Before the CR came out, I used the AScR as my primary weapon. It's actually fairly accurate at range and does not have the same actual kick as the RR... like morte said, a lot of it is graphical. It does make it a little harder to aim (dat muzzle flash too, seems like it has been toned down tho). The main problems with it are:

1) Heat buildup is horrible now. You can barely fire half a clip if you aren't in an Amarr assault suit.

2) Armor tanking meta doesn't help but its much less of an issue. When you could fire basically an entire clip without overheating, it was actually still a really good weapon. But....

3) Even when it was good, it was a pain to use because scrambler weapons have very high fitting costs compared to the others. This is why I switched to the CR.


AScR was still quite good, certainly better than the AR, for a long time. It took a little hit when shield tanking died, but it was Delta and the heat buildup change that really crippled it. It's been completely removed from all my fittings now.