Dear larry, if you consider sniper overpowered, I'm sure you will adapt and proceed to kick my ass with my own weapon ! :D
On a more serious note, I played some SVN games, sniper is really strong for sure, but it's still a weapon that requires "skills & hours of practice". I had some troubles with it against youngstud's smg on medium ranged map like desert/des3. Still managed to win the matches but again, without any arrogance i'm not the worst sniper in AC and not everyone manage to do as good as i do atm.
With this little help, we could see some 1.0 snipers who managed to be as good/better than me taking this weapon again (Lordzz, Harrek, Atomikk, Melone.. )
@"the fact you get good results with sniper against top players/teams shows sniper definitely is not underpowered"
I don't think i can say i have good results against any top teams atm. Look at some screenshot from 1.0 and you'll see that 1.1 nerfed all snipers pretty hard, a lot choose to adapt and switched to AR, i tryed to do my best keeping the sniper, and i'll admit without any shame, sometimes i just can't and i have to switch AR.
Try to play 3v3 on ingress with a sniper against 3ARs, trust me, you don't stand any chances. Oh for sure you can end with a positive ratio and maybe 1/2 flags. But we(snipers) end up loosing the game because we just can't hit an AR rushing full speed out of our base after taking your flag.
On a more serious note, I played some SVN games, sniper is really strong for sure, but it's still a weapon that requires "skills & hours of practice". I had some troubles with it against youngstud's smg on medium ranged map like desert/des3. Still managed to win the matches but again, without any arrogance i'm not the worst sniper in AC and not everyone manage to do as good as i do atm.
With this little help, we could see some 1.0 snipers who managed to be as good/better than me taking this weapon again (Lordzz, Harrek, Atomikk, Melone.. )
@"the fact you get good results with sniper against top players/teams shows sniper definitely is not underpowered"
I don't think i can say i have good results against any top teams atm. Look at some screenshot from 1.0 and you'll see that 1.1 nerfed all snipers pretty hard, a lot choose to adapt and switched to AR, i tryed to do my best keeping the sniper, and i'll admit without any shame, sometimes i just can't and i have to switch AR.
Try to play 3v3 on ingress with a sniper against 3ARs, trust me, you don't stand any chances. Oh for sure you can end with a positive ratio and maybe 1/2 flags. But we(snipers) end up loosing the game because we just can't hit an AR rushing full speed out of our base after taking your flag.