I mean, I’ve had my banshee and warthog taken down by snipers nearly every big team match I’ve played, especially the banshee. Someone shoots me a couple times with the BR, then a dude with the sniper one shots me, that thing is a death trap and the sniper doesn’t help at all. Reach at least was a 4 shot right? Even then too I hated that change. The Spartan laser being gone breathes fresh air into vehicle gameplay, but the sniper suffocates it again becoming a Spartan laser.
Every BTB map has vehicles, so the nerf is kinda needed. Now if you play the 4v4, then I see where you’re coming from.
No worries, I’m open to other opinions it’s fine, mine is one too c:.
Honestly, the Skewer is a great and fun weapon. I’m glad to be using it. It’s almost as fun as the laser.
But people who praise one and badmouth another are incredibly annoying, especially if it’s the Laser that they hate.
Plus, we all know that the Laser is the only solution to the OP state of the Scorpion and Wraith (and fixing that problem is the only way the game will ever let us actually use either for more than a minute).
Wait, this post is about the Sniper? Then what’s with the title, dude?
I just can’t agree, what with there being no Spartan Laser, we do still need some mitigation to vehicles. The issue with the Banshee though I think is less about the Sniper and more about they made it too weak in the armor/health department. I think it’s the Banshee that needs a buff more so than the Sniper needing a nerf.
We do have some vehicle destroyers, but the Skewer is actually easy to miss if you’re not careful, and like it, the Rocket Launcher takes 2 shots to kill most vehicles now I think.
That’s true, they do need some mitigation to vehicles… oh well the skewer is a good one (which you mention), and wait there’s shock grenades and the other electric based weapons, also there’s sticky grenades. And honestly if they put the missile pod back in I wouldn’t mind. See, all of these vehicle deterrents take skill, the sniper takes none, you just hitscan the thing to death pretty much. It’s an easy way to kill a vehicle, and I agree with you on the banshee, for some reason the wasp seems just so much more useful :/. But all I’m saying is that the laser took no skill to kill a vehicle, and the sniper takes no skill to kill a vehicle, and there’s absolutely no counter play to it. I just have to drive around till the heavens smite me with the easiest kill someone will ever get in their entire life.
Yeah, the HP of the vehicles should increase because the vehicles do look ridiculously weak when compared to the power of strong weapons. If players are to use the Spartan Laser again, it will need to be properly balanced. Otherwise, we will only see the Spartan Laser being used by characters within the campaigns.
Yes! I’d say to make across the map shots a 2 hit kill though, and make it to where it has to hit center mass to ever be a 1 shot kill, instead of a grazing shot.
The Halo community confuses me the most. The Spartan laser is a great weapon. It balances the battlefield when there are vehicles. “But it one shots me” yeah that’s the point. There is a charge time on it, so just pay attention to the red laser of death.
It seems like there is this weird try hard community in Halo who don’t like things because of pvp but these weapons work great within the story. I play games for both the story and pvp.
That was just some logical speculation.