Upcoming Release Balance Discussion (SVN)

[Panda]

You actually need aim to hit with the sniper, so it won't become a "noob" weapon. Prepare to be ravaged by it from medium/high skilled players and entrance campers tho. The SMG will be the new "noob" weapon. (Everything from the standpoint of the current weapon balance.)

ALSO: I would like to play some high leveled 3:3 SVN game which truly tests the main weapons on different types of maps. Meet in #assaultcube.

Another balance test Sniper vs. SMG:




While the results look like they weapons are pretty balanced, I have to add that I felt that I've played very well with the SMG (despite very low accuracy. I think I forgot to reset it. Is there a way to reset it at the beginning of each map?), I had a lot of horrible (and some good) plays with the sniper, at least by my normal standards. It feels like something in the SVN is different from 1.1 regarding the sniper aim, especially the transition between zoomed and unzoomed feels very off, so quick scoping was almost impossible for me and I resorted to camping or no-scoping, which made my game much weaker. Maybe I'm just stupid and it's all in my head though. Somehow it always seems hard to switch between 1.1 scoping and SVN scoping. Yes I know about the feel switch.

(Demos if you care.)