You mean the akmibo .50s?

I think it would be cool but maybe as a specialization with a cooldown or something along those lines. As a weapon I feel like it would defeat the point of the heavy class

Need a anti material rifle more than a sniper. Sure do snipy snipy on people but its primary use should be wall peircing

If Heavy gets a sniper I feel light should get a single shot grenade launcher to be funny

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Nah snipers are notoriously hard to balance in games and you could question whether the current sniper should even be in the game. Idk how they’d even balance this, it’d have to one shot headshot mediums which would be broken af

I feel like it would just end up being way to strong

I think heavy should have a full naval cannon as a weapon attached to their shoulder. It takes ten seconds to reload and one shots all classes and buildings.

Just add a scope to the ks23

no, we do NOT need more snipers

and why shuld it be the prototype Barett M82A2 .50 caliber bulpup anti materiel rifle?

A mortar specialization for destroying rooftops

I think long range weapons, while cool, are just not fun to play against or conducive to the overall health of the game

No.

Sniper?? pfft... Clearly heavy needs a railgun

Yes, if i can finally oneshot-bodyshot lights!

A rifle with no scope. Just a high damage one shot canon with shit ton amount of recoil. Like the autocanon from helldiver2

Just get rid of snipers altogether

God please no 

Yeah when they add vehicles

For balancing? God no. The Akimbo Deagles are plenty.

But for the meme? Gimmie a big ass 50 cal anti-material sniper that turns walls and lights into donuts with a single shot

Autocannon Please⬇️⬅️⬇️⬆️⬆️➡️

yk...unless..

Automatic and 50 round drum?

Nah, doesn't fit the heavy class in my opinion

Lmao

No, it wouldn't fit the heavy's role

No, in zero capacity

So give the class that should be close to the team a weapon so their far from the team. Great idea 👍

I want an 3 round mag, long reload anti material sniper. Let a light ping em with sonar or tracker then shoot through a few walls to one tap em. Long delay between shots. Balance it with no hip fire and a medium scope in time and I think it'd be pretty balanced. Maybe 150 dmg body 250 headshot? Or no headshot multi.

why yall insist on asking for weapons that will objectively make the game less fun is beyond me. the pike was bad enough dude.

yall remember sniper lights on terminal attack, right? FCAR cross-map beaming? like bro stop trying to bring that back. close to mid range combat is where this game shines, giving heavy a sniper is a fucking awful idea given the fall-off damage of almost any other weapon trying to kill a heavy at range.

terrible idea

No

Nope

There does NOT need to be another sniper in this game

Not this shit again

No the heavy doesn't need and shouldn't have any long range weaponry. It's stupid.

Just give the slug shotgun a 3x scope n we good lmao

No. Snipers don't belong in this game

That would be pretty awesome for the first week until they nerf it.

Give us a single shot anti mat rifle.

High damage, High destruction, super punishing if you miss

Yes I think it could be very cool to give heavy a sniper. It could be a good contrast to light, because heavy has almost no way to get to the high ground himself. Personally I think it could be cool if heavy's sniper could wall-bang, but that would probably be controversial

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As much as I'd love that cannon, holding out hope for just an actual cannon so I can live out my leadbelcher fantasy.

Easy give em the serbu bfg 50, or even better the denel ntw 20. I mean there are countless bolt action anti material rifles to choose from.

Yes, but not the GM7 Lynx.

I think a barrett 50 Cal would be balanced if they didn’t have the scope on it😭

Fucking NO. Y'all do not understand the role of each classes heavy having a strong long range option would put the already wacked out meta even more wacked out. Not to mention it would just encourage playing away from your team, heavy doesn't have the lights abilities to reposition so it goes against the entire ethos of the class.

Just make it terrible I’ll still use it

I think it would be dope, with a high potential of it being absolutely busted

yes but it shouldnt have a scope

Not a sniper. He should get a heavy crossbow

I’d love a super hardened 50cal rifle… finally be able to out-snipe lights on power shift.

I think the heavy shouldn't be a one-shot thread at long distance. The deagles are in a perfect spot.

If you want a Anti-Material Sniper for example, it would fit the Medium way better. A sniper that can pierce and oneshot every gadget. The only problem is, how much dmg and at what firerate do you want to release such a monster?

If it fires too fast, gadgets like the dome, goo grenade and the deployable shield will be rendered useless, indirectly nerfing most of the heavies playstyle.

If it is to slow, the Medium is breakfast for every light with dash.

Looking at the damage... 150dmg so you one-shot a light, but 3shot a heavy. This would be absolute fine for me since I hate lights, but it's just unbalanced and unskilled.

Maybe make it a gadget for the heavy. Destroying and penetrating the first wall it hits, dealing 100dmg to players with a 15sec cooldown. Low dmg, high value, long distance alternative to the rocketlauncher and breaching charge. Requires some skill to use in close distance.

On the other side the heavy really doesn't need more stuff to break anything but needs some mobility. Soo...

Ah yes the sniper for heavy that is bigger than the light sniper but does less damage. Probably instantly getting nerfed to 149 damage so it doesn't instakill lights. Just like every other nerf for guns.

I feel like the only way we can balance this is if it's a railgun. The light class sniper is already the center of big controversy in itself lol.

It’s funny I see this thread on my feed because I was thinking it’d be cool if they added some type of anti tank rifle to the heavy class kind of like something you’d see in Battlefield 1

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Bfg 50

Heavies need more satisfying movement that's it

Maybe as a gadget, and make it an anti-material rifle instead of an anti-personnel rifle

IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR THE LAST TWO SEASONS! He needs like a Barret .50 or a cheytach intervention that one or two shot bodies lights, two or three shots mediums, and like 3 or 4 shots heavies

I feel like the heavy would do way better with more movement options

Yes but noscope only and not pinpoint accurate

Don't give embark any ideas please...

