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Recoil on Marksman Rifles Needs a Boost

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Marksman rifle recoil is so controllable that it discourages even attempting to be accurate most of the time. You are almost always going to have a higher damage output by spamming more body shots in the time you would take to line up a headshot.

I think spraying with Marksman Rifles should be a last resort, not the encouraged playstyle. Whenever I die to any marksman rifle, it is **always **body shots across the board with zero headshots, because nobody bothers trying to go for headshots when it is such an inferior choice. Even when people are directly behind me and I have no cover near me, they still spam body shots rather than aiming for the head.

Boosting their recoil would fix it; it would make people prioritise going for accurate shots when possible because they'd know that landing more than 2 shots in a row is not a guarantee. Spraying could still be viable at shorter ranges when you are at a disadvantage, and they would still offer a different playstyle to regular snipers because you still have a much faster firerate.

The current extremely low recoil also has the impact of making them better at CQB than any other weapon in the game they have the fastest DPS after all. However, their ammo limitation mostly counters this right now because they basically have to reload after every kill.

Posted Sep 13, 2026, 6:07 AM UTC

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