DUST Search - what do snipers need?

Jathniel wrote:

I'm sorry, I'm breaking the rules.
I can't seem to settle for one request, when so much is badly in need of adjustment.

Adjustable Zoom Scope -
There is too much data clutter when you are scoped in on a bunch of friendlies and/or hostiles. All the bars and data is blinding. If we can adjust our zoom, this situation can be addressed.

Eliminate Weapon Sway While Crouched -
Why does my merc have to throw his weapon around every time he scopes in or moves his toe even a smidge? We're fkin already crouching... Why do we need so many stacking handicaps? If we could crouch and get a shot off without having a seizure each time, you might see more of us move in closer to the action. We won't need a bipod.

Reverse the Weapon Profile Change -
This one really kills it for me. It's annoying to even type about, because it makes little sense. It's really hurt tactical sniper rifles in a bad way. Put the 10% damage vs. shields right back where you took it. In fact, I'd prefer a bias AGAINST shields. 110% vs. shields. For a sniper, the opening shot is everything, because every follow-up shot against an alerted target is increasingly difficult. It makes no sense why railgun snipers received such a penalty, and no alternative sniper rifle with potency vs. shields was offered as a caveat. Poor planning.

Target Painter -
I shouldn't have to be squad lead to be able to mark a target with a red attack indicator. If I'm able to generate a simple attack indicator, that would be better than, "Behind you." or "Just around the corner ahead of you." I want this, because the red chevron just does NOT light up for everyone in squad sometimes. Apparently you often DO need to be squad lead, in order to mark a target.

Prone -
Yeah, we need it. Will we ever get it? No.

More Weapon Variants -
"Breach Sniper Rifles" with effectiveness in the 100m-200m range would be nice. A sniper rifle we can use more like a heavy tactical assault rifle. Anti-shield sniper rifles. Laser sniper rifles. Pulse laser sniper rifles. Burst sniper rifles, with a charge-up mechanism. Get rid of the monotony.

Dropsuit w/ Sniper Bonuses -
Sentinel's get a reduction to feedback damage, and increased heavy weapon reload speed. Minnie Scouts get +5% to melee and NOVA KNIFE damage (a dedicated weapon damage buff). Every role gets something that works for them, or helps a dedicated role. I'd like to see snipers get a weapon damage buff, OR a sway cancellation buff, OR a huge boost to scan radius and precision (for the ranges that SNIPERS operate from).

+1 OP.

But a pointless thread. I have faith the size of a mustard grain that someone at CCP will care about niche roles.


