New Sniper Rifle Ideas

[Rarzo]

Am I the only one who thinks that there should be a new sniper rifle out there? I'm a sniper myself, and I'm lovin' it. But, I wish that they could either make some empire specific rifles or a CC rifle. The bolt driver is fine, but it leaves me wanting more. Maybe a faster firing, less damage rifle? Well, I'd like to see some other ideas..

[NoSurrender]

This has been discussed and shut down because the bolt driver is enough

[SecondRaven]

maybe empire sniper guns...NC would be one shot like the bolt driver but do 20 more armor dammage then the bolt driver. The TR sniper gun would hold a clip of 3 but do 10 less in arrmor then the bolt driver...and the VS sniper gun will shoot a rail like thingy and do the same as bolt but will use energy which will in turn save room from different things in your inv

[Tegadil]

This has been discussed and shut down because the bolt driver is enough

Or is it? Banana!

But yeah, I was thinking about it, and I can't really come up with any alternate sniper rifles. Alternate rounds, maybe. Different rifles, no.

[Incompetent]

Sniping is balanced as is, don't fuck with it until it's not.

[NoSurrender]

Sniping is balanced as is, don't fuck with it until it's not.

HA IM RIGHT!!!! ph34r me n00bs

[DoomWarrior]

*Warning high levels of sarcasm are in the following post, not recomended for childeren under the age of 14*


The NC could have a sniper shotgun that fires 10 feet

The TR could have a sniper rifel thats fully automatic, cuz u no that would do a lot of good

The VS could shoot energy beams that move 5 feet a second making a wizzing sound to produce a gun equal to a flare

well thats my two loonies

[Sphynx]

I like the Bolt Driver just fine, despite I'm not a sniper. Typical sniping rifle. Lots of damage, comes in clips of 1, accurate, fast. Yep.

[Ait'al]

The VS could shoot energy beams that move 5 feet a second making a wizzing sound to produce a gun equal to a flare

Like that gun from... Whats that arnold swartzeneiger movie?

The cool aluminum magnetic rail gun thingy that had xray scope site. 8)

The Movie where he leaves the guy in hte car and lets him get run over buy a train. They were trying to assasinate him and everything. He pics two of them up and starts firing green blasts everywhere. 8) I own it, im stupid!

Not TRUE LIES. The older one.

Edit: ERASER! NM, it came out after "true lies".

Found Pic
http://movies.warnerbros.com/eraser/img/p-horiz2.jpg

[MuNsTeR]

LOL the terminator

[Ait'al]

Thats form ERASER. Its linked directly form the Eraser thing on Warner Brothers website.

Those are still kick ass guns! And they were sniper rifles. :D I know! An upgrade thing for the bolt driver instead of a new weapon to help balance things easier. An implant, or somehting more clever like a cert for an improved version of hte gun.(not for a new gun intself) Increased Accuracy, damage, and range. like outside the normal scopes vision so you have a use for the range implant, or just want to fire like nuts in to the wind. And slightly faster rearm and a 2 shot clip. :brow: It would be a sweet edition to the game and something to let snipers specialize more.


Edit: And most importantly add the stuff os it looks like that. (IE cooler) And give it a cool firing thing to. The draw back could be that its easier to find wehre you came from but its a more forceful weapon.
And it would have straps so you can fire them both :p

It could have an extra powerful AV mode too,possibly or as an alternative. I personally like the first idea with just an alternative slightly higer damage AV mode though. Cool anti air weapon then too.

Imagine a couple of those things firing at your ass from who knows where.

[MuNsTeR]

lol

[Ait'al]

Whats so funny?

[TheRagingGerbil]

I rack up plenty of kills with my BD. Don't touch a thing.

[TeraHertz]

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[Ait'al]

You could make it the Sniper gun for armor and give it less damage to People.

I meant a cert to go to a terminal and mod hte gun. You would be able to take it on and off. So you could have both. The cert would just allow access to the mod. Put one BD in get one SRG(sniper rail gun) out and vise versa.

[Doppler]

I whouldnt mind seeing a CC version of the sniper rifle that has less COF bloom when you track along and has a clip. I think the requirement to have an equip module whould make a nice balance.

[Strak]

Yeah the BD is a sweet gun as is. giving the NC a gun that is slower and does a little more damage, ie still dosen't kill with one shot is dumb, why would they use it over a boltdriver with reloads faster and kills in 2 shots as well?

