Some people already heard of it, but the majority of players didn't notice anything. A while ago we tested a small mutator from our dear friend TNSe on our FFA. It was a small piece of code to test the influence of sniper on the actual ffa gamestyle. The mutator was just lowering the headshot-damage to the normal sniper bodyhit-damage. Explanation: Wherever you hit someone with sniper you just deal 67 damage points. We tested it for around a week without anyone complaining about it.
So here are the results.
Everthing normal, normal headshot damage
FROM: 2006-02-05 - 00:00:01
TO: 2006-02-08 - 23:59:59
kills: 48353
sniperkills: 9531 (~20% of all kills)
headshots: 5647
playertime: 551.82 hours
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reduced headshot damage
FROM: 2006-02-19 - 00:00:01
TO: 2006-02-22 - 23:59:59
kills 51457
sniperkills 6019 (~12% of all kills)
headshots 2063
playertime 592.96 hours
hf
