It's fine as is.

Only thing I would change is to add more flinch when your being shot at. Or they could go halo style. Give us a little aim reticle for no scopes, and introduce de scoping when a sniper gets shot. Otherwise I think sniping in this game is fine. I really admire the people that can legit pop my head every time I peak a sniper lane.

This is not directed at OP in particular, but people who cry nerf at everything. you know, it truly amazes me... first one thing, then another. shotguns OP pls nerf. snipers OP pls nerf. guns OP pls nerf!!!!!!!! what do you people want, marshmallow guns that make the original necrochasm look like the most powerful gun ever? for the most part I think that sniper tuning in destiny is fairly good. the high mobility of a guardian is plenty of reason to not add sway in. also we can't 1 shot to the body like any game that I can think of with scope sway, so why add artificial difficulty to counter an issue that isn't in this game? knocking you out of ADS when you get hit is a poor fix as it would make sniper rifles unusable simply because of the afore mentioned guardian mobility. pretty much all other guns would make mince meat out of a sniper at any range UNLESS you camped and hid in some corner without being seen. and that would create it's own set of issues. something that might make this problem better is adding a bit more flinch instead. the sniper can still get the shot off, but if they get hit first it should be much harder. but adding too much would severely affect two perks. High caliber rounds and unflinching. HCR would become pointless unless it was buffed, which would make it too powerful, and thus a crutch perk like shot package was on shotguns. Unflinching would be in the same boat, but worse. leave it as is and would be a wasted perk slot because it does so little right now. Buff it and it becomes a perk that all sniper rifles would have by necessity to even attempt sniping. Another solution that people are suggesting is buffing primary weapons TTK, but you can't do that too much or you stray too far from destiny's originally intended pvp style, similar to that of Halo. although the high mobility and randomness of the weapons tends to hinder what bungie was going for balance-wise, as it becomes pretty much impossible create a truly controlled pvp environment. so buffing primary weapons too much gets you something like CoD rather than halo. it would reward twitchy trigger fingers rather than gun skill, (what little there is left to be had in Destiny that is) which would suck. how about lowering AA? not a bad idea I think, but it can't be too low. personally I believe that all guns should have the same AA stat, and no perks to enhance it. rather stupid to have that as a non-locked stat in any game really. it was created to make shooters playable on console, not o be a mechanic that players use to determine which guns to use, much less that can be modified. TLDR: buffing primary weapons is a meh solution unless you want CoD with supers. . De-scoping a sniper upon taking damage would make sniper rifles useless due to the extremely high mobility guardians have. . Adding more flinch is a great idea, as long as it isn't enough to make the sniper rifle unusable without Unflinching on it, (crutch perks are bad. for prime example see Shot Package.) . Scope sway is not needed because of high mobility + no full health 1 body shot kills. all games that I can think of with scope sway have low mobility and 1 body shot kills. Best solution would be adding more flinch upon taking damage [i]and[/i] lowering/standardizing AA for al guns. or at least having all guns in the same category be the same AA. should also not be modifiable by the player by perks.

Overall annoying, I hate it when I'm shooting someone with multiple shots and I still get dimadomed. Atleast incorporate the same system within halo reach where if you get shot while scoped in then your knocked out of your scope.

Too much body damage. Double tapping / or body shot + primary shot shouldnt be a thing

My thoughts on sniping goes as such: i do not like it. In any game. Period. I feel like it takes the fun out of any game it's in. It keeps the player in control with minimal danger. Player is at the safest distance possible while still being a threat to the enemy. In real life, all good. In a game where its supposed to be entertaining, i don't like it. Makes games too easy. Destiny is a bit of an exception in particular, you can 1hk from 10-20 feet away. That's shotgun territory. Something really wrong with that imo. Just my thoughts, carry on lol