Profile of Kiraye

Jump back to quoted post7 Dec 2013, 18:31 PMAimstrong

I don't understand why you have such a fixation on the sniper. With this change, you are castrating sniper play by making it too easy to countersnipe. And this is without mentioning the ramifications it will have with abilities like strafing run, bike/jeep drive by etc.

The problem, as I see it, is when one player gets the upper hand with regards to sniper superiority. When he has more than one and his opponent as the same time is forced to counter them with a sniper of his own (a grenspamming WM player vs US sniperspam, a fuel-starved/vehicle-countered US player who needs the sniper as anti infantry but is up against sniper spam, etc.). A reason to include the sniper in an early WM build was to already have prepared for eventual US snipers.

The above situations get fixed with the negative zeal effect, which helps a lone sniper when he is up against many. It will increase his chances of evening out the sniping field. And if he gets the countersnipe due to the negative zeal, there is still room for the spamming player to counterplay; after all, he still has a sniper of his own to make countersnipes with. For me, this is enough to alleviate any problems there were with sniper wars.

Think back to how sniper wars actually played out on high levels. Here, the game evolved around not necessarily getting the countersnipe, but instead of killing more troops with your sniper than his. This meant that it became a dance of death, trying to rack up as many kills as possible without being countersniped, using screening troops, los, range... It was micro intensive and rewarded active play.

With this change, we will instead have one player wait for his opponent to have the guts and courage to actually USE his unit, only for the passive player to be rewarded with a guaranteed hit...

I have to ask: Why this fixation on snipers, making them seem like a big problem that requires a redesign of the game mechanics? I can understand wanting to solve the problems of sniperspam... but instead you make such drastic changes that affect snipers in their entirety. Why make such a drastic change that, to me, reeks of wanting to "balance" the game in favor of your own playstyles?

Jump back to quoted post2 Dec 2013, 20:19 PMKolaris

It's a good fix but I don't know about easy - you'd have to add that new critical type to every single weapon .rgd wouldn't you?

Jump back to quoted post2 Dec 2013, 14:28 PMOktarnash

He Meant that the Heroic criticals would only work in retreat vs Enemy Snipers only.

Jump back to quoted post29 Nov 2013, 23:53 PM12ocky

Ugh lolled, makes one wonder why they made that weapon.