A new software defense patch arrived in all dropsuit manufacturers allowing shield and armor oscillations to pick up incoming sniper rounds beyond 400 meters. Suits can now react fast enough to arrange shielding and armor plating in a manner to completely deflect the round rendering it null and ineffective. This software update nearly is game changing as the new digital fortress electronic series given to eve starships that disallows viable engagements beyond 250 kms being feasible.

While caldari arms manufacturing are trying a way to circumvent issue they have redesigned tractory calculations and shell design to impact much more force if they hit. Net gains of increased energy departure allows rounds to snap clone soldiers necks with greater ease even if the round itself does not penetrate. However in their mad lapse to complete and distribute the software rival arms manufacturers stole lines of the code involving the impactor calculations and have now applied them to their side arms. The new calculations despite being simple in commands and adding in upsized ammo partitions draw lots more form the suit's power in recoil compensators than previous incarnates. The new models feature higher damage than before and stronger head impacts against the high tech dropsuits.

When NOH news division was interviewing top Ishukone Weapons RnD he had this to say about it.

"We weren't surprised that technologies our own capsuleers would be using to discourage wasting ammo at extreme ranges would be quickly applied to the dropsuits since both of these devices are very capable for utilizing soldier's brains as a massive subconscious quantum calculator.

While we here at Ishukone are hard at work to provide the best technology money can provide even our premier sniper rifle stinn continues to outranges every other known class of weapon still by up to 25% on the field and will still deliver maximum efficiency up to maximum interception range.

And to prove we are committed to our customers we have improved our coil and rail tech to allow much larger and more complex flechette designs to defeat any infantry defenses it hits. Shooting vulnerable points on drop suits have so far returned very satisfying results with 95.6% total annihilation of the target. The remaining 4.3% being a soft mission kill or incapacitation.

This is nearly a 125% increase over our previous models and I hope you do enjoy Ishukone technologies and continue to buy our products when you in no doubt to only shoot once.

It's a moot point after playing this game for almost 2 yrs and recommending it to my friends, I deleted the piece of fecal matter of a game after 3 match's tonight.

It's a moot point after playing this game for almost 2 yrs and recommending it to my friends, I deleted the piece of fecal matter of a game after 3 match's tonight.

Seriously, I'm taking 2-3 hits from Assault rifles and dying. Yet, my rail rifle requires half a mag to get a kill???? What the unholy **** is wrong with you drunk ass ******* idiots?????

In the "real world" snipers don't have red lines to hide in.

Red line sniping had been a bittch tactic and a problem since Beta and CCP it's finally doing something about it.

Deal with it.

Seriously, I'm taking 2-3 hits from Assault rifles and dying. Yet, my rail rifle requires half a mag to get a kill???? What the unholy **** is wrong with you drunk ass ******* idiots?????

Why play when you have a negative k/Dr? What's the point?

In the "real world" snipers don't have red lines to hide in.

Red line sniping had been a bittch tactic and a problem since Beta and CCP it's finally doing something about it.

Deal with it.

I dunno, I'm just enjoying my dual PLC catmando.

nailed it

Do you whine this much in your real life? It has to be tiresome to be so cranky over nothing.

I thought IRL snipers had to be the quite type as to not let other people know their positions

I thought IRL snipers were tough as well. OP is really sullying their reputation.

Seriously, I'm taking 2-3 hits from Assault rifles and dying. Yet, my rail rifle requires half a mag to get a kill???? What the unholy **** is wrong with you drunk ass ******* idiots?????

FU CK ING GETTING 1SHOTED BY BOLT PISTOLS AFTER DUMPING HALF A MAG FROM A RAIL RIFLE INTO THE OPPOSING PLAYER. NOW THERE'S NOTHING BUT "BILLY BADA S S'" RUNNING AROUND WITH BOLT PISTOLS! F U C K THIS GAME. YPU HAD SOMETHING GOOD THE WAY IT WAS BUT YOU HAD TO GO AND FU CK IT UP.

Seriously, I'm taking 2-3 hits from Assault rifles and dying. Yet, my rail rifle requires half a mag to get a kill???? What the unholy **** is wrong with you drunk ass ******* idiots?????

Increased pg on pistols...lowered pg on magsec...backwards...in what reality would a pistol take more power than a SMG?
Decreased mag size on Charged Sniper...and shortened ranges???? Again...in what reality does that make sense. Considering everything every country (real world) is trying to increase is range. Modern day snipers are making kilometer ranged kills on a regular basis now.
And then some Billy Badass one shots me with a ******* bolt pistol. I quit playing Dust I WILL NOT PLAY YOUR PC VERSION. It'll only be even more fukt.

Real rail gun projectiles travel at 2.4 kilometers per second...that's mach 7.. so make my rail tank have infinite range. ...

For that matter add in realistic splash with full cones of destruction like in rl

OP it's not possible to balance dust on rl..rl is op as ****

Amarr Certified News released an article detailing the recent changes from Imperial Arms to their scrambler pistol line-up.

"You see our lead designing slave thought more of his ancestral barbaric ways he upscaled the power output of the previous model. This had unfortunate consequences "Trust in me," he said, I should have known better than to only have trust in no other but god. Alas the nasty little thing managed to slip in faults to the design. Within a fortnight of the release I began getting reports of the pistol seizing up, firing when not triggered and even exploding in soldiers hands all at the cost of the elegance the better fected pistoles once held the highest reservation in fear for.

Unfortunately as the song of war goes on there is always someone out there attempting to break chorus. Our symphony must continue to adapt and change to appease the tastes of our glorious defenders of the realm. So we have to continue to strive in every way possible. While the slave has been severely beaten and punished for his transgressions. He did have a point in needing to allow larger partitions of energy to be departed with every rightful pull of the trigger. We let an amarrian clear out the defects and the pistol is now safe and efficient to use in god's service. "

While the man interviewed remain anonymous the Theology Council has released a statement today into investigating the source of this information. The council seeks to press charges of blasphemy on the grounds of using minmatar thinking in designing weapons for imperial ways which is a clear violation that had in the past allowed a number of slaves to escape.