Managing overheat is one of the most hard to do things in the game. It takes skill. So doing what you said would heavily reduce skill, and buff already great weapons like the scrambler rifle.

thats why being able to switch to a sidearm would be overpowered.

I dare to say, you use the amarr assault suit, which has a heat buildup reduction bonus and scrambler rifle, and you want more?



Why dont you just hack dust and install aimbot and wallhack?

So, you want to remove - at least substantially diminish - the primary balancing factor of the weapons that overheat because...it's 'realistic'? In what way is it realistic? It's not like you're handling a bit of hot toast that's just uncomfortably warm, you're handling a weapon that fires weaponised light at such power that it violently ceases to function: how is it going to be any less detrimental when you're not specifically keeping the red hot weapon away from your body?

If this were to come in, it would have to have some other trade-off: you automatically switch to your sidearm, but begin to take feedback damage every second because you are not actively protecting yourself from the overheated mechanisms that are now emergency venting.

This makes no sense for balancing or realism. Nobody sensible would put a rediculously hot price of metal on their back. The ScR is already slightly OP, we don't need to nerf its primary balancing factor.

What I meant by that was that by allowing switching to a sidearm you'd be effectively removing the mechanic by making it's impact almost obsolete.



But...it's not. When you're reloading your gun is simply you refilling it with ammo whereas when your laser weapon overheats, you have overcharged it's energy cells (or whatever you want to describe causes the actual overheat) such that it is physically dangerous and will cause substantial harm to your person should you fail to cease firing, which is what the feedback damage is. The reason you can't switch whilst it has overheated is because it is still in the region of physically dangerous: once the weapon reaches roughly 20% of the heat bar, you are allowed to switch weapon, but if you were to do so before then, you would be harmed.



Current day 'problems' do not take into account weapons that overheat so violently that they damage the wielder and emergency vent because it is so dangerous when they do overheat. You can't apply realism to the situation because you have no real world equivalent to compare to. Your logic seems to ignore the fact that this is a weapon much more advanced than our tech base and that we, as the players and observers, do not have access to the science that goes into making the weapon operate.

The scanner should also trigger a cooldown that prevents you from pulling up a weapon instantly.