Well, I'm glad you listened to the headshot thing and fixed the Bolt Pistol. Now THAT is a Breach-style rail pistol. It's now akin to a scoped magnum revolver. I like it. It's competitive with the Breach ScP now, little harder to handle in CQC but with good optics and better range. For comparison's sake, ADV Breach ScP (highest available) does 850.5 on headshot and ADV BoP does 601.125 on headshot. Seems pretty fair given the thing has more than ironsights on it and now serves a purpose as a pocket-sized sniping tool. Those bodyshots are no joke too. Love it, love everything about it.

Please don't take away the BoP's 6th round, a STD Breach ScP with Ops 5 has 1980 dmg/mag. Even a mere Operations 2 (the minimum for using the STD Breach ScP) bumps it up to 1440 dmg/mag. Y'all keep forgetting the bloody Ops bonus.

I appreciate you adjusted the fitting requirements on the Flaylock, but I'm not sure I'm feeling the splash radius re-nerf on it. It's part of its current problems since mediums started being able to just bunnyhop to avoid it when the nerfhammer hit it. By increasing the projectile speed, I see you're trying to encourage bodyshots and even headshots, but it remains to be seen if it'll be fast enough to do that reliably.

Regarding the Ion Pistol, 1.5s seize is the right way to go. I could be totally wrong, but I think that was about the length of an overcharged Plasma Pistol shot seize in the original Halo, it felt...right. Now you only lose about 2.6-3 seconds of applied DPS (charge time + seize time) for a higher alpha shot that'll do 551.2 damage on a headshot at ADV. You're probably still boned if you miss that shot, and it'll probably still be better to just magdump uncharged shots, but it's an option that isn't a 100% death sentence now, more like 50%.

Maybe the Ion Pistol's problem is that it's the bastard child of a SMG and pistol in that it has lower damage per shot, somewhat larger magazine, somewhat faster ROF than other pistols, and SMG range. It looks to me it's intended to be a hipfire close-range bodyshot weapon, and I feel a smallish DPS buff (only a few more %) could make it a fairly decent choice over an Assault ScP (which has 13 rounds/mag at Ops 5 with better range and headshots).

I also think the bolt should keep 6 rounds. Its very unforgiving if you miss a shot as is, also hit detection on its awful sometimes.

If you looked at the dmg per clip on the BP, it was out of order at 6 and by far the highest for pistols.

I am proposing to reduce reload speed to make up for the clip size.

Based on quality feedback we modified our proposals

PG reduced on Flaylock, CPU increased, dmg and radius reduced a little, 200% headshot dmg bonus
Increased AS Scrambler Pistol ROF to differentiate better between assault and normal SCP
Bolt Pistol, recalculated based on charge time, basically increased damage by a lot. Increased range as well, plus 250% headshot dmg bonus
Ion, reduced seize from 3.5 to 1.5, 150% headshot bonus

If you looked at the dmg per clip on the BP, it was out of order at 6 and by far the highest for pistols.

I am proposing to reduce reload speed to make up for the clip size.

Based on quality feedback we modified our proposals

PG reduced on Flaylock, CPU increased, dmg and radius reduced a little, 200% headshot dmg bonus
Increased AS Scrambler Pistol ROF to differentiate better between assault and normal SCP
Bolt Pistol, recalculated based on charge time, basically increased damage by a lot. Increased range as well, plus 250% headshot dmg bonus
Ion, reduced seize from 3.5 to 1.5, 150% headshot bonus

If you looked at the dmg per clip on the BP, it was out of order at 6 and by far the highest for pistols.

I am proposing to reduce reload speed to make up for the clip size.

If you looked at the dmg per clip on the BP, it was out of order at 6 and by far the highest for pistols.

I am proposing to reduce reload speed to make up for the clip size.

Hey, why does the militia ScP do more damage than a basic? That make not sense at all, if anything, it should be the opposite.

Probably number blindness after being in that doc for so long

Thanks for pointing it out.

Also for the love of god and all that is holy and sacred no I'm not amar but I don't care MAKE SURE THE BOLT PISTOL HAS VERY HIGH HIP FIRE DISPERSION if you don't do this this thing will become extremely OP.

Also by comparison the ion pistol has very low dps for its range, specially when the scrambler pistol has higher dps and of course that headshot multiplier and the bolt pistol is now a full auto charged ion pistol. It's dps should be around 450 at pro level imo, would also bring up its dmg per clip because it is relatively low compared to every other sidearm except the flaylock.

Also did you remove the heat buff on the iop and opted to reduce seize time? If you did please add it again the worst thing about the iop was the very punishing charge.

No, don't cut the clip size, not all shots are registered correctly.

Since we are talking about it i have another question: do you feel the skill bonus is good?
In this char i have prof. 3 and in another character i have operation at lvl.1, the difference is little, especially because i aim down sight 90% of the time.
Imo the skill bonus should be changed to something else but i don't know what.

Bolt pistols suffer from the same hit detection glitch like all rail wrapons. Theyre all so buggy large rail turrets, small rail turrets, rail rifles sometimes. The forge gun had a similar glitch not so lomg ago, how did that get fixed?

which skill? the cal assault reload bonus, or the bolt pistol operations skill?

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Prepare for the return of my dual sidearm scout!

So, regarding the Flaylock PG increase, the following two things are both true:

1: It was definitely needed to enable the performance buffs required to make it usable again.

2: After the fix goes live, I will almost never be using the FP again.

The reason I have a FP on any of my fits is because I run some very PG hungry set-ups, and after all the required gear is in place, the STD FP is the only thing that'll fit.

I am not requesting the PG be kept at 0.
But, down the line can we get a weapon variant or two with trash stats and very low PG/CPU requirements?
I guarantee there is a niche for it.