Rifleman Archive

Ok, we all know that there's all these people griping about not being a "sniper". I think there should be a new weapon (sniper rifle) that has upped range, upped damage, upped accuracy, and slower than anything (20-30). Ths would give more of a feel of being a sniper, because you have to take the time to align your shot and by hitting them in a dangerous area, would increase the damage. Just a crazy idea to throw out....

I like that Idea.. Although I think a range of 120 - 130m as was suggested sounds better. I hopeitems like this arepossible to do with the combat changes. I'm imagining something along the lines ofthe Arctic Warfare Magnum in Counter-Strike, with an extra long barrel and Large Scope / Stocketc..

Alot of the time you cant see your target from like 130m. Another Idea is to make it that one rifle that shoots invisible blasts that used to frame han in EU book,that they increase the damage on it say 2000-3500, make it have limited uses before you need to buy a power pack or something and have it not make the target automaticaly go into attack mode.

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Onichi wrote:
Although I think a range of 120 - 130m as was suggested sounds better.

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My life for an Edit Button....

That should have read "Max Range" of 120 - 130m

up the mind cost.....200

lower the speed, wouldnt want a master to drop that down to just above T21 speed now.

With that kind of damage time would have to be increased alot. At 20 sec. stat on rifle, you could fire a HS3 every 2 sec. if you had master rifle and master marksman. Would have to be real slow to justify that damage, but it would be a sweet rifle.

only problem is that the dev's have already said that the game is not designed for ranged combat beyond 64 meters. Apparently there is no discussion on the issue of range. 64 max forever.

i don't want to hijack this thread, but don't any of you feel that in regards to our sniper line with its accuracy mods combined with headshot, a t21 and sniper shot that we are basically as good as it gets? 1 good headshot3 & i'll do at least 900dmg - for most pvp situations that's enough to put the other guy down.

Trust me, i would love to have some more weapons to choose from, but i certainly don't want to ask the devs for a 18/20 spd, 200mind weapon just to 1 shot some larger MOB's. I'd rather get the spraystick fixed back to acid damage and/or tusken to kinetic.

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JagerNacht wrote:

only problem is that the dev's have already said that the game is not designed for ranged combat beyond 64 meters. Apparently there is no discussion on the issue of range. 64 max forever.

i don't want to hijack this thread, but don't any of you feel that in regards to our sniper line with its accuracy mods combined with headshot, a t21 and sniper shot that we are basically as good as it gets? 1 good headshot3 & i'll do at least 900dmg - for most pvp situations that's enough to put the other guy down.

Trust me, i would love to have some more weapons to choose from, but i certainly don't want to ask the devs for a 18/20 spd, 200mind weapon just to 1 shot some larger MOB's. I'd rather get the spraystick fixed back to acid damage and/or tusken to kinetic.

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I guess we are hanging onto the hope that the Re-developed combat system might address the range issue.

And yeah, at the moment we are working really well and I am getting a huge buzz out of the profession. Major Kudos to the Devs for fixing us to the stage we are at now ( lets hope we dont get nerfed ). That being said though there is always room for improvement... It'd be nice to have things like a super Sniper Rifle to look forward to in the future.. I intend to keep Rifleman as my primary profession so chages like that are really appealing.

I definitely think we should get the damage types of our current weapons changed to what they should be first though.. Spraystick = Acid and Tusken = Kinetic. Don't go building new weaponry till those are sorted.

I like it - perhaps the stats would look something like this:

SNIPER RIFLE (Need a name...)

Armour piercing: High

Attack speed: 18.7

Damage:

Type: Energy

Min: 1078

Max: 2603

Wound: 44.8%

Range Modifiers:

*Unusable below 64m*

Ideal: +42 at 158m

Max: -48 at 209m

Special Attack Cost:

Health: 138

Action: 122

Mind: 141

Maybe something like that - would be great though. Trouble is I think it would look stupid given SWGs idiotic bullet-terrain modelling (Shooting through hills etc.)

That and the fact that most of the time mobs don't appear until you are within 128m of them so maybe having ideal at around 100 and max at about 130 would be more logical.

There has been some talk about a sniper weapon. Once they move to start the new systems, rumor has it we might be able to push for more weapons. Let's hope for the best on that.