Yo, dawg. Here. http://dust514.com/community/support/

Tell them this: "i can't 1shot people now with my sniper, give me back my SP from sniper skills so I can spec into something else thx". And GM will do that.

It is not that hard, if 10% really matters to you. Which it does, apparently.

I'm now looking for a respec.

Here's the best part:
Someone will say, "No respecs. That will break the game. You should have been more careful with your SP."

My answer:
"I WAS careful. I knew exactly what I wanted. I spec'd into Gallente Logi Sniper. Good damage. Decent tank in case of counter snipers. And my entire build in literally 1 week was flipped on its head, by a stealth nerf, and a 24 hour late blog. No word beforehand that this would happen."

In a game where your build takes time and dedication to get, can you afford not to have a respec option if that can potentially change from month to month?

Stealth changes, can break the game for a LOT of people. Especially people that don't have much SP.

If i can't get my respec.... I'm just going to have to quit, and passively gain SP for a LOOOONG time, before coming back to play something else.

Well guys, I'm not sure why this change wasn't properly included in the patch notes ahead of time. It may have been a result of the adjusted weapon profiles, but it still should have been included in the patch notes properly.

I do apologize for it, guys.

My role I play as a sniper.
Find nice hidden spot hard to see with good view of objectives.
Scan for other snipers and try to take them out or have them highlighted for team to see.
Kill or WOUND any enemy I see to help out the front line Mercs.
I don't expect to 1 shot kill everyone. I expect to stay hidden and be able to pick and choose my target. So I have to take an extra shot to kill someone. Did the non-killing shots slow the enemy down? make them less likely to survive if team member engages them. Stop them from reviving / repairing the billy bad ass of the squad?

I don't care about K/D ratio. I play a sniper for ranged support and even if all I can do is wound for kill assists or force a Heavy to take cover to recharge I am helping the team. Even better when you concentrate on hitting the Logi Mercs vs just trying to get your kill score higher. What helps the team more your kill score or you killing or forcing the medic to take cover.

I can still play and get 16/0 on some maps. some maps only a few kills but I still do good at helping the team by slowing down logi and heavy. remember people we play in TEAMS. sometimes killing 4 assault mercs does nothing to the squads when the medic is reviving them and repairing them quicker than your killing the weak ones.

Can I still do my job with the stealth nerf? YES
Does it change the fact 90% of what i'm shooting at can't see or shoot back at me? NO
Can I still 1 hit those not shield stacking? YES
Can I still help the team by putting some nice dents in shield stackers? YES

I know I will welcome the want to be 1 shot killers leaving the sniper grounds in the outskirts of the maps to the ones who want to contribute to the team not just up their K/D ratio.

>Can shoot people from miles away where they can't even see him, with extreme damage often one shotting lower level suits
>Complaining


Seriously, sniping is the easiest thing ever.
You got no risk, all the reward.
Just point and shoot, collect WP.

Snipers should have ballistics (drop off, time to reach the target, etc')

The sniper was one of the only effective counters to groups pubstomping in proto gear. You could pop a few of their shiny suits and they start to respawn in STD ones. It has become nearly impossible to accomplish this now. Every extra sniper round required to kill someone makes the job EXPONENTIALLY more difficult, since landing 4 consecutive shots in a row from 300+ m on a moving target before they can scramble behind cover or out of LOS to recharge is a pretty tall f*cking order. I think AR's can kill someone faster than that FFS.

LMAO if they added bullet drop to snipers or all weapons for that matter, do you realize how many of these QQ'ers would be raging cuz they don't know how to aim...

I don't really mind...wouldn't be a sniper if you can't handle bullet drop.

maybe you just suck, and can't handle being a sniper so you come ***** about snipers any chance you get.

Well guys, I'm not sure why this change wasn't properly included in the patch notes ahead of time. It may have been a result of the adjusted weapon profiles, but it still should have been included in the patch notes properly.

I do apologize for it, guys.

bro i clearly don't have troubles sniping if i 2 shot protos with militia gear, and these proto sniper users say they cant even 4 shot someone... sad, and so is your reading skills.

All I'm seeing is you have no idea what you're talking about or you're shooting people point blank. The Long distance rifles have had their damage nerfed at longer ranges. Closer ranges will still do the damage they used to. If you think you're 2 shotting well fit proto suits with a militia rifle at 400m you are completely wrong. No questions about it.

and if you wanna go as far as to say i can't handle bullet drop give me your PSN I.D. and let's hop on BF3 and snipe it up like big boys...

You're not supposed to be soloing the entire enemy team with your redline sniper with view over most of the battlefield

No, but you should be able to actually kill things with a f*cking high-powered long range railgun to the head when you've maxed out the skillpoints in it and are wearing a glass-cannon fit with no tank.

I'm sure you still can. Aren't you still able to hit for more than 450 damage against shield tankers (including the 10% penalty that is) with the Thale's?

That's still only two shots against anyone not dual tanking heavily or any heavies, in which case three shots would be enough every time. Headshots will still take out most shield tankers in one shot.

Honestly, I don't see any problem.

It's ******** that it takes 3 shots from a proto sniper to drop someone. No wonder ppl think snipers are useless. The scopes are so bad as well. The only decent one is the officer.

I don't snipe but I do agree snipers shouldn't have a nerf, they're supposed to be powerful weapons. The only thing I thing they should add though is some fallout, because being at a far distance and then just placing the dot on a target is kind of bs. BUT people will then complain about that because they all of the sudden suck at sniping lol.