What about another sniper nerf

There are A LOT of mortar users in-game. So the numbers are similar.

 

A good shooter uses long mid to close range weapons, bittersteel uses Carronade and Christmas uses mine, so these close combat weapons are useless at long range,missile and explosives Canon (most commonly used midrange) are midrange, also useless at long range, if the sniper cool down is increased then the opportunity of shooter to harm opponents at long distance would decrease.Anyway sniper is fine as it is and the idea of making sniper a 2 slot weapon is absurd unless shooter of all mk's get one extra slot point and it becomes kinda shooter privilege weapon, which will be good on the contrary

 

At high level (where people have experience and items to choose from) sniper is run twice as much as the next popular weapons (exp and blast).

284 Sniper Cannons in Nightmare last season (thats 22% of all weapons).

A total of 67 mortars (30big b, 16 Long r, 15 ballpark and 6 standard). Even if you count Firebomb and Napalm as mortars, the combined number is still much lower than Sniper alone.

Its not even a discussion whether sniper is the best weapon in the game (at nightmare level) or not. It clearly is, else players would opt for other weapons. However, that does not have to equate to a need for change, thats a matter of whether devs think the massive usage of sniper has a (too) negative impact on gameplay.

Source:
https://forum.battlebay.net/threads/meta-snapshop-bonus-nightmare-edition-25-8.12209/

 

Well that sounds perfect, if they want to do big damage then get in the fight. Picking people off at extreme range should be a specialised thing, why does it need to be something you can do every other shot?

 

Give me stun or High Hp like defender or speed like speeder or tesla shield protection, i will happily get in fight.... Do shooter have anything in special except firepower, NO, AND you wanna take that away so they can fight face 2 face and destroyed by every other ship which has some or other specialty...

 

Stun only gets good in the late game. At my level, speeders get a couple of weapons + 5 second stun, while shooters can have the same weapons + 2 exploding cannons, and way more hp, and doubled up shields... And yet they still wanna hang back and snipe? They're more than capable of fighting up close. I dred being left in a 1vs1 with a shooter. I'd be hopelessly outgunned and out-tanked.

And I don't want to 'take snipers away', adding a few seconds to the cooldown is not 'taking it away', it's just balancing it a bit so it's not the best weapon in the game.

 

Something needs to be done, either nerf crit chance, crit damage or buff all other weapons crit chance greatly besides perhaps big torpedo and mine

 

A lonely shooter is red meat for me as a speeder with mortars, especially if there are obstacles for me to wind around and shoot over while circling. They're too slow. I just finished a match where I was left with a defender almost full health with me at about 400 or so. Took me two minutes to chip away leading mortars and circling around rocks while my bandage healed me.

It's like boxing precision beats speed, speed beats power.