The real death of sniping.
The new utility railgun appears to have no drop from one side of the map to the other, and is slowly going to make true sniper rifles useless. I question DICE’s decision marking skills on this one.
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I use to main the NTW-50 and have a stopped using the sniper as they nerfed it a third time to the point where it works best as a hip-fire and mid range weapon. The body shot kill from 150 meters to 100 meters was the kiss of death as it takes forever to ADS, forever to pull back the bolt and reload, and forever to change the magazine...all things that have been nerfed multiple times. And the drop on the NTW-50 was unrealistic at over 7-8 feet at 350 meters...and you had to shoot outside the scope reticle to hit a 400 meter shot...🙌
I switched to the railgun and T1ed it already. The railgun is WAAAAY harder to use than the snipers with the 700ms charge up time, crappy 6x scope with fat crosshairs that block seeing the target, but anything is better now than the sniper rifles after the continuous nerf-a-thon. Plus I enjoy a good challenge as my sniper rifle accuracy was 50% higher than the railgun to get to T1 level, so I can only get better as my accuracy sucks at the moment...😬
For those who think the Railgun is OP, please get a least 600 kills first before cementing your opinions as it is possibly the most difficult gun in game at the moment to shoot accuracy. It took twice as much time and effort to T1 the railgun versus the normal sniper rifles...
@SleepyWeasel68
It will be really had to even see someone from one side of the map to the other with a x6 scope.
A good sniper who is aware will beat a railgun user by virtue of not having a trigger delay as well as moving around the map more to be less predictable
What the railgun does well is provide the best tool to kill a "bad" sniper with. With "bad" I mean stationary prone "sniper experts"- @UP_Hawxxeye Agreed. I never stop moving when aiming as the movement is part of my aiming technique, thus it works well with the railgun. Shocking how many snipers stay perfectly still while aiming, makes for a very easy target...
If the railgun had an 8x scope with thin crosshairs, it would be a monster and thus I hope that never happens. Dice thought this gun out well, as it isn't easy to use with any degree of accuracy. I like how they didn't allow many attachment options as that makes the railgun less powerful and more balanced for everyone to play the same way, thus less chance to add an OP attachment and create a META.
I hope they keep it simple... - @DeepSixxxx I still wish we could get the x5 scope on the railgun
@UP_Hawxxeye5x would be perfect yet scope glint starts with 6x, so Dice most likely wisely limited to 6x by design to make the railgun users less stealthy and thus deadly. I often switch to 4.5x just to keep from getting sniped yet it is really designed for burst at medium range, and not great at single headshots.
I constantly switch railgun attachments in game, yet never really changed from the 8x scope on the NTW-50 before it was not nerfed into oblivion via "guilt by association" with the other two sniper rifles...😕
@DeepSixxxxI generally used the x5 on everything because I only snipe when I want to counter-snipe and I want to give myself the chance to surprise the sniper.
With the railgun I either use the default scope or the x4.5 unless the sniping rat is really far up a building.So you had good results with the burst mode? I generally mostly used single target and full auto here
EA_LeeuwCommunity Manager
Hey @SleepyWeasel68,
If you have any feedback about the Railgun, I would recommend posting it in this thread. 🙂
Thanks.
