XDefiant players torn on \u201ccheesy\u201d sniper rifles and their Preseason damage UbisoftAre sniper rifles overpowered or just plain \u201ccheesy\u201d in XDefiant? This question has some players conflicted about the weapon type\u2019s power in the game\u2019s Preseason. XDefiant\u2019s Preseason is underway, but as players find out which weapons and factions are the best, some are noticing sniper rifles look to be quite dominant in lobbies, although not all are convinced. In several threads in the XDefiant subreddit, players have criticized sniper rifles for their lack of accuracy penalty, as snipers can run around quick scopping and one-shotting targets in the lobby without having to stop their movement. \u201cEven at close range they can scope in and shoot while getting drilled in the face with an AR,\u201d one player said. \u201cZero flinch or movement punishment. The sniper lobbies make the game unfun.\u201d Many others agreed with them, bemoaning the lack of movement and flinch penalties, letting snipers have a relatively easy time running around the map and one-shotting players in close combat situations. For those choosing SMGs or ARs, guns that take a few moments of consistent fire to dispatch their targets, gunfights can feel a little lopsided when staring down a one-shot sniper. This isn\u2019t a universal sentiment, however, with some saying they aren\u2019t exactly overpowered, per se, rather it\u2019s just that those abusing sniper are already naturally good at the game and it isn\u2019t the weapon in itself that\u2019s to blame. \u201cAsk any player who is good with a sniper to use a [regular] gun and they will be playing better than they were with the sniper in 9\/10 of their next matches,\u201d a commenter said in a thread discussing it. FaZe Jev too explained his thoughts around sniper rifle\u2019s supposedly overpowered nature in XDefiant, saying, \u201cSniping is not OP, it\u2019s just cheesy if you\u2019re really good at it. The skill floor is much, much, higher than on full autos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
XDefiant players torn on \u201ccheesy\u201d sniper rifles and their Preseason damage UbisoftAre sniper rifles overpowered or just plain \u201ccheesy\u201d in XDefiant? This question has some players conflicted about the weapon type\u2019s power in the game\u2019s Preseason. XDefiant\u2019s Preseason is underway, but as players find out which weapons and factions are the best, some are noticing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}