Gyn Wallace
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Posted - 2014.12.11 17:10:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote: Currently, the rest of kills in PC are split fairly equally between the rest of all the rifles, which is a huge win for the balancing effort that's been going on since Hotfix Alpha.
The balancing has been going superbly.
Lots of people are agreeing that the TAR can use a buff, but disagreeing about the scale of that buff. Is there a good reason to do a big buff that might be followed by a nerf (if PC use of the TAR leaps a little more than you'd like), rather than doing a couple of smaller buffs that would give you time to figure out if the smaller buff is enough to increase the TAR's use in PC?
In other worse, why not:
1) a little buff in this hot fix (TAR magazine capacity raised to 24), assess increase in PC usage, and IF the TAR is still underutilized, another little buff in the next hot fix (TAR magazine capacity raised to 30),
instead of:
2) a big buff (TAR magazine capacity raised to 30), assess increase in usage, and IF the TAR become the new FOTM, a nerf?
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Gyn Wallace
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Posted - 2014.12.12 16:07:00 -
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Mordecai Snake wrote:CCP Rattati wrote:Any users that want to get their weapons buffed? The Breach Mass Driver should have more splash damage than the normal variant. All MD variants should have 100% vehicle efficiency.
+1
Aside from trying it out, I never use the breach MD. I'd consider using a MD with a smaller splash radius, if it did more, rather than less splash damage. If it did 150% of the normal MD splash damage, in a smaller radius, at the same rate of fire, I'd even give up two rounds from the magazine, i.e.
4shot MD, reduced splash area, 150% splash damage per shot. Concentrating the same total damage as 6 shots from a normal MD into 2/3rs the time, and into a smaller area.
This, or the suggestion for faster travel time (with the same arc) would allow me to shoot someone hacking an objective, without them finishing the hack and running away, before enough of my rounds travel to them.
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