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OZAROW A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. League of Infamy 146	Posted - 2013.07.12 09:38:00 - [1] - Quote Shot in the ballziggitysack!
OZAROW A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. League of Infamy 146	Posted - 2013.07.12 09:56:00 - [2] - Quote Jathniel wrote: I'm sorry, I'm breaking the rules. I can't seem to settle for one request, when so much is badly in need of adjustment. Adjustable Zoom Scope - There is too much data clutter when you are scoped in on a bunch of friendlies and/or hostiles. All the bars and data is blinding. If we can adjust our zoom, this situation can be addressed. Eliminate Weapon Sway While Crouched - Why does my merc have to throw his weapon around every time he scopes in or moves his toe even a smidge? We're fkin already crouching... Why do we need so many stacking handicaps? If we could crouch and get a shot off without having a seizure each time, you might see more of us move in closer to the action. We won't need a bipod. Reverse the Weapon Profile Change - This one really kills it for me. It's annoying to even type about, because it makes little sense. It's really hurt tactical sniper rifles in a bad way. Put the 10% damage vs. shields right back where you took it. In fact, I'd prefer a bias AGAINST shields. 110% vs. shields. For a sniper, the opening shot is everything, because every follow-up shot against an alerted target is increasingly difficult. It makes no sense why railgun snipers received such a penalty, and no alternative sniper rifle with potency vs. shields was offered as a caveat. Poor planning. Target Painter - I shouldn't have to be squad lead to be able to mark a target with a red attack indicator. If I'm able to generate a simple attack indicator, that would be better than, "Behind you." or "Just around the corner ahead of you." I want this, because the red chevron just does NOT light up for everyone in squad sometimes. Apparently you often DO need to be squad lead, in order to mark a target. Prone - Yeah, we need it. Will we ever get it? No. More Weapon Variants - "Breach Sniper Rifles" with effectiveness in the 100m-200m range would be nice. A sniper rifle we can use more like a heavy tactical assault rifle. Anti-shield sniper rifles. Laser sniper rifles. Pulse laser sniper rifles. Burst sniper rifles, with a charge-up mechanism. Get rid of the monotony. Dropsuit w/ Sniper Bonuses - Sentinel's get a reduction to feedback damage, and increased heavy weapon reload speed. Minnie Scouts get +5% to melee and NOVA KNIFE damage (a dedicated weapon damage buff). Every role gets something that works for them, or helps a dedicated role. I'd like to see snipers get a weapon damage buff, OR a sway cancellation buff, OR a huge boost to scan radius and precision (for the ranges that SNIPERS operate from). +1 OP. But a pointless thread. I have faith the size of a mustard grain that someone at CCP will care about niche roles. A weapon damage buff? ARE YOU ON THACRACK! Min scout is a meta level 0 suit that explodes on heavy suit fart impact! If you max all your CPU an pg an upgrade shield upgrades armor upgrades and shield you get a max of like 433 total hp on a proto suit an maybe 360 on advanced IF YOU WASTE A MILLION SP ON ARMOR UPGRADES FOR 20 extra HP! So a advanced has 340 IF YOU SPEND TWO MOR MILLION TO GET CPU AN PH FROM LVEL 3 to 5 just to even have a side arm! Plus you cannot fill the suit with a grenade proto, shields proto or both weapons or two speed mods. My skills are mad high I get 2 complex shield 1 enhanced, 2 red complex speed flux an nova knives with a whopping total hp of --- GET THIS 398--- wow an u want to put a bullet through my suit body an soul! Lol you sir are a greedy mofo! I mean our suit runs ,knifes, an punches that sound right to you? You get cal logi 5 damage mods a 300 hp thales that does of a 1000 modded out, a redline , a drop ship with uplinks on huge a$$ towers an now you want a suit bonus?! Man you suck for even mentioning that lmfao!
OZAROW A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. League of Infamy 146	Posted - 2013.07.12 10:01:00 - [3] - Quote Yo it's called Range precision , range amplification , profile dampening an they cost this think called skill points , good players get them, they don't come free on a new suit, you need to develop skill to buy them in this thing called a skill tree.
