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I did it for his, but remember I do not agree to a certain extent.

No Vahzz, you weren't summoned to spread your sniper buff propaganda.

My favoured role (yes ROLE) in any game is sniper. I started this game as a sniper, all of 5 months or so ago. I still favour it, but I find it boring and pointless the way it's been nerfed and the redline reduced to the point of ridiculousness. A sniper rifle SHOULD have a range of at least 1km, even 2km, with the right marksman. The idea that ANY of the rifles, including the militia SR, would have a range of less than 500m is just stupid.

I will quite happily go back to sniping when the time comes, and still pull it out on occasion to countersnipe. But I'm not holding my breath for a buff..

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.The reason you get 20+ kills is that it's too easy. If you were forced to snipe at a reasonable distance, say 1.5km, with some sort of believable range-accuracy dropoff it would be nothing of the sort. Any buff for the SR should also include a reworking of the physics and a change to the redline.

Sniping being good right out of the box is what has given it a bad name. Also, if a sniper is more than just the shotting then they need these other abilities that help the team.


First, the sniper should be a combo of the suit (light) bonuses, rifle skill tree and mods. Damage, sway and scope mag should be the combo of suit, mods and rifle skills and not just the weapon bonuses.

Second, the suit or weapons bonuses should give scan abilities with the scope. So, you can hover over enemies and they appear to the team, but as a matter of sp investment.

Third, there should be other scout like abilities as well to assist the team. For instance, how about a built in hack bonus on the suit that promotes close range sniping out of the redline. Or maybe, a boost to myos to hop up on low areas easier for close sniping (again trying to get snipers off the redline).

So, a non-skilled sniper in a non-sniper suit would get 100m scope mag, horrendous sway and nill damage. Also, no assists from scanning et al.


In addition, the maps need more LoS areas off the redline, but at medium distance. With a sniper having to be such a heavy sp investment, it wouldn't be unwarranted to allow a proper sniper some advantage. The sniper spam would be reduced.

no, don't buff the sniper rifle.


COMPLETELY REWORK it.

Is that bad? If you can't do that it pretty much defeats the point of the weapon.

As long as the visual effects that give us cues as to shot direction work so we can coordinate to counter the sniper, I don't see the issue.

I snipe regularly, with ADV n damage mods with Profile Damps, in a Logi or Scout. N I think the red line problem can be solved.
Take the distance mesurment off so we can come out of the shadows.
Because when I frontline n get sniped I know where they are immediately.
I use they way my body falls, n the distance to figure it out.
If when head shotted there was no range then id set up somewhere nice, and in the thick of things
But if I can shoot one person, him call out the range and the squad sees which way his dead body rag doll
(best part of sniping is having someone run n u head shot them making the body fly over rails or slam into the ground)
then seems like the snipe role isn't as useful.
After saying that. A great change would be if behind the red line sniping u can't get head shots n bullets do half damage. If ur out of the redline normal damage for where u hit. Any snipers think that would help things?? Keep the KDR padders from being able to do just that, and if ur redlining most useful u can be is to call to your squad where the enemy is.

Ok so are you the same person having a conversation with yourself? I find it too coincidental that you're both named Alena.

Maybe they're both vahzz alts and you're all arguing with your selves...

Ahh yes the good ole days .....yes I do miss it. I say bring back the sniper distance but make the red lines dissappear. Vahzz o7

Yeah.... I really got nothing, SR was never really in a good position in the first place, all it did was trade range for power, but I would have rather kept the range if that was going to be the case....

Counter's: Sniper's, dropship, railgun (tank/installation, you'd be surprised). People didn't want to accept that those were the only counter's to a sniper.

Mind you prior before Calmando, sniper's had no real self defensive power, SMG's after closed beta became trashy leading to poor defensive strength should someone get a dropship to hunt you down, jumping out with a heavy that is, otherwise if it were an Assault Dropship, you were done.

Essentially, the nerf was done so that player's could sit there and hunt down player's with officer gun's which is what the infantry community wanted, to not sit there, change suit's, just to get 1 person, laziness, these same people who once played this game religiously now gone, and for what? Just to ruin the fun for an entire side of the community? To me the range nerf was always in of itself, the work's of the biggest trolls in the world, and they were successful with their work.

So now in the end, what pretty much happened is that all those so called "elite" player's of dust got what they wanted, player's stopped sniping in general, some toned it back a bit, other's quit, but those E-peen stroking egotistical scrub's from all those "professional" corporation's, simply got an inflated K/D score, which is what they got because of conspirators from every other side of the community (be they, the vehicle community or otherwise).