No Way to Balance Ranged Rifle?

Just wondering. Are you going to completely eliminate it? Or are you going to try to take it in a new direction? Personally I'd prefer that you'd try to find a way to make it fit, rather than axe it altogether.

 

Let's make it tag enemies on teammates' HUD when they are shot with the ranged rifle. Like in Fortress Forever.

 

TBH that doesn't sound so bad.. get rid of the Engineers camera along with that, and a scout sniping isn't so bad ... or something?

edit: meant camera, not radar..

 

I guess its been a week or two since the last scout thread.

 

lols

 

Why not just add the binoculars function to the rifle, allow it to spot buildings and vehicles by looking at them through the scope and to temporarily tag stuff by either shooting it or through some form of secondary fire.

 

All scout skills are close range tools, having a long range weapon makes the scout utterly useless to teamplay

 

You should be able to hijack cars that you hit with the scoutrifle

 

You should be able to hijack the command vehicle when you stand near it as any class

 

guys

why the fuck are we complaining about the sniper rifle

it doesn't fucking matter that it oneshots infantry if tanks are superior to infantry in every way and that only idiots are infantry after good tanks are researched (armor/engine NF, mediums/heavies BE)

 

You should be able to hijack the hijacker if you shoot it with a hijacked, hijacker gun

 

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Oh yeah, you forgot sticky stuns
Oh yeah you forgot it takes time and res to get tanks
Oh yeah you forgot you can't counter that
Oh yeah you forgot about empires large maps
Oh yeah you forgot that it takes some time to spawn and get to the destination

Seriously most stupid argument aside " Sr promotes teamplay " ever.

 

Emp_recruit: "how do i become a camera...?" Play scout.

 

sticky stuns are useless

tanks aren't that expensive

and you can counter getting shot in the head, same way you counter all other guns - BY NOT GETTING HIT

large maps? TRY TANKS

you seem kinda silly there :\

 

You should be able to shoot nukes from the scout rifle.

Sniping kills teams. [/post]

 

what kind of strange bizarre world do you guys play Empires in?

honestly, I want to see this "Sniper's Dream Shooting Gallery" you guys speak of

 

my ass needs balance too, its to sexy

 

I like it how Dawgas defends one broken thing by saying "HEY BUT THIS THING IS BROKEN ASWELL SO IT'S OKAY"

 

Changing a could also change b, c, d, e, and f.

we should figure out how this would occur, and fix what else breaks

besides, radical balance changing should really wait for when airplanes are added, if ever

 

i lol'd at useles sticky stuns
no , ofc meds are 600 and heavies 1000, stop playing on shitty resource servers
Lol, by not getting hit? well thats PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ON SNIPER SIDE. And empries isnt about fucking waiting in cover for com to get HE.
Oh yes, sure , first - they are pretty fucking hard to spot
second-try running someone over in bushes

You seem kinda stupid there

Waiting for airplanes? now wtf would airplanes change in that matter?
You would shit us u can gun the sniper from air even tho you wont be able to see such small shit?