I miss the old Scrambler Pistols more than anything that has ever been in this game...

I just don't understand why Pistols need to be such utter crap compared to the SMGs. There isn't a single reason th use an Ion Pistol or Scrambler Pistol when Magsecs and SMGs are so much better...

The only bad thing I find about the Ion pistol is the range, otherwise I find it to be an acceptable and powerful sidearm for up close encounters, it certainly deals with scouts quickly too, usually before they can shotgun me.

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Wow. Looks like another thread that's becomeing derailed. Is this thread still about Scrambler Pistols?

I still own, and still value the Scrambler pistol---yes it was the first weapon I decided I HAD to have on my dream-dropsuit fitting, no matter what other sidearms are available. I look at the drawings of it, and it's like Harry's Magnum 44, but with artistic scrimshaw elegance.
Maybe that's important in Dust---not only that there is diligence towards "balancing" (whatever that is, ugh!), but also that each race of weapons retain an "attitude" that makes it something desirable. IF this is all about "the most effective destroyer with highest rate of kill", then eventually EVERYONE will migrate toward a brute-dumb Mass Driver and SMG.

Minmatar weapons are (supposedly?) the youngest and most urgently needed on the battlefield, so it makes sense that they look the crudest, make the most antagonizing noise, and spray the most,... and THAT becomes the technology's identity.

Gallente and Caldari weapons have always been stuck in Hatfield-n-Macoy fixation with one another's counter-technology. At war with each other for so long that they're trapped in an even balance, each technology consatntly trying to be strong where the other is weak, looking to break the tie. ("If you get close enough your gun can completely slaughter me, but if I keep you far enough away my gun can completely slaughter you") It makes sense that they end up "different in every way, yet somehow a perfect counter to each other in combat". They are the most refined, most thorough-looking weaponry in the game, but always EQUALLY destructive to each other, and that's their twin identities.

Amar should be JUST AS destructive as any of the other three known competitors, but continue to have the most "Calmly-committed",... "Shaolin Peaceful",... "Jedi-harmony" destructive ruthlessness in the game. They are the only race who were able to build their weapon technology WITHOUT any counter adversaries (...slaves don't have a technolgy to fight you back with ), so it makes sense that they have the most "exotic technology". That, and the faith that they are "destined" to be the winners, makes it logical to have quiet Lasers that ethereally CREMATE by the truckload, Rifles that disassemble your body with much less noise and time than other races, and a Pistol that is calm and confident enough to fire a single slow round at a time,...BUT PUTS A MAGNUM HOLE IN YOU WIDE ENOUGH TO DRIVE CLINT EASTWOOD'S CAR THROUGH!
Even if only for the sake or Racial identity, the Amar pistol NEEDS to be THE pistol sidearm in the game with the disturbingly highest HP damage in a standard single-round.

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Wow. Looks like another thread that's becomeing derailed. Is this thread still about Scrambler Pistols?

I still own, and still value the Scrambler pistol---yes it was the first weapon I decided I HAD to have on my dream-dropsuit fitting, no matter what other sidearms are available. I look at the drawings of it, and it's like Harry's Magnum 44, but with artistic scrimshaw elegance.
Maybe that's important in Dust---not only that there is diligence towards "balancing" (whatever that is, ugh!), but also that each race of weapons retain an "attitude" that makes it something desirable. IF this is all about "the most effective destroyer with highest rate of kill", then eventually EVERYONE will migrate toward a brute-dumb Mass Driver and SMG.

Minmatar weapons are (supposedly?) the youngest and most urgently needed on the battlefield, so it makes sense that they look the crudest, make the most antagonizing noise, and spray the most,... and THAT becomes the technology's identity.

Gallente and Caldari weapons have always been stuck in Hatfield-n-Macoy fixation with one another's counter-technology. At war with each other for so long that they're trapped in an even balance, each technology consatntly trying to be strong where the other is weak, looking to break the tie. ("If you get close enough your gun can completely slaughter me, but if I keep you far enough away my gun can completely slaughter you") It makes sense that they end up "different in every way, yet somehow a perfect counter to each other in combat". They are the most refined, most thorough-looking weaponry in the game, but always EQUALLY destructive to each other, and that's their twin identities.

Amar should be JUST AS destructive as any of the other three known competitors, but continue to have the most "Calmly-committed",... "Shaolin Peaceful",... "Jedi-harmony" destructive ruthlessness in the game. They are the only race who were able to build their weapon technology WITHOUT any counter adversaries (...slaves don't have a technolgy to fight you back with ), so it makes sense that they have the most "exotic technology". That, and the faith that they are "destined" to be the winners, makes it logical to have quiet Lasers that ethereally CREMATE by the truckload, Rifles that disassemble your body with much less noise and time than other races, and a Pistol that is calm and confident enough to fire a single slow round at a time,...BUT PUTS A MAGNUM HOLE IN YOU WIDE ENOUGH TO DRIVE CLINT EASTWOOD'S CAR THROUGH!
Even if only for the sake or Racial identity, the Amar pistol NEEDS to be THE pistol sidearm in the game with the disturbingly highest HP damage in a standard single-round.