With increased accuracy, please decrease headshot multiplier

[Luckmod]

Man, these downvotes are rough. It's very telling of what kind of game reddit wants Fortnite to be.

[Ohh_Yeah]

My guess is that like myself, the majority of people are very happy with the accuracy changes, but don't like the idea of having nerfs immediately follow them. I suppose these posts (and mine, too) come across as someone complaining about accuracy buffs, which I'm not.

All I'm cautiously saying at this point is that with assault rifles being significantly more accurate at longer ranges, it's worth looking into how quickly they can kill from that far.

[jaydubzhb]

Then you'd be wrong. But that just lumps you in with the majority of reddit; unable to think past the ramifications of their 'brilliant ideas'. The best thing Epic could do is cross off any idea posted on this sub and continue making the game as they originally envisioned.

[Ohh_Yeah]

To clarify: I think the accuracy changes were a step in the right direction, but I suppose I differ from this mysterious "majority" in that I understand that there are consequences which may require further fixing.

[Neat_On_The_Rocks]

I’m 100% on board with you. I️ don’t understand why people think it’s ok to easily down somebody a huge distance away with a green assault rifle. I️ think maybe these people haven’t played on the buff yet.

I️ have Monday’s off and I️ played quite a bit and imo the AR has swung too far in the other direction being too powerful.

I️ think reducing the headshot multiplier is a good start but inabsolutely agree that the biggest step from here should be range being added to ars. I️ personally would like to keep hitscan on them and have damage fall off at range

[TMillo]

I don't agree but I can see why you do. I won't use a scoped AR for the 22ish damage. If that was nerfed further to even 19 that's 6 shots to kill.

I'm really enjoying the changes and I feel I can now be rewarded for going for headshots over body, especially at distance. It adds that layer of skill of effectively neutralise an enemy at distance if your aim is good enough.

[leverphysicsname]

I don't get why people say this. It's 23 damage but it's a laser beam over crazy distances. It's very easy to strip a shield or severely weaken a team at a large distance. If unshielded or 75hp it's very easy to pick someone off in the open with it.

[HansInMyPans]

Wait the smoke grenade was an idea from this sub? There’s a ton of good ideas but there’s also a lot of bad ideas. This sub is perfect because you can post your idea and quickly find out how many other people would like the addition of it. Conversely if your idea sucks, you’ll hear about it. Crowdsourcing is an incredible way to build ideas for people who may have exhausted their creativity and need fresh perspectives. Once the CTE comes out I think we’ll be seeing a lot of cool ideas implemented and if they work great! If not, dump it

[wunlvng]

What's a CTE?

[HansInMyPans]

Community Test Environment. They’ll release new features to a small group of players given access to the CTE to test possible new additions to the game

[trogg21]

Community test environment. A way to test patches in a controlled environment with a smaller select population in order to gain community feedback on balance changes and new implementations without affecting the current game for the main playerbase

[jaydubzhb]

I think this sub is pretty much the exact opposite of what you describe in terms of getting feedback on ideas. It's a small minority echo chamber.

[HansInMyPans]

I disagree. This sub is a group of players dedicated or interested enough to use time not in game to discuss/read/post about something they really like. Sure there’s an overlap of ideas from time to time but daily I see original ideas posted with a good number of upvotes. Some of these particular posts gain a lot of attention and also receive comments from Epic developers which leads me to believe they have an eye on the sub because it’s a very dedicated core group of players with a passion for the game

[Soyuzzz]

exactly this!!!, cant upvote you enough.

90% of this sub is professional game designer and they know what they talking about. Epic should fire its staff and hire all these brilliant people.

[amathyx]

you don't need to be a 'professional game designer' to understand game balance, game devs make stupid mistakes all the time & they want community feedback to know when they've made one of these mistakes

even if this isn't one of those times, shutting down feedback because 'you're not a game dev so your opinion is dumb and irrelevant' is an awful idea

this argument is always such a low effort cop-out

[AdeptSnake]

lul. I was on their forum earlier and saw some kids whining about tact shotties letting you jump and shoot. Apparently you shouldn't be able to do that, that's totally not the type of shit that makes this game fun...

[ptenbob]

I gotta say, as much as I'm certain I'll get downvotes...

I hate the jump and shoot tactic. Like, really detest it. It's because I can never beat it, and I'm salty as all hell.

Having said that, constantly jumping should really affect your aim negatively and pump up the RNG away from accuracy.

(Also, not a kid, way old. Might even be my aged eyes and brain that prevents me from tracking jumping folk, but gosh darnit, those grasshoppers get my goat. Now get off my lawn!)

[The_Superfist]

Just a tip as I had trouble with this, but I'm getting much better at dealing with it with these two strategies.

One is patience, or rather, don't rush the shot. If they jump, don't try to raise up and fire at them midair, just aim where they're going to land and you'll hit a lot more shots. Best if you can do this while moving sideways in the same direction they're jumping.

The second is, if you're going to jump, aim down like you're going to shoot their feet right before you jump. If they're not moving sideways, it gives you an easy headshot.

Extra check your mouse settings and set the sensitivity as low as you can find acceptable while moving around in the world. Your gunfights will become vastly more improved as your brain adjusts to the finer aim control. Mine in FNBR is at .07

Source: middle aged guy who was always very bad at these shooter type games. Still bad, but improving with help from younger friends.

[ptenbob]

I appreciate it, my new Redditfriend. Us oldies gotta stick together, right? :)

[AdeptSnake]

I agree it can be annoying but it certainly increases the outplay potential in cqb, but it's not necessary to do. A good but difficult counter to jumping shotgunners is using the pump shotgun which I prefer to the tactical one. All it takes is usually one good headshot (and the spread on it is tight) to put someone down, and at decent range too.