TR Sniper rifle that does 10 less damage and armor, but they can squeeze off 3 rounds? Oh yeah thats a good idea, I wonder who would own the ridges and forests then? and what do the vanu get? on energy rifle that does the same damage as a bolt. Why would we use it? so we can carry more in our inventory. woo hoo.

Sniping is a game of skill and on the occasion luck it does not need to be messed with it is fine. It's probably the most balanced aspect of this game.

The hell is wrong with my sig, why does he keep removing it, have I missed something on size somewhere???? I am under 400 pix! it's only 48k What am I missing!?!?!

[TheRagingGerbil]

Damnit TH, don't give away secrets.

[TeraHertz]

Damnit TH, don't give away secrets.

There you go, I removed that post. I Don't really want to see any more super snipers out there. :sniper: :nono:

[Warborn]

There you go, I removed that post. I Don't really want to see any more super snipers out there. :sniper: :nono:

Are the stats in your signature those of your sniper's?

[TeraHertz]

nope

[Warborn]

Oh, good.

[DoomWarrior]

ya, give rifle armor piercing shells so u can "kinda nock out tanks and maxes"

[SecondRaven]

In reponce to asking why a NC would want a slower rate of fire but more a little more dammage...well a sniper is in the backround (most of the time) so a tad bit more time in reload to do more dammge is a big plus imo...0 health and 10 health is a big difference when a gun is pointing at your head. The TR thing i think you got..and the VS...well ive never really played VS but i know they have a adv when it comes to being able to switch from Armor to standrounds without a bullet type difference ( i think) so in this case the VS sniper gun...you can have this rail do a equal amount of dammege compared to the Bolt or do more dammage but do 20 more dammage but it will take alot more energy to use aka a secondary function like the jackhammer.

[Phaden]

ok, so now im curious what those "super sniper" tips are. PLease?

[Ait'al]

FYI: My idea was for a universal upgrade not a VS one.

[TheRagingGerbil]

Thanks TH, btw, It's amazing how many hate tells I get for using that technique. Timed right, its possible to get two shots off in 1.5 seconds. If the baddy doesn't move immediately after the first shot, it's all over.

Hey Warborn, my character "GerbilsGottaGun," all of those kills are with my sniper rifle with the exception of a couple of maxs and a couple of vehicles with my av.

[JonusMeteoris]

ok, so now im curious what those "super sniper" tips are. PLease?

Not positive but I'm guessing they are talking about having 2 sniper rifles and instead of reloading you pull out the 2nd one. This is actually quicker than reloading.....

Jonus

[SecondRaven]

Hmm Two sniper guns...one after another i will have to try that

[Warborn]

Hey Warborn, my character "GerbilsGottaGun," all of those kills are with my sniper rifle with the exception of a couple of maxs and a couple of vehicles with my av.

Were you using the "super sniper" technique with him?

[ThundaHawkPS]

Sniping is one of the most balanced aspects of Planetside (probably even more than MA is). I wouldn't mess with it. Sniping= a skilled cert if the user wishes to rack up kills and make any impact. Bad snipers generally can only kill immobile targets and are better of wielding big HA weaps. The good ones are the snipers that can ping you in 2 shots, regardless of where you move or how you might run. Takes practice, yeah, but overall a perfectly fine cert as is. Don't touch.

[Everay]

i want a anti armor sniper rifle, mabey like a anti tanks rifle, or a anti max rifle.

[Jagd]

It would be great if they added empire-specific sniper rifles, while leaving the bolt driver intact as common pool and available to all. I would give the NC a one-shot kill but with a really nasty COF bloom so you would have to stop moving the scope around for 3 seconds or so before it settles down. The TR would have a semi-auto sniper that could take you out with say 3 shots, but has major COF and a 5 shot clip. And the Vanu, well some kind of energy beam that hurts hard targets or better yet just a bolt-driver clone weapon with no tracers. Obviously they would need to tweak these around a little, but I'm sure they could make 3 balanced rifles and add some more flavour to the game.

EDIT: Just curious as to what you think is unbalanced about Medium Assault?

