Suggestions meaning little from someone who has never used the weapon.

The DPS argument is stupid when it comes to MD vs AR.
Take an average AR user, if they are shooting at a moving target, they will miss with a number of their rounds. DPS is not an end all be all stat. Particularly if you miss with 1/3 of your shots. Or even 1/2 your shots. (depending on their aim)

With the MD, even if your aim isn't great, once you get the hang of it, you just have to get close. Getting close, nets you splash damage. Getting close with an AR, nets you jack ****. And getting close is easy with MD, you just shoot at the ground in front/behind and left/right. No direct hits necessary, just a few near misses, and the target is dead.

Truth is, the MD has had a couple buffs. (not just 1) It currently IS OP.
It needs one of those buffs reversed. (not both, because it may be underpowered again, if that happened.)

I'd say EITHER reduce the rounds per drum back down to original numbers (2 less than currently)
OR
Reduce the splash damage radius to prior levels. This way, the shooters aim has to be pretty good, and someone with crap aim only gets marginal effect.

Man no fair all the good points to defend the MD are already pointed out I got nothing to add now.

Guess I gotta get to the forums faster. lol

Goat,
I was just thinking the same thing.

By the way, you probably don't recall it but you and I fought a great MD duel the other day. I have been waiting for a while to meet you like that on the field. Great fun!

And pertaining to the string: Deadpool, there have been many times during this beta that I have disagreed with your position, but every post you've made in this string is spot on. Thanks to you and all the rest carrying the banner for those of us slinging this terrifically challenging and fun weapon.

LOL at this suggestion, guess some ones died to many times to a MD.

You COD tryhards need to get off your AR horse and learn there are other weapons in games. HTFU merc.

Nope I do not die by them very often at all, because most of the time I kill the Merc using it before he can spam me with noob tubes.

Now you HTFU noob tube lover.
Derp Derp!

Are we really saying mass driver's need nerfed instead of missiles need a slight radius buff maybe? This community seems to have learned nothing.

Some one is camping the supply depot with a mass driver.

What can we do to fix this problem?

my suggestions;

grab a laser.

grab a sniper.

get friends.

get another mass driver.

or if all else fails

HTFU.

I wish i was an octopus with 5 laser rifles and 3 snipers! Seems that people think its ok for one person to be able to spam t one hit one-3 kill rounds. Its all good though, everybody is doing it, and when the people that benifit from the mass driver are tired of being spammed on themselves,than it will change,but only when that select few gripes. I think its great watching the heavies get owned by the MD now that it seems like 75% of the population is heavy.....curious as to the % of heavy MD useser...that blows.

I wish i was an octopus with 5 laser rifles and 3 snipers! Seems that people think its ok for one person to be able to spam t one hit one-3 kill rounds. Its all good though, everybody is doing it, and when the people that benifit from the mass driver are tired of being spammed on themselves,than it will change,but only when that select few gripes. I think its great watching the heavies get owned by the MD now that it seems like 75% of the population is heavy.....curious as to the % of heavy MD useser...that blows.

Goat,
I was just thinking the same thing.

By the way, you probably don't recall it but you and I fought a great MD duel the other day. I have been waiting for a while to meet you like that on the field. Great fun!

And pertaining to the string: Deadpool, there have been many times during this beta that I have disagreed with your position, but every post you've made in this string is spot on. Thanks to you and all the rest carrying the banner for those of us slinging this terrifically challenging and fun weapon.

blow up supply depot?

But that my friend is strategy.

There has been a small in flux of MDs but, it is mostly the same people I see using them not a bunch of different people.

Mass drivers are fairly alright the only thing I hate is how when up close they can shoot u directly and kill u in 1 shot with no explosion. The mass drive should have seriosly low velocity rounds with nothing but the explosion to hurt others in a since that unexploded round that didnt reach its arming distance shouldve just bounced off my shields.

I also wouldnt mind if shields gave a little more buffer towards explosions

No need to nerf damage....just add reload after two grenades. Or, slow the fire rate

They do have a weakness to shields already.

Im sorry that my MD skills have created so much hate toward the weapon but its the strategy and methodology in which i use the weapon that makes is so freaking awesome not the weapon itself. In the hands of a noob its a failhard.