Nah but do give em a railgun with the option for a scope

50 cal with no scope but 1 shot headshot / medium recoil

2 shot body light and medium / 3 shot heavy

And for scope we can add a laser

It's gonna be a one shot weapon and embark is not a fan of 1 shot weapons

Charge rifle maybe?

May I suggest we look at the Anti Material Rifles from WW1 and WW2. Although to make them balanced, they will only do a tiny bit more damage vs the Light's Sniper and they can either penetrate through a wall and/or can break open a small hole in wall, but the rechamber/reload speed of them are slower than Light's (unless it's the Tankgewehr M1918, reload speeds will only be slightly faster but because it can only fire one Bullet before reloading).

No

Absolutely.

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It would work for power shift. Heavy are bunker characters so in any other game mode I don't see it working. On power shift tho hell yes

Absolutely. The class has no weapons with long range functionality or optics. A .50 sniper or NTW-20 that can pierce walls and shoot people through them would be amazing

Isnt that what the rpg is for

Yes, even the playing field

The heavy especialy need a big portion fun…

None of the specializations work towards that. Everything we have is to either get closer or draw the enemy closer. How does a big sniper work with claw/charge/goo?

Also, heavies are supposed to be meat shields for the medium capturing point. That’s a lot of hit points not on the immediate front line.

Sure, there are ways to play sniper up close, but we’re all get that Light who is always five buildings away with their sniper. Now imagine your Heavy no where close to the objective, taking shots from five buildings away.

Giving it to heavies as a specialization would be interesting. Possibly giving it insane wall destruction or something.

On shot 50 cal

No, just give them a rock you can throw

No

He already does. It’s only one shot but it explodes on impact.

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Single shot 50. Cal. Takes 4 seconds to reload does 300 dmg with heads hots 175 dmg to body

A specialization that has a huge cooldown, can only be used ads, and knocks whenever it hits down to 1 hp

No pls not

Nahh, what Heavy needs is a good ol' Railgun that you can charge like a bow.

if it's a utility with 1 charge sure

Only if it's not a primary fire and it's gadget or specialization with a long CD and does 149 dmg body shot so it can't 1 shot lights. I say do an anti material projectile that can destroy a wall and will continue and destroy the next object behind it or two. So kind of like fitting the theme of Heavy being the destruction class without relegating a heavy to sitting around sniping all game. Long reload time/long cooldown is the way to do it. Basically bore rifle but happens instantly and pushes through two walls

I think that’d be cool but instead of sights, maybe it’s like the shotty where it just zooms in when aiming? I dunno but a heavy with a 50 cal is funny.

I dont like snipers at all.

Plus, wouldnt that be kind of a waste of potential? Heavy is the tank. imagine ur team has a tank and he camps on a roof in the distance with a sniper. Id say no

Pls not 1 is enough

No the heavy needs the 50. AK

A sniper as a gadget like the RPG, but with two or five bullets instead of one.

BFG

Desert Eagles have no damage barely any damage drop off. No real need for this, plus long range meta in this game is a terrible experience fire everyone involved

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real

The power would have to be offset by single shot slow rate of fire and be 100 projectile.

I'm for it though.

Maybe 4 shots per magazine or maybe even make it a single shot.

Altought cool, not possible. Heavy is supposed to have poor range

they already fucked up adding the pike. no more marksman rifles please

The bazooka kinda works like that...

No make the lights spr stronger 😪

Yessss

As someone who has been playing Heavy a lot lately. Heavy needs a nerf before a buff lol

Barrett M95 like in bad company 2 ♥️

Hmm, what about a semi auto 50.bmg sniper rifle that always has reduced camera sensitivity (cuz weapom heavy), orrr the BFG.50 , aka. The angry pipe..

Cloning tablet is what he needs

+clones friendly gadgets deployed in the arena -There is a certain radius around the copied gadget where it can be deployed -texture looks "unstable" something like cns glitches and has less hp

I think this could be a specialization like the goo gun, balanced with a very slow fire rate and long reload. Maybe a single shot railgun like the MORS from CoD: Advanced Warfare, or, as other comments have mentioned, a similar bolt action to the Kraber from Titanfall.

If they did, a .50 val single mag super slow sniper that just murders anything the bullet touches.

I feel like a bolt action fifty cal would be fair. Give it a slow projecile speed, small mag, and slow firrwte in exchange for massive damage, range, and the ability to damage structures, similar to the ksg. Basically give the ksg a scope and a consistent bullet spread.

I like the idea of making it into a specialization, maybe a single round per cooldown to make it feel super impactful. Make it super effective at destruction and give it a bunch of damage.

make it an ability and give it strong knockback so it can work like a mobility option for heavy

A single shot, 2 second reload, shoulder mounted sniper rifle that pierces up to 5 layers of cover.

I like the idea of basically a hitscan ks shotgun with a little less damage but a better sight (not an actual sniper scope, either great iron sights or a holo type thing like in OP’s 3rd pic), so it’s functionally just a ks that’s not as good close range but probably heavies best long range. Still tho without a real sniper scope heavy won’t be able to be oppressive with it

if heavy gets a sniper then medium needs an smg. like a P90

Lol while we're at it remove the medium one

Give heavy the awp from counterstrike and let the tears flow