Oh god, another one of you degenerates crying over the SCR + Amarr Assault...who OHK'ed you this time?

Look, the SCR is an awesome weapon made even more awesome by the Amarr Assault, but the SCR is a weapon that only really shines in 1 v 1 fights.

1 v 1 I would venture that a good SCR user will win just about every time. The charge shot will take out a large chunk of health whereas the follow up shots will kill the target.

The SCR struggles in CQC and fights that are more than 1 v 1 thanks to the overheat mechanic. Yes, you may not believe it, but it is still easy to overheat the SCR even in an Amarr medium suit when you're panic firing at someone CQC, or trying to take out multiple enemies shooting back at you with their AR's, CR's, and RR's.

I really think that is the bit people fail to understand is that....

SCR - 1 v 1
RR - 1 v how ever many before you run out of ammo or killed
AR - ditto
CR - ditto

Yet people complain that "boo hoo BOO HOO, the SCR OHK'ed me and mopped the floor with my corpse!"

Pro tip - don't take on a SCR user alone...you're gonna lose every time.

This argument comes up in all FPS. The reward for the high powered, simi auto, med-long range rifle. This class of rifle is deadly for two reasons:

Stats

Type of player that uses it

The biggest difference I see in this version of this class of rifle in the ScR is the mag size and the over all ammo capacity, which both are too high. Other than that, RoF/accuacy/range/damage are all in line with what the class should be. The TAC AR would be there also if CCP hadn't swung the hammer too far with the RoF. 480 is the magic number, not because of some DPS statistic, because that is the high end of what a skilled trigger finger can pull off. Go much higher and you are asking for modded controllers to do what a human can't. Lower it and you're selling players that favor, and have often spent time in FPS games developing skills to use them, short.

If you pick up an ScR and do well with it, congratulations, you are good by way of natural skills or hours of experience. Most players that have a more casual style of play or not as many hours behind the controller do not do good with this class of weapon. If they did, everyone would be running around with the ScR instead of the RR, and would've been using the ScR over the AR build last.

As for the combination with the amar assault, that belongs in a bigger discussion around rewarding lore. Personally, I don't think the amar bonus is bad, I think the rest of the assault bonuses suck. But I think the story behind this game adds an extra welcome dimension to the game that doesn't as much trump balance as make it more interesting.

It's the only rifle to over heat. Check plz