Wow 18 HP per bullet is a bit too much for the STD HMG lol.

Wow 18 HP per bullet is a bit too much for the STD HMG lol.

Very pleased. Keep up the good work CCP.

Now for the Range and I'll be active again like never before.

Yeah, I'm pumped to test the assault variants with DM's, oops..

and I'm still getting chewed to pieces from 200ft away (or more) by Duvolles, GEKs, and GLUs in a matter of about 2 seconds...

Thanks for nothing, my almost 1k hp heavy is still useless.

I just hope that relative to all the skill bonuses y'all removed(which I needed), y'all keep in mind that this game uses advanced technology, which should make it more than actually possible for certain short range weapons to be effective beyond their 'what is to be expected' range...
& I'm almost certain, that it may have Real World weapons of the same class, capable of being effective, at a greater range than that of certain weapons in this game...
...For your(the developers)consideration...

Yeah, the MD has gotten hit pretty hard:

MD Specific:
1) Splash Radius
2) Misleading Smoke Trail
3) Damage nerf
4) Range Nerf

General, but hits MD hard:
1) Nanohive Nerf (my smg kills have gone way up.)

This has changed the weapon entirely. People can hide behind obstacles and be safe, People can run from cover to cover at a distance and be safe. People can charge at me and absorb my damage while taking me down (easier than before).

I've adjusted my playstyle to this. And am now finding myself charging into groups of enemies and using the MD like a blind man's shotgun. It works, but i'm not sure that's the weapon's intended role.

If the 10% damage buff is across the board, then bringing back the splash radius and increasing the range will bring this weapon back up to snuff.

To be perfectly honest, I'm a little baffled at what's happened with the Mass Driver. The reason for the splash and blast range nerf was that in playtests we found the MD to be so effective that at one point almost half the people in the office were using it in battles.

One, there appears to be a de-sync between client and server so that (more often than it should) the server and client think the projectile exploded in different places. They're not far off, but enough so that shots you *think* are spot on are off the mark enough to do only minor splash damage.

What is to be done about the Tactical AR, and AR's in general? with the new 10% passive increase in damage, they are absolutely broken. Assault rifles were good enough before the blanket buff. the 10% should be taken off the AR's, but kept for every other weapon. Furthermore, the tactical AR needs to be dropped further, as it was already quite powerful before the 10%.

As it stands, now everyone is dying way too fast. even heavies are being dropped quite fast by AR's. FYI, AR is my primary weapon, so trust me, this isn't a bias "waah I got killed by such-and-such". This is me telling you, after having played with the CreoDron Breach AR back when it was king, the Tac is the new CreoDron. A clearly superior weapon that outshines all others.

Like he said, everyone just skilled weaponry to 5 before, so ARs are currently just as strong as they were before in Chromosome. They could use a very small nerf, but not too small... the tactical on the other hand

To be perfectly honest, I'm a little baffled at what's happened with the Mass Driver. The reason for the splash and blast range nerf was that in playtests we found the MD to be so effective that at one point almost half the people in the office were using it in battles. Clearly, that's not been the case with Uprising and after getting the engineers to go elbow deep into the code it appears there may be a few reasons beyond dry numbers that are contributing to the MDs underwhelming performance.

One, there appears to be a de-sync between client and server so that (more often than it should) the server and client think the projectile exploded in different places. They're not far off, but enough so that shots you *think* are spot on are off the mark enough to do only minor splash damage. And two, I'm told splash occlusion is getting blocked by a single player character more than it should, contributing to the "randomness" of the damage dealt and the sometimes smudgy feeling of the weapon.

I'm hesitant to rebalance the weapon until we get these issues looked at (which is happening right now).

We're aware of the range issues. We still feel very strongly about the optimal ranges for weapons being more or less where they are right now but the hard stop that occurs at max range is not cool. As I mentioned in the post, we're fixing that across the board by ensuring incidental damage is done even at extreme range, and it's why we don't want to go in and adjust individual ranges right now. This fix shouldn't be too long in coming (requires code and is not a simple server-side update, so I can't give an exact date, unfortunately).

Duck and cover, fellow fattie.

what good is incidental damage at past 50 feet ? we are a joke at 50 feet now.

To be perfectly honest, I'm a little baffled at what's happened with the Mass Driver. The reason for the splash and blast range nerf was that in playtests we found the MD to be so effective that at one point almost half the people in the office were using it in battles.