[Ravenblade]

They could make like a jammer rifle, that has a secondary, slightly weaker than the BD firing mode. Better accuracy for jamming maxes, turrets and other crap. :clap:

[Strak]

I would give the NC a one-shot kill but with a really nasty COF bloom so you would have to stop moving the scope around for 3 seconds or so before it settles down. The TR would have a semi-auto sniper that could take you out with say 3 shots, but has major COF and a 5 shot clip. And the Vanu, well some kind of energy beam that hurts hard targets or better yet just a bolt-driver clone weapon with no tracers. Obviously they would need to tweak these around a little, but I'm sure they could make 3 balanced rifles and add some more flavour to the game.

EDIT: Just curious as to what you think is unbalanced about Medium Assault?

Again Sniping is perfectly fine.

1 shot kill with a 3 second cof....oh you mean like the bolt driver? It takes aprox 3 seconds for the BD to go from full bloom to accurate targetting.

A BD with no Tracer? are you nuts? Thats the only thing that gives people a chance of finding that guy wasting you. :) I mean sure the guy you hit might be able to figure out the general area, but an nme sniper watching for the shot can use it to launch an offensive againt the sniper. an energy beam that hurts hard targets? you mean alot? Cause if it hurts them like a pulsar round I am not picking it up. What a waste that would be :)

If it was real would you put a tracer round in your rifle? umm no. It's there for balance issues.

Skilled snipers can kill quick, but that technique which was posted earlier has been removed. Even if I never used it much.

Strak

[Ait'al]

i want a anti armor sniper rifle, mabey like a anti tanks rifle, or a anti max rifle.

Thats what i was proposing with the rail gun form ERASER. YOu get a 1or 2point cert and get a regular BD. Go to your terminal select a new thing that says mod BD it goes out of your rifle slot, 1 at a time though so you dont automaticaly do both, and you get back a modified SRG(Sniper rail gun). Looks just like BD with the cool stuff form that gun form eraser all over it and a weird scope like it for looking through trees adn whatnot and picking off tanks. IT would be weak against soft targes(grunts) but good against AV and Maxes. And yes the rounds could go through trees and whatever amount of surface the scope could succesfully see through. It would have a 2 to 5 bolt clip to have a chance ot take out vehicles but would hardly do 1/3 times over the amount one BD shot would do to guys per shot. It would also have a slightly slow reload time per bullet. The clip baiscally would just hold the rounds for an auto loading hting, but would be half the time of hte bolt drivers time for what would be manual loading. And a slightly worse cone of fire so hitting a max is like hitting a grunt. Maybe the same COF bloom or slightly better though, but not much. If the damage above is to much for grunts you could change it to 1/5 the damage. And it would be common pool obviously cause yo mod hte BD. And maybe it should be the same amount of certs as the Sniping one or one less (add.on AV sniping cert.) It could take 2 clips to take out hte heaviest armor. (Dont know the best number adjust it in your head.) Great specialization for snipers then. And if someoen want it they have ot spend alot of certs, especially its 6 certs to get.(It requires the sniper cert, its cert, to get and a BD to mod.) And for safe measure you could always make it a four cert one if thats not enough. IE 7 certs to get total. So not every idiot can not walk around with a decent long range AV weapon.

And like i said about the scope, see through lots of trees, like all of them up to 200 yard and still fire through them past that 50 yards and hit things in general up to 350 yards(So the Zoom lense is useful for snipers.)(or atleast a 100 yards longer than the bolt driver if thats not over.IF not adjust the numbers for the scope etc too.). The point is it should be 10%-20% greater in these regards than the BD since its for tanks.

Can someoen post the stats for the BD so i can give a good example. 8)

Hmm, maybe even personal identification so others cant even fire yours if htey picked it up.(IE it took your dna sample the first time you touched it.) :brow:

Hows that sound.

Just imaging the new things to do. two of them for all vehicle mellee or one of each for opurtunity. and then you could still do an all BD thing and be a traditional grunt killing sniper. Would add a crap load of use for the Rexo armor. Not to mention you could have a decent chance at running around with a medium heavy assault weapon to take out larger armor units, so you dont just have to sit around and wait for stuff. But it would still be the more efficient thing to do. (Remember this is a 7 cert combo or no way of doing it. So no abuse unless youwant to sacrifice them.)

And if theres a way to detect wher teh BD fires from people are worried about jsut remember that it could have that big greed circle inplace of a smal red dot. 8)

Comments! and i want one of these bad so please like it. lol

If this idea is good enough would someone post it in hte OF.