+1 to arming delay inside 10M. the round shouldnt detonate and the target should only take 40-50 dmg from impact. perfect way to urge people to use it correctly.

Step #1 is losing the silly firing arc and making it a weapon that fires in a straight line. This will reward accuracy, allow it to work in medium range (right now it can't) but will also have the effect of making the sight useful.

Note to CCP: A SIGHT MUST WORK AND SHOW US WHERE THE ROUNDS GO. It can't be a "guide" or offer "hints"...lol.

The MD is balanced.


Ok, so you want them to take the MD out of the game and replace it with something like a RPG.


Why? Because you're so terrible at figuring out how trajectories work that you need someone to do it for you? Do you complain that grenades do not teleport to a target like the longbow grenades in borderlands 2?

agree 1000% .

Step #1 is losing the silly firing arc and making it a weapon that fires in a straight line. This will reward accuracy, allow it to work in medium range (right now it can't) but will also have the effect of making the sight useful. Note to CCP: A SIGHT MUST WORK AND SHOW US WHERE THE ROUNDS GO. It can't be a "guide" or offer "hints"...lol.

Step #2 is making it reload after each firing or slowing down the fire rate a great deal. There's a reason shooters don't have grenade launchers as auto-fire weapons. It could have something to do with the fact that ITS POOR BALANCE TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO SPAM GRENADES! But who knows...maybe that's just me being silly.

Step #3 is making the reload longer. I'm sorry but a weapon with 6m of splash damage and suppression cant also reload almost as fast as the AR. 5 to 5.5 seconds i'm thinking.

Step #4 is making the users take full damage when they use it in close range. Tyjus and I tested it in ambush the other day and he walked up behind a guy and one-shotted him at less than 1m. The guy took full damage (i'm assuming) Tyjus lost 80 shields. He basically got hit by the splash and took reduced shield damage--CAN"T HAPPEN.

Step #5 is enabling the mortar firing mode so it can be useful at attacking entrenched locations from distance. This would be a nice addition but again, lets reward accuracy here. No "guessing" or "extrapolating" with spent rounds. If this means picking a point within range from the start map a la the orbital strike so be it.

My 2 ISK.

Why? Because you're so terrible at figuring out how trajectories work that you need someone to do it for you? Do you complain that grenades do not teleport to a target like the longbow grenades in borderlands 2?

The Mass Driver is the scrubby man's gun.

Too much ammo?
No arming delay?
Too quick reload?
Too small a penalty for pointblank users? ( e.g. progressive visor damage )

This thing needs balancing !
It's a great long-range weapon (i.e. artillery) but still a good choice at 3-5M? come on!

If you're going to make an X is OP thread at least have the decency to admit it in the title so we don't accidentally click on it.

fixed.

No weapon runs out of ammo faster.
It's a live grenade in a chamber.
4 seconds is a quick reload?
If you shoot someone point blank you take just as much damage to yourself.

Actually it doesn't. We tested it...the user took the splash damage (minus the shield modifier) but the victim took full damage. This was at point blank range from behind.

How the tuning needs to be done is debatable. That the MD needs tuning is NOT.

Actually it doesn't. We tested it...the user took the splash damage (minus the shield modifier) but the victim took full damage. This was at point blank range from behind.

How the tuning needs to be done is debatable. That the MD needs tuning is NOT.

Ok, help me out with these abbr's: QFT ? OP, X?

I think your test is flawed. The MD is one of my primary weapons and I kill myself with it from a close range shot at least 3-4 times a week.(Those darned shotgun scouts! It's always one of them that makes me do it! More often than not they die with me though.)

The MD may need balancing, but not until the splash damage actually hits in a sphere. until then, I believe that the terrain is enough of a balance in and of itself.

Now I'm not an MD user, but I have read enough posts and seen enough of them on the field to see that they are plenty balanced, even UP in some cases. They do barely any damage for a frigging grenade launcher, and it seems impossible to aim with one. The only time I have seen an MD used to the best of its ability was when it was covering a doorway or, in one of the most embarrassing moment of my merc career, a single MD user pinned four or five of my team down behind cover and began to systematically take us down one by one.