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.

The Mass Driver is balanced. Mostly. In the right hands it is murderous.

Maybe an accuracy nerf at excessively long ranges, but that's it.

So, the long projectile travel time, the arcing projectile drop, and the slow ass rate of fire isn't enough? I think the MD is fine. If anything it needs a slight buff in some areas compared to much easier to use weapons.

The problem, if there is one, with the MD, is that some people are getting good at it. This means that the AR clowns feel threatened, and therefore must have ALL dust players using the AR, so they can have their brainless run and gun arena shooter.

FYI, that game isn't Dust. Hopefully it never will be.

That is completely wrong. It's one of the easiest to use in the game. You don't even have to ADS and it has splash damage. You at least need to aim an AR.

> MD is easy
> MD is balanced
> If anything, give the STD lvl a small buff and make a MLT version

Before some n00b QQs, yes I have used it, yes it is easy, and yes it uses the same mechanic as a number of other weapons in other games that have a slow projectile that travels in an arc. Noticeably, the flak cannon in unreal. Also the m203 from other games can be more or less the same. There are many, many, many weapons that have a slow moving projectile which travels in an arc. Get good.

You just have played a FPS game over the past ten years to be familiar with it.

If anything, the range on the MD should be increased not decreased. It's progressively harder to hit people at range due to the projectile travel time. If someone runs in a straight line for 5 seconds just to kiss my MD round, who's fault is that? Also, currently, light weapon sharp shooter doesn't even improve range on the MD.

I use all the weapons. I regularly use the MD, AR, and LR. While all dust weapons are, perhaps, comparatively easy to use relative to some other games, the MD is one of the more difficult to use relative to other dust weapons.

I've hashed out the reasons why in many other threads already. I'm not going to it here. Frankly I don't care what people here think about it much.

Try it out if you think it's op, but it doesn't need nerfed. I expect to see more op threads about the MD and forge guns as time goes on though, and the reason why is that both of these weapons have a high skill ceiling, and thus, even the experts still have significant room to improve.

QQ on folks.

I think this isn't true. I should have a 20% increase in range (my other weapons do) based on my sharpshooter skill, and there's no way I have such a bonus over the base range/flight time. I'd like to see this confirmed or denied though.

Thank you very much for being rational and scientific and testing.

I have also used all of the weapons, save the nova knives. I also think the AR is too good simply because it's, say the #2 weapon in far too many roles. In other words, it isn't the best at anything, but it's the second best way too often.