what is with the sniper rifles in this game?

@s1hiron00 Play portal. Make your own servers and set your own bullet velocities & damage models. You can change almost everything in portal and get the game feeling how you want 👍🏼

@s1hiron00 As someone who has played quite a bit of sniper since Bf2, 2042's sniper gameplay loop feels...off. If you want to be a traditional sniper where you're sitting at a long range, its really hard to do. Most of the sniper mains I see in the game are often doing medium and close range quick sniping. Long range where you're lining up your shot just isn't worth it for a bunch of reasons.

1. Bullet velocity does feel like its a bit slower by 10-20%? So it takes some getting used too

2. There's some really easy counters to snipers. TV missiles from Lis and Sundance flying specialist most notably

3. Assault rifles/LMGs do feel like they're much more effective at long ranges than before. Which like you said, you see that really effective counter fire from players who are running things like those weapons.

4. You have very noticeable scope glint for scopes that are above x4. Making it quite easy to tell when someone is aiming at you before they even fire. Easy to dodge the bullets. This combined with very large bullet tracers, kill cams, directional hit indicators ; snipers just aren't that effective in any role.

And another thing, the best snipers in the game right now are MacKay and Angel, not a recon class (welcome to 2042). MacKay you get a grapple gun which lets you get to vertical places you wouldn't normally be able to get to. Useful for sniping to get to a place where only 2 specialists can probably get to you (another Mackay or sundance). With Angel, he's another best sniper because he gets infinite ammo. Which means you can stay sniping for longer and not have to worry about that. And for the first sniper you unlock, you can eventually get bullets that don't have a tracer. Which luckily knocks out at least one of those counters for sniping.

But yeah, sniping game is garbage in this game. I have a few friends who love sniping in these games and they can't stand 2042's implementation of it. I play a lot of sniper, but I often main vehicles or support. So I still have something to do in 2042.

I think something they need to do for recon is disable scope glint for snipers when playing a recon class. Without something that big, there's no way in hell they'll ever offer something better than "infinite ammo" specialist or "go to any location you want" specialist.

@s1hiron00 have you tried the Gol Magnum?
I find it to be the most comfortable sniper rifle of the lot

@s1hiron00 Since you're a BF1 player one big change is that there is no sweet spot mechanic for sniping before or after BF1 so that may be part of why you feel so ineffective.