"Just say no to OHK ranged weapons." do you even play anything other than EC or what i feel like you'd have a conniption fit playing anything else lol
Then give plasma grenades and stikkbombs the same AoE as frag grenades, they cost the same amount of LP after all.
In just about every shooter that ever existed in video game history, sniper rifles were always a one-shot kill if it was a headshot, and in games like CoD, a single body shot did the trick as well. Sniper rifles were always a very low-risk, high-reward weapon in many games. Many vehicle mounted primary weapons, artillery, grenades, and man-portable anti-tank weapons were also one-shot kills. Why are expectations so very different in this game? My guess, "MUH SPACE MARINES." I swear to the gods, if you guys ever had to play Red Orchestra, you would slash your wrists, slit your throat, set yourself on fire, and jump out of a window into traffic.
You forgot the skill part of the equation. The sniper rifles in call of duty were never easy to use for more than 1 quick kill unless you practiced with them, you had to develop a skill with them to get one hit kills. In this game, you can get an artillery weapon such as the kannon, setup and spam it to get AOE kills & vehicle kills because it only deals about 200 damage less than the zzap gun, it's overpowered in the sense that it does too much, not that it excels at one thing (though the napalm launcher needs a nerf in terms of how much DOT it applies, it instantly maxes out your burning and kills you unless you're an apoth cuz no one else can heal in time) so if they just added an inability to one hit kill infantry unless on a direct hit, splash would always stun at full hp or reduced its damage versus vehicles, I'd be fine with it.
But in such games every side got that weapon. Here we have only SM with a sniper. Yeah asymmetrical balance but then the other factions should have a gun thats atleast somewhat similar at range.
Oh boy, they're either gonna make it terrible, so basically just a higher damage, slower shooting shoota with less accuracy than a bolter, or they're gonna mimic the bolter and in either case, people are going to be pissed lol.
Red Orchestra 1 was fun. Nothing like dunking on a bunch of infantry nerds in a tank. EDIT: unrelated but come and give this thread some lovin' http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/cross-faction-pve.65530/ some votes, likes, replies, all that good shit.