20 Jan 11, 08:46AM
(20 Jan 11, 08:19AM)jAcKRoCk* Wrote:Quote:Worse still, if you have no shield and are hit by a sniper, you need 3 medkits to survive a single second shot. WTF? Basically, a sniper shot has turned into a death sentence.That's the idea i mean it's a sniper not a watter pistol what did you expect?, besides if a sniper misses that first shot it's doom period, you need to learn to avoid that first shot, it's called estrategy something AC lost in the way of 1.0 to 1.1 but it's slowly coming back :)
Btw welcome back $hield :D
It's not really certain death if you miss, you still have a pistol with the potential to do up to 180 damage(10 shots * 18 damage), so even if you hit 30% you're looking at about 70 damage, or you can simply switch back to the sniper and finish them off.
I've played the svn a bit and I find that even against experienced players with other weapons I can fairly easily take them down as the pistol + sniper kills so quick, and leaves no room to recover(I say this being a horrible sniper, never having really used the weapon).
I also tried in a few other modes such as surv(which now has 100 health and 100 armour). No matter what the map, the sniper seems the best choice, killing in 2 hits which no weapon seems to be able to take down the armour in that amount of time, you can simply use it like a shotgun as it's unscoped spread seems like nothing.
I am a player who much preferred 1.0 aswell, but the sniper in this seems much stronger due to the larger pistol clip and the weakened other weapons. Either that or I just don't remember how dominant the sniper was in 1.0.
My only suggestion/thoughts would be somewhere along the lines of putting a longer time between the shot and changing to pistol, cause the sniper hit + pistol kills anything almost instantly(I don't actually have the time, i'm just assuming it it less cause it seems it :P).