There is no point loosing Action Points being knocked downed from standing when you are already on the ground.
Let's say you are lying on ground and got hit in your head by a bullet ... you should be dead but if you was enough lucky you will be stunned or if you can imagine that bullet ( even if you're wearing a helmet ) has huge impact so it could basically throw you 2 meters away. So if you're thinking that you were precisely hit with devastating critical and you can just go on with fight I say NO. I personally believe there's no need to nerf snipers again ( even if it really annoys you when got killed and you don't know where your enemy was - that's what snipers do. )
They're unbalanced and stupid.
I can agree that knockdown term doesn't fit situation mentioned, but it's only a name for it - no need to comply about it.
Since game engine does not allow to fight on crounch or prone, there's no way to just fire pistol while laying.
True.
Right now when you're knockdown you can go make yourself some coffee or go smoke, since most probably you won't stand back.
Let's assume you had 10 AP, then got knockdown so you have 7AP to get up, and enemy sniper has ... 0 ... maybe 2? Why is there no way?
Yeah situation gets worse if there are 2 or more snipers, but then you should get over with it and die.
Yours sincerely
Sniper Fanklub Member