ads has zero fear of any tank short of.... can you guess?? ... yes the now 'fixed' but STILL in the redline rail. All the horrible discussions graphs and yYouTube videos did was to cut the range in half, increase heat build up, and cut dps in half.

Now this is where some scrubby player will pipe up with ' I run a fully leveled incubus with skill stacked gunners and two Missle tanks on comms and we decimate every solo red tanker and welcome the rail nerf'. Well good for you, eliminating anything that can stand a chance against you by QQING on the forums with graphs is a great way make your play style the next FOTM.

Now think long and hard about the repercussions of all the forum QQING from everyone that will occur when there are 8 snipers head glitch in in the redline one shotting every suit that doesn't stack 1200 ehp. AGAIN THE PROBLEM IS THE REDLINE.

While I would llove to to see rail tank range increased, I would like to propose redline changes that would fix everyrhing.

1 - If you spawn in the redline, you now have three minutes to take a step out of the redline or you die. Your have 2 whole minutes to decide what you want to do and another minute to do it outside the redline. Want to snipe from the redline? Go ahead, you have 3 minutes. Want to rail tank from the redline? Go ahead the clock is ticking. Make it 5 minutes for all I care so long as you can't sit 200 m in the red the entire match with no consequences. Want to use a Thales? Well now there is a chance you will lose it.

2- Increase the timer you can be in the enemies redline for one minute. Want to go invisible and sprint into the redline to stab that thales sniper? Now you have 60 seconds before you die. Want to float your scrubby incubus over a pesky underpowered railtank in the redline? Now you can take care of business and feel like a man (or woman).

tl, dr ....

Try looking at the bigger picture rather than just buffing your play style.

Adjustments to timers on both teams in the redline will keep sniper rifles from being QQ nerfed in Echo if they are buffed in Delta.