CCP: Bravo on the previous patches, you've actually made me reinstall, and play 1-3 matches a day, congratulations on that.

However, you're seriously making me HATE being a Minmatar: on the projectile profile update- WHY did you make it Psuedo Explosive?!

Against a STANDARD calsent using a Six Kin ACR on a MK.0 Commando, WITH Prof 2 or 3, it took me THREE clips to drop his shields, and he stood there, pelleting me with 40m HMG.

Using my SMG: i like it, although it struggles WAY too much against shield, EVEN Galscout's 90 shields seems to take 6-8 shots to clear(SK9M Breach with Prof 3), which is ridiculous considering it's ripping apart my 448/369 HP before i even drop his shields.

In terms of my Flaylock: Bravo again, i haven't checked numbers, but i got 4 splash kills on severely wounded targets using it.

Everything else Minmatar though, is absolutely completely **** now(unless you're a heathen and carry Fluxes, or use Imperial things -shudder-)

In terms of a Sidearm my ACR is pretty fine n dandy

agree

It brings shield tanking into being valid again because... why?

Against ARs it melts, against Rail Rifles it melts, against SCRs it's nonexistent, against Shotguns you might as well be running a Sentinel to get 1 more shot of life out of that suit, against Snipers you're only fooling yourself if you think shield tanking will be ideal against them, I fail to see any single weapon that TRUELY manages to be disadvantaged against shields, even ones that are SUPPOSED to be(cough rail rifle).

All other weapons with "major" differences in their damage types carry HUGE increases in performance than others: MD has splash range and moderately high alpha, SCR/LR/ScrP have headshot modifiers, or insane amounts of damage/heat increase, Rail weapons gain huge range and alpha damage, Plasma weaponry (most of them at least) either do so much alpha that shields are irrelevant(or total HP for that matter), or they have a high enough DPS/mag empty time that they're not ever disadvantaged against shield tankers.

But my CR/ACR has the lowest damage/mag out of all rifles, has the shortest mag empty time, and now suffers HORRIBLY against shields.

Oh, and the DPS, range, headshot modifiers, and any other "special" ability that this thing could have are removed, because the CR WAS OP, but: Just like the Flaylock, it must now live in mediocrity or "support" weapon status for the next 3 years or until CCP shuts off DUST.

Remember when the Flaylock was first introduced? people cried RIVERS of tears and had that thing ripped to pieces within the month, and every time I(or another Minmatar/rocket pistol enthusiast) said "dude, we can't have a useless gun, PLEASE do something to make it usable" everyone says



And here we are again. CR is now a finisher weapon, with no cool feature to it other than "looks like Scar, make dakka", and when i say "hey guys, this isnt' a general use rifle, this is a support weapon now." you all say



So thanks, you all hate Minmatar to the point where you want the CR to be a Minmatar Commando's SIDEARM, but then will cry more rivers of tears to make your Sniper Rifle or Ion Pistol "beastmode/viable"