Talk:ZVI Falcon/@comment-174.98.130.192-20110831143055/@comment-1906486-20110901004508

Take into account Nexon's decisions of things. They chose to limit weapons to a certain "effective" range, and past that point it works but not designed to kill. It's usually often always untankable and then gets brought back, after it's released due to massive complaints from players.

TRG-SE was one of those rifles, that had a pretty effective range until later during a maintenance it's reduced in range. Has the same M107 style scope and it's 10 round cap made it lethal for a rare, but after being dialed back and nerfed to x effective range. As for why a 50 there's a damage drop off? Well in maps such as Kill Creek and even now Hallow Ravine (longest viewing range from spawn to spawn), would you like to just spawn and be taken down by a camper in the opposing spawn?

Snipers were given a dropoff point, so it would limit their killing range in various ways. Imagine just someone sitting in Alpha with an M107CQ Air Force, you spawn in Bravo and get sniped across over 200m. If you happen to be typing and get sniped, your fault clearly but that wouldn't be exactly fair game. Snipers would be the dominate weapons, and you would see more no-sniper games in CA.

Effective range of an SMG is about 40-60m? (I forget..) AR maxes out about 100-105m, SRs all vary in effective range but one thing is certain, new snipers being released and later nerfed isn't a surprise. Say your MSR was maxing out about 140-150m range, that's a pretty long distance across maps.

I think that would be equal to across Kill Creek's sides and beyond? Then you spawn in that map, nobody is safe from your sniper and you immediately get kicked/hacked, so they can spawn in safety. So that's why the damage dropoff is increased on snipers, so you can effectively get chances to kill but not 100% consistently. Not to mention limb shots are reduced damage to begin with.

I'm giving my long version of all my thoughts, because really it's a difficult thing to grasp for some. Kinda why so many guns get nerfed in range/power/etc, just to keep peace with players about things being too strong.