Weapon Balance and Gameplay Discussion

[castiel]

I think you're making two mistakes here. First is bringing back the overpowered sniper and making it even stronger if I understood correctly (having the combo work until 2 helmets, wtf?). A two shot combo will make everyone even remotely good with the sniper use it as the only weapon in all maps that are not awfully bad for sniper and you have your old 2-gun-society back,

To be able to snipe you HAVE to hit the target first shot, if you miss you're pretty much dead, how many people do you currently see sniping in 1.1? Next to nobody, they've all switched to overpowered weapons, shotgun or ar.

especially when improving the SMG's damage while making the AR weaker (SMG with more recoil will not hurt anyone, stronger AR recoil most likely will).

How does recoil affect the AR but not the SMG? IMO unless the recoil is crazy you can always learn to account for it, with due practice and skill, which is what it should take to get good at a weapon. Rather than those noobs you see bouncing around with their AR's that nobody can kill and take you out with a few inaccurate sprays.

@Makke, the proposed changes sound awesome :)