YOU JUST KILLED THE GAME....

[🎵 arkasiaofficial 🎵]

I've been playing every day since i got the game, i might stop playing it just because of that new sniper rifle...

You have a close combat shooter game and you incorporate a one shot one kill weapon... all servers are already infested with what I can only describe as "troll players" (to keep this post polite), no skill needed just point shoot you score...

You just killed your own game... I dont want to sound aggressive or anything, but you just wrote in your patch notes that's it's not a one man project anymore, but a team of dozens of people...

?? HOW CAN THAT BE A COLLECTIVE DECISION ??

All other weapons were so well balanced, with the use of the amazing level design from the CS maps etc, this was the most impressive VR game to play at this day, if the not the best, the decision of breaking the balance like this is a mystery to me...

[Raimei]

Originally posted by Brainslug:

I'm a mod and a modder. I made two maps for the Zombies End Days mode (and some more).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prw2B_03IzY

[Surprise]

Originally posted by Maverick_Actual:

listen to these kids complaining that the game they never played is ruined. Pavlovs had a one shot kill rifle for the 2000+hours on my record.

The new AMR is awesome, and it s a total nerf to the existing one-shot kill weapons.

Funny thing is, people who continue to defend its OPness saying something like "it takes forever to reaload", overlook the fact that with the ability to use the holo-sights on this thing, it's nearly impossible to miss your shot, thus making .50cal a 98% winner in any 1vs1 situation.
Before some updates ago, there were no holo-sights in the game.And AWP was balanced by high magnificent sight-only. You had to aim your shots precisely. And now, with the holo-sight, you can just run around using it as CQB weapon, never missing your shots. THAT is why the new gun is OP. Its "taking forever reloading" doesnt make sense because you have to be a total dеgеnеratе to miss your shot using a holo-sight from 5 meters
Make it high magnification sight-only, and then maybe it will be a bit balanced

[Brainslug]

But that also was true for the AWP before. So the 50cal still is a NERFED version of the AWP...

[Raimei]

Originally posted by Maverick_Actual:

Funny thing is, people who continue to defend its OPness saying something like "it takes forever to reaload", overlook the fact that with the ability to use the holo-sights on this thing, it's nearly impossible to miss your shot, thus making .50cal a 98% winner in any 1vs1 situation.
Before some updates ago, there were no holo-sights in the game.And AWP was balanced by high magnificent sight-only. You had to aim your shots precisely. And now, with the holo-sight, you can just run around using it as CQB weapon, never missing your shots. THAT is why the new gun is OP. Its "taking forever reloading" doesnt make sense because you have to be a total dеgеnеratе to miss your shot using a holo-sight from 5 meters
Make it high magnification sight-only, and then maybe it will be a bit balanced

I'd imagine that would suck, I should really try all the new stuff and see what you mean since I haven't played in a while, last I played was about a week before the attachments update but couldn't you just practice free aiming the gun to get consistent results with a AWP or the new 50. Cal and have the same result essentially?

It's not like this is a regular FPS where accuracy is everywhere even on first shot while moving, you could literally just practice how to free aim it for hours on end and get a similar result if you got good enough at it.

As far as I'm aware there doesn't seem to be anything stopping that.

[Surprise]

Originally posted by Raimei:

Originally posted by Maverick_Actual:

I'd imagine that would suck, I should really try all the new stuff and see what you mean since I haven't played in a while, last I played was about a week before the attachments update but couldn't you just practice free aiming the gun to get consistent results with a AWP or the new 50. Cal and have the same result essentially?

It's not like this is a regular FPS where accuracy is everywhere even on first shot while moving, you could literally just practice how to free aim it for hours on end and get a similar result if you got good enough at it.

As far as I'm aware there doesn't seem to be anything stopping that.

no matter how good you'd train that, there will be much less chance you hit it, rather than using it with holo-sight

[Brainslug]

Not true - in the league any other sight then the 8x for the AWP was banned - people still used it very effectivly in CQC, i guess nobody really good with it used the sights at that point. Same will be true for the 50cal - BUT it's a nerfed AWP because reload is slower.

In fact you will see very little sights being used in the league - they just cost money that you better use for nades.

[Cactusben]

The old AWP used to kill you instantly and shot way faster, I'm not seeing your point.

[The Milkman]

I'm a player with over 300 hours on Pavlov (mostly Deathmatches nowadays) I love this game and I'm glad there is a discussion about this gun. I know the gun is new, everyone's using it and enjoying it which is great. the other parts of the update are also welcome (though I might need a new graphics card now)

what I would like to see is the option to select what weapons you allow on a server you host. This goes beyond blocking just blocking 50.'s and AWP's but could also be a tool to set up games that are handguns/shotguns or SMG only or something of that order.

[Zeniarmr [US]]

Originally posted by Brainslug:

Not true - in the league any other sight then the 8x for the AWP was banned - people still used it very effectivly in CQC, i guess nobody really good with it used the sights at that point. Same will be true for the 50cal - BUT it's a nerfed AWP because reload is slower.

In fact you will see very little sights being used in the league - they just cost money that you better use for nades.

To be honest, the reload speed really depends on the player, right? I can load the .50cal and fire it in under 2 seconds. It takes the AWP like 1 second if you off-hand it. Alas, there is a cap to the actual human possibility of loading it, but it is a really quickly reload if you are talking "reload to fire"

reload to fire to steady aiming on the other hand...

Not that I'm complaining though, it is a fun weapon, but it is kinda unbalanced at longer ranges... And well, the AWP in CS:GO still one-shots (body up) and it isn't hard at all to use and no one really complains about that any more.

[sWagma]

just shoot them while they are reloding, like killing a sheep.

[yummy]

im patiently awaiting the next patch, who knows when it will be.

[Kisiic]

you do realize the awp pre-patch almost always one shot someone, right?

[Surprise]

Originally posted by Kisiic:

you do realize the awp pre-patch almost always one shot someone, right?

the problem started when devs allowed using AWP with holo-sights, so it continued with its new reincarnation, the .50

[Kisiic]

Originally posted by Surprise:

Originally posted by Kisiic:

you do realize the awp pre-patch almost always one shot someone, right?

the problem started when devs allowed using AWP with holo-sights, so it continued with its new reincarnation, the .50

that's true, but after awhile everyone stopped using the awp with holo/red dot. don't get me wrong, people still use it, but not as much. so if anything just give it sometime to die down.

[CarrionCrawler42069]

im going to abuse the 50 cal until it gets nerfed, as a protest. i just did well enough with it that people were accusing me of hacking in my last match, but that was probably just my internet connection sucking. it's a 1 hit kill anywhere on the body, someone with an ar15 stands no chance even if they get nothing but headshots. and in vr the reload doesn't even take that long if you're a bit dextrous. Sniper rifles don't belong in a CQB game anyway imo.