Snipers are dead. SVDM is king.
Snipers are dead. No reason to use them anymore. Since the update came out, I’ve hit a headshot with the ESR for 130 dmg, next shot was 42 dmg. Didn’t get a down. I agree that snipers should NOT one shot headshot but if I hit a headshot, my follow up shot should down the player no matter what, even if its a “limb shot”. Keep the same bullet velocity as it is rn to reward it more, I don’t care. Theres no reason to use a sniper when you can spam the SVDM with the same amount of bullet velocity, 8x the rate of fire, no bloom, and 31 damage AT MINIMUM per shot.
Since the update, I’ve had my squad run the SVDM exclusively for their long range option and we’ve won more games recently than normal. The long range bloom on every gun has been increased significantly. Once more of the playerbase catches on, it will turn into SVDM spam like you’ve never seen before and it will be the first gun that truly NEEDS a nerf in this game mode. I guarantee if you have played this game long enough, you have maxed out a KTS off ground loot or used your custom class with it and realized the bloom on it is exponentially worse than it has been before. There is no other long range option thats as viable as the SVDM as the game currently is right now, and I hate DMR meta.
I play almost exclusively ranked and currently ranked as a Master. If I’m playing ranked, I’m using the best guns available and right now nothing comes close to the SVDM. Snipers are completely dead and if they want to bring some variety back into this game like it was before then damage with snipers needs to be reverted or reworked.