I apologize for the foul mouth. I am heavily medicated and have a loose tongue in the video.I have had a few players ask me how well it works with x4 complex dmg mods so I thought I would share my experience.Do any of you use x4 or do you try and stray from it due to penalties?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHr_mJn17xY&feature=youtu.be

It looks awesome against a full team with "new players". Why don't you try again against "old/good people", not like me of course.

good lord!
How many faces were melted that day?

jeeesus. kb/m btw? thanks for the link, was interesting to see.

DS3 :(

I found it interesting that when you noted the amount of randoms, your squad leader at the time (I think) said 'our combined SP [would] overcome that'. If we're acknowledging the distinct advantage SP gives over newbies, then I hope that new build cuts down that gap. I sometimes choose to play solo instead of squadding with corp mates to see how completely new players feel, and it is not good. It's worrying that face melting may provide great entertainment to us yet is a big problem in the debate over "player retention".

I don't envy CCP's task.

Developing a skill system that reflects a sense of progression whilst keeping the difference between newbies and veterans balanced so as to ensure people who join aren't instantly met by a wall of impenetrable pub stomping is hard. Solutions exist, but which one is the right one?

Everyone always picks on the laser rifle, it isn't broke, its just more user friendly because it allows you to auto correct instantly where as its harder to see bullet trails on ARs. I know people may not say that, but it really is just the aim guide and constant damage that makes that gun awesome.

I like the slowness of the game, I'm not 18 anymore with twitchy reflexs, I enjoy playing a game I don't have to be hyped up on 10 energy drinks and nerd rage just to get a positive K/D. Only thing that makes me kinda sad is the server based hit detection and how it can get laggy blocky shot detection, but thats probably my fault for playing on wireless lol.

Yup, totally not broken.

And when they take sharpshooter away from AR users you all will be crying more. I'm telling you, the player-base is going to have to spread out in terms of its weapons use. If 70% of users' optimal damage range is under 30m then YES the laser will be OP, but you shouldn't nerf the laser so that you can cater to the vanilla weapon choices of people.

I'm thinking about a sort of tactical-weapon use 101 for every weapon out there. David Cross' AR strafing video was quite helpful for AR users, but really not too valid for much else out there. There are equally great tactics for a lot of other weapons out there that people should know and will help to balance out what seems to be unfair advantages of these combinations.

Actually no, I could not care less about the sharpshooter thing.
I have sharpshooter level III and I'm doing just fine.

The weapon is broken, if you are watching this and think otherwise you probably want to check your eyes.

Actually no, I could not care less about the sharpshooter thing.
I have sharpshooter level III and I'm doing just fine.

The weapon is broken, if you are watching this and think otherwise you probably want to check your eyes.

I apologize for the foul mouth. I am heavily medicated and have a loose tongue in the video.I have had a few players ask me how well it works with x4 complex dmg mods so I thought I would share my experience.Do any of you use x4 or do you try and stray from it due to penalties?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHr_mJn17xY&feature=youtu.be

damage mods....x4 can't wait for 6x damage modders

What do you mean you have sharpshooter now? I don't think you get my point, the range of AR users is going to drop because (as far as I've heard) there will no longer be a sharpshooter skill. In exchange there will be a skill that reduces damage spread/kickback.

I've seen that supposedly there is a damage scaling OPness of the viziam that devs have confirmed. Okay. But you still haven't really dealt with my main assertions about the usefullness of the laser rifle. I see most of the kills are dudes idiotically running out of cover, simply not moving while being melted, trying to counter with the AR. You can't balance for stupid... Having a GEK/Duvolle trained on you for the same amount of time with damage mods would result in the same thing, just not at that distance.

Are you saying that you want AR to be essentially equal to the laser rifle? I'm open to suggestions as to your suggestions on what to fix. But so far you just crying "BROKE!" isn't really constructive. Map control issues are separate from weapon balance issues. Weapon balance issues are related to player skill choice issues-which also relate to map control issues.

Meh...watched it again and wanted to change my opinion.

But I really, still don't think this is about the laser rifle being broken. I think its the spawn system not recognizing the danger of a location when it can be safely attacked from long range.

Also, we have figured out that if you hit sprint while you spawn/revive you can more or less instantly move rather than having to dumbfreeze for a couple seconds.

Funny thing is that the OBS at 4:50 kind of did the other team a favor by cleaning out the spawn seed so that people wouldn't continue to get placed in a farmable area.