Sniper AI is suddenly incredibly aggressive

[Asuka ｢THE DINGLE｣ Soryu]

I posted about this once already the other day but it got no response so I'm coming back. I have no idea if this counts as a bug or RNG just hates me, so I'll just put it in General Discussion.

Long story short, a few days ago I was playing an offline game on Overkill to test a dodge build I was making, when half way into the game I decided to go outside the bank because I was curious as to why no police were inside the building. I saw a sniper and went to shoot it, but the second I stepped past the fence next to the bank, three different snipers locked on to me in less than a second and all fired at once, downing me instantly. I figured it was a one time thing and moved on, but in the escape they were behaving the same way, 20 seconds in I was down because three snipers instantly targeted me again. Now ever since this has just still been happening. If I go into custody I'll see the same snipers having their lasers just somewhere near the heads of other players, missing shots most of the time, groups of them locking on to multiple different players when they're in range, etc. But as soon as I come out of custody, every sniper that can see me is back to being locked on to my head 100% of the time they fire (I tried looking directly at one and sprinting left and right with the dodge build, not only did they hit me mid sprint but the laser stayed on my head the entire time) and all targeting me at once, even when it's just one sniper way off in the distance they still somehow down me instantly every time they see me. I even did some research and on Overkill from any range under 30 meters they can only do 200 damage per shot, and any range above it they can only do 100. Base player health is 230, so if one sniper can down me so quickly from 30+ meters, they're either broken or firing multiple times(And I swear with just one sniper in the area I've heard multiple sniper shots go off when I'm downed). I know it sounds like I'm just playing like an idiot and letting myself get shot but less than a week ago I was using the exact same strategies on the exact same difficulty and snipers were not anywhere close to the threat they are to me right now. Even when I use the grinder or armor builds I've already been using for weeks they're just as hard to deal with, yet don't screw over other players nearly as badly.

[Aowk]

TLDR Snipers out to get him.

[Asuka ｢THE DINGLE｣ Soryu]

Originally posted by Aowk:

TLDR Snipers out to get him.

Y e s

[Ashley]

In the beta snipers can no longer shoot while moving into position. This should help a lot once the build goes live to the public.

[Asuka ｢THE DINGLE｣ Soryu]

I appreciate the response but that kinda just feels like a copy paste for any post about snipers.. (plus I'm playing on the beta, this didn't start until I was)

[DC-GS]

Originally posted by Ayden "The Dingle" Burgers:

feels like a copy paste for any post

To be honest, You are making it Mayham difficult to read your post. It's just a wall of text. keep it simple.

And about your issue, how are 3 snipers able to target you? Where is your cover? I never run into the middle of the street and wait until all sniper target me. Keep moving, take cover.

[Asuka ｢THE DINGLE｣ Soryu]

Originally posted by DC-GS:

Originally posted by Ayden "The Dingle" Burgers:

feels like a copy paste for any post

To be honest, You are making it Mayham difficult to read your post. It's just a wall of text. keep it simple.

And about your issue, how are 3 snipers able to target you? Where is your cover? I never run into the middle of the street and wait until all sniper target me. Keep moving, take cover.

That's the thing, I try to keep moving but even on a dodge build the second I come out of cover to head towards the objective every sniper that can see me locks on and fires, either downing me or taking half my health instantly, so I end up pinned down in cover pretty often (And sorry for the wall of text, in going back and editing it I tend to lose a lot of the coherency I had while originally typing it. To actually make a long story short, for a few days now the AI of snipers has been almost realistically aggressive towards me on every difficulty, even the blue ones that aren't supposed to hit every shot)