Important Suggestion

[ANTHEM]

PLEASE WEAKEN THE SHARPSHOOTER.

That will be all.

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Just wanted to point out in a formal post what every single thread suggesting a buff for another class has turned into. The Sharpshooter is now played at least by 3 people in every 6 man I'm in, and they just stand there with Xbows and kill EVERYTHING and share NO money. They are ruining the game.


Sorry to any ACTUAL sharpshooters who leveled it pre-xbowbuff.

 

[Colt .45 killer]

i think you may be making some of your premise there based on players not clases, i was playing SS the other day ( yes i was level 5 prepatch), i was the only SS in the group sitting in the middle of the tunnel on west london turning either direction to kill scrakes/fp's and always passing out money at the end of the round ( i had a deagle and 9mm for regular stuff as i dont much like the xbow). so it really in my opinion depends on the players, yes SS is a class that can be used to grab lots of kills for those players who feel that this game is a versus game where the players are competing against eachother.

 

[Keaton Fox]

I never play SharpShooter just cuz i don't like it. Is it the crossbow that makes SS overpowered? In all the games I play I see only a few and they are using either LAR or the other one, but none use crossbow. Though it could be becuase I play in Normal Difficulty.

 

[NekoChrissy]

Even though I NEVER play the Sharpshooter Perk ... I've mustered up Sharpshooter 3 from just normal headshots ...

I think the perks need more diversification of function. The Sharpshooter is usually supposed to be about high concentrated single-target damage, but the Support Specialist also overlaps into that role, but has a little AoE. Which the Firebug has ...

Honestly, the perks seem to overlap too much and some perks are far too easily to level up compared to others.

 

[SMIFF]

PLEASE WEAKEN THE SHARPSHOOTER.

That will be all.

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Just wanted to point out in a formal post what every single thread suggesting a buff for another class has turned into. The Sharpshooter is now played at least by 3 people in every 6 man I'm in, and they just stand there with Xbows and kill EVERYTHING and share NO money. They are ruining the game.


Sorry to any ACTUAL sharpshooters who leveled it pre-xbowbuff.

Apology accepted

 

[joecheeze]

PLEASE WEAKEN THE SHARPSHOOTER.

That will be all.

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Just wanted to point out in a formal post what every single thread suggesting a buff for another class has turned into. The Sharpshooter is now played at least by 3 people in every 6 man I'm in, and they just stand there with Xbows and kill EVERYTHING and share NO money. They are ruining the game.


Sorry to any ACTUAL sharpshooters who leveled it pre-xbowbuff.

there was no xbow buff. its the same as it has been all along. They just fixed the head shot detection.

 

[robdude19]

PLEASE WEAKEN THE SHARPSHOOTER.

That will be all.

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Just wanted to point out in a formal post what every single thread suggesting a buff for another class has turned into. The Sharpshooter is now played at least by 3 people in every 6 man I'm in, and they just stand there with Xbows and kill EVERYTHING and share NO money. They are ruining the game.


Sorry to any ACTUAL sharpshooters who leveled it pre-xbowbuff.

The xbow guys don't make much money from killing weaker specimens, and they run the risk of running out of their 40 bolts so they generally go for the tougher guys, which pay out pretty well for kills. When I do xbow SS I get pretty good money, but since my kit is just the xbow and a deagle or medigun, I don't have much use for hoarding my cash so I give it to everyone else. I think the sharpshooters who use M14 are more likely to hoard cash since the gun is much more expensive, as well as the ammo, whereas using xbow costs only 100 bucks per round if you sell and buy a new one. Certainly anyone using a xbow won't have a lot of kills on the scoreboard, but their kills will be high priority targets so they'll be helping their team a ton. The guys getting lots of kills are usually the commandos and M14 sharpshooters, but they have a harder time with fp's, especially from long distance where you'd like to have them dead.

I think with the new headshot vulnerability on the scrakes and fp's, the 6X damage headshot multiplier on the xbow can be considered a bit excessive, since I can one-shot scrakes as a non-sharpshooter class on 6-man suicidal. You could argue that only a SS should be able to do that. But, you still need to be SS to one-shot fp's, so you could argue that it's still balanced since you can't hold any other primary weapon. I often use xbow with MP7 as a medic or SS and when I do, I'm always last on the scoreboard in terms of kills, but I guarantee I play a huge role in keeping the team alive and eliminating the big threats. In these cases I'm the "unsung hero."

For this reason I think it's good to keep the xbow as powerful as it is, because there needs to be incentive to use the weapon despite not looking good on the scoreboard.