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WITHOUT HEADSHOTS:
a) Could you break their shields?
b) Could you kill them?
c) How many shots did it take?
d) What is your fit?
e) Additional comments

WITHOUT HEADSHOTS:
a) Could you break their shields?
b) Could you kill them?
c) How many shots did it take?
d) What is your fit?
e) Additional comments

ROF for tactical and regular sniper are fast enough to beat recharge. Charge sniper, why would you go for anything but a headshot? Also depending on your suit and damage capabilities with it, you might just one shot them, shield and all.

As before it depends on aim, it's just like trying to kill someone before they can get behind cover. Snipers will find they need to make more of an effort for the comfort of shooting so far away from the battle.

Good on you guys for getting to this as soon as you realized there may be a problem, which it looks like there may be, going by the comments. Do you have any potential solutions running 'round your heads yet, and how long do you think it may take to get this patched up once you've got a fix?

Dunno yet, really. As far as a duration for a fix, I can't say because we need to know what needs to be fixed, first. Still deciding whether this is an issue with shields or sniper rifles. Likely the latter as they've been under-performing somewhat but will look into it further.

I'd just consider the new shield stats an engineering problem for non-Caldari weapons engineers and try to come up with battleworthy solutions to the problem.

So Caldari managed to reduce their recharge delays. Thus if you want to take them out from a distance you need to come up with a sniper rifle that has a better RoF than current solutions. It'd probably be easiest to modify the tactical SR in that direction. It then starts to becomes a Gallentean SL: Relatively short range, fast RoF, large clip size, hopefully also better DPS than other SRs.

Alternatively you could follow a high-alpha doctrine. If one shot takes the caldari suit down to 25% of its health and it only gets to recharge up to 60% by the time the second shot hits, it'll be dead anyhow.

All in all a general DPS increase for SRs seems appropriate though. I haven't really seen SRs as a threat lately, more a nuisance (a tactically valuable nuisance under some circumstances, but a nuisance nevertheless).

I told you shield regen was too high.

I'm a nub, but I'd love to see sniping attain the capacity to mark targets and I think they need a better capacity to locate targets and engage them.

I don't pretend to know enough about snipers to have a panacea to the issue of their damage being so underwhelming that players like my bud symbioticforks simply up and quit.

I have always felt that snipers wouldn't have been annoying before their damage was nerfed if we had more counters to stop them.

I remember gem cutter sniping and holding down home point long ago against a 3 man push and it being impossible to find him in a reasonable time frame within a competitive match context, and even if we could find him...the time it would have taken for him to get setup again would have been much quicker than the time and player commitment necessary to contest him.

A huge part of the problem is that they have nothing to do. There's almost no tactical points to cover outside of 250m and getting closer than that is tantamount to suicide. At 250m, a Duvolle still does 88 DPS which still hurts like a mother and screws with your aim.

Dedicated snipers like myself, Gem, and Symb have nothing to do, and even what we can do is further hampered by poor hit detection and being easily called out and killed. So either you do something you don't want to do or you play through massive frustration until you quit.