Smart sniper rifles balance problems

[RekontVerlon]

Has anyone besides me noticed the disgusting anti-synergy of smart sniper rifles and sniper skills from cool?

I'll give you a few examples:


1) First, I'll talk about the mechanics of 'focus'

This mechanic gives you a 'focus' buff for a short time while aiming, this works great with weapons that instantly hit the target.

And it works disgustingly with ashura - with smart weapons you want to stop aiming after the shot, the bullet will find the target on its own. BUT the effects disappear if you stop aiming.

This problem is easy to check with 'nerves of tungesten steel' talent, as long as you keep aiming - the bullet will always cause yellow crit. If you remove the scope after the shot, but before hitting the target - there will be no yellow crit.

2) Another problem is related to the 'deep breath' talent. This talent slows down time while aiming and for some reason this talent also slows down the aiming of smart weapons LOL. Check by putting sandevistan and trying to aim smart weapons with and without it.

It feels like the game designer didn't think about integrating the new mechanics correctly at all.

 

[Tarille]

To be fair... The skills from Cool are anti-synergistic with ALL Sniper rifles.

Focus sucks for Tech Snipers because you spend the entire time charging your shot.

Focus also sucks for Power Snipers because they're bolt action and you can't maintain it because the time spend rechambering a new round takes it all up.

This also means No Sweat and Head to Head are both useless for Snipers.

Rinse and Repeat sucks for Power Snipers because you can't maintain aim due to rechambering the round after a shot.

The lack of synergy with No Sweat means that Deadeye is garbage for Snipers too because you'll lose your Focus and then take the stamina loss taking you below Deadeye threshold (You get one quickscope with Deadeye and that's your lot until you wait for stam regen).

Essentially... Cool skills feel very much geared towards Pistols in general. No matter what kind of Sniper Rifle you use. To the point that I rarely even bother taking them for a Sniper focused build.