Why nerf the snipers?

[KillaManYaro]

Halfing the damage of the most powerful weapons in the game when they are used incorrectly is not unfair,what is unfair is trying to dodge quick scopers who tap a button and take me down in a single shot, I'd take a Gatekeeper Nimble over a quick scoper anyday.

Once again you are saying that by tapping the left trigger it activates some sort of aimbot that automatically drags my scope to you. I still have to aim at you and actually hit you by my own actions not the game playing for me, and I dont know if you ever tried to snipe a nimble on rollerskates from any distance, but its not very easy. Also any player with half a brain understands that you can make yourself a 10x harder to hit target if you strafe. Plus a nimble with horsehealthy wont get killed by 1 shot, slap on body armor and hard target and you can unleash an entire clip into the sniper before he can fire his second shot even if he does headshot you.

[Boa_Noah]

Once again you are saying that by tapping the left trigger it activates some sort of aimbot that automatically drags my scope to you. I still have to aim at you and actually hit you by my own actions not the game playing for me, and I dont know if you ever tried to snipe a nimble on rollerskates from any distance, but its not very easy. Also any player with half a brain understands that you can make yourself a 10x harder to hit target if you strafe. Plus a nimble with horsehealthy wont get killed by 1 shot, slap on body armor and hard target and you can unleash an entire clip into the sniper before he can fire his second shot even if he does headshot you.

I don't know if you know this but Horse Healthy on Nimble is a joke, it gives less and less health the smaller your body is, being able to strafe and jump is the strategy for getting close to a sniper, it's pretty much always been that way, if I'm close enough to shoot the sniper then he should already have his secondary weapon out, maybe a Gatekeeper or Dawn Patrol.

Honestly, it seems like you're complaining that a sniper isn't an easy class to play like it is in other FPS'.

[KillaManYaro]

I don't know if you know this but Horse Healthy on Nimble is a joke, it gives less and less health the smaller your body is, being able to strafe and jump is the strategy for getting close to a sniper, it's pretty much always been that way, if I'm close enough to shoot the sniper then he should already have his secondary weapon out, maybe a Gatekeeper or Dawn Patrol.

Honestly, it seems like you're complaining that a sniper isn't an easy class to play like it is in other FPS'.

There are so many ways to how you can get close to a sniper in this game ie gliders, invisibility, grapples, that pulling out a secondary in time isn't always an option, combine the facts that nimbles are hard to hit especially on rollerskates and add that I cant kill you in one shot and you get a balance issue. The snipers where fine as they were, they did not need a nerf. I have not seen anyone complaining about them at all. If you actually spend the time and have the skill to get good enough with a very hard to use weapon, you deserve to be rewarded with a powerful gun.

[Boa_Noah]

There are so many ways to how you can get close to a sniper in this game ie gliders, invisibility, grapples, that pulling out a secondary in time isn't always an option, combine the facts that nimbles are hard to hit especially on rollerskates and add that I cant kill you in one shot and you get a balance issue. The snipers where fine as they were, they did not need a nerf. I have not seen anyone complaining about them at all. If you actually spend the time and have the skill to get good enough with a very hard to use weapon, you deserve to be rewarded with a powerful gun.

I am very good with the Chaperone, I should be able to OHKO any body type if I can point my weapon at them and hit the aim button, sniping should not be easy for a very simple reason, making sniping easy makes it OP, you have a weapon that can OHKO any of the small bodies and can OHKO a Mighty if the situation is right.

[KillaManYaro]

I am very good with the Chaperone, I should be able to OHKO any body type if I can point my weapon at them and hit the aim button, sniping should not be easy for a very simple reason, making sniping easy makes it OP, you have a weapon that can OHKO any of the small bodies and can OHKO a Mighty if the situation is right.

The chaperone doesnt have the penalty of having the slowest firing rate in the game, sniping was never easy in this game even with the ability to fire off a quick shot like that. To get a OHKO on the small bodies was difficult enough as it was because of their speed especially in a close range fight, you are right about the ability to OHKO a mighty in the right situation, but it very seldom is.

[Boa_Noah]

The chaperone doesnt have the penalty of having the slowest firing rate in the game, sniping was never easy in this game even with the ability to fire off a quick shot like that. To get a OHKO on the small bodies was difficult enough as it was because of their speed especially in a close range fight, you are right about the ability to OHKO a mighty in the right situation, but it very seldom is.

The smaller bodies are meant to be hard to hit, there should be nothing easy about hitting them, that's why you pack a quick firing secondary weapon so you can spray them down if they get close, removing quick scoping is a decent way to keep snipers from tapping the scope and getting all the benefits from it, full damage with sniper rifles is devastating to the small bodies.

[psychofreak6666]

quick snipe is a lame *** cheat, you just simply aim in the general direction of your target before the crosshairs finish zooming in....whoopdeedoo...what happened to precision.....skilled...shots, and that my friend is why you only do half the damage.

[SideStep]

1.

"Before the update as soon as you scoped in you would do full damage."

**Quickscoping . Famous in Counter Strike and hated by all. Easy to do and Overpowering. Why use anything else?
2.

"Now when you scope in you have to wait for your shot to do full damage"

**A la TeamFortress 2? Nice. Other shooters just make it almost night impossible to aim. Either the scopes move a lot or you have to breath a la COD.
3.

"This is ridiculous the snipers are hard enough to use..."

**Now theres a famous misconception. I bought the Buccaneer and boy easy to do 180 damage bodyshots! You scope does not move and you dont have to hold any breath to hold it steady. Very easy to use gun.

Cant wait for the update to hit PC.

[Minkonji]

Just to be annoying, I've started using the goggles and peep-shotting with the Buc.

Much cheaper and a lot less skill involved, just like it's meant to be used! Yay!

:O)

[Havok81]

Yeah I just tried using the buccaneer and it really blows now. You don't even really have to quickscope and it still does the less damage unless you wait a second after scoping.