As I have both as Close to maxed out it makes no difference, this is my opinion.

The CR, burst edititon, is still insanely powerful, yes I know its supposed to shred People but come on! A 5-10% reduction to damage would put it more in the line with the other rifles.

The Scrambler, single shot edition, has become another unicorn. I almost never see it anymore. I've tried it out, even With two complex damage mods and its a pathetic shadow of its fomer glory. Yes it will shred Shields but then it stops. The combined effect of the general damage reduction and the change to the profficiency skill has made this gun close to pointless. Try going up against a RR user who is armor tanked and the odds are greatly stacked against you. As far as I can remember I have only seen it in use twice since the launch of 1.8. I have huge problems killing any kind of somewhat properly tanked armor suit before overheating. Sidearms is often not an issue due to range. I suggest it gets back the 8.8% pr so base damage that got reduced With 1.8, the Assault scrambler is just fine the way it is.

The HMG is in my opinion the most unbalanced gun in the game. The main problem here is the pushback effect of the bullets. When I get hit my character stops moving or is slowed Down to a crawl and I just have to take it. In practise it might aswell have been an auto shotgun With 3-4 times the range. It is just so blasted annoying to run by someone, if I get shot by any other gun I take damage but can still move out of the way, if it happens to be a HMG shooting me, my dude stops and just take it until he dies, a very short time after. I don't have any beef With the damage of the gun nor do I With the amount of HP etc. But that pushback effect combined With a relatively long range and very high damage is just too much. Or am I off here? Is th gun supposed to be that way? With a build in webifier or whatever its called?

Tweaking these Three weapons would go a long way in terms of Balance and IMO it will increase the enjoyment for a lot of

players.

the scrambler still kicks a55. the reason you don't see it is because its not a cloak and shotgun.

The ScR is TOO specialized and its proficiency bonus is overkill imo. The ScR already does 120% to shields, with proficiency V, I'm doing 139% to shields which is ludicrous, why would I ever need to do THAT much damage to one tanking method?

Unless you apply damage modifiers to the ScR, it will always only do 80% towards armor, so in my situation, my ScR's damage profile is 139/80 in an era where everyone is stacking as much armor as they possibly can beneath their shields.

The ScR isn't UP per se, it is just a perfect storm of proficiency changes, damage mod nerf, rifle nerf, and everyone brick tanking that makes the ScR feel weaker than it actually is.

screw all the guns...... buff the assault rifle to pre-1.8 levels.

Hmm apparently you havent been paying attention to the update weapons now are shield or armor preferentialmeaning that when ya shoot that guy rocking 500 armor and **** for shield its probrobly not the one to mess with using a scrambler laser ectnotice in your skill tree that weapon pproficiency no longer does 3 percent more damage per level it does 3 percent more to either armor orshield and guy im sorry but if you think that you should be able to run through a hmg and it have no stopping power you need to play james bond on the n64 ya know before they pulled any sort of reality into the effects of fps