Sinboto Simmons
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Posted - 2014.04.29 14:48:00 -
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Atiim wrote:Repe Susi wrote:No. The weapon profile is comparable to Massdriver. As it is a sidearm, which, by the way shoots faster than it's bigger brother it's in a good place now. It still has splash damage/radius enough. I challenge you to use a Core Flaylock and record your stats. Now do the same with SCPs and BPs, and them tell me how fine the weapon is.
I wonder sometimes if people actually use the weapons they talk about or just pretend they do, I'm inclined to believe the later.
From someone who uses the flaylock regularly: The flaylock was hit too hard, CCP's habit in dealing with gear is either to buff it to extremes (tanks), nerf an over powerd gear slightly (scrambler weapons), or hit it with multiple nerfs at the same time. (AR, Flaylock, Sniper, missiles).
As listed the flaylock is a case of the last, let's look at it's nerfs then:
Direct damage: I'm sure we can all agree this was unnecessary.
Splash damage: Needed, perhaps a bit harsh due to a 3 round clip.
Splash radius: An explosive weapon it takes a hit to it's radius size at ground level and on uneven areas, the MD, Plasma cannon, and missiles also suffer this, (oddly enough granades don't seem to) get a flaylock up high and you can hill less tanked suits with it, so it's radius size is enough in theory, not so much in practice.
The main problem with the flaylock of old is that it was deployed in a time when explosive weapons were the only weapons with regularly applied hit detection, this gave it the illusion of being 'Massively OP' due to it's power as a contender to the scrambler pistol, let's be honest: if the flaylock was deployed just a month ago would so many dislike the weapon?
All weapons should be able to kill on their own, period, the argument 'it's a sidearm so it's only ment to finish' is ignorant, use any other sidearm (ion doesn't count, it's flaylock bad) and tell me you NEED to use a main weapon to put someone down:
Scrabler pistol.
SMG
Magsec SMG.
Bolt pistol.
Nova knives.
Out of all of those weapons which one would you say NEEDs a primary to do it's job, the answer is none.
I'm not saying the flaylock wasn't without balancing problems, but it got hit FAR harder then it deserves, minmatar gear in general seems to get the nerf/buff bat often....
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