This is the time that snipers should be voicing their opinions for future relevance.

I vote to change the name of sniper rifle to "Blunderbus" or "Musket".

This. If no-one speaks up, priority falls. Avoid rants and "so bad i'm quitting" posts, they don't help. Strong arguments presented calmly with supporting evidence go a very long way.

I vote to change the name of sniper rifle to "Blunderbus" or "Musket".

CCP stopped caring about what any real player has had to say since Beta.

There are no true Scotsmen.

I do like that new reticule. It seems it would be easier for targeting. Are you sure it is not hit detection that is off? Maybe with a hit detection fix it will prove to be more useful. I can see that CCP is trying to nerf accuracy at very long range.

The red line is a red herring.

These players don't impact matches generally. If you're already winning your red line snipers do next to nothing. Most red line snipers are not going for head shots because it's difficult and more time consuming at extreme ranges. Most red line snipers are also in Militia suits. Making all snipers more powerful, also makes me more likely to die. I just want to be relevant in PC matches without having to use a Thale's.

Is that so wrong?

Am i supposed to know what you mean by that?

Don't say precision, because we've lost that.

Honestly, since using the sniper with the new crosshair, I've noticed sniping got easier..... Here is a hint....don't use the whole circle.......the circle has a whole in the middle for a reason. Use that when sniping

Please expand upon this. How was your experience hitting the same moving target multiple times?

Head shots on moving targets still just as easy as before?

(Please don't be confusing slaying militia suits to focusing the larger threats on the battlefield)

I too can get many kills even after this change focusing on the weakest players should they present themselves. In more competitive matches however when you have to hit the same target multiple times. There's a clear decrease in accuracy, and those split seconds where someone stands still I can no longer obtain a quick and simple head shot, because I'm guessing with an invisible dot that might be a little too high, or a little too low.

I beta tested this for you on live, and here are the results.

Hitting moving targets has now become guesswork and not skill. You can have a player inside the circle but not in your direct line of fire. Meaning you have to guess when they will enter the very center of your cross hair. Before this it was as simple as watching two points intersect. The player and your dot. If they kept moving at the same rate of speed hitting them was rather simple. It was timing. Not guess where the exact center of circle is and when they'll be there. The sniper rifle has been a precision weapon that kills people from great distances by lining up shots. Now your exact direct line of fire is lost, the circle actually clutters up your shot. I feel like I've lost the ability to get moving head shots. Sadly, I was correct when I called this change the "guestimation circle of poor aiming".

I had a friend of mine who is one of the top players for battlefield 4 as a forward recon give me his opinion of the sight. He said he didn't like it at all, that sight already exists in battlefield 4 and very few people choose to use it. I was like no ****.

In conclusion..

• Hitting moving targets has become more difficult (no fixed accurate point for your line of fire)

• Just because someone is inside your circle doesn't mean you can hit them.

• Hitting someone who is head glitching has become more difficult (you need to place the bottom portion of an invisible dot on the very tip top of their head, and for this reason it favors degenerate red line snipers)

Sorry CCP Logibro, I appreciate the attempt to make the role better. I appreciate the slight damage increase to light damage mods now. I do not however appreciate the 1000-1400hp assaults running around. The Sniper Rifle isn't tuned to be effective against that much health by the way. You try it.

Head shots at long range seem more difficult with the new optics, but if the circle was just a bit smaller so that the negative space within it was the same size or lightly smaller than the original dot, I would really enjoy it.

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.

Doesn't snipe from the redline,
Instead snipes from an equally unreachable point in a high eHP suit.

People like you are exactly why we need more invisible walls and ladders.

Most snipers I see in the redline are commandos or sentinels....
Redline snipers are usually in predictable places,

The red line is a red herring.

These players don't impact matches generally. If you're already winning your red line snipers do next to nothing. Most red line snipers are not going for head shots because it's difficult and more time consuming at extreme ranges. Most red line snipers are also in Militia suits. Making all snipers more powerful, also makes me more likely to die. I just want to be relevant in PC matches without having to use a Thale's.

Is that so wrong?