A game of snipers

[ostmustis]

I’ve played Vassili for many many hours, as well as all the other sniper classes. I know his/their strengths and weaknesses and ways to deal with them from my experience playing those classes. I know there isn’t a problem with snipers here. And it’s beyond frustrating to see, month after month, the same 3 or 4 people complaining about a class that isn’t broken and doesn’t need fixing. I’m tired of seeing “veterans” with 1200 hours whining about snipers when new players are constantly coming into the forums asking “where’s this feature it would be nice” or “here’s a suggestion to make this better” and all of them suggesting ideas that the community has been fighting for for years.

We need custom servers. We’re FINALLY getting them
We need merc limiting and banning.
We need a CMM that actually works well and is enticing to play
We need a consistent SINGULAR dev supported team size. 8v8 is gone, 5v5 is temporarily gone, but we’re still running on 6v6 and 7v7 and you just can’t balance around two entirely different team/play mechanics.
We need fewer explosive mercs and a generally weakened effectiveness of explosives
We need to remove the high amount of RNG with items and reward players more

All of these issues are a much higher priority than snipers. I’m sick of people shifting the dev’s attention to non-issues just because they’re tired of a thing after a billion hours of game play.

Snipers aren’t causing new players to quit. People don’t stick with the game because it’s missing core features that most every FPS has today. People can’t easily team up together. People hate getting quick-joined into a broken match. People hate the fall off of rewards. People hate certain classes (SNIPER RIGHT??) and have no way to find a community to play without that class. People hate explosives spam and have no way to find a community to play explosives limited. People want a Ranked that’s more focused on personal performance. People want a hell of a lot of things, and “fix sniper” is the minority complaint. So stop it, and help us improve the game features first.

Snipers are broken. I have played many many, hours with them and many, many, many hours against them. I know their strengths and weaknesses and there is a serious problem with them. You are right, there are no counters to snipers, the only thing you can do is to play it yourself to get on an even footing with them. And it’s beyond frustrating to see, year after year, 3 or 4 people making excuses for this shit to stay in the game just because they are too dull see it. I mean wtf, some ppl cant even see that there are still 5v5 servers.

I have played many many, many hours of hours with explosive mercs and I know they are all fine (besides pancaking), some even a bit too weak. Still ppl, who are too lazy to learn how to play against it, just complain about “explosives this or explosives that”. They even complain so much they added a hard counter merc to the game which is absolutely ridiculous.

I dont think anything in that list besides merc limitations are very important. What we need is for the game to be fun and some of the most unfun things in db are: recons, shotguns, rhino, turtle, guardian and thunder.

[ostmustis]

I thought direct contact also deals damage not just the explosive?
Like how if you shoot the nade too close and it wont explode but it deals a bit of damage?

That is correct, with direct hit bonus is deals 90 damage.

[RectalTerror]

Is it actually already doable for a custom server to be sniper/sparks-free?

I come back to DB every 2 weeks, hoping to see such servers.

[johnjhnjohnds]

This is good information thanks for sharing
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[Mc1412013]

No it was a pending feature that got scrapped when they killed development of the game