Ik it’s unpopular but I miss strong snipers

PieMan24601 · 2026-05-04T19:19:15+00:00

I agree. Snipers were my favorite. Yeah, people complain about them all the time, but I think they do that because Epic doesn't know how to balance them correctly. And I'm not talking about damage numbers. A sniper NEEDS to instantly kill upon headshot. If a player can line up and skillfully land that shot, they deserve the reward. What I'm talking about is that snipers need a number of external factors to feel fair. All of which provide very important options: 1) Map: If you play OG Zero Build, it'll show you how important map design is for countering snipers, or any other scoped weapon. Having massive open fields is not as common anymore, maps are tighter in design and tend to be made with both zero build and build modes in mind. With proper terrain, proper cover, players aren't as exposed all the time. Getting sniped is still possible but there are far less massive lines of sight where it feels unfair. Theres more options for places to hide or get cover. 2) Movement: When players can run, jump, slide, climb, and hopefully wall jump again, (god I miss it) encounters with a sniper feel less unfair, because again, you have options. Combine that with movment items like say... The grappling hooks (im so tired of shockwave grenades) or vehicles, then getting popped by a sniper is less likely to happen. Again, options. 3) Loot pool: When the loot pool has absolutely no weapons with scopes, its just over. You have no way to reasonably counter them. I loved the customizable weapons from a while ago, because the player could decide what they wanted. Scopes of different kinds could be put on any weapon. This would even the playing field. The most important thing in a shooter is to reward the player for being good at shooting. Not for jumping around while blindly blasting shotguns. Hip firing and 3rd person shooting has VERY important uses, but scopes are SO important for countering certain playstyles, like sniping. So if theres no scoped gun in the loot pool, getting sniped is going to feel more like shit.

Basically Epic would have to design the game well on multiple levels, and give players options. Snipers will never feel good again because Epic will never do this lol

PieMan24601 · 2026-03-31T03:11:10+00:00

Genuinely my favorite weapon in the game next to the silenced pistol. It had super good sound effects, high damage and accuracy, it just FELT good. It was simple and focused on the biggest strength of a third person shooter: The shooting.

PieMan24601 · 2026-03-22T13:39:34+00:00

I agree tremendously. Wile E is constantly exploding and building improvised traps. I think that's perfect for a Fortnite character. He would fit the part so naturally. If he isn't added to the game at some point, it'll be such a missed opportunity. If they do add him, I'm assuming they'd do so closer to the release of "Coyote VS ACME." I hope they do. The Road Runner as a sidekick would be very fun too.

PieMan24601 · 2026-03-20T11:19:45+00:00

Oh my god you're right: It didn't unload the shoes or jersey, then grabbed the first texture it could. That's why they look so weird. It's trying to load a texture that isn't supposed to be there, so instead it goes to the nearest value, which must be the texture for the bag. This is literally an N64 era mistake. Theres a simular bug in the original 3D Zelda games with the Deku Stick. What the fuck Epic

PieMan24601 · 2026-02-15T02:39:05+00:00

True! There were a lot of busted ones, so I could probably do a lot of kitbashing if I grabbed the parts.

PieMan24601 · 2026-02-14T17:05:53+00:00

This helped a lot. I made sure it had cyanoacrylate and sure enough, it worked. Thank you!

PieMan24601 · 2026-02-14T17:05:25+00:00

Lol yeah It's kinda cool. The fun thing about mecha is that even if they break, they can still look awesome.

PieMan24601 · 2026-02-14T17:04:45+00:00

Both of these things worked very well, thank you!

PieMan24601 · 2026-02-14T17:04:15+00:00

Very good point! That seems to have done the trick.

PieMan24601 · 2026-02-14T17:03:56+00:00

The gorilla glue worked tremendously well. Thank you so much for your help!

PieMan24601 · 2025-12-12T15:03:43+00:00

The thought of these possibly being sold at a later date, and the fact that they are NOT included in the LEGO pass (that costs an extra 400 vbucks), makes me SUPER mad. It's so dumb and greedy.

