Are snipers cracked recently?

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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I’ve been getting sniped way more recently, and whenever it happens, I either cannot hear the sound cue or cannot see the laser even when the sniper clearly shot me from the front.

There are times I get shot because I’m waiting for the visual and audio cue of the sniper about to fire, and I just get obliterated with no warning - when you would expect the warning, like I’m playing rainbow six siege or something and I walked into an angle a guy was watching with complete laser focus and massive amount of stimulants for like 2 minutes and 17 seconds. I never had a chance.

Does anyone else experience this? Am I bad?

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I don’t know if it always worked like that but snipers give no sound warning if they target someone else. You can then still get hit by that shot

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I’m pretty sure I was the target in the examples I can think of, but maybe. Doesn’t explain the laser thing, unless it’s just weird lighting. I know in some desert areas the laser is hard to see, but I legit could not see the laser.

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maybe it’s a latency thing, I need to record things because I doubt my own sanity at this point

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Same, i used to almost never get shot by them, but now, i am not sure there’s sound problmes, but 100% laser not show itself.

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I distinctly remember long ago, since I’ve been playing this game forever, Snipers used to have this flash & sound when they locked on to you. I’m not sure if it’s intentional they don’t anymore or it’s really just a bug. I’ve noticed them locking on to you with zero warning & before you know it, half your health is gone. You can still vaguely see the red laser, but yeah, not sure what happened with that. The audio cue is a huge factor on whether or not you get downed or chunked for HP or even dodge to get the hell out of the way.

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I’m pretty sure they still do this, but they just sometimes don’t. I know they don’t do it when they target someone else but maybe there’s other causes for this too. It’s definitely annoying but hey at least currently you can just dodgespam snipers pre-emptively (on non-Ogryn)

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I haven’t heard those sound cues in like over a year, not even joking. I would definitely notice that for sure, 100%. I’m just going to assume it’s a bug for Fatshark reasons. There’s a sound cue mod for Snipers that can actually fix this, but it’s pretty pathetic when you have to download mods to fix game dev issues.

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