They've quietly buffed sniper damage in crucible. (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Friday, April 08, 2016, 00:26 (3245 days ago) @ CyberKN

"Re-prioritize Overshield so that it takes precision damage modifiers (previously it did not) which allows more Sniper archetypes to get res-kills"

Yes, it's a special occasion, but it is the only occasion where sniper rifles wouldn't get a OHK. We should now be able to res snipe using mid impact guns like the raid sniper. For those upset about sniper rifle nerfs in crucible, this should feel better.

I like this, and I like the pulse rifle buffs and fusion rifle buffs. The buffs all seem fine to me, and I approve of them, especially the Suros one.

On another note

"It is important to us that players feel like they have options and that there isn’t a single ultimate weapon per archetype."

I don't understand why it's nerf nerf nerf on these decent guns. The raid machine gun isn't overpowered, it's just the only one like the old guns. It's the only one with any magazine size increase. It's the only one with a reasonable recoil pattern. Thousand Yard Stare is like this too. It has a decent ammo inventory size and performs in a similar way to guns before the 2.0 fun nerf.

I understand power creep, I do, but when a gun like Thousand Yard Stare is outshining virtually every single other gun, but would have been mediocre in the last update, I think it might be an indicator that we might have power creep the other way.

The fact that I choose to do year one activities for fun when I play with people, and I don't equip any new guns, kind of makes it clear to me that I still like Destiny, but current loot is inferior to the point of irrelevance when playing year one stuff.

They are giving us more options...by removing options. If we want a short zoom scope on a sniper rifle now, nope. Sorry, stuck with mid zoom. If we want a high ammo capacity, nope. If we want to increase our magazine size by more than 15%, nope. By nerfing these perks and forcing tradeoffs, we're "getting more options" but at the expense of any real difference. The guns are all pretty samey.

In order to give players options, I would have liked to see other guns made a bit more fun instead of these ones being taken down a bit. As it is in Destiny, I feel like I have almost no options. The ammo nerfs have gotten me to run double surplus virtually all the time, when before I would switch it up. I use the same primary gun all the time because non elemental primaries just made me pick the one I like the most for every occasion except arc burn. To do double surplus, I'm using Dragon's Breath in my heavy slot at almost all times, plus a Tamar D or something in the special. Every time. I never change my exotic armor out, because it's the only one with the good ammo perks.

The raid has me using an identical setup every time. Standard primary gun, Black Hammer, raid machine gun. Other setups are so detrimental as to be actively annoying. Right before 2.0 for VOG, I used to use Word of Crota, Two To The Morgue, and a Zombie Apocalypse until Atheon, when I switched the shotgun out to an Efrideet's Spear. I guarantee nobody else here used that setup, but I imagine at least half of the forum uses the black hammer and raid machine gun during the new raid and it doesn't come off until it's touch of malice time.

When they do these nerfs to guns like this, I don't feel like they want me to have options. I feel like they're taxing the things I like. They're making my experience worse so I don't notice as much when I use worse guns and equipment.

I feel like they're spending too much time in spreadsheets and not enough time playing their game and having fun. When I see these kinds of nerfs happen, I feel kind of betrayed. It's irrational, but it always feels like they don't care about the players who were having fun before, and I always feel like a second class player.