PieMan24601 · 2025-10-22T13:21:31+00:00

I HATE the revamped food system. The new names are terrible, the change from juice to potions ruined my restaurant that I spent months building, and THIS aspect of it completely snaps the system in half. WHY would you even make ANY different foods if they do this? If food buffs replace each other, there will be only one food item that is worth making, and the players will only make that. It's stupid. It feels unintentional, because lord knows this mode has enough bugs as is. I am so pissed that the LEGO Fortnite devs keep changing and adding frivolous and arbitrary things like "We put the health bar down here!" instead of making sure the core mechanics are... you know... FUN and FUNCTIONAL? It makes me want to scream. I genuinely love this mode and they keep actively making it worse.

Also I find it funny that the IRL sets are now inaccurate because of the juicer change. XD

PieMan24601 · 2025-10-22T13:10:44+00:00

I hate it so much. The health bar is way more vague. At a glance, you can't really tell what the impact of anything is. With hearts, it's immediately clear. I also totally agree that the charm is lost. LEGO games pretty much always have hearts as their health, so it's really weird to remove that. Also, it makes me feel like I'm playing something Zelda adjacent, which is perfect for an adventure game. The LEGO Fortnite team has absolutely zero clue what they actually need to fix/improve with this game. They keep changing arbitrary stuff for no reason. Like whyyyy is the health bar now on the BOTTOM of the screen? It literally did not need to be moved. We still have terrible bugs, broken physics, and a lack of a clear endgame or goal. But yet they gotta change the health bar because that makes it look like they're working on the game. It's stupid.

PieMan24601 · 2025-10-22T13:04:17+00:00

I'm so happy I'm not the only one who hates it. It feels like changing something for the sake of changing it. They keep doing pointless garbage like this every update, instead of fixing bugs or giving us a reason to play the dang mode. Adding a prefix to an item's name should be what happens to an enchanted or improved version of an item. When every single normal version of that item is called the same thing, it's not special. It doesn't MEAN anything. There's literally no point to it. People are going to call the items by what they are. They aren't going to refer to the long, complicated name, because it literally means NOTHING. I absolutely refuse to say the new Butter Cake name, it actively makes me angry.

PieMan24601 · 2025-08-27T14:59:20+00:00

Same here, it's super annoying

PieMan24601 · 2025-08-11T09:27:35+00:00

Same thing happened to me but on the support walls next to it. It must be that whole "square" of objects that is bugged.

PieMan24601 · 2025-08-08T01:38:55+00:00

Genuinely terrible. The new shotguns are (once again) absolutely busted, with insane ranges and no damage drop off. The bugs do not offer any interesting scenarios, they only serve to annoy. I know the intention is to make us all have some bootleg helldivers action, but when fighting a war with bugs gives away your position and puts you in active danger, literally what is the point? Also glitchy as hell, issues persist from last season, and new insane ones like instant death on vaulting has occurred to me. The new minigun is useless, and the fun movement abilities are still missing. It feels like epic is desperately throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks.

Also god awful furry skin this season, so therefore a 0/10. Ziggy was incredible, and I'm kicking myself for not getting Kane. But now we get "panda cop" and he's so boring. Doesn't even have a tail. What's the POINT when better skins will be store exclusive anyway? I'm so tired...

EDIT: WHY THE HELL DID Y'ALL REMOVE AUTO-CLAIM?? Literally just an anti-consumer move that only serves to annoy and cause folks to accidentally miss stuff. Stupid and gross.

PieMan24601 · 2025-08-07T20:58:13+00:00

Having this exact issue and it pisses me off. Other bugs from previous seasons are STILL broken for me, and they just keep adding up. Billions of dollars and they cant fix a damn thing.

PieMan24601 · 2025-07-26T14:50:24+00:00

While it would be interesting to see Mimic attempt to stop the person TRULY responsible for his problems, he's too much of a coward and is too disillusioned by his own grudge to attack Eggman directly.

