Is that any specific variant or do you mean all variants? I find the standard to work all right but when it comes to driving everyone out of their hidey holes or else, you gotta bring the noise with the assault variant. Breach is for spit wadding vehicles or getting dem OHKOs on starter fits. Typically speaking though veteran proto stompers know to spaz the **** out while they spam their assault variant rifles when you use a breach MD, PLC, or Forge gun. I get lit up like a christmas tree everytime I run one of those things against proto stompers. Probably because anything else is a non-threat when you're strafe spazzing in full proto.

Edit: Wait did they add new variants to the game? Haven't logged on yet... is the snowball launcher a new thing?

I'm guessing its a glitch? Did they **** with the current variants or is this some new variant? If so, then mother *******, lol! I just started respeccing into MDs. Already getting second hand ****** by them buffing AR even more to make it competitive against armor tanks as shield tanking is just becoming more of a joke as well.

Holiday updates are all well and good but we don't even have all racial weapons and at the least racial types. I mean a breach RR ScR and CR are all just edits just like a snowball launcher. Likewise Tactical RR and CR as well as the Burst RR and ScR would be the same...

not to be a Scrooge here, but there are so many useful edits that a gimmicky edit seems like a waste of their apparent limited resources.

Well excuse me princess, for wanting this game to be a success that people will give a **** about instead of wanting to add a few chortles for 15 minutes from less than 3000 people. I know tons of people really find the hit detection and forge gunning for 0 damage to be just the funniest joke the world's ever seen.

They want to add a holiday event with snow ball launchers? How about a special game mode where you use unlimited frontline fitted snowball launchers that ohko players in the game mode. No isk, no wp, just entertainment. If you're going to waste time might as well make it enjoyable.

That's how you make an event.

If it is literally that easy to implement new weapons then that's embarrassing that we are still missing most of the variants of weapons. I'll defer to the launchers popularity in the actual game as to whether or not many people actually care. It's the CPM elections all over again. 6 people on the forum in a population of 3000 does not a majority make.

Wouldn't be hard if math was relied upon. People can knock it as much as they want about making fun of "Things on paper" but it wouldn't take long to establish mathematical balance. They just don't apply any rule set to how things function (IE. scrambler rifles and the TAR do not have remotely comparative stats and there's no good reason why they don't) that just being one example. This game has been a nightmare of kneejerk buff/nerf cycles with no real attempt to just balance by design instead of by Meta.

I'd rather the Devs not implement anything right before the holidays (Knowing full well it will probably be buggy) and just go get drunk. I don't want a repeat of 1.7 last year where the devs dropped the vehicle rebalance then went on holiday. We had peaked up to around 4500 active then and nose dived to 1800 and now we still are below that time last year at 3000.

Given that they decided to drop more rebalancing like buffing the AR even more I'd rather them focus on making sure it's all hunky dorey and not on a reskin of a weapon not everyone can use anyways.