Incorporate a minimum number of "twists" or minimum distance the projectile has to travel before it is armed and will explode. This is a simple feature of most real world grenade launchers as a safety measure and will help ensure the weapon cannot be used as some kind of super-shotgun. It keeps the weapon locked into mid-range combat. You can still give the projectile some damage capability if you get a direct hit at close range...just not explosive damage..

I don't like, removes risk involved with the MD.

I have to disagree. Personally, I think it adds risk. If you get caught at close-quarters, you're not going to be able to defend yourself with it unless you are a ridiculously good shot with it. Though, a splash radius increase would be nice. Being able to use grenades at point-blank range without being hit at all is sort of ridiculous. There should be a penalty for using it as close-range.

The mass driver is sighted at 5 meters, 10 meters, 20, 30, and 40 meters.

If the safety was implemented, what do you think of the idea that a direct hit would still do damage but not explode if within the minimum arming distance?

Than how would he defend himself in cqc?

Yes this was pretty much the idea of the original premise. Unexploded round does damage but not explosive damage. Personally I think it should be equal to the splash damage amount with a direct impact inside the arming range.

Arming range should be 15 meters.

ANOTHER mass driver thread -_- It's people like YOU that ruin these forums. And for the third time, i will post the same thing that i have in other threads- IF YOU CANNOT BEAT IT THEN DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. just find a DIFFERENT, BETTER WAY to kill them/ get an advantage.

Let's lock the assault rifle trigger at cqc and long distance as well to make it truly balanced
Fk out of here.

terrible idea. if you nerf the md, then the ar is the only ranged weapon. stop crying about md's and start crying about that extra ******* skill that every ar user gets

The mass driver should be a specialist weapon, and at the moment it is not. It does far too much damage just like the flaylock did and it deserves to be put into it's intended role. Just yesterday some guy hit me with the basic mass driver and did 800 damage to kill me in one hit. I can't kill people in one hit with any other gun, save for the forge or a headshot with a sniper rifle or shotgun, all three of which require incredible accuracy to do. The mass driver does not.

And on a side note: I think there is a bigger problem with the MD than people realise. My counter to these people when I encounter them in CQC is to get very close, start cooking a grenade and then backing off to throw it at them at the last second. I have encountered many times that the grenade lands at their feet and blows up without doing any damage as they are firing the MD at my feet and killing me. Is this some kind of calculation bug?

Are we seriously considering putting a safety measure on a clone weapon?!?

The same clones that we push though painful worm holes guaranteed to kill them in short order?

Gosh, maybe we should implement safety measures on grenades too. I mean, we can cook nades until they go off in our hands!
We shouldn't be able to release the spoon until we throw it, and it wouldn't arm until it was far enough away from us.

And then we could put foam on all the sharp corners in our merc quarters...

that'll happen when we get a decent scope.

"Too good in CQC" generally means "I can't dance with it like I can an AR".

Now that holds true for any splash weapon so the argument really boils down to "Nerf the **** out of it until my AR is better than it in CQC".

That is followed by any number of "minor adjustments" that are designed to ompletely neuter the the weapon.

The changes would do nothing but nerf the other variants. The changes you purposed would completely take away any reason to use the Breach MD over a shotgun, which is superior in almost every way RIGHT NOW. You will completely take away the Assault's ability to kill anything within 10 meters before you die yourself, which it is already struggling to do RIGHT NOW.

Do i get this right? You want to introduce the same thing like COD has with n00b tubes? Cause the projectile gets only its explosive armed after a certain travel distance. But sure why not?