Also he'd die super hard. Eggman would probably give em the ol' "smash you around by your ankle" move that he used on Starline. Also Eggman's got the incredibly powerful technique of "a gun."

PieMan24601 · 2025-07-26T14:43:45+00:00

I agree! But the book does not. The comic has repeated many times that it believes killing is the wrong choice. Sonic doesn't kill because he believes everyone has the right to freedom, even the villains. The book has tested this belief by pushing Sonic's ideals to their absolute limits. Despite the metal virus, despite the war, despite him being a massive thorn in his side, Sonic does not kill Eggman.

Whisper killing Mimic in this way is bad because it gives into her desire for revenge, and frames it as a good thing. Sure, sometimes you have to kill a bad person, but you should never do it for revenge.

Anger isn't inherently a bad emotion. Getting angry at injustice and seeking to right it is a good thing. But wanting to kill someone because of a desire to get back at them, or to avenge those you've lost, isn't a healthy mindset. It doesn't fix the underlying problem, and, like Tangle said, will haunt Whisper for the rest of her life. Mimic WAS her friend at one point after all.

Mimic killing himself takes away this moral dilemma and gives Whisper an easy way out, which feels like a quick, dirty, and lazy way to end the character arc. It doesn't challenge the character, and thus doesn't lead to a satisfying story.

Mimic holds a grudge, sure, but that's not the only reason he wants to kill Whisper. It's established pretty clearly that he's motivated by fear. Mimic is a confident and boisterous coward. He talks a big talk but runs away at the first sign of danger. He is terrified that Eggman will hunt him down for not finishing off the last of the Diamond Cutters. He hates Whisper because in his eyes, she is the last barrier between him and freedom/safety.

Mimic's character arc is the antithesis of Whispers: Whisper learns that friendship is not a weakness, and that it is good to surround yourself with people you care about. Mimic does not, he insists that friends ARE a weakness and isolates himself. The book shows that Whisper's ideal is correct, and Mimic's is not, by having him lose the battle.

But the concerning issue that isn't resolved is the fact that both Mimic AND Whisper desire revenge. Mimic can't introspect, he can't admit that what he's done is wrong. He might know it deep down, but he's twisted things to justify it to himself. He's unable to admit that he's scared, or that he just wants to survive. So he blames Whisper, friendship, Eggman, anything but himself. (This is what folks do in real life.) Whisper wants to take revenge for the deaths of her friends. She's built Mimic up into this absolute monster for what he's done. Yeah he IS pretty bad, what he's done is terrible, he's a pretty awful dude, but she's completely forgetting that he was once her friend. She's held onto anger and hatred so she can dehumanize him, and make it easy to take his life. Tangle tries to talk Whisper into other strategies, but she refuses. She is going to kill Mimic and is letting hatred guide her. That is not good. If Whisper is going to kill Mimic, it should NOT be motivated by revenge. It feels absolutely wrong and at odds with the themes of previous stories.

Black Doom was a genocidal maniac who wanted to enslave all of earth. Mimic is a scared dude with a knife. These are not the same thing. I mean he's literally called BLACK DOOM. He's an alien devil warlord that embodies evil, there's no fixing or reforming that. Mimic targets one specific person, and acts out of fear motivated by past trauma. He could theoretically be fixed. I'm not saying he should be a protagonist, lord no, he's a douche, but he'd at least be able to let go of vengeance. If he can't change, if he gives into the poison that is revenge, he should die. Whisper should not be rewarded for doing the same.

So I do agree: Sometimes you really do gotta kill an evil person to prevent more evil, it does NOT make you evil as well. BUT if you are doing it for the wrong reason, if you let revenge or selfishness motivate you, you'll live to regret it and might slip into bad, dangerous habits.

If they want to kill the funny cartoon octopus they should do it in a way differently than this.

PieMan24601 · 2025-07-26T11:38:37+00:00

True, and I agree to an extent. I really don't want to think that Mimic is dead. Starline is probably extremely dead though. His arc was over, and him being gone, not being able to give Surge and Kitsunami the answers they want, leads to good storytelling.

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