actually, the biggest problem with sniper rifle - except the Trash Rifle and the Triple Take, is that Respawn has an insane idealogy of making sniper playstyle as obsolete as possible by making them has the lowest projectile velocity and flick the hardest when being shot, to encourage the toxic braindead "W key everything" playstyle. Just look at the Bow-kekw and moving the TT - the only Sniper that is actually usable in the game, into care package which makes absolutely no sense and you will understand immediately how much Respawn hates sniper.
While I do agree with you the sniper needs some massive buff so actual "Sniper" playstyle can be a thing or they are just a waste of slot of another shotgun rusher, buffing their damage to a ridiculous as you suggest isn't right and it would make the game unbearable, just like how the Bow-kekw was release so broken that for a week or two everyone is cosplaying as Hanzo. The real thing sniper rifle need is increasing projectile speed so they can hit people more often, due to the fact that almost all legend in the game - except Fortified one like Caustic and Gibbie, has small a very slimmy and thinny hitbox, which make shooting them from any distance a very difficult task and you better off just spray your auto rifle gun onto them.
On console is got to the point when people don't even bother picking up the kraber unless they have an input converter with mouse and keyboard
I agree, that they need speed buff. Sniper rifles in this game often look like a catapult - you fire, and observe where your shot will land after a couple of seconds. This is pretty poor.
They still can be useful though - charged up sentinel with rampart amped cover can be quite effective. 🤔
And they drain shields, if you manage to hit, so confidence of teams is weakening.
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