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Posted - 2014.08.28 13:58:00 -
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Name=Apothecary- check.
Thread = Sniper QQ-check.
Seriously Every Single time you post.
We get it, you don't like snipers.
if you can't accept that other people enjoy playing in a different way to you then online gaming really isn't for you.
Time to stop now, you are becoming comical.
Attim et al, before you bother to reply anymore to this anti-sniper clown type in his name or just scroll around the first few pages of general discussion.
this guy has about 5 threads all insisting on nerfing sniper rifles, or at least forcing them to do something his way.
and this is all at a time when even ccp has admitted that they are not balanced or working as intended.
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Snake Sellors
Hellstorm Inc
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Posted - 2014.08.28 14:34:00 -
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Soraya Xel wrote:Apothecary Za'ki wrote:LT SHANKS wrote:Snipers are underpowered. CCP, buff them rifles! =) only if they nerf the thales and i think charged sniper rifles which have very long high fidelity zoom tho only buff id like to see is higher headshot multiplier so you can actually kill a LOLmando when countersnipeing The officer rifle, I think, definitely needs. a nerf to their zoom level. The other rifles are seriously underpowered though, and need buffs. HP of players has been buffed constantly throughout the life of the game, but sniper rifle damage has not. They used to be deadly, now they kill idiots who are too stupid to use cover.
I completely agree with soraya, in fact i think nerfing the thales scope would improve playing with it, the new scope reticle helped and after the other rifles get brought up to speed it will be easier to keep them in check..
Apothecary.. btw the charge has one of if not the lowest zoom. Just so you know. |
Snake Sellors
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Posted - 2014.08.28 17:42:00 -
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Apothecary Za'ki wrote:Soraya Xel wrote:Apothecary Za'ki wrote:[quote=LT SHANKS]Snipers are underpowered. CCP, buff them rifles! =) The other rifles are seriously underpowered though, and need buffs. HP of players has been buffed constantly throughout the life of the game, but sniper rifle damage has not. They used to be deadly, now they kill idiots who are too stupid to use cover. i do somewhat agree.. but i do feel the charged is still rather good maybe a swarm launcher style rebalance for them? bringing the lower level snipers up to scratch while nerfing the thales and having a look at the proto variants?
Honestly mate, you need to run nothing but a sniper fit for a week or two. including a few p.c battles.
all of your misconceptions are startling.
 1. the two rifles you mention are the only two that are worth running at pub level... they are at least proto and should be deadly at PC level. they are in fact both under powered. (the charge more than the thales, but even a thales only operates where the proto levels should start. it's their zoom that lets (makes) people snipe from so far away.)
2. the issues you have said on this thread include
.a sniper targeting a logi
.Snipers using the calmando suit.
.Snipers using high vantages
.Snipers causing the team a psychological stress level
.Snipers using their attacks to an area of denial effect.
and you think they are reasons that they should be made worse
REALLY....
.A sniper is supposed to cause a demoralizing effect, even in real life that is one of their main uses.
.If they do not try to cover an area particularly rooftops, high ground, open ground, areas around the objectives, etc they are not doing their job
.They use high ground to get the best vantage to use their rifle to it's fullest effect in order to achieve their goals.
.The reason that snipers use the calmando suit is fairly straight forward, it's because we were pushed into using it following 1.8 when it was the only way to maintain a similar level of damage following various nerfs and health improvements that happened at the same time. Snipers did not want to be forced into a heavy type suit at all!
I have level 5 in profile dampeners. I do not use them anymore because in my calmando suit it makes no difference.
I'm an amarr character yet i now almost exclusively use caldari, can you guess why?
I have armour skills to level 5 because i used to play an amarr sentinel in my secondary role, now...
my secondary role of a heavy is a caldari sentinel, because to stay effective as a sniper i had to get caldari heavy to level 3 meaning that i had to chose between starting afresh on a different heavy or skilling into the calsent as i was halfway there.
as for the snipers targeting logies, it's not just smart it is required.
1.you repair the heavies that are attacking our squads/teams (as you should) which in turn means that we are ineffective against them but we need to do our job too, so we take out the logi to hurt the heavy.
2.you revive fallen clones meaning that more guns stay active, you keep the clone count up, provide extra ammo, healing hives. these things are key points to winning battles yet you expect the one player who can actually pick you out to ignore you...
Sorry not going to happen. 
so i reiterate, in fact i'll even say challenge.
Please watch the symbioticforks and saxonmish video posts, then use what you see to form a rough idea of good practice as a sniper, Stick to your own ideas about NO red line use. Because you feel the proto ones are op or some such take advanced level only.
Seriously do this please, in a few weeks we'll if you still have the opinion that it is so easy and has 0 risk. |