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Snipers are already strong enough in the game for the people that are skilled with them. They don't need a buff.

Design a new smaller structure? Up to you, but I would not let current canon limit you.

I'll see if I can come up with some beauty shots of my own.

NA here. I'll be making a return shortly. Just waiting on one more pc part that comes in tomorrow.

Increase the damage output to vehicles by x1.25-x1.50 and increase the time between shots x2. I haven't played in a while, so I don't know the current state, but if you want something used a specific way, you should tune it to be used that way. This gives a buff to vehicle damage and nerfs effectiveness in close quarters while not changing how it works. It does change how it is used, though. It makes accuracy of a shot a lot more important, so it would make more sense to use said shots on bigger targets. I'll try and get in game this weekend and see how everything feels. Been meaning to play again but I'm a busy guy so I can get a better feel of where everything is at for balance. Edit: I like Algol a lot. He's the only team player I encountered during the times I could normally play back when I first started and really the only reason why I didn't initially give up on it. Hope he comes back. Good player or not, the community needs people willing to cooperate.

..would it be possible to designate a person the overmine would not register for? The thought behind this is just for PUG mostly. In the past where I was the person designated to defend and mine, but someone else would throw down mines. I'd get yelled at for overmining by some, not that the leader cared because they trusted me.

Best change I've heard..

Maybe add in a functionality for random map vote? Seems like that would be a pretty low effort thing to put in.

Enough people have spoken up about it for it to be a issue. Otherwise it wouldn't keep coming back up. I mean if multiple people keep saying there's smoke somewhere, you're probably going to go looking for a fire rather than telling them they are looking at it wrong. As I've stated before, a good sniper is capable of too much. I want to limit that capability. Another way this could be done is reducing reducing clip size by 1 or 2 and reducing overall carried ammo which would force more reapplies at base. I think the base/free sniper is okay where it's at currently but I didnt ever see many people using it before. But, as I said I want more of a emphasis on vehicles than infantry. Make vehicles better on their own. That's where my focus is going to be going forward is getting more pepole in vehicles.

I prefer Discord but I could have sworn there was a functional reason we used TS over Discord.

I read most of this except for the last few posts. I kinda get where I was coming from with that repair vehicle idea I had a while back and how bad it was. The goal we want here is to promote team play, even to casual players. This whole thread has basically been about the good players I complained about before. Which honestly is what made me not want to play anymore. It is a issue but not one that's addressed correctly. I think what needs to happen here is just make team play more rewarding, and solo play less rewarding. I really don't want to single out snipers out in this but I think in general, they need to be less effective Rate of fire decrease? Lower effective range by capping range or less damage over didistances? If it's still hit scan, make it a projectile? I don't know. It just needs to be less worth while. Make vehicles more awesome. You'll get more people buying them just to use them. I think the best way to do this right now is make them all faster. You'll need to increase the rate of fire for Ob and AGT slightly just to keep up with the additional speed. Or, give people in certain radius a damage and/or a damage reduction boost. I don't want solo players punished but if the issue really is that no one is playing together, then it needs to be more worth while to play together and not to go solo. I'm not at all saying is isn't a already viable strategy, but if that's what we want more of, then that's what we need to push even more. Individuals need to be less significant. Been a little bit since I last player but I'll be active for the next couple weeks. This does not solve team stacking, that's just another issue altogether.

I would agree with making it brighter and/or flashing blue/green to differentiate it from other lights.

I don't know much about boi? I'm very rarely killed by boi..so I can't say if this about him. It's not really a band wagon for me, man. Haven't really discussed it with anyone else. Snipers can be abused, wether by skill or hacking, it doesn't matter. They shouldn't be as capable as they are, under any circumstance. I'm just trying to think of things to work around them without drastically changing how they work. I'd rather see a buff to other elements of the game, then a need on snipers. Obviously, this is not a viable option so I'm just going to drop it. I'm not against poi or anyone else but what they are capable of doing with a sniper highlights a problem, and that's what I'm trying to resolve. I don't know what to do, I just wanted some thoughtful discussion. I'm actually debating on suggesting some substantial changes in how the game works but I don't think it'd go over well with the purists that want to keep it similar to the original game.

I'd like it to be a purchased vehicle actually.

Have you tried repairing tanks when playing against poi and the like? I'm usually repairing tanks during PUGs so it happens to me frequently enough. More often than not, it's when I'm heading out to the field. More than a handful of games have been won solely because repairs aren't happening to vehicles. Surprisingly, I haven't had a SBH sneak up on me since September or October. I played pretty frequently till the end of January at all times of the day. I actually get more Patchs than SBH in that situation. But sniping definitely happens more. Can't think of a time a free infantry snuck up on me while I was repairing vehicles. Might have happened but I don't think I've ever been killed that way or I would have remembered it.