Samantha Hunyz wrote:Just curious as prior to hotfix foxfour, many of the SR shortcomings were brought to current CPMs attention.
Some of these issues were even brought up in Rat's stickied locked thread about what we wanted to see in the next hotfix.
Now we se alot of great balancing points that may be included in foxfour hotfix, but the sniper rifle was not mentioned.
Up to this point the only thing ever improved with the SR since I started playing was the headshot multiplier. That was a bandaid fix and did not enough to fix the many ailments that a sniper has to deal with.
I want to know is the SR and sniping even a possibility to be apart of the next hotfix? What is CCP/CPMs concerns about its currents state, and what steps are being taken to correct them?
My thoughts on the current state is that it doesn't make much sense for how they progress and it needs to be changed, badly.
Tactical has low damage, low range
Charge has high damage, moderate range
Vanilla has moderate damage, high range
Then you have the progression from STD > ADV > PRO, which sees 10HP worth of damage difference per tier... and then the Thale's which comes in with a whopping 123 damage over the Proto. That doesn't make any sense and completely bewilders any sense of progression while throwing a pipe wrench in the whole spectrum because the Thales becomes the only one worth a damn.
I understand that officer weapons are supposed to be powerful but when you have that much gain over Prototype weaponry it becomes no contest - you either use the Thale's or your simply not a sniper, it feels like.
So, what I would do is this:
a) Kill the scope sway when standing and give the Operation skill a different bonus. Using a sniper rifle is punishing enough without having to be completely immobile.
b) Re-evaluate sniper rifle ranges to correlate with the design principle of damage < --- > range, with low damage having high range and low range having high damage (this will impact redline camping naturally for obvious reasons)
c) Close the gap a bit between the power levels to make using them a viable option without having to resort to the Thales.
Just my thoughts, so take it as a grain of salt.