Why do they need a nerf now when they were fine pre ttk? Since ttk released they've received a ninja flinch increase, the short scopes made less effective, final round was nerfed, luck in the chamber was nerfed. The only buff they've received is a range buff with has nothing to do with your gripes with the weapon. What makes snipers a problem now? Is it because the other specials and primaries are worse off? If that's the case then nerfing, which is what brought us here in the first place, isn't the answer. They need to buff everything else and speed the game back up. Its really that simple. At this point in the game, the only way to counter act the sniper meta is by giving snipers less time to react, and punishing them for missing. The correct way to do that is to rebuff shotguns, rebuff fusions, and rebuff the primaries. If you do that, the only way the average sniper will sit on you is if you're unaware they're there. If I see a sniper at medium range or close range who isn't already scoped on me, I should win that gun fight 99% of the time. There should not be enough time for sniper to set up and take more than a single shot once you're aware of them. They should be dead if they miss. Period. When fusions could kill at medium range reliably, when you didn't have to be touching someone to kill them with a shotgun, when shotpackage was in the game, when hawkmoon, TLW, and Thorn could two shot, when Suros was hitting in the 40s for a headshot, when medium RoF pulses could two burst, when low RoF auto rifles hit in the 30s, the only place snipers were used exclusively was on maps with long sightlines, and the vehicle maps, which is where they were supposed to be used. And that was when final round and rerolling was a thing, when snipers were at their strongest, yet nobody complained. When trials first came out, the only time I ever encountered teams with snipers was when the snipers were either really good players, or they were running final round. The average sniper did not rely on theirselves enough to hit that shot every time in a must win situation. Most people ran shotguns, which is why they were complained about. You keep crying for nerfs when nerfing created the problem in the first place. In this entire game's history, the mythoclast and auto rifle range were the only things that needed major nerfs. And they went too far. Why you want them to continue nerfing when all it has done is create problems is beyond me. Snipers are not the problem, the other weapons just suck. But whatever. Keep crying.