if we are taking prototype ProtoScout can run at 13.8m/sec while sprinting.

put a shotgun/ar, whatever. The point is unless you've seen this happen on the battlefield in organized vs. organized play, you can make judgements on this stuff yet.

Someone using a laser would have no chance verus someone that can bridge distance that fast. So when your in a squad stay down while your shotgun scout faster than a tank flanks the guy keeping you behind cover.



not to mention we don't even have cloaks to play with yet. Proto-cloaked laser scout anyone?

Wait, so let me get this straight- aavrage proto scout can run 100 meters over 2 seconds faster than Usian Bolt? Damn.....

Wait, so let me get this straight- aavrage proto scout can run 100 meters over 2 seconds faster than Usian Bolt? Damn.....

I run a laser rifle on my logibro fit, i consider it a waste of points and wish i had invested instead in a AR. Neither here nor there, i cannot get those points back(this reset).

Alot of people have raised good points:

A) Range, lasers are better at a mid range location, but long game and short game is pitiful, every AR out ranges a laser. (Refer to the great Weapon Range guide posted on these very forums)

B) Heavies, these things melt heavies. fast.

C) the being able to hit you supposedly from nowhere, one of the advantages of a laser is that it is a pin point of dmg, if your foot is hanging out, the laser will melt your whole body. (I doubt it is something that is going to be changed)

But i think the main reason they are OP is because every single person and there mother is stacking shields. Newsflash: Lasers melt shields.

Luckily lasers are not very good until you get some decent points inveseted in them. At the end of the day the laser is a niche item, and you probably will not see many of them, they are highly effective when used with a squad, and i think it added a great deal of versatility, no one needs to start begging for the nerf hammer like so many on this forum are prone to do.

Not the beginning tier laser rifles, those are near useless, but the upper tier ones are horribly OP. Practically insta-kill with infinite range, even if behind cover (I somehow get killed even if I am behind 100% cover for several seconds).

Fix now CCP. No talent players are abusing this and getting away with kills they didn't earn.

Sota, you are hurting my feels on this one.

This weapon does not need a nerf. It is a mid-long range denial weapon. That is its purpose. I use it to counter snipe, for denial, and generally give anyone shield tanking a bad day. Even when I was using the basic laser rifle, if I got a lock on you it is game over. That isn't any different from any other weapon in the game. If the enemy can shoot you, you will die.

As for over heating, they over heat hard and it takes a good long time before that weapon can be used again. And if it over heated when you only had 4 rounds left? You have to wait for it to cool off before you can reload. Honestly, the solution to surviving a laser rifle is armor tanking, but guess what? Armor loses to ARs much harder than it does lasers. So, instead of crying nerf, I'd recommend better shielding and armor to increase survivability.

I like the sound they make. The hell with the numbers.
ZOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRR.

This, lol.

I just like them because I'm a noob and it's easier to aim when I can see exactly where my kill-beam is going. :p That and no spread. But it ain't very forgiving... you keep falling off the target, the damage is terrible...

Playing with the laser for so many games has made me much better with the AR. I am much more deadly ADS on the stock rifle now.

Practically insta-kill with infinite range, even if behind cover (I somehow get killed even if I am behind 100% cover for several seconds).

Fix now CCP. No talent players are abusing this and getting away with kills they didn't earn.

Sounds good- I'm a strong believer in what I call the "magikarp system"- the worse something is while you get it to it's top potential strength, the better it should be once it IS at it's top potential strength.