Aquinarius Zoltanus
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.05.07 18:15:00 -
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I was thinking about making a new thread for this, but there are probably enough Mass driver threads already so probably best to stick with this one.
First, I agree with you wholeheartedly, these nerfs have gone way over the line. I think that the Mass Driver was one of the best balanced weapons in Chromosome. It had a steep learning curve, but high skill ceiling so that it could be very powerful when mastered. It already has several inherent weakness, such as risk of self-damage/suicide, arced trajectory, significant travel time, low ammo count and slow reload speed. Weakening this weapon further was really unnecessary.
But in addition to that what I wanted to mention is that I find the new animations for explosions make it hard to track if you've hit your target. In Chromosome the explosion kicked up a cloud of dust and you could see pretty well if you hit your target. In this build, the explosion animation only sticks around for a split second and there's hardly any visual representation of the size of your splash damage. Almost all of my kills so far have been direct hits. Whereas in Chromosome, most of my kills ended up being splash (while using a full clip, mind you).
I'm having the same difficulty judging the explosions of grenades, regular and flux. The animation looks incredibly small, but I think it's hitting a wider area than that, it's just very difficult to determine.This really adds more difficulty to an already difficult weapon. |
Aquinarius Zoltanus
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
3
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Posted - 2013.05.07 19:30:00 -
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Smoky The Bear wrote:Gotta wonder whats the motivation for people with "no problems" to be on the forums posting useless opinions.. when 90% of them use an AR...
Sorry Smoky, but you're really not being very helpful or constructive. You have no idea what weapons or builds the people who are enjoying uprising are using. Who knows, maybe they're using missile assault dropships (which I've seen owning).
But honestly, that is beside the point of this thread. On the whole I enjoy Uprising, but would like to see some changes to the Mass Driver. Maybe if we stay constructive they'll actually happen. |