A sniper rifle you have to aim and pull off a headshot. However, some snipers do have too much aim assist. If it were up to me, I'd remove special ammo starts and make you all fight for that ammo, and when you die, you lose it. I'd also tone down the aim assist on sniper rifles. But regardless, a headshot is supposed to be a one shot kill. It isn't the case about balance, it's the case that you start with special ammo. The SRs in Destiny function like sniper rifles are supposed to. Do what I mentioned, you have brought some balance back. As for weapon balance, they nerfed Pulse Rifles back to their original state I believe. MIDA can easily overpower a Red Death however I myself have been unable to confirm this because my controller was broken and affected my aim by far. I decided to leave because of it. When I get a new controller I'll see about testing that. PRs are supposed to fulfill the mid range role. In close range a hand cannon or AR should beat yo, in long range SRs should. Scout Rifles are mid to long range. They should be almost useless in close range combat unless you are skilled enough. ARs should be short to medium range. HCs should be short range only. Good firepower, poor range. However, (Subject to correction) PRs are short range and do less damage. Their range can be shorter than a Hand Cannon's which is BS. SRs are well, SRs. ARs are kinda peashooters if I recall. I'm gonna test this. HCs are still kinda... HCs. When I tried to test my Final Rest II against some plebs I noticed it went all over the place. Back then it did not and melted poor shotgunners with ease, delivering some fatal enlightenment. While FRs admittedly were kind of a problem at launch, shotgunners whine about FRs because shotgunners tend to get melted by skilled FR users who won't put up with their BS. If they balance Destiny out, I'd get back into it. But for now, I'm on Halo 5 and will remain there for my PvP experience. Before TTK launched, after the patch, there was actually balance again. And it was wonderful, the game was fun again. Of course, when Conspiracy Theory D was handed out like candy, Hawksaw's monster build and what was the IB Pulse Rifle? Balance quickly became a thing of the past.