From my experience, I think noscoping with sniper rifles is impossible. As for the crouching, the only way to effectively snipe is to crouch without moving. Even standing still scoped in results in massive sway, even more if moving while scoped. Moving while crouching is almost the equivalent to a crawl

Yeah hip firing with the sniper rifle is really difficult. I've only done it like twice and the second time the guy lived, and killed me. I don't think its going to be a really big problem.

As a sniper, i think these suggestions are impractical and dumb. Prone i can maybe see being good, but negative effects for carrying a sniper rifle? How in the nine hells does that even make sense? Scout suits are made to be quick and light how can you justify a soldier moving like a heavy for carrying a sniper rifle?

How are you even offering suggestions for a class youve never played?

Complete horse crap.

I don't need to play Scout to be able to see lopsided game mechanics. Scoutsuits are for scouting enemy positions, not a combat role, unless they are a sniper - which isn't meant to be a mobile combat role. Snipers in real life get prone because they are harder to spot by other snipers or those trying to determine sniper locations to call in an airstrike. I think the game would be much better if snipers worked like this. Deadly and invisible at long range, but hampered and useless if not in position. This is why they carry an SMG or sidearm, if someone stumbles upon them at close range.

The whole idea I had for shouldering your sniper weapon was that it allows them to be quick and light. A sniper rifle is a heavy piece of equipment.

Horsecrap my arse, this isn't Borderlands.

I don't need to play Scout to be able to see lopsided game mechanics. Scoutsuits are for scouting enemy positions, not a combat role, unless they are a sniper - which isn't meant to be a mobile combat role. Snipers in real life get prone because they are harder to spot by other snipers or those trying to determine sniper locations to call in an airstrike. I think the game would be much better if snipers worked like this. Deadly and invisible at long range, but hampered and useless if not in position. This is why they carry an SMG or sidearm, if someone stumbles upon them at close range.

The whole idea I had for shouldering your sniper weapon was that it allows them to be quick and light. A sniper rifle is a heavy piece of equipment.

Horsecrap my arse, this isn't Borderlands.

I don't need to play Scout to be able to see lopsided game mechanics. Scoutsuits are for scouting enemy positions, not a combat role, unless they are a sniper - which isn't meant to be a mobile combat role. Snipers in real life get prone because they are harder to spot by other snipers or those trying to determine sniper locations to call in an airstrike. I think the game would be much better if snipers worked like this. Deadly and invisible at long range, but hampered and useless if not in position. This is why they carry an SMG or sidearm, if someone stumbles upon them at close range.

The whole idea I had for shouldering your sniper weapon was that it allows them to be quick and light. A sniper rifle is a heavy piece of equipment.

Horsecrap my arse, this isn't Borderlands.

Snipers shoot in the prone position because it offers a stable shooting base virtually anywhere. Theres a lot of misconceptions about snipers... Like shooting from a window. You're also saying all sniper rifles are heavy, which is false. A lot of them (like a dragunov, m14ebr, etc, weigh as much as assault rifles. So... Maybe we need to make assault rifles give a slow speed debuff as well as make heavys even more slower due to heavy armor and the huge weapons they carry?

i can do a kind of quickscope with the sniper rifle (scope in for 1 second before hitting my target), and pretty successful doing so when im messing about,i actually am running around on the ground with team mates picking off distant targets we see, but yeah, firing from the hip is completely random and very very hard to pull off, i have only managed to do it about 2 times while testing as my suit's pg/cpu dont let me use a secondary :P.

Dont agree wit the sniper having a movement nerf for it, its a long range rifle like an assault is a rapid fire rifle they would way the same. Also the should a speed nerf be attached to the gun my sniper build relies on my proto assault suit(being durable over movement) why should I recieve a movement nerf?

Also its insanely hard to quickscope or hipfire but its possible for a realy skilled player, ive done it dont know about others