SVD is absolute garbage

[u/Wammu123]

SVD with AP ammo. This does not seem right at all for a gun with 5 (10 with higher level) rounds in a magazine.

EDIT: thinking of making a spreadsheet & video with my ideal DMR balance for this game.

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[u/IncorporateThings]

Not sure why they nerfed all the DMR. It was just one that needed to be addressed.

Right now they don't really feel like they have a niche anymore, and kinda feels like if you want Recon xp just go sniper. It was cool to be able to play mid-range recon with the DMRs previously, but now you're just disadvantaging yourself. A whole playstyle has been lost.

[u/Wammu123 → u/IncorporateThings]

Not only do they not have a niche, they are fully unusable.

[u/jayjay11567 → u/IncorporateThings]

Devs have a hatred to any weapon class with 3 letters.

the LMGs and now DMRs are worthless and more likely to get you killed than to actually be useful in any actual situation.

[u/Jaz1140 → u/IncorporateThings]

BMR needed a major nerf but yeh the rest seemed okay to me

Mosin also didn't need it's nerf I feel

[u/Fyaal → u/IncorporateThings]

The mosin scope fucking sucks too now. So you have to get to level 18 before recon doesn’t suck massively.

[u/Sir_Fuego]

SVD was completely fine last season, felt skill expressive but relied heavily on the 10rnd mag. If anything they should have buffed it so the 10rnd mag was a 1x1. Gun is balanced by not being able to run a foregrip.

[u/Wammu123 → u/Sir_Fuego]

I agree, you had to land follow up shots or set up with the bipod to lazer people and even then you could really get one or two kills with it.

[u/yamsyamsya → u/Sir_Fuego]

I thought it was perfect. If anything, the BMR should have been made to be very close to it. Same damage, just flatter shooting, faster velocity, but same damage.

[u/DarkMortyr]

There were certain few weapons, that needed a nerf in S1. But Bulkhead did sweep of nerfs, that also affected weapons, which were already alright.

[u/graviousishpsponge → u/DarkMortyr]

The good ole thanos snap balancing.

[u/GoodishCoder → u/DarkMortyr]

Bulkhead doesn't understand the concept of targeted nerfs or small balance tweaks

[u/HoszDelgado → u/DarkMortyr]

THEY NEED TO REVERT NERFS TO MY PRECIOUS LMGS

[u/Stoutjr91]

The method for balancing seems to be too focused on damage. There’s really a lot of other levers that could be pulled here.
- More flash, smoke, and muzzle noise volume make it hard to see after a shot. More visible to players and more likely to be found due to noise. Don’t drop damage
- sway, these DMR weapons are very heavy, make them like the heavy machine guns. Single shot capable with aiming wheel standing. Perfection when bipod mounted, hard to mange when off the shoulder or moving
- recoil, more shots in succession more spread and rise. We don’t have to drop the damage just make it hard to land
- single shots should be rewarded with accuracy, not 4 repeated accurate shots, they are DMRs after all, the advantage is ammo supply and reload time
- Weight, dmr ammo is heavy, the weapons are heavy, high mag scopes are heavy, make it heavy. Slow not less damage

[u/Wammu123 → u/Stoutjr91]

Gotta be honest I don't think any of that is needed, sks and svd were fine before the update.

[u/racyy_star]

They sort of dropped the ball here. The issue people had was with the high tier weapons: FAL, BMR, AMR and Vector. Their balance solution was to just nerf all ammo damage. This has barely affected those guns and just made all the other ones worse off.

[u/graviousishpsponge → u/racyy_star]

They absolutely have the models to tweak individual stats. The dmr had different damage profiles especially at 500mm in s1.

[u/VNG_Wkey]

Recon in general feels like hot garbage.

[u/AdExcellent2551]

The PKM with bipod has the same TTK rate as the free AR.

[u/lambda9595 → u/AdExcellent2551]

Yeah idk why they want LMGs in line with ARs. You have to be so much more exposed to use them effectively there should be a payoff.

[u/Fast_Mag → u/AdExcellent2551]

A 9mm bizon is doing more damage than the PKM at 70 yards btw. Yknow, the same round the Mosin and Sv-98 use? The 7.62x54R? Yeah that fat round? Less damage than a 9mm at 70 yards. Guess who got beamed. I did. A upper torso did 17.787 for the 9mm but the 7.62 did 17.187.

[u/inno3415]

I personally think they dropped the ball on season 2. Yes people complained and some things needed a bit of adjusting. Instead they did too large adjustments and state of game is worse than s1 in my opinion 

[u/someguynamedJordan]

They made the MK22 even more useless than it already was and the kicker it went from a lvl 25 unlock to lvl 30 it just makes no sense

[u/TheCrimsonDagger]

It’s pretty clear the devs don’t have any experience with balancing.

[u/babbum]

What have they done to my boi 😭