User blog comment:Luperza/PlanetSide 2 Roadmap: March Preview/@comment-86.194.217.90-20130312154959/@comment-142.134.149.148-20130313033613

I'm having trouble following your logic, all the parts play out some very highly balanced weaponry, perhaps you haven't used NC weapons?

here's the google document displaying all the weapon stats, I'm not even going to bother arguing with you over stats that are practically identical in similar weapons.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AuOojvNLMApVdEtIU1NKenEzNzZOSWNaanFqSUVxLWc&type=view&gid=12&f=true&sortcolid=-1&sortasc=true&rowsperpage=250

what I will argue with you though is where I know you're wrong, and that's how effective the bolt action rifles are... you never snipe someone coming at you, even with a bolt action, you snipe people who are distracted, and with a gun that takes 2-4 bullets to kill (headshots still do a considerable amount of damage), and can spew them almost as fast as you can click, like you can with the semi-autos, it's rather easy.

effective sniper range for a bolt action is further out than a semi-auto, you simply don't have the luxury of assuming you're ok if you miss with the first shot, so you need to be able to move and hide again, something that's hard to do close in, but from as far away as it's actually safe to use the bolt action, there's normally loads of obstructions in your way, no way to actually acess the cliffs and hills you should be sniping from without drawing too much attention to yourself, and missing that little spec on your crosshair because it, say moved ever so slightly, or changed course about a full second after you fired, happens allot.