Please stop!

These suggestions are just unbelievably bad.

Go play a game with "Sniper" in the title if you want this kind of thing.

Militia < Standard < Advanced < Prototype
And that is the way the world spins

If your targets are using Prototype gear then why aren't you?

First of all, my experience with the sniper: it was the first weapon I took seriously in this game, and I have picked it up again to see if it still suits my interests. I currently use Militia Sniper Rifle and it may stay that way for a while. I am not a master sniper or a super marksman, but I have learned from my mistakes and I know now what to do.

The turn and run scenario is all part of the sniping;

You made your first shot successful, one, maybe two shots to bring them down, but they are on the run for cover. It's the quintessential game of Cat & Mouse.


Your demands ask for people like me, Scouts and Light Frames, to be given no quarter for being shot by someone far beyond weapon range and far beyond scan range, using a mere Militia Sniper Rifle. That is outright unfair, giving all the leeway to some punk on a hill, who needs only to take one shot for most targets.

No, the point in practicing your sniping is so that you can tie up loose ends. Seriously, it isn't hard to plink someone with a MLT Sniper Rifle when they don't know you are there, the skill lies in finishing them off when they do know you are there.

If low-tier Sniping allows for instant kills, how can anyone protect themselves? Wasting AUR to boost SP or cut to the chase and get Prototype gear only to find that it only gives them one more chance? The way I see it, if you can't out-think, out-shoot, and out-play your opponents, maybe you shouldn't be sniping.

The last direction that sniping needs to be taken is to Over Power. I believe that the maps need to be expanded vastly, so that there are at least 2.5 "Sniping Lengths", so one redline Sniper can not plink another, let alone see much action. If you want more power upgrade your rifle, but don't bring everyone down because you can't bring one down.

Sniping needs to be about Stealth, Accuracy, and Tactics. Anyone who can't meet those demands shouldn't rightly be sniping, but the game allows it, for now.

I feel like I need to quote myself, there are a lot of people putting forward absolute rubbish arguments



This is not about OHKs, this is about achieving a reasonable level of damage to make sniping all classes of players *plausible*. Currently it is not plausible to even bother with the upper echelon of players as they are much more effort than they are worth. 4-5 shots with the best non officer sniper in the game? You have got to be joking. If you think this is balanced you need to re-evaluate your concept of balance.

To all of those people talking about bullet travel time and the ability to "see across the entire map". Maybe it would be a good idea to actually play the class before chiming in with your "omg-i-got-sniped-plz-nerf" opinions, because if you had you would know a couple of things:

1) The render range is limited to around 400-450m, which is about HALF the size of any map (sometimes less), and a full 200m less than our weapon ranges.

2) Depending on the match, there can be and often is a significant amount of latency and/or input lag. This is essentially the same as adding in bullet travel time. The reason I say this is that the bullet velocity is 2500 m/s (stated in the description). With an average kill distance (for arguments sake) of 300m, this means that there would be an average travel time of 0.12 (1/8) seconds. This is negligible, and I would argue that we currently deal with a delay of more than this on a regular basis.

Admittedly, there are more pressing issues to be addressed in the game currently, so this is by no means a demand for an immediate fix, but if you think that this class isn't currently underpowered, you're kidding yourself.

Congratulations on misinterpreting entirely what I have said. Nowhere at all did I make reference to the ability of the ps3 to handle any of these new features, except to reference an earlier poster who claimed to have information from Wolfman that bullet drop wouldn't be feasible; which wasn't even in this post.

I'm AGREEING with you, you imbecile. However, In relation to the figures you've provided:



The base figures you've provided for prototype and charged are too high. In addition to increasing damage of the standard rifle relative to the charge from 71.4% to 91.6%, essentially rendering the charge rifle pointless, when proficiency 5 is taken into account these figures turn into:
Ishukone: 442.75
Charge: 483
and then with 3 damage mods they become:
Ishukone: 559.56
Charge: 610.426

These figures would allow most prototype assault suits to be OHK, which is unacceptable. I'm all for a moderate increase in damage but what you've proposed would render the charge rifle irrelevant and make the sniper rifle well overpowered.

I'm glad there are smart snipers that see how incompetant sniping is. I have prof. 5 with pro snipers, I got enhanced mods. I hear that the complex mods aren't cutting it either, what a joke. We need a buff and reliable PRO sniper rifles.

Do those games have you pay for EACH AND EVERY suit you wear? Or do they come preasseembled out of a box? And, if you had to pay, say, 3000 CoD points per life, wouldn't you be getting upset that the weakestsniper 2 shots you? If the balance is so much better in cod, THEN PLAY COD. Just. Can i has your stuffs? Kinds wanting proto snipers to mess arousnd with