So, Mass drivers got a nerf. I'm at Mass Drivers L5, I can kill people, but it's really irritating when you think for sure that that round should hit/finish off the red dot, and doesn't. Why such a huge (Near 50%) nerf to the blast radius?

I'm reaching out to you, fellow Mass Driver users, particularly those who have put a lot of points into the tree. Are they still worth using? Do they become a lot better after those point?

(I will commend uprising on it's hit detection for direct hits with Mass Drivers, tons better now than before.)

The boundless had like 9 m radius after skills. That was kinda ridiculous if you ask me... However I agree... A 50% nerf is too far.

Is it just me or are all my weapons less effective. I die more too. Almost like my dropsuit and upgrades are NOT protecting me anymore.

i just can't give up the MD since it's never ending nastalgia from my star wars battlefront 1 days of playing the imperial pilot/mortar cannon, definately less effective but it's making the kill more rewarding to have to land the shot, i kinda admit the old MD was getting too easy, still they went too far with the nerf, it should be half of what it is..

Boundless Assault Splash = 7m
Freedom Splash = 5m
Core Breach Splash = 4m.

This is including MD Operation 5.

Then increase the splash damage by 10%. That pretty much bumps the MD up to Uprising standards.

As it was before each MD served a purpose.

The normal was a general face to face weapon best at halting charges. You did better if you had high ground or from behind, but its general use was stop people rushing a position and keep them in cover.

The assault did the opposite. The assault drove people from cover and let your men cross ground with minimum hassle. Its blastradius also gave Iit the longest effective range of the three letting you use it as a mortar.

The breach was the bastard child of the three. It looks like it was meant to fight lav but it doesn't work like that. What it could do was ambush. It was good if you got the drop on your target, but it had the worst splash of three. If you were gifted it could be used to dual directly, but this was both rare and difficult.

Now the normal md can't hit well enough to suppress, the assault can't drive people out or put hurt down range very far, and the breach doesn't hit hard enough to do much even if it was nerfed the least.

This is one shot at my feet from a basic mass driver. Please tell me more about how broken they are.


http://i.imgur.com/0Yj0r5F.jpg

I tried several weapons and most are actually weaker, especially because weaponry doesnt increase damage anymore. It feels that I am overall more durable while the truth is that EVERYONE does less damage. I can run around with scrambler pistol and jump/dance around during reload and survive to continue fire 2 seconds later, which was not possible before.

to be honest, I used the MD before and the splash was huge and I could hit a whole squad sitting on an objective and all I had to do is aim their general direction. on some maps I was just sitting on the roof or somewhere close, spamming MD nades and killing whole squads trying to get the objective. imho the nerf is justified although a bit too harsh.

Maybe you didn't notice the 760 dmg in 1 shot. and it wasn't a head or even a body shot...

I think they give total damage. Maybe you were hit by his flux simultaneously.

Sometimes when I die it shows that I took more damage than I have HP.

Maybe you didn't notice the 760 dmg in 1 shot. and it wasn't a head or even a body shot...

On another of the MD threads someone posted that they noticed the actual round travels higher than the smoke trail a shot leaves behind. After spending a couple days trying to learn to play at all with the my beloved MD (that I foolishly went to level 5 op and level 1 proficiancy without even trying first because I was unaware of a nerf) I think I noticed it too.

In general I think the round travels about a foot higher than one thinks it is. For example, if you are aiming directly at a medium frame enemy, a round aimed at and showing the smoke trail hitting him in the pelvic area would in actuallity hit the target straight in the middle of their chest.

Anyone else notice this or am I and the other guy who originally posted such completely off base?

I did the exact same thing you did. I haven't noticed the difference in smoke to round distance. Although, I was a very good shot in Chromosone with the MD and shots that I would have expected to hit, don't.

I swear, some shots where the blast radius should splash the target, don't. Not sure if it's just me though.