Isnt that why you'd use your officer variant, then?

AFAIK, Charge was repurposed to be the single target dropper, what with super high base damage and headshot modifier.

How has this impacted you? Do you still snipe? Do you still make vids?

Let's say you get a single attribute change. What is it?

-usually you would never buff something without taking something away, so let's take away the insane headshot damage opening up counterplay for sniper vs sniper, and giving heavies a chance in hell against a headshot. This would also help scale back the militia / STD snipers from being over the top effective / just as good as proto.

Now, to the real heart of the matter:

1. Headshot bonus has effectively killed the existence for tiered sniper rifle skills; if a militia sniper can OHK all but a tanked-out heavy, what's the point in using anything stronger?

2. Almost all of the complaining about snipers essentially breaks down to how ridiculous the Thales was in comparison to all other variants; a well-placed Thales user was immune to everything except a fellow Thales user...who probably wasn't going to risk their own to try and hunt the other one down.

3. The damage bonus offered to Caldari Commandos only encourages the brick-tanked sniper that requires a headshot to kill; otherwise, you're just wasting bullets.

4. The recent changes made to map sockets (i.e. Manus Peak) further reduce the ability of a sniper to actively contribute to his side by playing point defense. Changes were made previously to make nodes less easy to target into, but the new map types have decided to enclose most everything inside of a building, leaving snipers with little else to do aside from try and pick off targets as they run across the map.

Solutions:

1. Reduce the headshot bonus. Implement actual differences between the sniper tiers/types.
Tactical variant--weakest, but with the best zoom, giving you the best chance to land a headshot. High RoF but small clip.
Standard variant--stronger than tactical and with better range, but slower RoF and less powerful zoom
Specialist variant--damage between tactical and standard, but with the furthest range and weakest zoom
Charge variant--highest damage, largest clip but with slowest RoF and shortest range. The Thales would be a faster-charging version
Give them a range of 425, 450, 475 and 400, respectively.

2. See above. The Thales was so overpowered that it killed an entire style of play.

3. Tough one to fix thanks to the inherent damage bonus given to commandos. However, the reduction to headshot bonuses would make it feasible to get close enough to counter.

4. Snipers need to be given the ability to scout and "mark" the opponent on an individual basis. One player at a time could be "tagged" and highlighted on the Tacnet--regardless of profile--with investment in the sniper class resulting in an increased duration of the tag. Snipers would then be rewarded with intel kill assist WP if the target is killed while tagged. This would eliminate the need for the bullet trails to give away a sniper's position as they can be tagged up to 500 meters away, further than any SR can reach. This would allow for a team to coordinate a counter strategy to neutralize the sniper.

Let's say you get a single attribute change. What is it?

Let's say you get a single attribute change. What is it?

You can't do this now, not even close.

It's too bad they didn't let people keep pre-nerf variants.

Anyway, you need at least 5 bullets in a clip to make the gun viable.

Switching between multiple targets, you simply will never have enough bullets to multi-task your damage.

I would take the time to reload when there were only 3 bullets in the clip before. Now it starts with that many in the clip. Awful.

For ammo skill +2 ammo per level (10 shots at 5)

Overall for all snipers? scale the headshot bonus with tiers.

For charge rifle? clip to 4 reserve ammo to match same number of full reloads.

Let's say you get a single attribute change. What is it?

You don't even snipe STOP IT!

get Zatara in here pronto. ask about Planetary Conquest and Snipers.

Isn't MCC sniping exactly what people were sick of? Maybe if you were closer to your target as CCP attempted to make the charge sniper rifle for you could hit more accurately and not need the extra bullets.

Personally I would not care about MCC sniping if the person was not guarded by the MCC shields 80% of the time.

He does have a point with "scale the headshot bonus with tiers" if the HS modifier is reset to what it used to be then a lot of people will go back to using Sentinels to snipe with which will make counter sniping them impracticable.

I don't hate it; it was just superiorly used well abnormally over standard and tactical variants combined including thales before patch.

Let's say you get a single attribute change. What is it?

Take a good look guys this is a classic example of your Typical Redline scrub...i could smell the redline on you even before i clicked on the link. Which confirmed my suspicions.

You want 600M coverage to snipe at all of the objectives from the redline.

You want more shots so you don't have to leave your redline spot.


You want to engage multiple targets? Use a tactical sniper rifle.

You want to cover multiple objectives? You had better get mobile.


If i can manage to get double digit sniper kills outside of the redline, you can too. Grab a kal tac, Gallente scout and do something useful.


To address your signature, its good you don't do it anymore. Dust needs less redline campers.

Let's say you get a single attribute change. What is it?