Skipper Jones wrote:I think the Mass Driver is fine where it is. Not because "Get gud scrub" or "It is hard to use". Because this game needs diversity. If CCP Nerfs this gun into uselessness, that's one more gun that no-one uses anymore. It will all continue to fall into the nerf basket until every gun fires flowers at people.
The Mass Driver is an area denial weapon, So it will clear out places and keep people from getting to them. It shouldn't be touched. Most people hate it because they get killed by it multiple times. That and the fact that some people know how to make it such a beast weapon. A MD with fluxes and damage mods are a sure killer, as it should be.
I wouldn't be too upset if it got a nerf (As in it is less powerful but is still very effective) but that's still the problem. It would still be effective. That's what the MD is, effective. People cry ITS OP because it's effective at what it does, and won't stop crying until it becomes ineffective.
IDK. There isn't a nerf that can satisfy both sides of it. The MDers will be mad if it gets nerfed into hell, the Non- MD users will be mad if it can still be very effective.
The MD really isn't OP. Just another weapon that can be used usefully besides the normal pot of weapons. Just that people hate diversity.
This isn't a diversity issue. CCP can still come up with a lot of new weapons, in fact, the is a thread that CCP Wolfman started for generating ideas for new weapons.
The issue i'm talking about stems from a competitive gameplay level. Would damage drop off be so bad? You would still be able to dish out the same DPS that MDs are getting now, but only if they can shoot with enough precision and foresight to land a shot right next to you.
Currently, this weapon's "area denial" effect is the same type of area denial every other blatantly overpowered weapon in the past has (TAC, Viziam, Contact Nades, Core Flaylocks). Currently, it's a killer's weapon, not a crowd control weapon.
Except the Mass Driver doesn't do too much damage or anything like that... the thing that makes the Mass Driver overpowered in a skilled players hands is it's
too easy to use, too easy to have 3-4 guys spam splash damage with 99% accuracy .
Adjustments need to be made for the sake of competitive gaming, if CCP still wants this game to be competitive.