Gunner Deploy L3

Love how fast uber fix stuff

Now that we don't instakill them out of confidence the cries about RoF on Sniper will be even louder, you heard it here first.

I'm just glad the face shield actually serves a purpose instead of giving uninformed gunners(like myself a while back) confidence deploying against snipers at mid range. Anything else is subject to more play.

Sweet, thanks! I might start using it now

TBH, I don't think the headshield will make much of a difference even if it works. A sniper can just rapid fire you and that's lethal enough. And if you undeploy to get out, you'll get headshot anyway. No, that's not a sniper nerfcry, it's just a conclusion about an ability I think is flawed. If anything, I think the deploy 3 should buff the Gunner's offense, not his defense. At least you'd have SOME reason to deploy by making it a high risk, high reward ability.

Just get rid of the whole headshield thing and give him something actually useful when deployed, like no damage falloff or piercing bullets (I'm just saying something from the top of my head). It could be anything, as long as it helps him on offense.

Generally though, the gunner is more of a mid range area denial pro hunter, isn't he? The sniper is the hard counter to this, being able to take a gunner down with smart play(staying out of range and sniping the hell out of him) is a given! The damage resistance afforded by deploy level 3 is likely enough to outdamage a bodyshotting sniper at mid range if you have an accuracy endorsement(and can aim). I'd test it, but I don't really know how I'd go about it.

At mid range, a sniper that's being fired at by a gunner would just throw a flak grenade if a gunner deploys. Then he can hide behind a wall and wait for the kill message to pop up.

My point is: a sniper will counter a gunner no matter what. Headshields don't matter one bit in that respect. You might as well give the gunner something he can use offensively while he's deployed, so that he can play to his own strenghts when there's no sniper around rather than trying to compensate his biggest weakness and failing at that.

Agreed.

He should get dirtbag-seeking missiles to deal with those snipers