The ScR has been OP since they introduced it and you must not have been around very long if you think nobody complained about it being OP. Most people stay away from it because of the overheat but that's only a problem in CQC and only happens when you're outnumbered. Any semi competent person can wreck a team with it if they use it properly. Hell I went 22/0 with the militia version outside of the academy with my vehicle alt which doesn't have any infantry skills at all.

Edit: Oh, that -20% against armor everyone likes to point out as a weakness, is a joke. The ScR still does just as much damage after it's -20% as the RR does to armor with it's +10%.

It's really just the lack of overheat that's the problem. A weapon with that much DPS and range should have more of a drawback than overheat that doesn't come into play until the very end of your clip, if that.

^ what he said.

Also, I have been an avid ScR user for almost 8 months, yet ALL of my best game scores have been with the CR. (Most recently 45/2 with RS-90) and I rarely use a Viziam in PC.

The reason for this is simple, the CR is easy as fuk to use versus the ScR for the following reasons:

- The CR does more damage per shoot(burst) without having to worry about overheat.
- You can engage multiple enemies with constant fire without a drawback
- The five second seizure on ScR is twice as long as reloading a CR, and during overheat you are completely vulnerable
- The overheat can kill you. I have suicide many times from ScR overheat
-The CR has the best damage profile, versus the ScR having the worst, especially against the many, many Pro Armor heavies overflowing in PCs these days.
- The CR has amazing hip fire and scope fire, probably the best of all the guns
- For me the CR seems to have better reliabilty with hit detection in laggy PC matches than the Viziam
- You can fire a CR until the clip is empty and THEN switch to a sidearm, meanwhile I constantly have to switch back and forth between my ScR and SMG to prevent overheat. NO other main weapon forces you to have to do this like the ScR does.
- The only true drawback to the CR is it chews through ammo fast. But with the multiple ways to get more ammo this is easily overcome but overheat is NOT easily dealt with.

But for me, as I already stated, the CR is too easy to use. So easy in fact I don't like to use it because it turns pubs into pure slaughterfest boredom. At least with the ScR I have to actually aim properly, manage overheat, avoid multiple targets and have clean sidearm transfers versus the CR EZmode of point and shoot till it's dead.

Give me a golden gun for headshots only then...

You see now we are getting somewhere, that's mastery!
You don't need a ridiculous ROF for that kind of mastery, that's use the weapons PROS (Charge Shot) to outweigh it's cons.
I have absolutely no quarrel with that, in fact I'd probably congratulate you if I ever saw you in action.

But you still don't need to be capable of firing 11 shots a second, and that leads to abuse. By controllers and 'l33t' players, who have been doing that kinda thing since FPS's were first invented.