The sniper nerf.

[Wahooo]

Originally Posted by almalino

Anyway, I'm much better sniper now with Engi Mana turret noways 1 hit kill with guided endless misles from miles away - priceless. And I can kill vehicles too. Why bother about snipers at all?

Originally Posted by Timealude

sad thing is with this nerf, there will be no effective ways to take out engy turrets without pulling some tank or using a rocket launcher and with the new changes to the recon dart, your pretty much useless at 150m

There is so much wrong with this nerf. So much.
I've already railed on this in other threads.

Makes me happy I didn't re-up my subscription. They are obviously listening to the wrong people which is unfortunate.
So we don't get more continents because every inch of land has been hand done right? If you have spent time as a sniper and go run around and find sniping spots you will see that the land around bases has been designed for sniping at around 200m.

The thing is with this nerf, it isn't now about wait and see. It was a pants on the head retarded nerf decision to implement at all. No actual reason behind it, no real thought given to what sniping is or is not, and the way the games already designed features around sniping, as far as land layout and the function of the rifles.
The game was designed to have long range sniping as something to do.
The sniper rifles themselves... This nerf pretty much obsoletes 1/2 of all of the sniper rifles.
The VS12, SAS-R, and TSAR-42 become the default weapons. The 4x scope is plenty at 150M where it performs just like all of the others. Now at 150-250 the benefit of quick reload for two body shots to kill is the only benefit that matters. Since head shots don't matter, at all, beyond 150 because 2 body shots will kill, then you want to 2 shots faster, and a 4x scope is plenty to aim at the whole body.

V10, Parallax, XM98, Rams.50, SR-7, M77-B, NC14, EM4 Longshot, LA80 have frankly no purpose in the game any longer.