Encharrion
L.O.T.I.S.
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2012.09.05 09:53:00 -
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I have to point out here that the charge rifle does so much damage because of the unlikelihood of a second shot, due to the charge time required between shots. If you nerf it so that it takes 2 body shots to kill, then everyone will use the other snipers where it already takes 2 body shots and kills on a headshot. There isn't actually very much middle ground. I do think the charge sniper rifle does do a lot of damage, and reducing damage to the level of the Ishukone sniper rifle is probably appropriate, but I want advanced and prototype versions of the charge sniper if that happens.
I really dislike the idea of tracers. I'll tackle the game design part, then the realism part. First of all, the point of a sniper is to be hidden, and tracers make that entirely useless. No tracers allows scouts to have a reasonable role with a sniper rifle: Staying off the radar while supporting your team. Furthermore, without tracers it opens up additional design space for modules and equipment, such as a sniper-finding equipment someone suggested earlier. Things like that would then allow for more and varied roles on the battlefield, such as a dedicated counter-sniper loadout.
On to the realism part (which is certainly not as important, but shouldn't be completely disregarded). Now, you are pointing to eve guns for tracer effects. Those weapons are MUCH bigger than a railgun turret on a tank let alone an infantryman's sniper rifle. If we compare the tracer effect of the spaceship's railguns to the tank's railguns, we immediately notice a dramatically reduced tracer effect. Going from a tank's railgun to the sniper rifle, it is more than likely that the sniper rifle wouldn't have any tracer effect or at least very minimal tracer effect. This is all guesswork however, as the technology doesn't actually exist so I suppose it could perhaps have a tracer effect with this particular technology.
I had more important realism related things to say about why tracer effects on sniper wouldn't happen aside from technology, but I'm getting tired and having trouble explaining my ideas properly. |