I have some faith that CCP will use the data to balance the MD.

It's a situational weapon, and sometimes the situation really favors lots of MD's. I'm sure there are other situations where a squad of MD's would be a poor choice, such as attacking uphill. I wouldn't give that squad much of a chance to capture Objective A on Manus Peak. A couple AR's on the objective would mow them down before they got close.

MD's are the shark attacks of DUST. You may be mowed down time and time again by AR's and snipers and you shrug your shoulders and forget about it, but the one time you are pounded to next week by a bunch of MD's you remember it.

Blast radius is too large

The damage is fine, the clip size is fine, the range is fine, in my opinion curently only the radius is a problem since you cant miss a shot even if you are bad with it, that make the MD a noobtool currently, with a nerf on the splash, only who are good with the MD still continue to use it has intended

I'm hearing, "I came up against a well coordinated squad and got owned."

Yeah, that happens and I feel for you. Just don't blame the weapon, blame teamwork. We need to get that nerfed apparently.

As someone else mentioned, there's also the 5% per level blast radius increase from the skill, just in case you had a hard time hitting with that kind of radius....

I rarely even see MDs anymore

Righto chap.... it's not teamwork......

it is everyone using a broken.... OP weapon with an ungodly blast radius... not complaining about damage here.

talking about blast radius... its total faceroll.... squad up! all use md's..... spam your arse off rooftops moar betta hint hint... and everyone knows this to be the case. being the reason everyone is doing it..

teamwork hah...

So instead of just crying for a nerf like a two year old, provide a figure, see what people say give reasons, both for and against!
I mean have you ever considered the point of aoe weapon is to get you to RUN AWAY? You cant miss if your enemy is closer than 20m, but once again I must point out that this is the md ideal range, where its designed to be used.

OK so I have to start off with a question. Does the damage for the blast radius apply equally at all points within the radius? Because I think it would be alright if it tapered off quickly as you move away from the impact point. This would make physical sense as well. If you think about the weapon, I assume the shrapnel does most of the damage. As you move further from the source, the mass of shrapnel over a given area (your mercs body) decreases exponentially. In other words, if you get hit by the blast radius at say 5m from the impact zone, it should do only a fraction of the blast radius damage. Or is this too complex for CCP?

Monkey mac is obvious MD spammer..... i haz damaged hi fragile epeen.

fix the freaking blast radius CCP... the game is just becoming a joke......

just rename the game to " what broken and op weapon or bug is everyone using this week to win 514"

So instead of just crying for a nerf like a two year old, provide a figure, see what people say give reasons, both for and against!
I mean have you ever considered the point of aoe weapon is to get you to RUN AWAY? You cant miss if your enemy is closer than 20m, but once again I must point out that this is the md ideal range, where its designed to be used.

Not my intention to insult you but im a MD user since close beta, the MD was underpower sometimes true, in chrome MD haved good radius and good damage due to the fact other weapon haved the possibility to shoot 40% more far than now, so in uprising they nerfed the damage and splash for this, that was suppose to be fine but the gun haved hit detection issue they fixed it but they added splash radius in this same time, the splash buff was unnecessery because they fixed the hit detection, now they have to do a nerf on the radius to be fair

EDIT: hope they bring back the smoke effect that was a usefull tactic

Its CCP Don't Give A Fucks 514.

F2P Broke LOL Lobby Shooter.

Working as intended.

Heh heh im not saying it shouldn't but someone has to defend the weapon, besides im sure there are plenty of things that could be done with out an full blown nerf, such as larger feedback radius, even slower travel, proper fall off profile, etc etc.

Just so many people complaining with out giving proper argumemts gets on my nerves!!

1 Mass driver on the other team? OMG MASS DRIVER 514!!!!!!!111111


TEARS

LOL U serious????

iv'e not been in a match for 2 weeks now easy where there was only "ONE" mass driver on the other team.


lol " Please sir step away from the bong"

Please sir actually read logical arguments, and reply to them logically not with insults!! Refer to the large post I gave on pg 2-3 forreference!!

agreed...... i dropped a low blow in on that one. and i do apologize for the bong comment.

but his statement was so far from the truth. i could not resist.

Fine ill let it slide, so if you were to drop the radius what to?

Fine ill let it slide, so if you were to drop the radius what to?

mass drivers are grenade launchers, should they do the same damage as a grenade each shot? no (wish they would lol). so dont complain, plus most people use ARs, each weapon is unique instead of having just a variety of ARs (which is part of what makes this game good, its uniqueness). i honestly find the mass drivers are fine as they are, just depends on how you use it. please dont cry everytime you get killed by a weapon. as long as they dont ruin the game the weapons are fine.

This is what I have been saying....heck if nothing else remove the bonus increase you get with when skilling into MD and make it something else...like ability to carry additional rounds. So like 5% increase to max ammo carried per lvl.


Oh and Skihids.......6 ppl spamming proto assault MDs is not called teamwork or a "squad working together" its called 6 ppl who are using the current weapon that CCP has broken.