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Posted - 2015.02.23 13:37:00 -
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A weapon needs to be able to stand up on its own before bonuses.
The Ion Pistol does not compare well to the others when you consider that the majority of your DPS is wasted due to shots never being on target, and the charge shot is a gamble at best.
If your weapon needs a bonus to be on par with other weapons, the weapon is broken.
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Posted - 2015.02.23 14:36:00 -
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Nocturnal Soul wrote:Dust User wrote:Cat Merc wrote:the weapon is broken. Kubo would like to have a word with you. Oh you mean that guy who got 3 officer weapons named after himself.... I'm pretty sure he's a cut above the usual breed.
Never said I can't use the weapon to great effect, heck I killed Kubo himself with a charged shot.
But I cannot say that the weapon is as good as the rest without feeling like I'm lying to myself.
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Posted - 2015.02.23 21:24:00 -
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Grand Master Kubo wrote: The Ion Pistol is the best sidearm for close-quarters one on one engagements. To use it efficiently you have to know when to charge shot and when to spam fire. Unfortunately, Cat Merc was right. The officer Ion Pistol is underwhelming and there is very little reason to use it over the proto Ion Pistol. Maybe I'm just conditioned to seeing a huge leap from proto to officer like for the plasma cannon.
Yes, you need to know those factors to use it efficiently.
But even at max efficiency, without a Gal Assault, would you say the IoP is subpar?
Most of the theoretical DPS gets lost in hipfire from my experience, and the charge shot is a damn problematic gamble when even with perfect accuracy you are likely to miss 60% of the time out at 5 meters vs scouts.
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Posted - 2015.02.23 21:25:00 -
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DeadlyAztec11 wrote:Cyrus Grevare wrote:The Ion pistol is broken in other ways too, one of the few weapons that doesn't have an absolute range, that is, no damage is registered beyond the effective range marking. That actually means that it has a short absolute range. Shorter or as short as the Flaylock.
Nope, it's absolute range is set at -1, which means it literally stops at effective.
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Posted - 2015.02.23 21:27:00 -
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Nocturnal Soul wrote:The overheat on it is so non existent its laughable at best plus the dispersion is good enough to accurately enough to kill a player within 15m.
The heat is one of the most random features of the weapon.
You can spam R1 the exact same way every time and I swear it gives you different results.
Sometimes the heat reaches half, sometimes it overheats before you finish half the mag.
It's disgustingly unreliable.
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Posted - 2015.02.23 21:28:00 -
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Fizzer XCIV wrote:
In fact, I'm noticing a trend whereas the armor damage sidearms are consistently better than the shield damage ones...
This is broken. By their very nature armor damage sidearms will be preferable backup or finisher weapons, but being outright better as well?
Pretty much.
I made this observation a long time ago, and posted it here.
Nobody gave a damn, so whatever VoV
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Posted - 2015.02.23 21:29:00 -
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True Adamance wrote:DeadlyAztec11 wrote:... Does anyone else feel like the Gallente Assault proficiency is basically necessary to use it against strafers?
Seriously, the dispersion, as well as the recoil, on that thing feels ridiculous and overwhelming when coupled with the heat up mechanic.
So to anyone that says the Gallente Assault proficiency is useless, I totally disagree. Nope. I was using the Viz ScR and the Black Eagles Assault Rifle combo the other day and may god when I ran out of ScR rounds that Plasma Rifle just kept me alive killing things. I think the whole 70 rounds in a magazine is more than enough to keep it effective against strafers.
You know he was talking about the Ion Pistol, right?
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