CCP Rattati wrote:Stickied and edited
Thanks for the input.
The fact of the matter is that the weapon's efficiency is considerably higher than the rest of the rifle population.
Those rifles are also measured against Public matches so doesn't create a comparison bias.
Turbo controllers, can be used for more than just the Scrambler, so the numbers should not be biased due to that
It is a skill weapon, for sure, which explains why it is less used than the other rifles.
I also believe, that even with a majority of the playerbase Armor tanking, it is going to be even more efficient through the shield module improvements we are proposing, after swaying more players over to Shield Tanking.
We certainly don't want to overnerf this weapon, just tweak it. ROF changes seem to hit both dps and turbo controllers.
What could be an acceptable reduction in ROF?
-The higher efficiency you talk about, does that take into the account that the weapon can overheat, because quite frankly if say an assault rifle deals 450 damage per second while it has a clip that can maintain this damage for 6 seconds and a SCR would deal 450 damage per second but can do this for 2 seconds, then what is its overheat purpose ? kick yourself to the floor while yer assaulting someone?
-the rof change will just severly hit None-turbo users as we now might have overlap in shots, turbo controller users are not gonna be affected as they do not need to think much when firing and just get the max dps at all times, where fingers are quite allot less perfect and can mess up.
I would propose to Fix the Turbo controller issue first, then see if any of the rifles, you say that more are used with Turbo, then why not FIX that first, level the playing field and then balance the weapons ?
It seems a bit counter productive to fix and lower rof on weapons based on turbo controller use, wouldnt it be easier to fox turbo abuse and then see how all the weapons work ?
You are never going to balance the weapons when 1 person gets shot with turbo and the other not, but balance it as if it wasn't used with turbo, afterwards, the turbo guy will still have the same advantage as before.