lol increase the radius. You do know the blast radius gets as high as 8m with the assault variant. Anything greater than 3m blast radius is considered OP on a weapon you can spam. It's all the assault variant's fault, it's just too good. Same thing is happening to #lolForgeGuns. In any case blast radius has to be nerfed but keep damage the same.

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The radius needs nerfed if anything. 8m is way to much. If you want to use it for support, the assault has bigger splash/lower damage. If you want to be more of a slayer/support, the vanilla variant has med dmg/splash. For those wishing to fill a slayer only type role, use the breach (or AR, it would be much better)

The assault shouldn't have more than 6-7 meters splash max. The vanilla gets 5-6, and breach gets 4-5.

When they fixed explosive hit detection, they gave it its splash back. I thought the radius with an assault MD was fine in 1.0 for support.

And again a dumb poster. forgrgun require a direct hit to kill. Please don't make dumb comments. Also the splash of the assault is 6. Just saying nice try

That would be terrible. It just takes away any point of practice, like with missiles.

I would rather see them just have a smaller splash radius, with higher splash damage. Rewards precision more.

fix armor

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....The mass driver keeps its current stats but is inaccurate?

As a MD lover and proponent I fear that a nerf will be around the corner, especially since so many have jumped on the bandwagon recently, making it seem OP, even though it is working as intended it's just not an AR.

If the explosive impact is reduced it will lose it's niche, so I propose the mass driver increase blast radius slightly, but be inaccurate at mid to long range. I don't say this lightly, I've gotten some wicked kills MD sniping those foolish enough to stand still. The MD itself is fairly accurate if you know how to shoot it, but it doesn't need to be to fill it's role. It could still be used for suppression and dominating choke points and lowpoints. It would be more deadly when used in CQC with the increased radius.

I personally love my mass driver and don't want to go to the post uprising levels, but they are being used much more frequently for too many situations and it worries me.

I've always said, do what you want with the damage but the splash radius needs to remain large in order to fill its niche as a terror and area denial weapon.

I don't want any MD nerf..... but if it is inevitable, please don't make it useless.

People like you is pretty sad. Assault forge gun can be spammed? 4 shots per clip. Limited ammo. Doesn't need charge? It does need a charge you dumb ****. It just can't hold a charge, please know what you're talking about.. and yes thats only from the skill level. So you have to grind to get it to that point. Just saying.

I should use this 2x event to skill into the assdriver

It doesn't need a charge dude. Just stfu you're putting Hellstorm's name to shame with your ignorance.

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The assault forge gun does charge . It just fires as soon as it charges. It has like 2.5 charge time. Read the guns description now you stfu and stop crying about shyt.

Ok lol it doesn't matter the 2.5 s charge is irrelevant and makes the weapon easily spammable. It's OP ok.

Actually charge gets as low as 1.8 seconds. lol no wonder why every gets easy kills with this thing.

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wrote this in another post as well....

its my understanding that a mass driveeach is a crowd control weapon, it should have a large splash dmg radius with low direct dmg and be a mid to long range weapon.

users at the moment can shoot it almost directly at their feet to take out targets without killing themselves I think the splash dmg should be increased to prevent this

as a crowd control weapon it should not (even at proto level) be able to kill in 2-3 shots, I would suggest lowering its rate of fire by 1/3 and increasing its clip size. at proto level, instead of any dmg increase I thing splash radius and rate of fire should be increased...

that's my 2 cents.... and yeah be prepared the nerf bat is coming, and the result will probably not be this sensible.

OP? You know I'm done scrubs like you annoy me so bad with all your bytching. Yet you ignore all of the draw backs that the gun has. Your only defence is "it ohk" yet you don't mention it takes more aim than a assault rifle. Yet you don't mention the fact that it cant hold a charge so you have to lead your shots unless it's not a moving target. Which in fact most kills by forge guns are people to stand long enough for me to aim charge and fire. Yet you don't mention how it has a low ammo count. Yet you don't mention it on a slow moving heavy which in that is self has even a longer list of draw back. Yet you don't mention it doesn't have a scope so you have to have pin point accuracy. You say spam? Lawl okay kiddo. If someone stays still long enough for me to fire a few rounds they deserve to die. Awaiting your dumb response

Um this is false. Using the md cqc has major risk. You do take damage from it if you aim to close to yourself you will get hurt.

Stop being so naive. You know the gun is OP and it will be nerfed. You're only defending it because you're afraid your precious toy will be useless. Stop saying it has drawbacks because it has none that are significant. You know you laugh everytime you get the kill because of how easy and OP it is. And for destroying tanks you still use the assault variant when you're supposed to use the breach, because the assault is obviously better at everything.

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Hopefully the MD will be nerfed soon.

By that, I mean that the way explosive damage is handled needs to be changed, and armour needs to be fixed. Addressing both of those issues will act as a nerf to the MD. And hopefully, CCP will "nerf" the MD soon.