Annnnnd... someone didn't get the point the first time so everyone stand here while papa breakin stuff mocks the crap out of him for NOT READING MY POST CORRECTLY.

Hurr durr. Shut up for a minute, I'm talking here.

The mass driver, often called the Noob tube has a roughly guestimated range maximum somewhere between 60 and 80 meters (closer to 30-40 unless you know ballistic angles like Jesus knows prayer), unaffected by the sharpshooter skill (unlike every other goddamned weapon in the game) because the velocity and mass of the round is fixed. So screw off.

Now, let us add to this, that your accuracy at these ranges is somewhat akin to trying to hit your baby brother in the head with a quarter by DROPPING IT OFF A GODDAMNED SATELLITE! if you were derp enough to stand there while mass driver shells are falling from the sky then my friend you need to re-evaluate standing still, because OOPS! MY cover's been blown Cagney! Help me!

Third, the blast radius is very limited, and while it can be expanded upon via skill that also extends the splash damage falloff outward. so I'm guessing that Either you in your hail mary unlucky shot having self ate one direct to the top of the head, or you stood still while the gunner fired about five of them in your general direction like a complete tool. Guess what most of us consider to be a bad idea?

Another valid point: Listen up chuckles, because it's not the fun one. You can kill yourself with a mass driver. i have... frequently, because i shot a redberry at point blank and figure better I get credit for killing me than he does. Another thing, the refire rate is SLOOOOOOW. a bit over one second per shot refire delay.

And finally, I recognize you'd rather he ran up and shoot you, because it's more sporting and you can shoot back, but let me newsflash you kiddies. If you're playing the game fair, you're doing it wrong. I'm a master of cheap shots and dirty tricks and I have no shame in it. As my drill instructor told me "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying."

But i don't care. I hear the QQ of a man offended that someone had the audacity to pummel the crap out of him with a weapon doing a trick shot that almost requires an act of God. I have no damned sympathy. Even less now that you are being deliberately obtuse and demanding a range reduction of one of the only weapons in the game that can kill the wielder.

Since the lesson was not learned properly, I declare tomorrow, Saturday, Feburary 9th to be a new Dust 514 Holiday. It shall be known as "Steel Rain on Rachoi" Day! For the commencement of the holiday I ask all who can to watch the rosters of battle for our dear friend Rachoi, and spawn nothing but mass drivers to cheer on his great work demanding our beloved noobtoob be nerfed so that it cannot kill him when he wants to feel safe.

If you cannot use a mass driver, then I offer you this humble substitution just for him.

Militia forge guns are cheap as hell and require no skill point investment. They can be the substitute weapon if your mass driver skills are nonexistent.

Go forth my children, find Rachoi, and make it rain.

I win.

/thread.

Im still hunting you with a mass driver tomorrow.

Theres better than me with a mass driver. I graduated to the assault forge gun. my favorite things to shoot are expensive dropships and marauder HAVs. I used to use MD all the time in closed beta though.

Heres a hint. the gunsights ccp gave for the mass driver are useless. yer better off eyeballing it.

i was looking for Dev discussion and i get jerks.... man alive.

i am only suggesting, and you guys are so freaking agressive over a small tweak to how they fly over a distance.

there is no reason to be so agressive over a small suggestion, just an arc adjustment... i'm thinking of having a small line that goes about 3 meters to show that far.. past that should be guesswork

1) The MD can't drop a round any where near straight down behind a wall, so most likely you had another wall behind you where the round struck and splashed you. If that's the case, you chose poor cover.

CCP is considering a mortar function for the MD so we may get that in the future. Right now if you fire at a high angle the round goes dud before it hits the ground.


2) The MD is not a hit-scan easy hit weapon. The user doesn't have a magic sight that turn red to let him know when to pull the trigger for an automatic hit. It requires the greatest amount of player skill to wield effectively.

3) It is not the one hit kill noob-tube of CoD. It requires more hits to down an enemy which gives them plenty of time to shoot back or head for cover.

4) MD kills are the shark bite deaths of DUST while the AR is the car crash. Hundreds of people die to car crashes and nobody blinks an eye. It's so common and everyone is used to it. We know the risks and accept it. But one guy gets eaten by a shark and it's all over the news and everyone is afraid of the water. Why? Because they are unfamiliar with it and it is therefore scary.

I'll bet you die 100:1 to bullet fire over MD rounds. Yet you are calling for a nerf not on ARs, but on MDs.

i do understand that this a game of war and tactics, but i feel the Mass Driver could use a slight tweaking. i say this because if there is no one but mass diver users... its impossible to get away. they can shblahblahblahblah wahhhwahhhwahhhh I cry about things that dont need tweaking at all, PLEASE someone say no to me so I can continue using my full-on GEK38 assault rifle class like the thousands of other unimaginative drones that plague Ambush with their annoying rifle bullets and grief when something that isn't an assault rifle kills them.