Rifleman Archive

1. As our skill tree is set up now. Do you feel we are snipers or heavy gunners?

Right now I feel we are a combo of these two. Sniping when we need to and heavy gunner when need to. Though more often then not Heavy gunners. Nothing like being buffed and unloading on a lair to kill everything before it gets to you. Sniping is more or less restricted to when we hit mind pools even though it drains the hell out of us as well. 100+ HAM for a Headsht3, come on. Also sniper shot and conceal shot fall into this as well.

2. Do you feelwe should be leaning more towards heavygunners or snipers in our skill tree? Our should we balance them out more, keeping them both?

In all honestly in order for us to be effective snipers, it'd make everything unbalanced. One shot one kill, concealability though that is mostly ranger there, increased range and in order for us to be pure snipers, we'd need more then just 80m really and the game engine cannot handle that as well as many of our connections.

So we are stuck with a mix there of, sniping and then when it gets down to it, pulling out the assualtrifle for the gunner work. The use of Cover for extended range is a good idea, or say certain specials have longer range or even just certain rifles. Sniping in PvP would be cool.. but it doesn't work. Only sniping we do now is away from the heavy action taking guys down with lower mind stats then sniper shotting them. Most our PvP action is SS2 on the crowd hoping to cut them down before they get you. This also goes into our high ranged defense which it should be.

3. If you had to pick one or the other what would you want, 100% heavy gunner or 100% sniper?

I really don't think we should ahve to pick one or the other, We should be diverse and open to versitality. Forcing us to just be one thing limits the proffession and it's effectiveness.

4. If the profession is built more on sniping, do you think we should have more range? What should we have?

Hell yes we should have more range. I'd say at least 100m with a 15m min rangeto make it effective. Giving us 70m would be a joke and a waste. Then again the cleint and the so forth most likely could not handle it.

5. If the profession is built more on gunner, do you think we should have more damage types? What should we have?

We should already have more dmg types. Spray-Acid, Tusken-kinetic. I saw the new one coming and I can't wait to get my hands on it. Aside from that the dmg is fine as is the rate. Running and gunning should be not the best for us. Our best is standing still shooting like mad. Though we really need to lower our HAM costs to be effective, with these increased costs it is hard to sustain fire unbuffed for longer then 10 seconds. Heading into heavy action I have to have BoH and Muon or after10 shots, I'm done and shortly there after dead.

For the most part we are fine as is. Though would love better sniping potential. The biggest gripe I have are dmg types and HAM costs. We can't heal our minds like other profs so why should we be paying as much? We run out, we're done.

1 i'd go with sniper

2 sniper, dont think were much of a heavy gunner

3 sniper

4 i agree with previous posts- double the range of other weapons, and hit accurately at those ranges

5 like others said, pre nerf t21 anyone?

1. As our skill tree is set up now. Do you feel we are snipers or heavy gunners?

As we are set up now, we are what our profession states, we're riflemen. In today's Army, Riflemen are the core of theinfantry. From thisplateau we can either specialize inSupport (Heavy MachineGunner) orSniper. How we apply different specials while we play determines our preference totitles.

2. Do you feelwe should be leaning more towards heavygunners or snipers in our skill tree? Our should we balance them out more, keeping them both?

Keep both, but modify just a bit. As specialists I feel Sniper and Support should be extended professions which we have to earn yet more experience. ( Such an Idea might also help get people off of profession dabbling.)

3. If you had to pick one or the other what would you want, 100% heavy gunner or 100% sniper?

Keep it the way it is if anything. I know my tag says 'Master Sharpshooter' but I'd rather it be a Rifleman.

4. If the profession is built more on sniping, do you think we should have more range? What should we have?

If sniper were to become an extension of rifleman, I'd say 3 things need to happen alsoa couple weapons need to be solely Sniper oriented.

A. Range should be extended if only to 80-90 m (despite what dev's say I think that if I can see my target I should be able to shoot it, and I've seen alot of creatures show up in my view at sometimes 90-100 m away, so a range extension for a Sniper Specialist isn't out of the question. They just need to work the code a little more to get it to work.)

B. If anything a speed cap of 4-5 seconds should be placed on Snipers, as they are methodical shooters that pick targets and wait for their shots. The One Shot Kill as proposed by most pro-snipers should have a speed cap of 10-12 seconds. Harsh time penalties but think about what you're supposed to be doing as a sniper.

C. As an extension rifleman, a tree in Sniper Specialist should be devoted solely to camoflague (Rangers flame away) as it only makes sense that a Sniper is SUPPOSED to be hidden from view of his targets. Several other aspects such as terrain negotiation and other stealth actions can be apart of this tree.

WEAPONS:

Disruptor Rifle - The one hit one kill weapon. Disruptor Rifles take time to charge thus the extended speed cap on Snipers.

T21-Ghost - A specialized version of the T21 Rifle the T21-Ghost should have a scope and be scaled completely toward Damage to illicit a One Shot Kill, as such this weapon willhave a considerably slow refire rate(12 second cap).

ARMOR:

Very Light armor restrictions or even a downgrade to Ranged Mit 2 ( at least as far as defenses go)

5. If the profession is built more on gunner, do you think we should have more damage types? What should we have?

As with the Sniper Specialist, Support also has several points and different weapons.

A. Range of 60m is perfectly legit for this specialization as you should be noticeable by everyone in the vicinity (see Weapons List). From this range a suppression move such as Suppression Fire is a good idea.

B. As a Support Specialist I propose an extension of Ranged Mitigation to a Ranged Mit 4 (a defense only Mitigation) only available in this Specialization. As a rule of thumb a support gunner is usually the most heavily armored of any rifleman type.

C. Support gunners should be allowed the speed cap we currently have of 1 second (Duh... using heavy machine guns). Of course accuracy will be given up for speed.

WEAPONS:

E-Web -The support gunner's BFG, if people around you don't see this hangingoff of your shoulders, there is somethingwrong with their eyesight. The heaviest firepower available to the Support gunner shouldhavea medium ofmax damage (say 200-300) but the speed more than makes up for lack of damage per shot. Accuracy will falter with the speed of the shots though.

T21 Goliath - Considerably lighter than the E-Web, but stillacannon unto itself, the Goliath is the fastest T21 around. Less damage output than your standard T21 but the speed again compensates.Consideringthe Goliath's size compared to the E-Web...better accuracy.

*Side Note*T21's Goliath and Ghost are in no way affiliated andknown names in SW lore. Just my names for the two different rifles as I felt a differentiation needed to be seen.

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MSP0 wrote:

4.- Rifle accurate out to whatever maximum range the technology permits. Carbines out to 40m, pistols 20m. The standard Rifle engagement range in RL is about 2-400m.

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