*sigh*
Guess I should just spend my SP on ARs and the Caldari Assault and pretend to have fun...

Cant belive that Cross reply is being ignored. In that reply is the only solution viable to not make MD a useless weapon

The only problem with the MD is the Fuking CAL.Suit (logi or ass dosent matter) and the Shoot while jumping (to avoid all splash)

Change the splash dmg calc to flat from Sphere and just watch the CQC noob-spammer kill themself.

No, that's overly complicated for how fast paced Dust is.

I already did, and I still don't like the idea. This wasn't the first time it was suggested and this isn't the first time I didn't like it.

I mentioned this earlier and of course it got ignored: What if they revert the grenade physics back to Chromosone? Slower velocity and a more drastic falloff would force people to stop trying to use it in CQC.

This is not a proper method for assessing balance. By that reasoning the entire AR line is #1 on the chopping block and the militia/standard gear of all kinds is in line for a nerf much more than the higher meta varations.

Seeing a specific weapon, or even more so weapon sub-type, commonly on the field can certainly call enough attention to be worth testing but it is not, in and of itself, a specific indication of any mechanical flaw with the weapon in question.


"Real world" is an incredibly improper metric to advise game balance. Combat and weapons are NOT balanced in the real world and being as how balance is vital to robust, enjoyable, game play that pushes "real world" motivations into the category of role play, i.e. "fine for amusement bad for mechanics".

Further, and I've raised this point within the thread before, even if we look at "real world" methods the world in question must be the universe of New Eden not 2013 Earth. Immortal Clones who will willingly step through blackhole portals which are excruciating and cause cancer won't care at all if they blow themselves and their 7k ISK fitting to pieces so long as they take 40k+ enemy assets with them. That immortal merc is going to respawn in a new clone on the same battlefield with a smirk under his/her helmet and a higher payday waiting at the end of the battle. There is no logical lore (aka "real world) reason for the weaponry of clone soldiers to contain safeties.... in fact if it did we wouldn't have weapons with overheat (unless the presumption is that overheat somehow [i]is] the safety and highly advance space faring cultures just can't be bothered to do one right... in which case we're back to the concept of having none at all).

Lastly, call it what you will, any change to the mechanics of a piece of gear which makes it less effective is a nerf, and change which makes it more effective is a buff. The exception to this is that some vicarious effects resulting from larger changes such as bug fixes are just that, fixes to mechanics that are not working as intended.

Examples:
Fixing the hit detection is not a nerf or buff to any weapon/armor but it may expose current imbalances which need addressed.
Fine tuning the efficiency profile for explosive weapons most certainly is a nerf to all of them but it is a nerf that is called for to refine/improve overall game balance.


Third point at the risk of repeating myself, I still haven't seen an explanation of how any system like the one suggested in the OP could even theoretically be implemented and function. How would it work "under the hood" within the mechanics of the game? I'm not saying it's impossible, I don't know all the ins and outs of the engine enough to say that, but I am saying based on what I do understand such a mechanic simply does not seem viable, from a purely functional perspective leaving questions of game balance completely aside.

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