I’m beginning to think reality is not guided purely by random chance or by an all knowing creator, but by a handful of adversarial scriptwriters trying to make a black comedy.

If y’all wanna get good at it and learn some advanced tactics, watch videos by MB93 or Duckwit. Invasion is about a lot more than just being the better shot, there are some excellent mind-games, misdirection, and traps you can use on both sides.

Wait til SE5 goes on sale if you do decide to get it, I’m wagering they’ll discount it somewhere around the release of SE6 in January. Probably for Christmas.

If not for the fact you said one’s on an Xbox, for a co-op experience I’d recommend Helldivers 2. However, a similar game to HD2 is Deep Rock Galactic, and it’s on Xbox as well as PC. Fantastic co-op shooter with some very funny humor, much like HD2 you can tell a lot of love went into the game; and much like HD2 the developers actually give a shit about it and their community. Since you said you don’t have a load of screen time, you should know a full mission is usually about 20-30 minutes.

For a PVP experience, you said you have two brothers – three is actually the perfect number if you wanted to get Sniper Elite 5 and play through the campaign with Axis Invasion enabled, you can invite one to play co-op and for the other, you can invite a specific invader. Two players would be playing as allied snipers infiltrating various locations in France and taking out Nazis, and the third would be an elite German sniper hunting them. It’s supremely fun to hunt people (as well as be “hunted” – though with two players you can really flip that on its head). And a mission in SE5, depending on how you play, can either take as short as 15 minutes or as long as 45 minutes, though probably on the longer end if you’re doing invasion – you do not play it like COD if you actually want to survive against a hunter.

Both of those have crossplay and should work on a Steam Deck, as well; although I’ve noticed Sniper Elite 5’s anti-cheat, when run through Proton on Linux, doesn’t like the game being installed on an external drive and won’t let you play online if it’s not running on the same drive the OS is installed on, and I imagine that’d probably extend to SD cards. So, if you go for SE5, make sure that brother installs it to the Deck’s internal storage or they might run into trouble.

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if you accept the definition that a word is some letters, surrounded by a gap…

Oh no, that was the first term.

Him and his cronies have a plan now, and that plan is Project 2025. We’re fucked. We’re very fucked.

… in fact, I think in january I’ll be signing off, I think it’s best I disengage from the internet/socializing and just hide under a rock for the next 4 years, or until it’s safe. Or until I get disappeared, whatever’s first.

I don’t have any really good friends and judging by the conversation I just had with my family they aren’t taking this seriously enough to want to help me leave.

they’re going to sit by and wait for it to be too late for me to get out.

I won’t

I feel physically sick right now. I don’t have the money to leave. I’m an openly gay man. We’re headed for a christofascist dictatorship. I just wanted to stay alive long enough to bury my mother, that’s all, and I probably won’t get to, not in the new American Reich. I know Harris winning wouldn’t fix every problem this country has but please fuck not like this

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Shit, I hope we get programmable ammo for the AMR. Being able to select explosive rounds vs heavy penetrating rounds vs EMP/stun rounds would be rad.

Yeah, I didn’t want to say it quite so harshly, but while I would welcome a heavy penetrating primary rifle that can punch holes in those armored up garbage trucks, I can’t help but think it would just negate any reason to bring the AMR. They’d have to give the AMR a buff it frankly doesn’t need (really, it’s good where it is) to keep it relevant – and then yes, indeed, it might as well be firing 20mm.

also yeah even a bullet that can (or should) punch holes in bug armor should not be capable of penetrating literal, actual tanks; as tank armor has outgrown what is capable of being penetrated by something man-portable (or, well – shoulder-firing, closed breech guns, to be more specific) since the 1940s. An overambitious ant, yes, sure, punching holes through thick chitin I can believe; but not engineered thick steel plate.

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yeah tbh I think OP’s playing the wrong game if they’re looking for a sniping experience. Sniping usually involves staying a long ways away from the action, HD2 has enemies constantly spawning on or very near your position. The only way to effectively snipe when that happens is to get really really good at repositioning to higher ground really quickly, and sometimes that isn’t really an option, jump pack be damned, depending on map conditions. In fact frequently, even if you are on higher ground where bugs shouldn’t be able to get to you, they will often phase upwards through the terrain to reach you.

On bots, sure, they can engage from longer distances, but the same problem applies – they drop in pretty close, making whatever advantage you have from distance, disappear.

They’re not called sniper rifles. They’re categorized in your loadout as “Marksman rifles”. Important distinction. Marksman rifles are usually in lighter calibers than true “sniper rifles”, as they’re meant for shorter ranges.

The AMR, as someone else mentioned, is an anti-materiel sniper rifle. Now, I agree that the counter sniper should have heavy pen and the diligence should have medium, because it would make them both more useful on bugs and bots alike (though mostly bugs, they’re already great on bots). But they should absolutely be doing less damage than the AMR, and that’s gonna be a hard balance to strike – how would you be able to justify the AMR’s existence and use if a primary weapon could do what it does?

Conservatives are happier? Since when?

Like, I can disprove that by turning on Fox News for two minutes. It’s nothing but 24/7 anger porn and rage bait.