Why is sniper still such big issue? I think maybe you are overlooking the fact that sniper still does its job quite well.
You didn't back this up at all, you just said it and asked this question after vvv
What is this job? You said it yourself: defense ie. dmging enemy offence (LO, incoming & outgoing cappers).
I never said that's it's job, but rather a common scenario when using it. And if you think it does it's job on defense, maybe I should say something I've said many times before.
There are existing backroutes that currently give little to no opportunity for the LR to hit the capper. Sure you can hold down the charge before a capper comes in, but that get's much more difficult to do when dealing with LO (they see your laser now), which is another reason why I proposed this idea.
Outside of this scenario, it does not matter how sniper has changed since by nature this kind of weapons should not be very effective for other things. If it was effective for anything and everything until now I hope you realize this is wrong. Correspondingly, if limiting this kind of effectiveness means changing to 'release-to-shoot' mechanism, so be it.
Biased perspective that ignores positions like mid-field. And I would say the release to shoot method may limit the player's
potential (the case of the majority of people that voted) rather than
effectiveness (some may prefer to release). Plain and simple, it's a factor that is irrelevant to sheer skill/aim.
If you think that you have spent 1 month playing with this new sniper compared to 2 years of the old one, your complaints are quite empty. Besides this, if after such long time you are still thinking how changes in weapons will affect your ability to get top scores, you have not learned anything about legions (or tribes for that matter).
It's been over 2 months actually. And you
know I am using the LR the vast majority of the time I am playing this game. The votes in this thread clearly indicate what
people who snipe are more comfortable with. You need to stop talking from a perspective that has only experienced the LR's output damage and not it's actual use. You make it painfully obvious that you're likely among the 3-4 people (sounds about right) that voted for the release option in this thread without being a player that actually uses it regularly.
I am surprised that sniper is the only thing you bother to post and make polls for when there are so many other things wrong in this game. For example I cannot understand why the people who are still playing regularly have absolutely no problem with game design and physics. This ranges from obvious problems with things like scales (objects & map vs player size) and skiing (accel & decell from 0-200 in under 2 secs), and goes until issues which most ppl here would never even suspect like dueling, strafing, boosts, downjet +++ I mean how could there be anything wrong with downjet?!?! After all it's one of few things unique to this game so I guess it must be perfect already...
Really if you are going to care, at least care about the right things.
Really? Press back and take a look at the suggestion forum for a second, see what you find with my avatar. I hope you enjoyed extending this thread with your ignorant perspective.