I've found people exploiting some glitches with the sniper rifle, one being with the hotkeys. The player holds down their mouse over a player, equips the rifle by pressing the assigned hotkey, and hits them for 50 damage with a second delay. They can do this in the middle of combat, the shot firing simultaneously with the screen switching to scoped view, allowing the sniper to shoot his or her target with a full view before he or she loses that capability.

Another thing is fire rate. Certain weapons, mainly ones that are weak and fire rapidly, actually make the sniper shoot their target even faster when being attacked by them. Since the sniper rifle can kill anybody in two hits, this is a major exploit when trying to kill snipers with whatever means you have at hand. I've also seen this effect happen with the plasmasabre, when I fight one with weapons that attack rapidly, but don't necessarily "lame" and stun the target.

another great reason to have the sniper rifle removed..

Haha I remember last year shooting with Love rifle on sniper so you could shoot with Sniper all time xD

Now now, don't be a liar. I've watched you run away and snipe IXI, Tenchry and countless others when you're about to die.


Tsk. I've seen a lot of threads about issues with weapons being lame. I'll take a look into it.

IXI is a exception. Because he healed allways.

And I don't have Sniper anymore.

Like always the people who wish snipers removed are most likely the victims whilst people who wish for the sniper rifle to be kept are the people laming with it claiming they only snipe runners which is a load of b******t because we all know they run and end up sniping anyway, which basically means this argument is just going to turn into 'I don't lame' or 'yes you do' why can't we just find a compromise instead of removing the sniper rifle so that both parties will be slightly pleased.

ooh you because your the most honorable fighting in zone :asleep:

You may not have a sniper rifle but think about the people who do and how they use it (BabyYoshi as a example) when fighting him and his losing he tends to jetpack away find a neat little hiding spot and snipe you from a distance where you can't cause any harm to him. Is this really fair in your eyes?
Is it a decent way to earn a kill?

What i'm saying in that is that being a total chicken and having to hide a distance away to kill your opponent, is it a honest way to have earned a kill ? especially since there are glitches as mentioned before which allow very small intervals between shots and make it that much harder to get away.

I like this idea.

na! 50 damage is good =)

I say change it to 39, cuz when trials have 80 HP, they are not in 2 shots dead.

I paiid 390 gelats for it..
I want to kill a trial in ATLEAST 2 shots with a sniper..

Make it cheaper :)

But that my opinion, to make it 39.

Sniper is fine how it is. If you think its so lame, get one yourself and kill the lamers! ;)

Ehh I say that sniper rifles are dumb and stupid at least give us some way to fight back e.g. just let them not able to be hidden while sniping (ssh dennis i know it wouldn't be this way in real life but still) or at least be in the radius of the radar.