r/LowSodiumBattlefield

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Since some people were confused of what this actually does compared to the long suppressor, the hybrid suppressors all incorporate the overall recoil reduction of the muzzle brakes which is a bit different than the long/lightened suppressors that improve recoil buildup/recovery. So all the hybrid suppressors incorporate the recoil buffs of both a muzzle brake and the long/light suppressors and seeing as the cheapest Hybrid is only 5pts more than the long, its a pretty good value for anyone thats trying to maximize recoil improvement. I only added the 30pt hybrid-L suppressor in this since the other 2 hybrids don't further reduce recoil and their points cost is tied into other buffs like hipfire/sway/sprint recovery so the recoil results should be the same. ADS test was done at 20m using a VCR with 40rd mag.

Is this just bad luck? My Conquest win percentage is 56%. I PTFO my ass off, have the most caps in the lobby almost every game. If the enemy carrier is breached first I immediately attack it. If ours is breached first I immediately defend it, even if it means redeploying, but every time it feels like it's 20 v 5 inside whichever carrier I'm on and they arm all the objectives within a minute or two or completely stonewall us from arming.

I want to love this game mode, but it keeps feeling like our team is spread too thin across all the different objectives. Any tips to help my team better?

EDIT: I just played again and it was the worst steamroll yet, so 2 for 8 now. I'm going back to Wake Island. 10 blueberries on the deck of the enemy aircraft carrier which wasn't breached while ours was breached and armed.

Also boats are a lot more fun , and pretty strong too. Last clip is unrelated and kinda old , but wanted to share my best shot cause im never hitting something like that again lol

Before the latest patch, it was incredibly easy to switch between classes while waiting to spawn. You could just tap L1 or R1 to instantly adjust your loadout based on what was happening in the match.

Now, you have to manually enter the "Customize" menu, select your class, and back out. All the snapiness and fluidity of navigating the spawn screen is completely gone. A feature that used to be quick and useful now feels slow and tedious.

Does anyone know why they made this change? Was it intentional or an accidental bug? I really hope they bring quick swap back.

Went over the specs on this yesterday, I was off on a couple details but to sum up: it has the highest max damage at 150, but the trade off is no ADS bolt, slowest ROF, slowest ADS, slowest reload, lowest carried ammo (36), lowest base mobility and lowest base control of any other sniper.

The upside though is unlike other snipers that need a chest shot in their sweetspot range for a one-shot kill, with its higher max damage the interdictor is a one-shot sweetspot kill to any part of the body, that range being 120-150m. Outside of that though, the higher max damage surprisingly doesn't mean higher damage anywhere else. It does the exact same damage as all the other 100 damage snipers (80 body/54 limb). They're also apparently not doing anything different for the ballistics of this new cartridge compared to the other 100 damage snipers as far as drag/drop are concerned. I tested it in the ZN5YC sniper range with its other closest velocity 100 damage Sniper the L115 (L115 927m/s , Interdictor 915m/s) and at the 550m target they both landed at identical 1.3 seconds.

Also this thing is very back-loaded for important mods. Long range ammo doesn't come in till lvl33. Range finder at lvl38, and the only suppressor doesn't even unlock until lvl39!

So overall, this is going to be a very niche sniper choice. They stacked a ton of nerfs into it and the only real buff it has is its sweetspot hits in a 30m window are all 1-shot, and not just chest shots. So I suppose theres definitely a place for this, I played a lot of breakthrough with it today as I usually do to level up guns and theres a couple spots like the roof above A objective on Empire, Lib Peak on attack to B obj, Bazaar shooting down into that big C chokepoint, where if you know your ranges and position yourself in the exact right spot then basically every time you pull the trigger and hit its a kill and its almost comical. Outside of that though, I can't see me running this too much on a conquest or escalation map where you really don't control your engagement distances like you can in BT, because really this whole gun is built entirely around its 30m sweetspot and outside of that its objectively just the worst one to use for any other situation. I do like having quirky niche guns though that you can just build a very situational playstyle around so Im glad its in the game. Would be great though if they did a little something for this to buff it to make up for how many nerfs it brings along. Like instead of that max damage number it also did a bit more base damage, or maybe made it so this new caliber had less drag/flatter trajectory than the others to lean into its whole long range angle. But how are you all liking it so far, I want to hear if anyone is having better luck with it or playing it a different way?

Anyhow, heres my build for it. Since theres no ADS bolt I definitely wanted to run an ADS grip and both fast mag and mag catch, anything you can do to increase the ROF on this is mandatory. And yes running the range-finder, this is just not going to be a sniper you want to run close with these specs, you will get wrecked 😄