The Interdictor is the worst sniper rifle
What was DICE's intention with this weapon? The rifle is much worse than the other snipers and has no positive trade-offs. For those who don't know, here some details:
Pros:
- 150 damage for a larger sweetspot range (other snipers have 100dmg)
- Note: Experienced snipers do not play around the sweetspot, but headshots instead.
- The bonus is perhaps good for RedSec, but lets ignore it in this post.
Cons:
- It is made for long-range, but has a slower bullet velocity than the MiniScout and ESR
- Its ADS is the slowest of all, even with all max level attachments and small magazine (3!)
- No ADS bolt, so you cannot stay in scope after firing. This means you can lose your (distant) target even easier (when missing) because the reload time is so long and the they can easily run away.
- Even with ADS bolt, it would have the slowest ROF in the weapon category (which is fine for its size, but still: there is no benefit using it)
- The first and ONLY silencer is unlocked at Lv39, so until then you are spotted everywhere. Yes there is the Flash Hider, but it is simply not as good as a silencer since spotting and the minimap are far too powerful right now.
- The ammo it was made for is unlocked at Lv33 (Long Range bullets)
- Worst sprint-recovery
- Slowest reload
All snipers can easily do long-range kills without all the negative things above, so why bother leveling and using the Interdictor?
Thoughts about solutions:
With the current state of vehicle spam, why don't give this weapon additional vehicle damage? I tested the weapon against all vehicles (land, air, sea) and it does the same damage as the other rifles.
The worst part: Even though the weapon has a large calibre, it does NO damage to armored vehicles - not even boats. It should work similar to the NTW-50 of 2042, dealing 3-5(?)% HP damage. For balance, it should NOT be able to deal damage to heavy tanks, but everything else (boats, helicopters, IFVs etc) should get at least some trouble when getting hit by it.
Obviously if this happens, all the negative parts above should stay to keep it balanced.
I know sniping isn't popular in this sub, but this gun is the DB12 of snipers right now and needs some serious changes.