Great update with sv98. I don't know what else to say. It's like hitting the wall with your own head. SNIPING is not working. MAX distance for .308 and 7.62x54 is 350m to take down A PLAYER WITHOUT AN ARMOR with a single shot. And this is ok for these calibers, not bad for marksmaning. But god damn, don't you understand that this is completely useless on distances that goes farther? Please, just go sometime on official and try to snipe a person from the position that you showed on 1.25 dev stream screen shot. Best you'll be able to do is just tag a person with -30% of health. What do you think he/she will do next? Keep kindly standing still? Why you refuse to understand that sniping needs higher caliber very badly, a caliber that is capable for 700m+ distances. This is insane guys, one of the best survival games without proper sniping. Max you can do is ambush Gliniska bridge on 100m, I gues this is called sniping nowadays. But honestly, 350m this is not even funny. You said "exotic" sniper rifle in the roadmap, why did you gave false hope? SV98 is STANDARD military sniper rifle in that shit country. Every their sniper either has sv98 or svd. Why would you call it "exotic". Even when you goodle "standard military shit country sniper rifle" it literaly shows you sv98 in the first line. But it also has sv-338 variant in .338 caliber, that is can be called exotic. I mean before you said exotic nobody even thought/hoped/expected for higher caliber. Why you guys keep doing such stupid misstakes? Do at least minor research before hinting on something. God damn, been waiting for this update so much, turns out another useless for long range sniper rifle that can't even snipe proper. 350m is NOT SNIPING, it is not. This is distance for vss, fal, even M4 with good optics can cover this distance irl. 500-800m is for MARKSMAN RIFLES like svd, m14, probably tundra and savana as they're more hunting rifles. And 700+ is for sniping. Sniping means that you can kill a person with a single shot (or at leat to put uncon). 1st shot only matters, after person is allerted and moving this is pointles. And by your standards you need to land 3-4 shots from savana for example to take a guy down on 700m distance. Have you ever tried to do that? That is insane. 1st shot ok, 2nd on moving person - insane luck, 3rd and 4rth - zero. Just please, go try to snipe on official servers, on 600m+ distances. And if you don't plan to do something about sniping just man up and say it. Don't worry, it won't do worst of damage you rep somehow, you've already dameged it with the lie about "exotic".
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- Always
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- Windows 7
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- General
I guess you never tried sniping in you own game-
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I support this. What kind of weed were you smoking when you decided to put ATOG on your SNIPER RIFLE?
After over a month of constant feedback through this tracker (multiple threads), the DayZ discord, Steam community, and Twitter, we still do not have an adequate optic for the new VS-98 rifle added in 1.25. I know the devs are aware of this issue and was hoping this would be resolved by the time the update rolled out. This leads me to believe that it is a deliberate decision by the devs to restrict the capabilities of the new rifle. It is unclear why this level of incompetence is on display, the community and myself especially would like any clarification. Failure of clarification can only lead me to believe this as a case of developer negligence. The current state of long-range sniping is abysmal at best.
@778 please stop spamming the same comment through multiple threads. It doesn't attribute to anything besides you being annoying, and you'll get banned for it eventually. You're cluttering the thread and other bug reports could "fall through the cracks".
I'm pretty sure they got the picture already, since people were overwhelmingly upset with the lack of long range scope support for the new sniper rifle ( and hopefully they'll work on a solution to please the community ).
@WeirdXone Yes sorry, I just wanted to point out how many threads were created regarding this same issue. If that didn't work, I can't say I have the patience to keep trying. I hope my final attempt at trying to understand why this decision was made didn't go unnoticed. See ya through my ATOG boys..
Please add line breaks...
but yeah, a high powered long range rifle would be nice.
Make it so you have to pack it up and deploy so it's actually a risk to use, but the power of it is insane. High risk scenario, fun long range snipes.