Some times their aiming time is as it was before, you see the beam, you hear the sound, you dodge, but another instant they shoot you in the back as soon as the beam comes out practically before the sound even comes out, like less then a second after appearence, is this a bug, or just famous Fatsha…

This is network code; on the server side, it’s been targeting you for half an hour now

Desyncs/crap servers. For the same reasons pox hounds can jump at you instantly without any animation or warning sound.

This is one of those things that they’ve never fixed since launch. They did do a bandaid patch some years back where snipers take ages to turn towards you but once they have a lock, good luck getting the warning sound to function. The sound outright doesn’t play if they lock onto someone else and yo…

I experienced that issue with target switches. When you any a teammate are fighting right next to each other (both in the snipers field of view), and your teammate ducks behind cover a second before the shot, said sniper will instantly switch to you and shoot you

Why won’t it matter next patch? oh and P.S. thanks everyone else for your answers - gotcha: netcode

Being nerfed. Potentially to plasma gunner irrelevance but hopefully not.

From the maw of the fat shark: [image] PREVIEW - Upcoming Balance Changes Snipers Damage Spillover reduced by 50%. Dev Note: this is the damage that is applied to Health if a Sniper’s shot completely removes Toughness on the target.

Yes i noticed that sometimes they do instant snipe.

What with the Snipers lately?

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What with the Snipers lately?

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