In addition: if it was so OP, we would see more than 1 or 2 MDs every game, instead of a ton of assault rifles

lol Mass driver takes skill? AHAHAHAH it IS one hit kill, join ANY ambush map, 90% of the newberries are camping high spaming mass drivers with nanohives, give me a break, its a noob tube like it or not, and the easiest weapon to use in the game, minus the sniper rifle. AR players actually have to aim at players, you can just shoot in the general direction and poof, in armor, poof armors gone, PLUS no revive-ability.

lets look at the stats of a naked MILITIA mass driver,

Direct hit? 225dmg, oh thats an A-Vk.0 suit down with no revive
Splash? 125dmg, oh thats a A-vk.0 into armor!
Blast radius? 4.0 two points from a locus nade, thats engulfing the radius of a hack point.

its a grenade launcher, aka a noob tube. WITH 6 ROUNDS and 18 rounds able.

" The next weapon we take a look at is another in dire need of tuning. The Mass Drivers first incarnation was woefully inept, and so it certainly needed to be tuned upwards. But the current version has been tuned too powerfully, and now gameplay has been gifted with what FPS veterans affectionately refer to as a 'noob tube'. It is now a high fire rate, high DPS weapon with a low accuracy requirement, and it also has something no other weapon in the game has: Suppression Effect. User skill will never be even, but with that said, weapons must be tuned with the skilled user in mind. Devs must consider the person who can wield a weapon and land 8 of 10 shots, not the one who cant hit the broad side of a barn. Because the skilled user breaks the game with a poorly balanced weapon. "

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...we are committed to balancing on a regular basis to keep things fresh and to follow up on reactions to the earlier passes.

" The next weapon we take a look at is another in dire need of tuning. The Mass Drivers first incarnation was woefully inept, and so it certainly needed to be tuned upwards. But the current version has been tuned too powerfully, and now gameplay has been gifted with what FPS veterans affectionately refer to as a 'noob tube'. It is now a high fire rate, high DPS weapon with a low accuracy requirement, and it also has something no other weapon in the game has: Suppression Effect. User skill will never be even, but with that said, weapons must be tuned with the skilled user in mind. Devs must consider the person who can wield a weapon and land 8 of 10 shots, not the one who cant hit the broad side of a barn. Because the skilled user breaks the game with a poorly balanced weapon. "

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For the most part, I don't mind the 'blindfire' part of the MD, but please, for the love of whatever deities you hold dear, get rid of some of the obscuring 'mist' that comes from an explosion. This stuff basically makes it nearly impossible to keep my eye on MD users close up because I can't see anything during that half second after each 'grenade'.

this is acceptable but i like the idea of someone else that there is alot of mist on natural ground but none on concrete

This is a complete load of none sense. I personally don't use mass drivers that often but when I go up against people that do use them, 70% of the time, they miss. Why is that? Contrary to its after-smoke image of an explosion, the blast radius is actually quite small and in order to be effective with it, you need some sort of height advantage to clearly aim to kill. Also, they go well on suits that have higher mobility compared to a lower mobile suit.

Oh, I forgot to mention this. Full-auto weapons can easily tear MD users apart while the projectile is still....well being projected in the air.

For the most part, I don't mind the 'blindfire' part of the MD, but please, for the love of whatever deities you hold dear, get rid of some of the obscuring 'mist' that comes from an explosion. This stuff basically makes it nearly impossible to keep my eye on MD users close up because I can't see anything during that half second after each 'grenade'.

Are you crazy?

The obscuration is a major part of what makes the MD an area denial weapon.

Me and a sniper had a shoot out at one point, i've got him done to half armour(the sniper was above me btw) i fire a shot, he headshots me, my MD shell keeps going and gets a direct hit on him, killing him. Even with us dead you aren't safe

" The next weapon we take a look at is another in dire need of tuning. The Mass Drivers first incarnation was woefully inept, and so it certainly needed to be tuned upwards. But the current version has been tuned too powerfully, and now gameplay has been gifted with what FPS veterans affectionately refer to as a 'noob tube'. It is now a high fire rate, high DPS weapon with a low accuracy requirement, and it also has something no other weapon in the game has: Suppression Effect. User skill will never be even, but with that said, weapons must be tuned with the skilled user in mind. Devs must consider the person who can wield a weapon and land 8 of 10 shots, not the one who cant hit the broad side of a barn. Because the skilled user breaks the game with a poorly balanced weapon. "

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i agree. leave the dmg and slow fire rate and lower clip size.

Yeah it really is satisfying, what's also satisfying is when you teach the newberries why they should never huddle together when MD'S are around.