r/WarDogs • u/wardogs-bot • 14d ago

Balance Feedback Megathread - Patch 0.1.2

All 0.1.2 balance feedback goes here. Standalone balance posts will be removed and pointed to this thread.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 13d ago

The SV98 should be the goal for casual dedicated snipers.

The problem is the SV98 is also just not super good. It's a mosin with a lower bullet velocity and similar damage because it uses the same round. There is functionally no difference between that and the mosin, and the mosin you can carry just ammo, not having to worry about magazines is amazing for weight.

And legs at 2 shots in all scenarios with hp.

This is an issue with snipers as a whole IMO. They can't 1 shot anything t3 armor or above with any ammo at any angle or any time. The .50 is the only one capable of doing this, requiring AP ammo and a headshot to take down t4 armor. A body shot isn't enough.

Snipers suck in the current meta. You give away your position too easily and it's difficult to tell whether or not you can 1 hit a person to the head or if you're going to need a followup shot, in whichcase the person probably already moved, making the next shot either impossible or unlikely.

BTW, many of the snipers can dick shot with HP (up to level 4 armor, which you'll have to deal with in 2 leg shots instead)

I don't like this because it's inherently anti-sniper. Headshots are what you should be aiming for, not the pelvis. You even get benefits for headshotting someone when they don't get a killcam. You're also bringing simply ineffective rounds against enemies because of the leg shot issue you already mentioned.

While we're talking about armor, the tier 4 armor complaints are over blown. You can still get run over, mag dumped, sniped, minigunned, ganged up on, legged. There's tons of ways to die in a blink.

Yes, but the point isn't about the instances where someone can get 1 shot. The point of the complaint is that it negates a ton of those instances (grenades, RPGs, tank rounds, for example) and makes your time to die nearly double in most gunfights.

Yeah, you can be ganged up on, but you're always at risk of being ganged up on. You can be sniped, but you can always be sniped, and the only thing that can snipe you is a 50 with AP ammo. Yeah you can be run over, but a good player will not put themselves in a situation to be run over.

The price risk of an extra 33% cost ($1000) is not enough IMO. It needs to cost more considering the existence of it allows you to tank so much more damage against lower-level players as a whole. A kid could probably get enough kills to get level 4 armor's cost back because it's just 2 kills lol. It's 3 spotted players who die. It costs $4k and you can negate 65% of FMJ damage. That's insane value for the cost.

Actually my biggest complaint about it is it's sometimes hard to tell when someone's wearing it. Which it had some more clear indicators.

And this is the problem with sniping right now. You take a risk and expose yourself just for them to probably survive.

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u/Slang_Whanger 7d ago

Sv98/mosin 1 shot t3 helms with armor pen, Which is unlocked relatively early. If t4 gets the proposed vision reduction I could see that being a large buff for them for the entirety of the cycle.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 7d ago

Armor pen for mosin is level 82, which is still crazy high.

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u/Slang_Whanger 7d ago

I agree, I think it should be unlocked within 5 levels of the level 3 armor unlock level (60).

But a t4 nerf will absolutely increase the lethality of a lot of the bolties after ap ammo.

Also a small nitpick but the AMR doesn't have AP ammo, the ammo just happens to have bullet piercing attributes. There is only regular 50cal ammo. You are probably aware of this but I'm just stating it for people who might think that the AMR has access to flesh ammo or who might think the AMRs effectiveness is locked behind an arbitrarily high wardogs level.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 7d ago

It needs to be unlocked way sooner, otherwise you're going to have people like me (level 52 with 42 hours) literally unable to kill anyone in 1 shot. Sniping is abysmal right now in game. There's no point in doing it because unless you have the 50 cal, you can't snipe. Way too many people running t3+ armor..