Frankly it’s insane to me that fusion rifles are in the special slot,they only feel balanced in low skill lobbies but any above average player can abuse those boring weapons.

Snipers can't OHK unless they're to the head. They flinch like you just got hit by a train Either 60 AA on a sniper for example is nothing, or the zoom and requirement of pinpoint accuracy make it that much harder to use compared to something like Jade Rabbit. Maybe it's just that snipers have basically no bullet magnetism, which even slow moving projectiles like Scorch Cannons have a lot of. Not many maps have long enough sightlines for a sniper to be used the way it's supposed to be used in just about every other game. Of course a fusion, which is basically a burst fire slug shotgun, will have more kills, especially the hard hitters or extremely stable ones with good range like my Glacioclasm with Surplus/ HIReserves, or my Main Ingredient with Under Pressure/ Tap the Trigger. It's A LOT easier to make use of a fusion than a sniper. Hell, like 90% of the shots I will miss with a sniper will be because of flinch, which is damn near impossible to shoot through, or the target starts/ changes how they move right as I line up the shot, as if they just magically know I'm about to shoot in the next 0.2 seconds. And I don't just mean strafing, I mean like "oh look, a penny" kind of missed shots. It gets really old, missing otherwise perfectly accurate shots because of things you can't predict or things that would require impossible reflexes to react to in that time frame.

Fusion is just a shotgun you pre-fire. That's why they have high kill counts.

It was the special ammo meter that was killing them Now they feel better But flinch is still too hard rn

You’re getting downvoted so rapidly it’s crazy lol the forums full of fusions no surprise there.

And Shotgun has as many kills as Sniper AND Fusion combined. So let's get the perspective right on what's really OP...for the last 6+ years.

Care to share the Shotgun statistics Then we might get a clearer picture of what "Needs Help"

What about shotguns?

Yup fusions do need a nerf

I get that the sniper rifle is a classic weapon archetype, much more so than weapons like fusions and traces, but they’re also only really healthy for the game when they kinda suck. Every sniper meta we’ve ever had has been the worst feeling non-stasis experience. Snipers are the antithesis of engagement, and I’m personally glad that not every game is spent fearing turning a corner while the other team is still on the other side of the map

imo, snipers are fine where they are. getting sniped for peaking a lane or bad positioning in the open, i can take. being sniped through flinch is never fun. i think shotguns are still too prevalent currently, but i have no idea what could be done about them save nuking the range which would be too much of a nerf