Azri Sarum
BurgezzE.T.F Public Disorder.
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Posted - 2013.12.21 00:20:00 -
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Crimson Cerberes wrote: Basic Stats(basic variant no skills no damage mods with pulling the trigger 6.6 times per second): AR: 425 DPS CR: 640 DPS SCR: 475.2 DPS RR: 423 DPS
Can you spot the outlying rifle? I'll give you a hint, it is the one doing 33% more damage than the rest of the weapons.
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TLDR: CR does 33% more damage than the rest of the rifles any way you slice it.
TL;DR - decrease CR rof to 900, should not affect feel of this weapon. Increase it, and ACR pg by two points. Increase ACR ammo pool by 1 clip.
One dimensional analysis can be rather mis-leading. Lets look at all of the new weapons with a few more stats to get a better picture of how things are balanced.
These are the stats i'm getting. If the weapon is semi-auto (SCR/CR) then i used a rof of 6.6 times per second. For the fully automatic weapons i'm using their full dps since you just hold down the trigger. * denotes the semi-automatic weapons.
I'm also going to preface this by stating upfront that I am using the ACR as my primary weapon, switching to CR on occasion. Just to make it clear where my bias lies.
Weapon - DPS - Clip Size(Damage per clip) - Damage per loadout - Fitting score (PG*5 + CPU) AR - 468 - 60(2082) - 11220 - 155 *TAR - 524 - 18(1414) - 23562 - 155 *CR - 697 - 54(1900.8) - 11405 - 121 ACR - 464 - 68(1577.6) - 9466 - 118 *SCR - 523 - 45(3564) - 17820 - 192 ASCR - 466 - 72(2851) - 12870 - 158 RR - 465 - 42(2541) - 15246 - 169 ARR - 472 - 42(1981) - 11892 - 147
DPS So looking at all these numbers we can see that compared to the other semi-auto weapons the CR is outperforming. Its rate of fire needs to be lowered down to about 900 to bring it into line. Both of the new rail rifles, along with the ACR look to be in good shape dps wise.
Now, how about the rest of the stats. Damage per clip, damage per loadout, and fitting. There is a lot of give and take to be had here for a weapon to be considered balanced.
Looking at these values I think there are two changes I would suggest to ccp. The first would be a bump to the ACR's ammo pool. If they are going to change the Minmatar suit bonus to be +5% projectile clip size (like i am expecting) then the ACR will be in a good spot. The second would be to increase the fitting costs of the CR and ARC slightly. I think a couple points to pg would be spot on. The racial goal of having cheap fitting would be achieved, while not being slightly to cheap (imo).
Overall, for new weapons, and given CCP's track record, I think they did a marvelous job with the initial balance of these weapons.
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