I think everyone can call it op as a shield based weapon it does more damage to armor than the cr

Crw scr- dmg to armor per shot = 54.6

Rs-90- dmg to armor per shot = 31.18


This can be calculated by taking the base dgm of each weapon and adding in the type bonus scr is 10% dmg to shield -10% to armor and just flip it for cr

Some things I note that are wrong with SCRs:

• Too effective within CQC for a weapon meant to be used at Mid-Long ranges.
• RPM is far too high; allows for easy abuse with Modded Controllers.

Some solutions to these problems:

• Increased dispersion while hip-fired; increase zoom fidelity to encourage use at Mid-Long ranges.
• Reduce RPM to 400.00.

/me waits to be trolled by Amarr RPers who have no actual arguments against these assertions.

After reading through the rest of these posts, I'd like to point out that every person defending the ScR has an Amarr profile picture. So you're an Amarr FW player and you think your weapon is just fine? That sounds fine, "bias" isn't in my dictionary anyways.

There aren't any STD burst HMGs.

After being melted by ScRs on the day Charlie was deployed I pulled out the Viziam. You know somethings up when youre melting Gallente Assaults with 700 Armor with a Viziam ScR on an Assault ck.0.

I then tested the basic on the Assault A-1. Gives most heavys a run for their money.

You're not the only one bro. I say the same thing and I've been met with the typical get good scrub response. Really don't care. Let's just keep talking about it bro until CCP has to take a look at it. It is OP.

They just want to protect their crutch dude, trust me.

The DPS is just crazy. Throw in a charged shot, and a mercenary doesn't have time to react. It's TTK is not on par with other weapons in the game. It's the fastest killing weapon.

Well first of all, you're right, it hasn't changed substantially for over a year, because of people like you who refuse to admit they are over the top.

Your questions:
-The masses did figure it out, then stopped bothering making posts when the crutch wielders beat them down by repeatedly saying it was ok and spamming threads with useless comments. (a lot like what's happening now in this thread, looking at you Nocturnal)
Answer me this: what do you think of the skill multipliers for Electronics and Engineering? It's a core skill, and there was a HUGE uproar on jacking up the SP costs. It's still a steaming pile bull that they did that, nothing has changed, but why do people no longer complain? Because a few defended the SP increase and CCP outright ignored any sort of negative feedback on the change. People gave up because there was no chance in hell of it getting changed. The same can be said for AA, which still has a large amount of bullet magnetism, and people cried like hell when it was first introduced, but now they've given up, no chance of it getting changed.

-Please tell me where you get that information from, because "statistically" when I play my matches, I see more ScRs than the other rifles.

-I hope that question was a joke, if serious, please refer to the guy who made an entire sarcastic post dedicated to that sentence.

-I do, actually. Next question.

-CR is statistically the best choice in a PC match due to versatility. Low fitting costs mean you can equip uplinks with high fitting costs, to spam as many anchor points as possible. Best damage profile makes it a good weapon against both armor and shields. I never said the CR wasn't OP, I said the ScR was.

-Did I mention the part where the users of the ScRs beat down the complaints with trollolololing?

That said, currently these rifles are in relative balance, sorted from most consumed to least.

1. Rail Rifles
2. Combat Rifles
3. Plasma (GA) Rifles
4. Scrambler Rifles

I think the number of modded SCR's is probably being overstated a tad, I haven't really noticed being killed extravagantly nor unfairly by SCR's. I get more killed by CR's and Rails, Nova Knifes and Shotguns.