The sad fact of the matter is that snipers are only useful if they don't see you, or are far enough away that only a high zoom scope can allow you to get a headshot on a moving target, otherwise, flinch makes the basically useless. Snipers are supposed to reward precision kills at a distance, regardless of whether or not you're spotted. I've been flinched by auto rifles to the point where my sniper was useless, at optimum sniper ranges. Something needs to change, that's the bottom line.
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If you're being hit by auto rifles, you're at optimum auto rifle range, not optimum sniper range. "Optimum sniper range" only even exists on Bastion, First Light, and all the other such maps everyone hates.
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I should clarify, I was at my optimum sniper range. As I do use Shortgaze almost exclusively, this could be well within an autorifle's range. On top of that, if I remember correctly, it was an Answering Chord, which has basically scout rifle range if you get its max range, so it is a bit of an extreme case. I was on the Combined Arms map in the Cosmodrome. And I love the Combines Arms maps and game mode, by the way.
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The flinch is greater yes, but I still snipe clever dragon all the time.. I don't see any difference in sniping. Shotgun got big time boost but it still gets beat by snipe. Shotgunners are getting worse every game they play. Just wait till they get nerfed and no one will know what to do anymore haha.