Vesta Opalus
Kang Lo Holding
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Posted - 2014.09.08 17:44:00 -
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I'm not going to talk about modded controllers, I'll talk about intended use/balance and what I think its general issues are.
I have used the scrambler alot and have had it used against me, and I don't think this gun is under or overpowered across the board, however I do think it is imbalanced in many ways. WHA? Yeah, let me go into that some.
Its overpowered against shield suits. 130% (I think?) is too much. I have zapped away the entire shield pool of a caldari heavy in one charged shot with this thing. Any shield suit that is actually dedicated to shield tanking can be absolutely <1 sec mauled by this thing.
Its overpowered against low-tank suits. Doesnt even need to be shield suits. Any suit with <300-400 health is just food for this thing.
Its underpowered against high hp pools, especially armor tanked ones (amar assault/heavy suits/etc). Once the rifle reaches the overheat enforced cutoff of damage output, you have to either wait or switch to sidearm. This means you are inherently at a disadvantage against suits with high hp or heavy armor tank.
So we have this odd situation where the gun is both over and under powered depending on what you are doing.
I think maybe the gun needs to be evened out a little bit so that its less overwhelming to shield users (you want people to use shield tanking without having to feel like stacking 300+ armor, right?) and more effective against these high hp guys (though personally I would prefer some diminishing returns on hp modules in general to discourage hp stacking)
Things I would do:
1. Change damage profile so its not insane. Explosive weapons already had this applied to them because of the crazy killing spree they had a while back, lets do it for scramblers too. The only reason we havent heard more outcry is that almost no one actually shield takes exclusively these days because its suicidal.
2. Add in more weapon kick and a delay between shots. I heard someone say this is a skilled weapon. I disagree. Every other rifle has both more kick and slower shot delay. When I use scrambler rifle, if I hit with that first shot Im going to hit with the 8-10 shots I can crap out after it in under a second, because there is virtually no kick and no delay. There is nothing to manage during firing, you just have to make sure you dont hit overheat, which is trivial.
3. Heck if I know how you are going to make it better against high hp/armor tanks without making the first two problems even worse. Adjusting the profile might help from #1, but maybe this is just cost of doing business of using a scrambler rifle. |