yea especially with Hip firing being 100% hit rate too as long as the reticule is orange/red they hit

if you want to take on the laser riffle, you need to get the advantage of it. Try using a sniper riffle, or even flanking the gunner to get up right behind him, and take him out instantly. People in this game need to understand that an LAV cannot take out a Tank, or an assault will not fare well against a heavy on his own. All of the guns in this game have a certain attribute that makes them Op at their optimal conditions. but if you work around it, you can still win. take a heavy vs assault, if you can get out of the Heavy Machine Gun's range, the player becomes a sitting duck.

No weapon can destroy you instantly without even having to aim, just swipe over you.

I think Laser guns( me and my corp call them dildo guns) are overpowered, takes no skill to use just spray them across the sky and you kill people.. I think AR like douvelles etc are strong but atleast takes skill to use them.. sniping people across the map is another story

so tired of playing matches and it's lookin like you are in some club with laser lights going off everywhere. Nerf or get rid of them all together.. takes no skill to use them.

too over powered ..

This idea of instant kill swipes happening all the time is a myth. It's not like you can immediately do that - it only happens on the highest charge levels, unless it's a viziam.
Have you actually used a laser?

A. A myth? You mean like the minimum of 25 times I died by a swiping laser is a myth? All in an advanced or proto suit fully tanked.

B. And? Once you do charge it up the DPS is insane.

C. I used a standard laser with a militia damage upgrade.
After a few matches of total domination I felt dirty using it so I stopped.

The laser rifle only seems overpowered because some maps, and positions, strongly cater to them. Given they only are good in a certain number of specific situations, if they are nerfed they will become useless. So it would be best to remove them instead of nerfing, but I don't recommend either.

Time to add my 2 isk on to this budding threadnaught. Honestly, the laser rifle is overpowered, but it shouldn't be drastically nerfed like some people are suggesting. Every time someone gets mad at a weapon, they want to nerf it to the ground, so that it no longer can be used effectively. Here are my fixes.

1. Fix the Viziam and the Elm

2. Increase starting damage, reduce damage at full heat, so no more melting heavies.

3. decrease max range, reduce ineffective close ranges.

In my opinion, adding heat up ties to time on target shouldn't happen. In my experience, it was near impossible to keep the laser on target. Stopped using LRs after that, so maybe I just didn't have enough practice.

I'm telling you, just have the damage build up be based on staying on the target rather than heat level, and every single problem stated here will just go away. I guarantee it.

heh bunch of whingers, you spend a bit of time on the arse end of the laser in its optimal situation and get pwned, just like the laser user gets pwned if an AR user gets up close, only reason you want it nerfed is because it kills you at range, chances are you chuck tantrums whenever a sniper headshots you too.

whats a whinger. Are you calling us wingers? Is that some british thing?

And so will the weapon.