I have been looking at this issue, specifically at post Delta, or last 27 days, using both Public Match and Planetary Conquest data.

1) Even though unintended, the Scrambler Rifle was overperforming pre-Delta running an average KDR of 1.8 before and exactly at 1.5, where the Combat Rifle and Rail Rifle are, on Public Matches.

2) However, the Amarr Proto Assault with Scrambler is a competitive PC fit, and ranks in the top 20 combinations.

3) On top of that, the Scrambler Rifle is on par with most of other Rifles kills with in Planetary Conquest (post Delta). The ACR is an outlier at 1.5KDR in Public Matches but has more than 50% more kills than the second placed Rifle in PC.


It has taken a necessary hit, but is now pretty much where we want it to be.

What is the main issue, and please don't just say "more heat than before" because that has helped balance the weapon. Is there a tweak to be done to improve it a bit?

Not good enough at all...any thoughts?

I used to love the ScR (normal version) and play with it a LOT pre-Delta. But the heat build-up on it is so incredibly high now that even with my ak.0 assault, 3 comp damage mods and Viziam Scrambler, it can only shoot 2 charged shots or ~20 normals. Thing is that most of the 20 shots you'll spam won't reach the target (because of recoil, dispersion, bugs, etc.) so you WILL have to stop at least once before finishing your target. This is true against about every medium/heavy suits that arent militia, and it's a shame.

The only way I use it now is to take down the shield of my enemy and then switch to my Breach SMG.. Compare it to every other rifles and you'll notice the big difference. The overheat needs to be back to what it used to be pre-Delta.

However since the Seize Up is effectively and artificial reload it might as well not have that large magazine capacity.

A 5.0 Second Seize Duration is longer than any reload and crippling in a fight where your opponent can apply their sustained DPS (aka full damage of the magazine) while the ScR I believe at Lvl5 Amarr Assault will apply 18 rounds of damage before over heat.

If I am not mistaken and acception a 2-3 shot margin of error on the Scr Stats.

CRD-9 Scrambler Rifle = 66.25 Damage Per Shot

66.25 * 18 = 1192.5
66.25 * 21= 1391.25

SB-39 Rail Rifle

49.35 * 42= 2072.7

RS-90
28.35 * 54= 1530.9


Gek-38

31.5 * 60 = 1890


All 3 other Racial Rifles can apply the DPS of a full magazine without penalty. The ScR suffers because its effective magazine is only about 21 or so.

((Disclaimer- I like to think its a way to prevent spammability in CQC....but even at range it's quite the pain as its the only rifle that really requires trigger discipline.))