TheD1CK wrote: those denying the effectiveness of the current ScP arer clearly Lazy.. It's a pistol dammit not a primary weapon
And that in no way justifies the nerf done to it.
The SMG could face down the Scrambler Pistol before.
Those two sidearms had been keeping each other in check since Closed Beta FFS...
Damn right people are denying it's current efffectiveness. More specifically, its efficiency.
And you call them "LAZY"? This is a game, FFS....!
Your weapon should be fun to use! Not be a chore! It should be fun, NOT a job.
Laziness has nothing to do with it. Ease of use and reliability is more important. Why should it be "work" to play with a gun in a video game?
When you die in combat, it should boil down to you simply 'getting got', not whether or not your damn weapon is even capable of putting a target down efficiently.
Every weapon in the game is "effective". But their are glaring disparities in the EFFICIENCY of the weapons in this game.
Projectile weapons are simply the most efficient. Period. It just so happens that projectile weapons are also the least frustrating to use. I have no complaints about the Combat Rifle; and the SMG is my favorite and more reliable sidearm, no matter what platform.
You can put an SMG on a heavy, on a scout, on an assault... and no matter what the situation, you can whip it out and put down. In a panic or not. Once upon a time, the same could be said about the scrambler pistol. Why should the SMG fitting cost be increased?
Why is it a problem if someone wants to run a secondary weapon as a primary? You can do that in almost any shooter. Some people like pistols more. Why can't they use a pistol as a primary and be efficient? They line up some shots on you and you die. Period. When did you having a bigger gun, entitle you to be immune to defeat to a smaller one? What did the ScP outdps so hard?
Why does everything that works half-decently have to be made HARDER to use? Can't anyone take their nose out of a spreadsheet for a minute and USE the damn guns?
There is almost no gun that sticks out as OP anymore (like the 1.0 TAR), and the little that's left (that everyone was fine with the whole time) we want to nerf?
That doesn't even compute.