Every weapon in this game is OP if its in the right hands.

. . . will we see by the end of this x2 sp week?

By the end of the last multiple SP week, the number of flaylocks in the average match roughly tripled, and they suffered a nerf soon after.

Now, I love the mass driver. I started to think it was OP too until I took better ARs into the field, and we know from these forums that too few AR players believe they should be killed by anything other than more ARs.

So I'm wondering how many mass drivers you folks think will show up this week?

Hmm, again, I guess you have a problem with....thought.

When people talk about ARs, they're talking about the mainline ARs, the OP ones. Burst isn't very good, and TAR, while still a little too strong, isn't anything like as strong as it was or as strong as the mainline ARs.

I honestly believe that dust meters correlates to feet in real time. Because honestly, 5 meter splash radius means that 2 people (roughly 6 feet each) and a midget lying down would get hit if the projectile hit the first person's feet. I honestly think that CCP has some map vs numbers vs weapons issue here, where the numbers don't quite match the scale.

It's such a great idea that it practically deserves it's own thread.

Matter of fact...

To me, the problem is not with the mass driver itself, but rather the Community.

I was in a match a little while ago. My squad were the only squad working, everyone else on the blue team were in the hills. Anyway, I command my squad to capture Bravo after taking Delta (4 point map where bravo is in the Round Structure where the "hallway" like room is). This worked well as most of the Red team were at our Redline. My squad captured Bravo, then as expected, encountered heavy resistance. We held Bravo as our only Null Cannon long enough for the red MCC to lose the second half of it's shield and about 1/4 of it's armor.

After repeatedly trying-and failing-to recapture Bravo, the red team decided to resort to scrubbery. My squad, while inside the building, came under attack from about 6 - 10 Reds who were all using some form of explosive weaponry. At this point, the kill feed looked like:

Boundless Mass Driver
Exo-5 Mass Driver
Freedom Assault Mass Driver
M1 Locus Grenade
Core Locus Grenade
Thukker Contact Locus Grenade
Ishukone Assault Forge Gun

They were literally Zerging with nothing but explosives.

Keep in mind this was an interior CQC battle. Where were the Nova Knives? Where were the Shotguns? Where were the Breach ARs? Where were the HMGs?

Nothing other than explosives.

Good tactics? No, Scrubbery!

Now 1 Mass Driver is meh, but when half of the team is using these explosive weapons it is extremely problematic. I have noticed only 1 Mass Driver causing performance issues in game in the form of lag and hit detection issues if you are inside the AoE. When you begin spamming explosives it becomes nearly unplayable.

The whole point of the story is this:

To me, the problem is not with the mass driver itself, but rather the Community.

Many of the people who play this game do not play to have fun, they play to win even at the sacrifice of personal enjoyment.

One could argue that all of those players actually enjoy using those particular weapons, but I seriously doubt that to be the case.

Well Master Jaraiya, how could these types of situations be resolved?

Turn on friendly fire for all matches! Let this become a real tactical, thinking man's shooter.

End the Zerg rushing blobs of Scrubs who have no tactics other than Spam FOTM type weaponry.

If friendly fire were on, then the above story would not have ended with us being Zerged by explosive spamming scrubs. They would have killed more of their own team using those "tactics".

So, CCP, please PLEASE

Turn on friendly fire for all matches! Let this become a real tactical, thinking man's shooter.

Not as OP as the full auto AR, GEK or duvloue ARs.