Blaming the weapon when they should be looking at the delivery platform.

Hint: we call them dropsuits.

That it is so far superior to other weapons in such a variety of circumstances that it out performs other weapons in their intended role, and vastly dwarfs other weapons in usage.

Edit: Agree on NKs. They just got much more viable, so people are seeing them more. To them more deaths means more OP.

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If a weapon breaks free of its intended role and is overshadowing other weapons, it's overpowered.

In this, we have to remember that we shouldn't be declaring "blasters are OP against infantry" or "forge guns are OP against vehicles", because that's an issue of AV vs vehicles altogether, with balance being the opinion of the developers.
Instead, we could say things like "Forge guns are OP compared to swarms", or "Blasters are OP compared to missiles"

Weapons can only be compared to other weapons for balance.
Just as dropsuits can only be compared to dropsuits, and turrets can only be compared to turrets.

Anything that kills you with little to no effort... HMG, rail rifle, redline sniper... Large blasters...

Hello lemming forum alt.

Please post on your main.

Hello dipshit, I'm not an alt : )

his point still stands please do not run directly at a weapon nicknamed Death's Engine

What makes a weapon OP? The damage it puts out? The amount of damage in it's magazine? It's damage profile? The suit it's on?
Or is it the players individual skill?
People complain about getting shredded by combat rifles and burst HMG's with the occasional ScR or other post... But is it truly because these weapons are OP?

I saw a nova knife is OP post... How the hell does that work it has 2.5m of range and yes incredible damage but the amount of skill it takes... You don't see people running 44/1 with knives, and 99/100 they don't tank knives, and if your getting knifed most of the time your staying in an area and he snuck up behind you most of the time they can't just run at you or pick you off at range like other weapons...

Weapon damage type is even all the way through... Accept projectile which should be exactly the same type of effect as a fragmentation explosive because they basically are the same type of effect, supersonic metal.. And then would reflect racially like the hybrid weapons do. Of course we need new heavy weapons to be able to reinforce this function.

Tanking... Armor tanking is superior right now, and shield tanking sucks... Shield tanking should go 60-70-80 as to have a use to run shield weapons over armor every time, I know people would scream OP for that much health but... You could also make it so all shield specific suits have a % bonus per level to shield cal gets 8% per level! minmi gets 5% for all suits in those races.

The problem is the shield armor conundrum, there is more armor so armor weapon A is doing 40 to shield 50 to armor... But there is less shield so shield weapon S is doing 40 to shield then only 35 to armor... So once it gets through the shield... The hard part has just begun while weapon A is doing the same to shield but since it has to do more to armor because there is more... Which leaves us in an endless loop...

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Strategic collapse occurs when one strategy is so preferable that all players essentially choose it all the time. In the Magic tournament environment, looking for a variety of deck types is a good way to check the health of the tournament. A wider variety of types keeps the game balanced, and it's less enjoyable when there's perceived to be just one viable deck type. On the other hand, too many deck types is too confusing for most players.

Source:

Veteran of Strategically designing competitive games

This all was courtesy of Ghosts Chance originally, as he posted a thread topic about this earlier.

Essentially if everyone is spamming heavy hmgs and shotgun cloaked scouts there has been a strategic collapse and therefore a loss in game play, IE OP mechanics.