OZAROW A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. League of Infamy 152	Posted - 2013.07.12 22:10:00 - [4] - Quote I'm ok with red line snipers even tho I don't snipe as long as - the red line to red line is within range of both snipers an is minimal that any infantry scout has enough time to run an nova knife them or assault tac them anywhere in that zone If you wanna hide on that road in manus peak on the hill I should be able to go 3/4 of the way up that road an sprint into the red zone an stab your face! Or my sniper can hit your sniper, the snipers already can hit us on manus peak from practically anywhere without moving but a GOOD SNIPER is the kind that repositions himself to protect his team, an lets face it most snipers are selfish pricks that's use their own team as bait so they can brag about a 20/0 game without doing anything but pulling out a drop ship with a nano an uplink , letting you hack a letter , let buddy kill you than wait till he's hacking an standing still to kill him! I mean half the time those losers say hack it your clear even though your not an then when ur dead they say I don't know where he came from!!!! Gimmie a break these lazy scrubs! Increase sniper range so their not safe from each other an that will fix the problem I'm sure of it! Cuz their gonna kill us anyway, an most snipers in this game suck! Not for lack of shooting ability but lack of being a real sniper! No eyes in the sky , no team support, no kill shot on moving infantry making a hole for you to break cover an escape! They kill the dummy that takes a second to tie his shoes an lite a smoke ! They don't make the hard kills they slap a nano hive in the red zone totally visible with 3 buddies laughing about how easy it is while you die trying to push a letter with lolly gagging losers laughing that you went 4/14 with all red letters in the game cuz you have 9 crappy snipers in your redline not helping you advance. So make a distance shooter skill that every so called sniper will have to skill into in order to protect themselves so their not safe ANYMORE ! An untill they have this skill cut their range in HALF so the red line is too far away for them to kill an their forced to back their infantry ! THAT'S HOW YOU FIX YOUR REDLINE AN WEED THE MEN FROM THE BOYS WIT NO SKILL TO EARN A REAL KILL! ( single handedly just fix.ed the game, CCP can send me a cheque for that now lol)
OZAROW A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. League of Infamy 153	Posted - 2013.07.12 23:25:00 - [5] - Quote Krom Ganesh wrote: OZAROW wrote: Snip If redline snipers are that big of a problem, how about moving the MCCs and forward bases back another 100 or so meters from their current position and move the redline back with them as well as expanding it on all sides? Other team gets access to the previously redline snipers and I get to keep my favorite spots that CCP had to place in the redline areas. What annoys me more are the tower snipers. CCP really should have put a stairwell/ladder up to the top of those places so everyone has access to those places, whether to snipe or kill someone who is sniping. Well what I wrote might fix the tower problem I got hit dead by the same guy twice last night from those tower an probably anothe death or two a match last night, never seen it like this before but I igure it's cuz now people have finally levels into the cal logi (sniper) proto an have there guns high enough to use the Thales theve collected over the months an they use militia drop ships to keep those Thales which is clever an cheap playing style to run 5 complex damage mods on a 300 hp damage gun an never die so they keep thegun , get 20/0 don't protect their own infantry then brag bout their 2.89 kdr that they jacked up in a month because now their not getting crushed on the field an unless they get red line tower maps they only get 4 kills cuz they can't combat snipe worth crap! If you move the line there Just gonna do the same thing their already doing. So make a distance skill like accounting for wind an bullet drop adjustment an till then cut range in half an make the range increase only after level five proficiency THEN WE LL FIND OUT WHO'S GOT SKILL!D
OZAROW A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. League of Infamy 153	Posted - 2013.07.13 00:24:00 - [6] - Quote TheEnd762 wrote: The one thing Snipers need more than anything else is for QQ AR Rambos like OZAROW to stop saying what Snipers need. They purpose of a sniper is so far above their narrow, pea-headed ability to comprehend. They just want to cry because they can't mow snipers down with their Duvolles like they can with everyone else. For as much as you assume to know about me you should know that I run knifes, so now that you sound extremely dumb, I just gave you UNLIMITETED RANGE IN THE GAME. That's my suggestion lol now your acting like your scared of it?! Exactly my point! So since we now know how much of a chicken you are red lining, hide REALLY FAR BACK! I have 20 seconds to run in an put your skull next to the pile my predator clone has already collected! Two nights ago I got four stupid snipers sharing a hive plus the heavy spotting them in under 20 seconds bro so act tough back there but just so you know run a cheap fit when I'm on the map bro cuz I will take your head an that thale from you!
OZAROW A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. League of Infamy 153	Posted - 2013.07.13 00:35:00 - [7] - Quote Thale can't be that rare i have 42 of them wanna buy them lol 5 million a piece if there as Rare as you say they are!
OZAROW A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S. League of Infamy 154	Posted - 2013.07.13 11:40:00 - [8] - Quote Jathniel wrote: OZAROW wrote: . . .UNLIMITETED. . .! lol Oh you done did it now! Lol my phone makes it hard to type on here it lags too lol