I actually got oneshot by a sniper cannon.

Exactly what it says on the tin, buddy. The fact that this is possible is just absurd. Why the ACTUAL **** am I being put in games where the opponent has a poke weapon that can oneshot me? The kid had a rare level 40 sniper cannon. Do you know what my gear level is? Level 20 uncommons and level 10 rares. I'm in a ship with 1,075 health, against ships with 4,000. My sniper cannon does 315 crit damage. His sniper cannon does over 1,075 crit damage. In what form is this matchmaking even remotely acceptable?

It's hard enough to play fixer faithfully in a low level. I don't need the added challenge in playing in games with mark 5 ships and having to worry about things like getting f*****g oneshot by weapons that are supposed to be low-level damage.

Images for proof:

 

Happy sniper users with their usual "you shouldn't have been in open space" arguements incoming soon...

 

Ah yes. As you can see from the pictures, I was grossly overexposed and totally asking for it.

 

Yeah, welcome to low infamies. Here's some hope for you. When I crossed 1500 infamy in my M4 with roughly R-25 gear everything changed. Nowadays with a gear score of ~5500 at infamy 2000 matches I see invariably make sense. The boats I'm fighting are generally more powerful than mine but not insanely so. The matches I'm in are mostly M5's with a smattering of M6 boats... not bad given that I'm in a M5 and you'd expect me to be fighting tougher opponents since I'm a top 5% player.

So if you're up for it, do what I did. Just grind away and focus more on speed of matches (ie, income) than winning. Get your boat up to a solid M4. Things will change. Heck, Rovio isn't unaware of the problem. They may yet do something to fix the incentive system.

 

The issue isn’t the weapon. It’s the tier of the player vs OP’s lower tier.

 

I completely agree with SnapShot. Grind out some games and in about a month or two you’ll finally be with people around your tier level more. It becomes more equal the higher the league and division you get. There will always be someone better than you but it does become more fair the further you progress. I myself rose to Ace III in just 2-3 Months of game play. It was still a fun journey regardless of the difficulty in the earlier games. There’s a large resource of videos on YouTube channels that give advice for the fastest ways to rise in the Leagues. I suggest starting with maybe GenkiGamers YT Channel.

 

Well I will say.. it seems like your doing pretty well in infamy if your that far up and against weapons like those. (Idk what your infamy is)

 

it's 1200

 

That’s pretty good for a mark 2 I believe. It’s been a while since I’ve been a mark 2 so if I’m wrong forgive me. Right now all it is is a matter of upgrading your boat and stuff.

 

Well, you are a level 13 mk2 fixer getting shot by a level 40 Sniper cannon(w/crit). What did you expect?

It would be the same result for level 40 Big Torp or Explosive Cannon.

 

I think this kind of exemplifies why it’s such a cheap weapon, especially around Warrior/Master League.

I remember in Pokémon there was this thing called ‘Spikes’, which you could lay down to harass the other team. Basically, every time they switched Pokémon, they would get spiked, and you’d get a bit of free damage before the fight started. It was only about 5% health, but it was still powerful enough to become a big part of the meta in online battles.

I feel like Sniper is kind of the same thing. It allows teams to harass eachother at long distance, before the ‘real’ fighting starts. But what’s messed up, is that instead of being 5% it’s actually ‘all your hp’.

To make matters worse, with ExCannon nerfed, there is even less reason to get close to the unfriends.

Why do anything as pedestrian as ‘attacking’ or ‘flanking’, when sitting back and Sniping or Torp spamming from a safe distance, is so much more effective.

I think the devs really need to think about what ‘exactly’ they want this game to be, and the kind of behaviour they want to incentivise.

Incentives seem to be an ongoing problem in every part of the game, from strategy, to choosing a boat, to leagues, to guild quests (even winning games is of dubious benefit).

I think this stems from a lack of clear vision. Using fuzzy terms like ‘it’s going to be great’ or ‘fun’, instead of committing to an actual tangible philosophy that people might ‘potentially’ be able to disagree with.

 

This won't even be an issue if it was another weapon. This thread is only getting attention because it's "Sniper Cannon is OP" narrative.

 

Yes, because it is OP. Maybe ‘any other weapon’ can one shot a mk2, at a high enough level. But no other weapon can do it in the first 30 seconds, before the mk2 has even attempted to battle.

 

Well, have you ever experienced getting one shot by railgun? That’s the most painful.

 

???

Big torp and Railgun can do it even in the first 10 seconds.

 

You just disintegrate and a flash of light will be the last thing you will see.

 

Railgun maybe, but then Railgun is 2 slots, has colossal cooldowns, takes ages to train (Buzzkill), and is pathetic at short range.

Big Torp can’t kill anyone in the first 10 seconds, and it’s super easy to dodge.

Sniper, conversely, is 1 slot, so people are running two of them side by side, and getting huge crits every 5-6 seconds, regardless of range or speed... broken!

 

And no need to lead!!
I don't use snipers myself but I suggest buffing alternatives like railgun damage instead to prevents rage/take forever to build another item moments like the when they nerf EX cannons

 

He he, this brings me back. Months ago I reached 1000 with mk2 and i was frequently one-shotted. Months later I am there one-shotting the new mk2s.