Op doesnt even begin to describe this weapon. Has extremly high fire rate charge shot insta kills most suits with headshots its armor dmg trumps the cr and rr even though its supposed to be a shield based weapon. Range does more dmg cuz of dmg per bullet. The list goes on honestly what it needs is reg scr needs a nerf in fire rate big time makes using the ascr useless for so many reasons. Next nerf in armor damg when it trumps both armor weapons in dmg its ridiculous.

But the charged shot isn't the problem.
It is the ability to put several high damage shots within very few pixels near instantaneously.


The charge itself is pretty okay, according to empirical study, it's better damage-wise to use tap shots. Charge is good for very weak suits which can be instagibbed tho, but if there's a risk that bogey would survive that 1+3 then it's not.

Charge shot on its own is not really an issue, but when its quickly followed up by a sprinkle of regular shots, that adds up to a lot of damage in very little time. Without the charge shot, the SCR's ability to do a lot of damage very quickly isn't that different from the Tac AR's.

You made a very solid suggestion the other day which was to have brief over heat animation (not the full 6 seconds) but something akin to the Ion Pistol where your mercenary shakes the rifle to disperse built up heat for a second or two.

This allows the charged shot itself to remain in tact as a viable choice but not be followed up immediately by high DPS volleys. That way an affected player has time to react.

I don't think I suggested that, was probably someone else in the group chat, but I will gladly take credit for it because I like it.

EDIT: an alternative brought up by True Adamance is having a very brief overheat like the ion pistol (1-2 seconds) after every charge shot [PREFERRED SOLUTION]

... to have brief over heat animation (not the full 6 seconds) but something akin to the Ion Pistol where your mercenary shakes the rifle to disperse built up heat for a second or two. This allows the charged shot itself to remain in tact as a viable choice but not be followed up immediately by high DPS volleys.

I vote for the small overheat after charge shots.

give all variants the Darth's ADS zoom
slightly tone down recoil
increase hipfire dispersion


Reasoning:

Most of the times I feel more comfortable going into close range and hipfiring with the ScR as opposed to keeping it at medium range.

I really wish the scr were more like the TAR of old, back when it had the camera scope .. now that weapon was the true marksman's dream.

Hi, Kagehoshi

It's rate of fire is the third highest of all equivalent rifle variations (excluding the assault classes and including the burst and tactical AR's) and also is the third highest in terms of Assault variations as well.

The only anti armour standard variation of rifle the ScR does more damage on with equivalent numbers of damage modules (or none at all) is the Rail Rifle which admittedly I can see really doesn't have enough differences in terms of range or power to justify such a huge disparity.

The Boundless CR trumps the Viziam by roughly 145.02 DPS vs armoured targets (2x Damage modules).

Now not saying it doesn't need a nerf. Only that the hyperbole is strong in you.

Note that He Who Makes Changes has a different take on a proper fix.

Search CCP Rattati's latest posts.

As someone pointed out to me

"the human capability of pressing the trigger is about half the actual weapons rate of fire n he continued saying why if people are unable to even reach that fire rate normally why is it that high. It only invites the use of modded controllers."

Now I say this only because ( I dnt have issue with the weapon btw) this will be the next weapon people will run to once scr does recieve its nerf people always will abuse what they can in a game. Believe when I say I take cr over scr any day lol but watch n see for yourself n think back to this post

Everyone is complaining about scrambler rifles, and a nerf is likely coming anyway (Rattati even complained about the SCR), so I have a proposal on the subject that I think is both fair and effective.

The scrambler rifle's regular fire has lower DPS than the tactical AR and has only like 5 meters of more range, but when you combine a charge shot's high alpha damage with a quick succession of regular shots, you can take down an enemy extremely fast (arguably too quickly). If the charge shot is the source of the problem, then reducing the damage of the charge shot makes sense as a solution.

Sadly both Amarrian general purpose rifles are up for nerf this time and in this armour-centric meta all I can do is caution CCP Rattati and ask him to take a slow and incremental approach to the weapon alterations so that he does not literally kill an entire racial playstyle.

Everyone is complaining about scrambler rifles, and a nerf is likely coming anyway (Rattati even complained about the SCR), so I have a proposal on the subject that I think is both fair and effective.

The scrambler rifle's regular fire has lower DPS than the tactical AR and has only like 5 meters of more range, but when you combine a charge shot's high alpha damage with a quick succession of regular shots, you can take down an enemy extremely fast (arguably too quickly). If the charge shot is the source of the problem, then reducing the damage of the charge shot makes sense as a solution.

Last I heard, the charge function multiplies the damage of the scrambler rifle by 3.5. A Viziam scrambler rifle has 71.5 base damage, and that means a fully charged shot will do 250.25 damage, which can then be followed up with a handful of regular shots before overheating. Obviously, that will add up to a lot of damage. If the charge multiplier was 2.5 instead, then the charge shot would do 178.75 damage -- significantly less damage than before, and will mean a scrambler rifle won't kill as quickly, but still enough to be useful.

Additionally, having the charge shot use up more ammo than a regular shot wold also help in lessening the brutal efficiency of the weapon.

I also would like to point out that changes like higher kick or dispersion would be ill-fitting solutions that not only miss the problem, but also would unnecessarily ruin the feel of the weapon.

EDIT: an alternative brought up by True Adamance is having a very brief overheat like the ion pistol (1-2 seconds) after every charge shot [PREFERRED SOLUTION]

EDIT: Another proposed solution.