Please, unhalo reach the sniper!
It’s a .57 caliber round gun with armor piercing bullets. Why shouldn’t it destroy vehicles?
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Sniper ammo is hard to come by. If someone want to waste the sniper on a vehicle I say let them. Less of a chance to actually be blasted in the head by it
Yes, they should. Canonically the sniper rifle in Halo is actually a .50cal anti-materiel rifle meant for blowing holes in tanks but the UNSC redeployed it for piercing Covenant energy shields. I for one am a fan of this touch.
Why was it not that way in halo 1, 2, and 3 then? Oh wait that’s right! Canonical logic doesn’t dictate gameplay :0! Y’all are so dumb, gameplay trumps in game logic, snipers are way too OP for that.
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Or… maybe… just maybe they’d have to take skill and headshot the gunner?
And the gameplay around this aspect is fine. You’re probably the first person I’ve seen since Reach that has had this issue. Snipers already come with less ammo than they did in previous games, and like @lilrebelman02 said, if someone wants to waste their whole magazine on a single vehicle instead of getting 8 guaranteed kills, then that’s on them.
I’m not a sniper player but headshots are not hard so… Don’t need to be insulting. But you need to understand the reasoning or you come off as clueless and salty.
I’m salty, it’s true, I witnessed a banshee get 3-shotted by a sniper. Apologies for my rudeness though, I’ll try to keep my replies more civil my bad.
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I already do this anyway. I’d rather not waste my sniper ammo on a vehicle unless it’s already close to death. Sniping a gunner or driver is a more reasonable use of your ammo. Snipers have a long respawn time anyway, wasting it away on a vehicle explosion is a choice that has a fair tradeoff considering the vehicle will repsawn faster.
Fair enough. Well how do you think H3 players feel getting wrecked by BRs while flying the Banshee or getting flipped in the Warthog by BR fire. Lots of weapons have a history of being overpowered against vehicles.
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Air vehicles are pretty dominate at the moment because the Hydra is balls and Plasma Pistols no longer EMP, so a sniper being a decent counter keeps them from being too overwhelming.