Right right. So, It's okay to have a OHK rifle in the game. Makes complete ******* sense, how a god damn Scrambler Rifle can just literally obliterate a Caldari suit with 1 charge and 2 or 3 follow up shots.

Guess the Armor meta is still a damn thing, 'cause shields are still squishy as ****.

Cry some more so this weapon becomes only viable on one suit... Oh wait

Thank you for showing me exactly why this community just keeps on swirling the toilet bowl.

Oh and I challenge you to run and armor suit with zero shield buffer and go fight a combat rifle.

The CR was previously the second most powerful weapon in the game behind the ScR. It has easily taken that throne but the RR has been brought much closer to it creating a lightly better balance over all.



I personally pointed out the problem with the ScR mechanics which causes that to be the case.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2975995


Yet shield users are still allowed to dominate the conversation completely screwing up a new players chance at ever experiencing a unique weapon while also making it pretty crappy even for those who are highly invested in the weapon.


Broken mechanics + Piles of input from people who do not even use the weapon.

Sounds good to me lets go ahead and keep up the ridiculous old ways of constantly cycling FOTMs hoping to get lucky.

Well I think that you suck. Plain and simple.

I am not arguing that the Scrambler is or was balanced only that it is being treated completely incorrectly.

My working theory on the ScR currently is that we should drop the charge multiplier to 2x and increase charge up time. Heat build up would also be scaled back to account for the more shots needed.

This would seriously nerf the ability to just walk around with a full charge on and hope to instantly follow up with a shot or two to finish off the enemy and make it a unique weapon that require managing the charge you put into each shot for maximum efficiency which last I checked was what the ScR is suppose to be. This would also make it far easier to balance without going to the insane lengths we have seen that leave it useless in the hands of unskilled users.


Shield buffer is something very difficult to get into because of the much more complicated mechanics and fits behind it. Balancing versus armor is simply working with buffer and regen while shields have buffer, regen, 2 different delay values, and a damage value which delays one of said regens. With that being said I think shields just need to be made slightly less complicated otherwise they are always going to be either OP or UP. I have skilled into Caldari scout, sentinel, and assault to try to see if there is anything that really stands out as needing a fix but as I am less experienced in them it is something I really can not speak to.

I propose that first we allow shield users to chime in on both a simplification of shields as well as a buff and then go back to the pre-foxfour numbers on the ScR and work back forward.


As it stands right now shield users are unhappy, new players never have a chance to experience the ScR as it is totally inefficient without max skills, and veteran players who are maxed in the ScR find it useless. All in all everyone took a hit on this sweeping change.

they are called rail rifles.

Here let me break it down for you so you understand.

Tac Rifles are not as easy to use as the other rifles since you constantly have to time your shots or spam your trigger finger like a mad man. Every other rifle you simply point, shoot, forget. The current scr doesn't have "pin point accuracy".You can barely keep the thing on target against enemies at range. The overheat is a huge factor, but every time you bring up the weapon you act like it is impossible to overheat.... If it were so easy to manage the heat you would see tons of Scr on the kill feed.... but you don't... cause you CAN overheat. Anyone who claims they can play a game vs good players without overheating once is full of **** just like you sir.

also crying about getting hit with charge shot before you notice is stupid, is he supposed to announce he is going to shoot you? is he supposed to wait until you are ready? what about when someone hits you with a bolt pistol before you notice? The charge shot takes three seconds to charge so if both you and your enemy notice each other at the same time he either spams shots or takes a chance and start charging a shot in hopes they don't miss. Balanced. Get Gud.

wailing like a babe about a weapon that is currently is only useful on one suit.

I cannot take you seriously when you say rail rifles are harder to use then scramblers lmao if you cant point ,shoot, forget then you shouldn't open your mouth on balancing a weapon that requires you to adjust your aim in between shots.

my little brother who has no real fps experience went 11/3 with a rail rifle...why? Not because of his incredible skills, but because automatic weapons are easy to use. There is no argument you could put together that would prove otherwise.

also when you talk about dps you fail to take into account that it's with 100% accuracy. If you are seriously saying that it is easier to land more shots with a tac rifle then with any other weapon you need to get gud. When you complain about the damage you should think about the fire mechanics of the weapon in question. Would it make sense to have a semi auto weapon with the same damage output as an automatic weapon? Who in their right mind would pick a semi auto that does less or as much damage as an automatic one? who would trouble themselves with timing shots or spamming the trigger when you could just point, shoot , forget.

Isn't it simple to negate the drawbacks of all the other weapons to? What happens when you can't negate those drawbacks from those weapons.....oh wait nothing. You aren't left nearly immobilized or defenseless and you don't take any damage from them.

For someone who's trying to argue the weapon is OP, you won't even acknowledge any of it drawbacks like they don't exist lmao your answer to the overheat problem is "Don't over heat". Yea let me just never overheat and do charge shots for days since apparently the weapon is capable of doing so

I would love to see you post a game against real competition where you do not overheat once, since it's not even a factor for you then this shouldn't be a problem.