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5 years ago

Is it me or are snipers just bad?

Theyre so useless. Way too hard to hit someone with the shot. Why is there both travel time and drop off on the shot??? It makes it so inconsistent at hitting anyone. And then when you do it does lik...

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RockScorpion384

5 years ago

@EdwardDLuffy You did 18 damage, redgarless. Thats trash. He was barely moving, walking in a straight line. I wasnt impressed.

Snipers are so awful in this game. It sucks when 50% of the weapons are unusable so every game feels the exact same. Its getting stale. If you dont get the ‘good’ weapons you lose. Its dumb. EVERY weapon should be good. Mozambique should t exist

EdwardDLuffy

5 years ago

Another player who doesn't understand the difference between "I suck at this" and "This sucks" :D

RockScorpion384
5 years ago
@EdwardDLuffy
thats why no one uses snipers in game? Lol. Face it theyre badly balanced weapons. They should be easier to hit shots with. Theres no reason to have both a drop off and travel time. 1 would suffice. Other games with snipers have 1 or even none of those things. Its just a way to make the guns inconsistent. Instead of allowing people who can aim to get value out of them the devs add artificial difficulties which makes them
suck.

Every game is filled with the same 5-8 weapons because the other 15+ are useless. No one uses mozambique or re45 or p2020 or sentinel or ..... it goes on. If 2 players 1v1, 1 has a r99, the other a p2020 who’s gonna win? And thats why weapon balance is garbage
- EdwardDLuffy
  5 years ago
  @RockScorpion384 I would love it if no one used snipers in this game. I would have died at least 500 times less.
  - RockScorpion384
    5 years ago
    @EdwardDLuffy I would love if people could actually use snipers in this game without putting your own squad at a disadvantage. Thats what snipers do. They’re too inconsistent to be useful.
    
    Whats the point when you can just run in with a r301 and kill everyone point blank. Whats a sniper gonna do about that? Nothing.
    
    And you may say, whats a r301 gonna do against a sniper at long range. Nothing, but neither is the sniper because all the r301 player has to do is not stand still and it makes the sniper 10x harder to hit. It takes 3 hits to get killed by a sniper, plenty of time to hide behind cover, heal up. All while a sniper cant do anything. They’re irrelevant weapons and need reworking to be more consistent. I am SICK of the same weapons being dominant. The devs can rotate weapons in and out of drops as much as they want. Doesnt change the fact that the same weapons are always dominant.
- EdwardDLuffy
  5 years ago
  @RockScorpion384 I disagree (as you might have guessed). You need to become skilled with a sniper to compensate for the drop off time and travel time. Also, you need to know about each sniper - Kraber and Charge Rifle have low drop off, Longbow & Sentinel medium and TT high. The best sniper users are those - who just like real life - who can factor in time, drop off and wind (not a thing in Apex lol) to become good at using them. The game is about rewarding skill.
  
  Snipers can be used as shotguns too. I've had a couple of squad wipes on drop with a Longbow. Just yesterday I knocked a BH at melee distance with a TT.
  
  (BTW the clip was not meant to impress - it was meant to amuse. Poor bloke spends all that time in his shield, sorts out his inventory, wanders off with plans in his head ... and gets killed ...)