There's been many posts about nerfing snipers from impact, aim assist, and the ability to res snipe. This brings up a lot of points that are good to talk about in terms of the state of the crucible. Starting at impact there shouldn't be a nerf to impact in the slightest as each archetype works in its specific and intended means well. High RoF, low impact is used to deal with enemies quickly, or at least damage them and keep them at bay. Medium RoF, medium impact is good for finishing kills quicker and a nice mid ground for mobility and impact to deal higher DPS at a faster rate. Low RoF, high impact is used to shutdown supers, res snipe, combat over shields, and to clean up weakened kills. This sacrifices mobility and speed in terms of readying the weapon, ADS, and movement speed. These tend to have higher AA (we will discuss that later). Lower RoF, higher impact isn't really for PvP but for those few who use it can use it for the exact same thing as the previous archetype except it can kill someone with armor of light/force barrier with a single headshot. It can consistently kill any super, even with an over shield. The mobility is severely lacking in terms of ads, drag scoping, and movement speed. The impact isn't the issue as each is balanced in their respective archetypes, the issue comes with res sniping and AA. Res sniping invalidates the bottom two tiers of snipers, since they cannot snipe off the res. So with this we can diversify the sniping field by fixing revives as they are severely broken and do not punish death adequately. [b][u]Fix #1[/u][/b]: remove the over shield or lower the over shield to 50 extra health rather than 100. This makes the bottom two tiers relevant again and punishes death much more. Personally I believe we remove the over shield as I find it frustrating that someone with fast res can run past someone, res them, and then that person can pop a super (in conjunction remove the over shield that someone gets for reviving as this is another broken mechanic that allows people to abuse revives). However, to aid the revived change the animation from spawning in and gaining mobility once the feet touch the ground, to spawning in with full mobility to make res sniping a lot more difficult. If not full mobility at least the ability to move vertically off the spawn (blinking up, jumping up, gliding up, etc.). Aim assist is the other issue, [b][i]before I begin let me emphasize I am a sniper, I have 8.5k kills with an 80% headshot ratio[/i][/b]. Aim assist isn't a massive issue from what I've observed but it will always be looked at as a problem (even though aim assist doesn't help mobile snipers like it does hard scoping snipers). [b][u]Fix #2[/u][/b]: Drop all aim assist to a baseline of 50 (40 for the top two tiers of snipers) at most, half the scopes target acquisition capabilities, and remove hidden hand as a perk. Dropping the aim assist of snipers will increase the skill gap as the best snipers will just simply need to spend a week or two relearning muscle memory, while the snipers who attempted to hop onto the bandwagon find sniping much more difficult. Dropping the 1KYS archetype to 40 at base makes super sniping much more skill based as well. More importantly it will make the game faster as more people will drop sniping due to the skill gap. Dropping the scopes AA makes more scopes than the shortgaze competitive (I realize it gives less zoom but it comes with higher AA which makes no sense in terms of a trade off). Shot package and range finder should never be perks on a shotgun, just like final round, LITC, and hidden hand should never be perks on a sniper rifle as it boosts the ability to insta kill into an unfair advantage. [b][u]Ninja fix #3[/u][/b]: increase special ammo timers in all playlists from 2 minutes to 3 minutes, this will fix the special weapons usage, and make the extra special ammo on armor actually useful. Overall I find this a healthy way to balance out snipers and gameplay mechanics to make the PvP much more competitive and balanced. [b][u]TL;DR[/u][/b]: each main point is bolded, fix one has to do with reviving, fix two has to do with aim assist, and fix three is about special ammo.