Giving the Sniper rifle any form of damage buff without resolving the "Redline Sniper" is just a terrible idea,

I know this is some form of sordid subject on the entire matter of sniping but fact is I shouldn't have to suicide into the redline in order to go after a sniper, I've played Dust for a very long time and I along with most of the remaining population can agree a sniper outside the redline is a rare sight (unless up high on some tall structure, worse of all being MCC sniping due to poor hit detection caused by invisible floating nothingness)

With more of these proposed changes you're giving me personally less reason to play, a small note about my own Dust experience, I used to use HAV's exclusively until 1.6 for the sole reason that I couldn't be sniped by a sniper rifle, I only had to worry about Redline rail tanks, however that issue was resolved when the Large Railgun had it's range reduced and so onto the main point.

Want that damage buff, drop the sniper rifle range down as low as 300m or 325m because that way if you want to snipe from the redline you can defend your redline but not in most cases the point will be out of range,

or give sniper rifles an actual range and an effective range like most other weapons have, let it have full damage up to 250m and then fall off out to 350m because the proposed 450m is still to far

TL:DR sniper rifle range still to far if redline not adjusted

How many redline forge gunners do you see? plus also it's a Heavy weapon, for heavy frames only, currently you see snipers in brick tanked frames in the redline very often, think of something to move them out of the redline.

so seeing as the numbers are the only thing you pulled from that make it 300m that drops off at 450m

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Not in the redline with the only risk being another sniper or someone crazy enough to fly a dropship or drive a LAV into the redline to get you and suicide in the process.

How many body shots does a forge gun need?

All well and good, CommanderBolt makes a very good point though sniping a moving target with a forge gun at 300m isn't easy and to be fair if you can successfully do this with 50% of your shots then fair play to you.

So why not 300m optimal, 450m dropped off for normal variant ? with values adjusted in a similar fashion, basically means if you're in the redline you are going to get a damage decrease but if you move out the redline you'll actually hit the correct damage.