Thog A Kuma
Planetary Response Organisation
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Posted - 2013.05.10 13:19:00 -
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[lots of snarky peevish comments I have no business making about CCP that they don't deserve to hear, I know you are trying and are working hard] It seems like you guys are kinda knee jerking, chill out. y'all changed a large # of variables all at once. You should have left game play essentially the same and just improved the visuals (then rolled out your balance changes) , but what is done is done, good luck.
SirManBoy wrote:The mass driver needs some serious TLC. Some arbitrary 10% buff isn't going to adequately address its extensive list of new shortcomings, including its damage (it needs far more than a 10% buff), its splash area, and its aiming. In its current state, the mass driver is a hot mess that no longer commands any respect on the battlefield, which means all of its tactical value is gone. This is especially true for logi bros who used it to enhance their support role. A mass driver used to scare people away long enough to make revives, throw down nanos, and make repairs. This is no longer the case.
Are there 200 MD players? is it that there aren't many of us so we (logically) aren't a very high priority? CCP, you didn't even mention you were feeling like taking the nurf bat to the MD, now there are us tiny insignificant portion of your player base stuck tossing water balloons at power-lifters wondering where all our bruises came from.
There have been a few mostly troll free threads on the MD detailing the misleading visual smoke trail the misplaced and/or miss timed explosion at the end. we've mentioned that our oponents seem to be able to jump over our damage. We've mentioned that the accumulated effect of nurfing nanohive, adding to peoples shield tanking, and severely limiting scan resolution (the only other weapon nearly as hurt by surprise encounters is the FG but at least the heavy cannot kill himself), with all the overt nurfs to our weapon you have kinda made us a joke. heck, when I do manage to kill someone you removed the sound effect and his body disappears so we very often have to go looking through our smoke screen to make sure he's really dead.
Can you please throw us a bone and explain the thought process behind the MD nurf, what do you see the MD roll as in the future? |