Kierkegaard Soren
Eridani Light Horse Battalion
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Posted - 2015.10.17 16:46:00 -
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According to Rattati the AR actually looks solid on paper, so he assumed that people didn't use them because we all just *assumed* them to be bad and it just became a self-reinforcing Truth. I heartily disgree with the man but I do understand the logic. He buffed the Galassault to promote AR-play and provide a solid buff to the suit itself; two birds burned with one PLC volley.
Now, here's the issue.
Anyone with half a brain and a crumb of critical thinking could see that the Scrambler was pretty well balanced when it wasn't bolted onto the Amarr assault, because it's higher-than-average stats were all "payed" for by its heat mechanic; it was the premeier 1v1 Tactical weapon, as it was designed to be, but try and actually assault a point with it and you'd either burn yourself or duck out of the fight to cool your weapon, giving your opposition time to regroup and counter-push. I used to hate running the thing on my Amarrando, it always looked better on paper than its actually in-game performance.
The assault bonus just flat-out breaks the gun. Change the bonus, you fix the problem. The End. I'm a bit miffed that they've hit the gun with the N-bat first, although I grant that the changes to charge-fire are emminently sensible.
The opposite is true of of the AR and GalAssault; whilst the assault was hardly overpowering, it wasn't terrible, and could have been buffed into competitiveness in other ways. Conversely, the AR's, *especially* the vanilla, are just flat-out bad. They have to play within the optimal of shotguns, HMG's and knives, and they are not coming off well against them. And clearly, against RR's and CR's they were clearly outclassed at 30m+. But the assault suit gets the buff, and it's mega popular because good god do they tear stuff up now.
If you're an assault player. Everyone else gets left with sub-par weapons.
My suggestion? Split the bonus; give half of it as an inherent buff to the AR family so that they're just...better...and then give the rest to the assault so that, <30m, it is supreme.
Oh, and give us STD Burst and TACs. Please. Pretty, pretty please.
Dedicated Commando.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing."
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