i'm seeing more and more potential in our "no-code" weapons

Uh, instead of blaming the sniper, maybe you should just increase the bots' skill level? Looks like Adept is way too easy for you. Time to play like a MAN on godlike, with maxed out bots.

Btw, got pwned yesterday online, not really used to default UT weapons. Also, skilled human players are infinitely better than even godlike bots. Bots are simply too predictable. You can just camp somewhere and blast them all to hell with just about any weapon. They really should get rid of those stupid bot paths, just let the damn things roam freely and learn the layout through trial & error. I'm guessing that would be a big improvement realism wise, even if the bots themselves weren't really 'smarter'.

yeah same i played a match with the regular UT2k4 weapons againsy 9 bots on masterful and was beaten by 70 kills.

I have some suggestions for the rifle, something like this or this.

nah, those two guns are pretty d**n ugly.

The one in the first picture looks much better, at least in that position.

yeah it looks better but the gun overall is fugly

I think it looks ok, at least it looks like it can make a tank shake quite a bit.

i find it funny if some soldeir just randomly shot at a tank than the tank blew up. That would be too funny to see.

Yes, that looks pretty strange. But it could be explained that the bullet was so big that the tank's machinery blew up by the shockwave.

Well, the Barrett XM-109 pwns them both imo. 25 mm, man! You could hunt dinosaurs with that thing. Also it looks pretty cool.

Btw, if there's going to be a heavy sniper rifle in the next / some future release, sure hope it won't be anti-vehicle only! It should (also) fire explosive anti-personnel shrapnel rounds; that would at least be something new, and it would make it a lot more useful in DM and other non-vehicle gametypes. It should be easy enough to include 2 ammo types, or have one multi functional ammo type...

definetly another simple weapon ...

these are gonna be popular..

GO Barrett XM-109! That thing owns!

Hey, haven't seen that thing around yet! 25x59 mm? Quite some calibre!
If my calculations are correct (inch>mm and vece-versa issue) are correct, 25 millimeter is 1.96850394 times as big as .5 inch (.50 BMG)!

Actually, that's the same calibre the XM25. Imagine what crazy things could be done with this concept (sees people fire (airburst)nades from rifles).