1. all weapon do less damage because weaponry does not increase damage any more.

2. lets be honest, the all MD was just too good. I used it before and often I was sitting somewhere and aiming at the general direction of an enemy squad trying to take an objective and I was collecting kills left and right due to the huge splash without a big effort and no chance of retaliation. the "nerf" brings it on par of other weapons, now you have to aim better thats all.

Anyone else notice everything except the AR got a damage nerf?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RucZsGn0W_o

Luckily I had a corp mate recording some matches last night. Here you go. The video isn't of me, but I'm in the match. You can go to the end if you want to just look at end of match screen. I went 11/0 using the Freedom as my primary, and I was pinned down by 2 tanks through part of the match. He recorded another match where I went 12/9 using the standard mass driver as my primary. Maybe you just aren't as good as you thought you were.

Dude, you're in my corp. I know there's like 700 of us but wtf. If you had read on the keq forums, I asked cody already why he pulled it. I haven't had a chance to speak to him yet though.

This blanket statement just points out that all you did was read the OP and maybe just skimmed the rest of the fist page. The problem with the mass driver isn't because it's not this super OP weapon that got nerfed. The problem is the tactical aspects and utility of the weapon has been traded for the ability to slay. Please go further in the topic and read some of the more recent posts. We've been trying to find out the direction the Devs took the MD and why we disagree with it.

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Cosgar

Wait what? Rounds flying straighter does not make it easier to get kills.. quite the opposite on flat ground with no dropoff its hard as hell to hit their feet.. (picture yourself in an open flat field)..and the range nerf makes that a very low % shot... as well as when hitting the wall beside them.. no blast radius means the wall eats it.. and enemy walks away..

And as another poster just pointed out AGAIN.. how does an overall across the board nerf in any way change the role? or anything else that sounds nice? it is what it is..

BS..lol you wouldnt say that if you used a MD

Good news!

Remnant is looking into the Mass Driver:

You're missing the big picture here: The MD was both support, and a slayer weapon when it needed to be in public matches. Taking a page out of Keyser's book, judging a weapon based on public matches is counterproductive. The Freedom is a prototype, of course it's going to deal more damage to lower tiered or poorly fitted suits in pubs. But in corp battles, the entire MD line couldn't be used as a slayer weapon when everyone ran higher quality gear. In CBs, it was a support, area denial weapon exclusively and not a slayer.
The main problem is that the MD has lost its arcing trajectory, splash radius, and splash damage in exchange focus on the slayer role. Rounds fly straighter and the MD plays like a mid ranged, gimped, low ROF, inferior DPS, AR that just happens to shoot grenades. This change has made the breach more viable, because it's easier to make direct hits, but the whole MD line has taken an unnecessary blow in utility and tactical uses.
The lower radius and superficial splash damage stripped away the weapon's intimidating properties that were necessary for scattering bunched up squads, flushing out campers, defending areas, or simply herding the enemy away from a downed teammate. The MD is not the support weapon it once was. If I wanted more kills, I would be using a TAR with stacked damage mods and a modded controller. I hear that's working wonders these days since the blanket 10% damage bonus on weapons.
I do agree that the breach needed something to make it more viable. For months, I've been suggesting that it needed a straighter trajectory and/or a significantly faster flying projectile than its brothers to make landing direct hits easier. The entire MD line didn't need to change for this.

There's a nice discussion going on here so I hate to interrupt, but what I'm finding with the Freedom is a lack of consistency. Some matches I do well and others I feel like launching my controller through the TV.

There are times when dudes are down to nothing and they are still charging me. I'm putting them at their feet and it does nothing. I end up running out of ammo and having to run or die.

I've tried being much more careful, but I'm having to spam so many rounds its eating up my nano hives.

In the last build there were people always saying, that shot was badass. Now It's dumb luck if I kill anybody beyond 10 or 20 meters.

I really can't believe they haven't even commented on the nerf to the MD.

Overall it's making me a poor team player. As a logi the inability to consistently hit targets is effecting my logi work. I go into an "I'm gonna get you sucka" mode. Maybe I just suck, but there seems to be a inconsistency with the splash radius. Skilled up it should be around 10 feet for the Freedom. Nobody can suck bad enough to miss somebody with no HP left standing right in front of them.

I'll be on later tonight to test it out further on you SOBs. Take it easy on me, it seems like I'm lobbing non lethal rounds.