It seems to kill just fine.

And balancing off of 1% of the playerbase is stupid.

You need to provide more data than "no one uses it."

This doesn't tell us WHY no one uses it. Honestly with the armor meta I'm amazed ANYONE In PC used it. Its crap for popping gallente and amarr dropsuits. In pubs where people run cal and min fits it performs as well as any other rifle.


So if you want to assert that it was overnerfed you need to give reasons not anecdotes. Preferrably with math.

It overheats too fast now. The RoF is still fine. The hipfire nerf wasn't necessary I don't think, but I'm not too bent out of shape about that.
But the overheat is just terrible now.

Amarr Assault now makes it as good as it used to be on non Amarr Assaults, roughly.
ScRs can barely dish out 1000 damage before it blows up in the users face now. Killing heavies, commandos, and even assaults is disproportionately hard compared to the other rifles now.
Good luck against an armor sentinel. Your gonna need to get the drop on them, and land every shot in their head to kill them.

Maybe you have lost your touch...because they still KILL. and are still annoying as SH&t

Nobody cares about PC matches. Its all about pubs and using the biggest crutch in the game possible.

Answer:
Balance must always based on the maximum conceivable combination.
Otherwise there will be new fotm.


The combo meaning the the maxed out skill+gear+fitting combo. Now the fitting combinations make this a challenge for the devs, of course.


When the things (weapons f.ex.) have been balanced at maximum level, then the lesser variants will be created/balanced/calculated.

Problem is the commando only has the laser rifle and scram rifle bonused. In my experience the overheat makes scrams largely untenable in the hands of the amarr commando.

You cannot take advantage of the scram alpha if you overheat before the gun has fired six shots.

Even on the armor scouts my viziam works fine. Now on armor mediums it's not that great. Working as intended since it's a anti shield weapon.

I'm one of the few that often uses the Viziam ScR in PC, just know who to engage when and you'll be fine.

This is pretty typical of most posts about the gun.

But to continue to beat the dead horse.


Myth 1 You could only hit the max dps with a rapid fire controller

There were plenty of videos of people achieving the max ROF without a rapid fire controller.

Myth 2 that rapid fire controllers some how fired faster than the ROF limit on the gun

False again, no proof has ever been submitted on this and all available footage keeps the weapons firing rate inline withe the RoF.

Myth 3 Adjusting the rof impacted using a rapid fire controller

False again. The whole point of using the rapid fire controller is to guarantee that the weapon fires at its max rof every time. Because of lag and performance issues having your natural timing get thrown off diminishes the effectiveness of the gun. A slower natural timing on the gun actually accentuates this issue. You're even better off using the rapid fire controller now than you were before because every shot matters so much more because of the ******** and lazy heat mechanic being used on the gun.



The two things hindering the weapon are the insanely lackluster charging mechanic (which would do away with using a turbo altogether) and the silly heat mechanic that that forces the user to care more about firing off as many shots as possible as the primary concern when firing. (which again would diminish the benefit of using the rapid fire as well)