Before you hate just wait. Snipers are the fear gods of Shooters. A great sniper should be able to make ppl fear him. I do not see that in this game. I feel like sniping isnt as dangerous as other shooters. When I hit a guy and it takes a quarter of his health off. It pisses me off cause now he runs and hides and escapes. Even with Head shots its like he doesnt die. WHY?! I mean a head shot in any other means is and should be fatal.

Let Sniper shots kill in 1 shot if its a head shot. Reward skill and patience for lining up a head shot. And buff the basic damage of a sniper shot so that low suit players get one shoted and proto players can be 2 shoted. If a proto players gets hit it makes since to let him take cover. but a basic suit militia suit and even a advance suit player gets one shoted. Tact snipers should be at a 65% dmg of normal sniper rifles and shoot at a 50% fire rate. But buff the normal rifle dmg for 45% - 65% dmg.

Some suggestions.

More Zoom. If I had a better zoom. I am sure I could get better shots or even more head shots. My targets are like 4 - 5 times bigger then my dot some times.

I want more body shot damage. AT least 50%. It isnt wrong to get 50% more body shot damage. It just means half the normal shots. And with 5 shots being the most about then that means 2 -3 shots at most.

Light Suits:
STD - Armor and shield Mods: 1 shot
Without: 1 shot.
ADV - Armor and shield Mods: 1 shots
Without: 1 shot
PRO - Armor and shield Mods: 2 shots
Without: 1 shot.

Medium Suits:
STD- Armor and shield Mods: 1
Without: 1 shot
ADV - Armor and shield Mods: 2 shots
Without: 1 shot
PRO - Armor and shield Mods: 2 shots
Without: 1 shot

Heavy Suits:
STD - Armor and shield Mods: 2 shots
Without: 2 shots
ADV - Armor and shield Mods: 3 shots
Without: 2 shots.
PRO - Armor and shield Mods: 3 shots
Without: 2 shots.

I feel like this is a pretty good rough draft of how much it SHOULD take to kill with a PRO Sniper with Max PROFICIENCY and Damage Mods. Counting only 1 complex Damage Mod.

Have Sway on all the time but reduced if you have Lvl 5 Sniper skill. But you can remove all Sway with holding down R3 when aiming. Also need a range indicator on the scope to see if its within our effective range or not. When in crouch should reduce current sway by 50% but only from the current sway and each lvl in sniping takes away a 10% so when crouch at lvl 5 sniper skill you get a 75% reduced sway.

I also would love better sniper rifle choices. Maybe add more sniper rifle types. Like from a different race. Not sure if any other race HAS sniper rifles. BTW Head shots should do 400% more dmg effectively 1 shotting all targets when shield is down. But when shield is up making Head shot dmg be normal.

It looks like 60m is a no snipe zone, because the AR will get you good, while you are trying to slowly get those shots out. People disappear at long ranges, late hit detection, lag while enemy is running. Sniping sux atm. what is the best range for snipers?
I would think that 60m is, that is when I can see bodies clearly, buut i also get gunned down immediately. 70m-80m?

buff the basic damage of a sniper shot so that low suit players get one shoted and proto players can be 2 shoted.

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.

how about NO. most of the rest of us? We aren't the "rest of us".

We need sniping love indeed. Sometimes I don't know what range to snipe in, Seems like I'm in the long distance__then an AR shoots me more accurately than the SR at 50m away. Right on. The reticule sucks, it turns orange and no damage. Give us a new futuristic scope man. The edge of the scope looks like we are insects. All in all, make the sniper a viable and strong weapon. Take out the "assault-sniper fit" If you need to snipe, you better skill into it like we did!

Before you hate just wait. Snipers are the fear gods of Shooters. A great sniper should be able to make ppl fear him. I do not see that in this game. I feel like sniping isnt as dangerous as other shooters. When I hit a guy and it takes a quarter of his health off. It pisses me off cause now he runs and hides and escapes. Even with Head shots its like he doesnt die. WHY?! I mean a head shot in any other means is and should be fatal.

Let Sniper shots kill in 1 shot if its a head shot. Reward skill and patience for lining up a head shot. And buff the basic damage of a sniper shot so that low suit players get one shoted and proto players can be 2 shoted. If a proto players gets hit it makes since to let him take cover. but a basic suit militia suit and even a advance suit player gets one shoted. Tact snipers should be at a 65% dmg of normal sniper rifles and shoot at a 50% fire rate. But buff the normal rifle dmg for 45% - 65% dmg.

+1 But it won't happen because "wah wah can't kill them with my AR wah wah my bullet-hose doesn't reach that far wah wah lining up one tiny dot with a moving dot 300+ yards away 'takes no skill' wah wah I don't want to want to have to serpentine or take cover wah wah I don't want to use the unlimited free sniper fit to take out the guy behind the redline wah wah wah..."

Until sniping involves skill they should be nerfed to 50% damage for body shots. After bullet travel time and bulet drop are added maybe give a damage buff

Sniping is really not that hard in that game in fact easy enough that I don't bother putting SP into it to counter snipe. Once you crouch you have a steady scope thats snaps back to its original position after each shot. So when the first shot ist not enough you just need to fire again.

While I disagree with most of what Spirit Charm said, I do like the increased magnification on the optic.

I wouldn't have a huge issue with a very small damage buff if it weren't for the fact that the red-line effectively forces you to play their game. A sniper in real life is a force multiplier and a scout, not a meat grinder that churns out a million kills. 30-0 isn't impossible for a sniper, but its (usually) unrealistic for its role. You shouldn't be compromising your cover, you should be relaying positions to your squad/team and pinning reds down for clean up. Leave the grunt work to grunts, you've got a relatively white-collar job.

Play however you want, but its helpful to know and fill your role.

ok so how would you make a sniper's job harder without making them useless? a constant sway? bullet drop and bullet travel? what would that last one mean? do less damage while the bullet travels?

poor heavies.... "yeah, i have 1000 ehp, and a proto heavy suit... alright!" gets one shotted in city by a militia blue print sniper 300+m away on a biulding somewhere, in a blue print dragon fly suit.
losses 120,000+ isk