No it does not need a buff.

Honestly till they give snipers are real valid role on the battlefield I don't think they need anything. As it stands now their just some dudes up on a roof top or in the redline taking pop shots at people. Your average sniper accomplishes nothing to do with the objective and gets less kills than some one running around in a starter fit. Even Thale using snipers might get 5-10 kills a match if their not one of the super elite.

Buff all snipers up 200 damage. "Some people just want to watch the world burn"

"and thus, with a single buff, our Lord Rattati, saviour of our realms, declared, 'He who haseth the Thale, shall be named victorious and rain down glorious, heavenly justice on those who oppose my will.'

A new chapter of Dust 514 has cometh, and no man can tell who will remain standing."

So, basically you are saying that because Snipers were nerfed into obsolescence, they are now worthless, and before they can be re tasked to be useful again, they shouldn't have the damage the nerfs did reversed?

Snipers are extremely low RoF, yet only medium damage. Some sidearms do more damage than a Proto Sniper rifle, and have far superior hit detection. Take the Bolt pistol for instance. Just aim in the general direction, and the aim assist will take care of the rest, where as snipers have absolutely no aim assist, or any to speak of, and are helliously hard to aim at even standing targets, hitting moving targets is more luck than anything, and getting a kill? Well, try to do three impossible things in a row, and you might get a kill shot.

I'm not an elite sniper but the kills thing is wrong. I'm good, don't get me wrong. But I average 12 to 20 a match, most being headshots. And I use Thale's but rarely. More of a Symb's guy. To the OP, nah it doesn't need a buff. It's all about shot placement.

Perhaps make it so you can't fire into or out of the redline like the MCC shield.

Honestly till they give snipers are real valid role on the battlefield I don't think they need anything. As it stands now their just some dudes up on a roof top or in the redline taking pop shots at people. Your average sniper accomplishes nothing to do with the objective and gets less kills than some one running around in a starter fit. Even Thale using snipers might get 5-10 kills a match if their not one of the super elite.

The problem is buffing dmg, increasing range etc to make snipers more deadly causes far to many problems. We don't want the snipers to have the ability to sniper people from the other side of the map again. Remember those "good" old days when a sniper could sit inside the MCC, or on top of it and hit the enemy redline? Yeah lots of fun...

The problem is making snipers deadly ruins the game for just about every one else and puts the snipers in very low risk situations. Frankly more than increasing dmg, or range I think they need to better work the close range aspect of snipers. Quick scoping and less sway would be great. Most other games people snipe from 100m or less, building across the street and such. Not the 400m+ redline bull crap that we get in this game. Especially since there are no bullet physics working against you in dust. You point, you shoot and the enemy takes dmg (if hit detection is working right).

There is no real delay, bullet arcs and so on. So if the dmg was increased there would be far more one shot kills from across the map. Which would be a bad thing since there is no muzzle flash and very little sound to indicate where the shot came from. You don't get the hit indicator if you die from the first shot after all. The kill feed in this game is also a lot less useful in determining where you got shot from as well, just giving the distance and weapon.

Would you guys disagree with buffing with standard variant sniper rifle damage? For example Ishukone Sniper would go from 250 damage to 280 damage? Everything else remains the same.

Oh really, is that why a prototype ishukone sniper can't even OHK a militia scout with a basic armor plate with a body shot?

If you cant ohk a scout dont be a sniper. Keep working on your sniper skills for now. Even a non calmando sniper should be able to ohk a scout ffs.

I have ohk scout with std sr on mil suit with body shot i dont get you.

Would you guys disagree with buffing with standard variant sniper rifle damage? For example Ishukone Sniper would go from 250 damage to 280 damage? Everything else remains the same.

Honestly till they give snipers are real valid role on the battlefield I don't think they need anything. As it stands now their just some dudes up on a roof top or in the redline taking pop shots at people. Your average sniper accomplishes nothing to do with the objective and gets less kills than some one running around in a starter fit. Even Thale using snipers might get 5-10 kills a match if their not one of the super elite.

The problem is buffing dmg, increasing range etc to make snipers more deadly causes far to many problems. We don't want the snipers to have the ability to sniper people from the other side of the map again. Remember those "good" old days when a sniper could sit inside the MCC, or on top of it and hit the enemy redline? Yeah lots of fun...

The problem is making snipers deadly ruins the game for just about every one else and puts the snipers in very low risk situations. Frankly more than increasing dmg, or range I think they need to better work the close range aspect of snipers. Quick scoping and less sway would be great. Most other games people snipe from 100m or less, building across the street and such. Not the 400m+ redline bull crap that we get in this game. Especially since there are no bullet physics working against you in dust. You point, you shoot and the enemy takes dmg (if hit detection is working right).

There is no real delay, bullet arcs and so on. So if the dmg was increased there would be far more one shot kills from across the map. Which would be a bad thing since there is no muzzle flash and very little sound to indicate where the shot came from. You don't get the hit indicator if you die from the first shot after all. The kill feed in this game is also a lot less useful in determining where you got shot from as well, just giving the distance and weapon.

Would you guys disagree with buffing with standard variant sniper rifle damage? For example Ishukone Sniper would go from 250 damage to 280 damage? Everything else remains the same.

What needs a buff, for snipers, is to give them better areas to snipe from. Doubtful, but maybe, they'll stop sniping from the redline

So, basically you are saying that because Snipers were nerfed into obsolescence, they are now worthless, and before they can be re tasked to be useful again, they shouldn't have the damage the nerfs did reversed?

Snipers are extremely low RoF, yet only medium damage. Some sidearms do more damage than a Proto Sniper rifle, and have far superior hit detection. Take the Bolt pistol for instance. Just aim in the general direction, and the aim assist will take care of the rest, where as snipers have absolutely no aim assist, or any to speak of, and are helliously hard to aim at even standing targets, hitting moving targets is more luck than anything, and getting a kill? Well, try to do three impossible things in a row, and you might get a kill shot.