Rifleman Archive

I posted this in the main forum and it was closed for being off topic after 10 replies. This I regard as a touch unfortunate as while most riflemen (of sound mind) are likely to agree it is always worthwhile to hear the opinion of other classes which, in this forum, we are less likely to receive.

Personally I regard the maximum range for a rifleman as laughable. This is to say we have a sniping skill tree but the maximum distance we can fire from is 64m. A pistol can hit from 64m, while this is not the peak range it can still hit. In my opinion either the range on pistols / carbines should be reduced: 35m and below for pistols and 45m and below for carbines or we should see a dramatic increase in range for the rifleman.

At the moment the idea of sniping is completely absent especially in PvP - how can you be 64m away and covertly attack your target, it is quite impossible. A range of closer to 100m however hard it would be to implement would give the rifleman the abilities to match his title. This, I believe, would do much to justify the penalties we endure and stop us being run down by pistol wielding opposition who can hit from 64m down to 1m. Perhaps the best way to bring this in would be to have the basic range of 64m and then as you progress up the skill tree you get increases in range, with a maximum of 90 - 100m on reaching Master Rifleman.

Your opinions?

Dead Horse

This has been brought up about as many times as the where canI get a gsp/grand wrix in the CH Forum

64M is an engine/AI limitation.

If 64m is indeed the maximum range allowed by the game, which in itself seems a massive design flaw, why not reduce the range of pistols and carbines to at least bring them in line with the rifle?

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RaydonRout wrote:
If 64m is indeed the maximum range allowed by the game, which in itself seems a massive design flaw, why not reduce the range of pistols and carbines to at least bring them in line with the rifle?

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theres a big "Debate" (more like war) going on over this Idea actually between pistoleers and Rifleman.

I do agree with the Reduced range as long as rifleman are horribly innaccurate on the move or cant shoot at all on the move ... would get the message "you cannot fire this weapon while running"

Kinda like Casters in other games where they have to stand still to cast.

To bring the proper ratios and keep the 64m limit pistols would only have a 10m-15m range. Imagine what the boards would be like after that change.

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Mijit wrote:
To bring the proper ratios and keep the 64m limit pistols would only have a 10m-15m range. Imagine what the boards would be like after that change.

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lol there would be no board and there would be no more pistoleers