>>10687917the roller coaster continued, turns out that nightmare must just be very hard and the sniper is still the best option. upon starting the new run i got to the first boss and then immediately remembered the sniper is OP not just because it has a slight damage lead on other things but because it just has a much easier use case. you don't need to get within a certain range or spend any time standing still to shoot, just take a shot then roll around until you've reloaded and you're outputting the absolute maximum amount of damage possible the weapon can
i think this is exacerbated by the fact that the game uses a "more enemies = more hard" approach to almost everything, especially bosses. with a shotgun you're going to get swarmed by little dudes if you ever get in optimal damage range of your actual target. ARs aren't quite as bad but they still need to find some sort of scenario where they can plant their feet and fire for a while
