For a skilled player there's nothing you could do that would balance it if it was allowed to kill with one shot.
Killing FP with single shot it bad thing. There no teamwork needed to bring down FP that way.
So 1 shot fp is too powerful for HoE.
I echo these responses. There's a reason that not even the LAW kills an FP in one hit!
This. Exactly this.
Can't a demo man easily solo a fleshpound with a pipebomb and a few m32 rounds? Heck, take out the pipebomb and he still can solo the fp just fine (I know several shots>one shot, bear with me).
How is a pile of pipebombs not op (well, no one yet has said they are), but a one shot sniper rifle is?
Because Pipe Bombs cost $200 a piece and the M32 takes roughly 2 seconds per round to reload. Using pipes drains your funds fast and spamming all your M32 shots leaves you nearly empty for a long period of time. And, of course, there's the issue that in close quarters, Grenades and Pipes can hurt or kill you if something goes wrong (Crawler leaps from a vent and detonates the nades you just fired, Bloat spawns around a corner and detonates a pipe too soon, ect).
Not to mention that the M32 is a mid-range weapon. You're talking about a SNIPER RIFLE. Killing an FP miles before it can even get close. And if it DID get close, you'd still be able to 1-shot it at near point-blank with the proper skill, with zero risk of nuking yourself or getting hit by the FP. It would be gamebreaking. There's a reason no weapon in the game is currently able to do it.
I'm sorry guys. I really like the gun itself. It's a freaking sweet gun. But the way you're trying to set it up, it's a balance nightmare. Making it gamebreakingly powerful against FPs/Scrakes, but gimping it's ammo and reload so it's useless the other 99% of the time doesn't make for a fun weapon. And making it any more effective against everything else would make it gamebreaking.
Long story short, it's very hard to have a "Sniper" weapon without intruding on the Crossbow's territory right now. And a "1-shot Wonder" anti-FP gun isn't the way to do it. FPs are one of the only things keeping skilled teams from being able to perma-camp entire maps and having the ability to 1-shot them removes even that obstacle.
I'm behind this gun 100%...but not the way you're thinking of using it. I dunno HOW you'd really use it otherwise, but this isn't the way.
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