there is nothing wrong with the scrambler rifle right now, it is one of the most efficient rifles, even a tad OP. The reason I don't intend to nerf them is that they are specialty weapons and not the cause of the majority of kills. The ASCR I have been playing with to understand its flaws, and I don't get why its not used, it destroys calscouts with hipfire, it has no recoil, the best scope, the most ammo and clipsize, and heat is not really a problem. But until players start using it, we need to make it incrementally better.

In what way has the bolded sentence changed? Is it now higher? Has its usage in PC shot up?

Simply what happened was that the Scrambler was OP, but few were using it so either it was hard to use or only paying off for a few to use.

Now, what is happening is that since I said that, a flood of player have migrated to the arguably best weapon, without it diminishing the K/S, even to the point that the K/S is going up.

That tells me that its not that hard to use, OP and needs a tweak.

I would welcome players going to TAC AR and the grand design goal is to get these rifles to the point that you will have a preferrred a weapon but switch to other weapons to accommodate tactical situations.

The weapon should not be a "forced" choice, because it is much better than the others, so using them is a handicap.

The thing is overpowered, and it has nothing to do with the TAR's performance. Scrambler absolutely devastates sheild or low hp tanked suits

and its performance over time or against armor tanked suits isnt bad enough to justify its dominant killing power. It needs to be rebalanced to bring it into line with other rifle's performance (which for me generally means making it slow enough in terms of TTK that someone can actually react to being hit by it before losing 80% of their health

So I switch to the scrambler rifle because Im ****** if Im going to let these losers win because they want to lean on their little crutch guns. Its just bullshit and it needs to be fixed.

Now to buff Burst AR and TACAR more

An excellent thought process.

I want this to be done in small intervals so that we don't overshoot the sweet spot. So how about reducing damage to 67.5 and increasing charge shot multiplier to 3.75. This gives the same charge shot damage with lower regular shot damage. DPS will be 675 down from 715 with this change assuming you can hit 600 RPM.

I love the scrambler, but i do think it is too good. The problem i see with it, i can hip fire that thing way too effectively. My general play style is charge shot, 3 shot, charge shot 3 shot, however if the need arises i can spam that **** and rarely miss. I think this is the biggest difference between the TAC and the SCR, the ability to convert damage, not statistical differences.

I actually think Darth's suggestion of reduced standard shot, but improved charge could go a way to alleviating some issues with CQC spam effectiveness.

I just love how all of the scrambler rifle brigade is here defending their weapon

never telling the full story of how they can destroy shield suits in an instant. A shield suit is basically a free kill because they run little armor after their shields are destroyed.

And guess what? the viziam doesnt care if it has 200 armor, 300 armor, 400 armor, 500 armor, 600 armor, 700 armor. It will eat that armor like if they were shields.

Watch toward the latter mid-point where I don't use charge at all on three of those dudes. It tears through them like butter, something I'm hard pressed to get my Tactical Assault Rifle to do.

it doesn't give a **** about +20/-20 when it's hammering out as much damage as it is.

I don't like it because I'm a CQC brawler.

And they are militia suits. I can chew through them with a Duvolle just as easily.

The weapon obviously works too well in CQC.

I see three ways

Increase heat cost, so that you have less followup shots to spam
increase hip fire kick, with compounding so the 3rd shot in succession is way off
Increase charge shot multiplier, decrease normal damage = preserve dps, rewarding accuracy

I'm not sure how the third option results in rewarding accuracy...

Increase heat cost, so that you have less followup shots to spam

increase hip fire kick, with compounding so the 3rd shot in succession is way off