FFS, Of all the things they could screw up, they had to screw around with sniping, it's almost completely broken now.
I have no clue where my bullets are falling because the bullet doesn't seem to change size as it gets futher from you - you simply see this giant circle covering your target. Also, the bullet speed and drop seems to be wildly different from before, which means unless the target is completely still, getting a hit is incredibly difficult even at medium range and thats just a torso shot, headshots are out of the question.
They've also broken the steady scope mechanism as the scope doesn't seem to want to steady half the time. Also when steadying the scope, it's not even completely steady anymore, there's still some drift.
Also, the Magnum .44 seems to have become even more useless after this patch. Seriously, why? The vast majority of players are too retarded to even use that pistol because it actually requires you to aim unlike 99% of the junk in this game.
Worst thing though is that they've gone ahead and ****ed around with all this stuff (which only affects a small majority of players) whilst bolstering everything in this game that promotes the 'run and gun, spray and pray' style of gameplay, which probably already represents 90% of the playerbase.
I'm usually getting around 3:1 K/D ratios in games, but after this patch I'm barely making 1:1. During this week I've had what I can safely say are the worst five games of BF3 since it's release.
Words fail me ...