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Nobody seems to be very fond of the snipers and boosters who hide in the redzone to farm WP with minimal risk, but instead of completely eliminating WP gains inside RZ, as some have suggested, they should be knocked down 50%. That way there are still some points available to completely redlined teams (the rage-quitting is bad enough as is), but the snipers and farmers will have an incentive to put some skin in the game for the maximum reward.

Second, sniper rifles are an obviously broken part of Dust and need to be fixed, period, irrespective of redline sniping. People using sniper rifles so far from the fighting that they are shooting from the redline should be essentially ineffective. Sniper rifle shots need to have travel time, bullet drop, and the scope should always be swaying. Snipers shooting from their redline should be so impaired by shooting at extreme ranges due to the aforementioned sniper rifle mechanisms making it very hard to hit distant targets that they simply don't ever do it. Bring snipers in from the 500 m mark, make them an actual part of the fight rather than tiny specks in the distance farming kills, and the issue of redline sniping will be gone.

Or you could respawn as a sniper and kill them yourself. Geez.

The non-snipers who have been redlined are redlined because they've lost the game. They've been pushed back from all spawns and now they're being farmed by the enemy team. The "solution" to the issue of redlining isn't to make the people who've lost and are being farmed now get 50%, or 0%, or any value less WP than they were previously getting. The solution is to make fighting from the red line not something anyone ever has to do.

To that end, first off, when you've lost all objectives the null cannons should go into overdrive and greatly accelerate the damage they do to your MCC. In other words, when you've lost the game by being totally pushed back, you should have either a brief time to salvage the situation and take an objective (and therefore spawn point) beyond your redline, or the game should end. Protracted fighting of people behind the red line should never occur.

Second, sniper rifles are an obviously broken part of Dust and need to be fixed, period, irrespective of redline sniping. People using sniper rifles so far from the fighting that they are shooting from the redline should be essentially ineffective. Sniper rifle shots need to have travel time, bullet drop, and the scope should always be swaying. Snipers shooting from their redline should be so impaired by shooting at extreme ranges due to the aforementioned sniper rifle mechanisms making it very hard to hit distant targets that they simply don't ever do it. Bring snipers in from the 500 m mark, make them an actual part of the fight rather than tiny specks in the distance farming kills, and the issue of redline sniping will be gone.

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Nobody seems to be very fond of the snipers and boosters who hide in the redzone to farm WP with minimal risk, but instead of completely eliminating WP gains inside RZ, as some have suggested, they should be knocked down 50%. That way there are still some points available to completely redlined teams (the rage-quitting is bad enough as is), but the snipers and farmers will have an incentive to put some skin in the game for the maximum reward.

I also agree with you that Sniper Rifles are broken, though given what I know of railguns, I'm inclined to say that they are broken due to their short ranges (after all they are handheld railguns).

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Nobody seems to be very fond of the snipers and boosters who hide in the redzone to farm WP with minimal risk, but instead of completely eliminating WP gains inside RZ, as some have suggested, they should be knocked down 50%. That way there are still some points available to completely redlined teams (the rage-quitting is bad enough as is), but the snipers and farmers will have an incentive to put some skin in the game for the maximum reward.

I didn't ask for your opinion on how to kill snipers in the redline, and considering I played the last couple builds as a sniper I don't need your advice at all. But your brain-dead tip doesn't change the fact that sniper rifles are completely broken and requires a significant overhaul to be brought in-line with the other methods of playing Dust.

I didn't ask for your opinion on how to kill snipers in the redline, and considering I played the last couple builds as a sniper I don't need your advice at all. But your brain-dead tip doesn't change the fact that sniper rifles are completely broken and requires a significant overhaul to be brought in-line with the other methods of playing Dust.

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Don't know how to tell you this but, they are not in the Red Zone.

The Defenders have a different Red Zone than the Attackers and they are not in it.

Technically the Reds cannot see the Blues Red Line and vice verse is true as well, if I recall correctly. I can remember them from playing the other side but there is no indication in game.

What you are really asking for, just to help out, is for the Red Lines/Zones to match up. Which makes no sense what so ever.

The Red Lines are balancing attempts by CCP if I was guessing. They are simple to implement, quick to adjust, don't require hours and hours of Level Designer time and are a good idea for map balancing. This gives the Defenders some advantages as well as the Attackers. It can slow up the spawn attacks from the opposing team when they have managed to overwhelm the other side.