you need 3-5 consecutive bodyshots for a medium, and some of those headshots to be able to kill a heavy

currently the tacSR is least powerful and we would like to bring them up to standard.

I can't look at these numbers without seeing Sniper 514.

I get that the charge rifle is supposed to be high damage, but you can kill 99% of suits in the game with a headshot. The other 1% will still be massively crippled after taking one of those hits. What's the point of using a high eHP sentinel suit if it will be instakilled regardless?

My logistsics suit already had survivability problems, but now any headshot from any sniper will instakill me.

And sniper rifles got these buffs because they lost 150-250m of range, that doesn't even solve the redline issue, it just makes it a bit harder for the redline snipers to find a good spot. This wouldn't be such a big problem to me if our maps weren't 90% open space with no cover.

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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.

or bring in your own vehicle(HAV or ADS), or use a forge gun, or a swarm launcher, or plasma cannon, or av grenades, or remote explosives, jihad truck, or jump on an installation that's still standing, or a mixture of all the above.
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Anyone who has done any serious amount of forge gunning against infantry would immediately tell you that the moment you bring snipers below the forge gun range is the moment you make sniper extinct. Of course these are the same forge snipers that are most unbothered by splash removal.

Easy I already shot you by the time you stabilized. I can strafe without screwing my shot up (I actually do it to increase my accuracy as my controller is not that fine tuned) you can't.

Let's just say every sniper I ever forged since launch has never shot me or at me before I killed them.

Last sniper to do so was BadFurry back in closed beta and forges back then had 600 meter range and scramblers reached excessively very far.

A few of you, the tacSR still has sway so you have to skill up properly for it to work, but again, we will be keeping an eye out for it being OP.
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Yeah, dmg progression is too steep, somethin must have broke in the calcs, the % increase between steps s/b 5%, not 15%. Thanks for pressing the point.

Indeed, See this is why I focus on Range. A proper, healthy sniper rifle should have been rewarding headshot damage with unrevivable kills in the frist place. Like it used to. With light weapon sharpshooter I had engaged in snipe-offs exceeding 650m in Chromo.

Alpha damage weapons get flamed because one is forced to take precautions to avoid them, rather than just run straight into them to compare HP and DPS.

Your nerf to range isn't a solution to red line sniping. If you really think it is then you've clearly never' used the weapon. So long as one team can take all the points in Skirm or have an overwhelming lead in Domination one team will be forced to spawn in their starting location while the other team moves as close to it as possible. That's the biggest cause for this imaginary problem that has no real effect on game play, outside of the times when a whole team is bored because there's nothing left to do except spawn kill.

Reduced range means reduced vantage points means reduced effectiveness.

Half the time someone will think they hit their target in the head, because of the server-side delay they will instead end up scoring a body shot.
Again; Hit detection is so awful with the sniper rifle you're probably only going to get 3 of the 5 rounds from the regular variant off, you've got some extreme luck to get 4 shots to connect and some miraculous power to get all 5.

The sniper rifle has no aim assist, which they'll be completely lost without, then they'll start to find out about the hit detection problems, and once that is through they'll finally start to see how crappy the aiming is and how silly the Aim Friction on the weapons are.