TYCHUS MAXWELL wrote:Fizzer XCIV wrote:Stefan Stahl wrote:TYCHUS MAXWELL wrote:All this will do is drive more players towards Gallente and Amarr dropsuits, since all the shield profiled weapons are getting buffed to effect armor. Which makes them shred shield based suits in half a second.
I subjectively believe this to be true.
If a ScR is competitive against armor heavy targets it will always obliterate any attempt of shield-tanking because it does 50% more DPS on shields than on armor. The shield-armor metagame can't move away from armor until anti-shield weapons are in a realistic ballpark.
For comparison:
Pro ACR against armor: 502 DPS before skills
Pro SCR against shields: 850 DPS theoretical, 600 DPS leisurely (7 shots a second).
Your really shouldn't be comparing the ACR and ScR.
Semiautomatics need to be held to a different standard. Their nature makes them naturally bad in a High TTK and tracking intensive game like this. So they need to be padded a bit so they can compete.
The practical randomness of the shot intervals nessesitates that the balance of semiautomatics need to be done largely by "feel", since pure numbers fall apart.
Compare the ACR and AScR. They are the ones competing for the same role, anyway.
I agree, however how about the CQC effectiveness between the ScR and the AScR? That's where I think the real issue lies. Currently why use a AScR if it has nearly the same RPM and dispersion with much less damage?
The AScR is just so messed up... :/
The batshit insane muzzle flash and shaking make the rifle absolutely crap when aiming down the sights. Its just too much visual information for any normal person to filter out while trying to focus on tracking and shooting. The end effect is that the best engagement range for the AScR is 10-15m... hipfire range.
Its to the point that just hipfiring the thing at every range is almost preferable to aiming.
And part of the problem with thinking that the ScR should be bad in CQC is that it isn't a long range weapon. Its a medium range weapon. It shouldn't be bad in CQC, just outperformed by the designated CQC weapons, which it is. In the same way that it shouldn't be bad in long range, just outperformed. Not bad but not the best.
Currently, I do think the AScR is better than the ScR in CQC. The AScR has an amazing hipfire dispersion.