Crimson ShieId
Psygod9
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Posted - 2014.07.17 11:21:00 -
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Most of the sidearms are perfectly fine as is. The SMG is good, but it only stands out because there's nothing to compete with it. The bolt pistol and Magsec are both interesting weapons with good properties (Was the operation skill glitch for the Magsec ever fixed? If not, it needs to be!) while avoiding going overboard. The scrambler pistol, while not quite the beast of a sidearm it used to be, is still good, and the buffs it received alongside the nerfs kept it from falling to the fate of the Flaylock.
Speaking of which, that poor thing needs some love. It shouldn't take three hits from a core to kill a Militia suit. This weapon used to be exceptional, and now it's one of the worst guns in the game. Either give it a splash increase, or buff the direct hit damage back to previous levels. This way, it becomes a skillshot weapon again without going back to it's OP days.
The Ion Pistol, while I don't believe it's in the same hole as the Flaylock, needs something. It seems like it was meant to replace the scrambler pistol in a way, yet the weapon does nothing that the old scrambler pistols used to do. It doesn't have a massive headshot multiplier, it doesn't have decent range, its' ROF isn't all that good, its' damage is meh compared to the scrambler pistol, and the weapon overheats all the time! If it's going to be left with the same absolute range it currently has, it needs one of several things. A damage buff, an ROF buff, a magazine capacity increase, or ditching the overheat mechanic entirely (Or at least make it like a scrambler rifle, where it won't overheat with a single charged shot) None of these things need to be that high, small tweaks and all. The weapon isn't useless, but like the Flaylock, it's a lolgun at the moment. It shouldn't be as good as the old SCP, but it should do at least one or two of the things that SCP did relatively well before it was changed.
Oh, and can we please get the prototype variants for the burst and breach scrambler pistol, as well as the breach Flaylock? And while I'm on that, I'll just move over to the burst SCP. This weapon is interesting, but it needs something. The ROF is fine, the damage is fine, but this thing's hipfire accuracy while on the move is atrocious. Trying to hit and kill a target while not aiming down your sights is almost as difficult with the burst SCP as it is with the Ion Pistol. The burst AR does it fine, the CR does it fine. Why is it that the burst SCP needs the shooter to be standing perfectly still and aiming down sights to hit a target with more than one of those three shots?
Nova Knives are best sidearm.
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