" The FAL was a particularly deadly combination. GÇ£When [manually firing one shot at a time as described above], there's essentially no recoil,GÇ¥ said Rubens. GÇ£Every shot is direct on target and when it only takes two shots to kill even at long distances since it doesn't lose damage over distance, the FAL can kill before other guns can get a shot off.GÇ¥

Rubens added that the gun's clip size is also a beefy 25 bullets, which meant that in the right hands, a dozen enemies could be killed without the need for a reload. Beyond that it also had great power and accuracy even when firing from the hip, which meant that it could be even better in close range fights than weapons that were intended for close range battles."

"And it's not super exciting when all players essentially have an instant death beam at their disposal."



Major League Gaming announced they've decided to ban the FAL assault rifle

What did you think I was talking about?

I suspect you're getting at the fact that if you replace fal with tar.... things look very similar to our current meta.

If they fix it like they fixed "weapon damage mod displays", they can just remove all the other weapons in the game. Problem solved.

On a serious note, it really is pressing that it get looked at. I'm sure they know. They are focused on the skill tree and respec right now though.

I'm seriously disappointed that it wasn't fixed by the 14th.
It still isn't fixed, weeks after Uprising.

There was no need to ban the fal they should just ban the mods on the controller. It would solve the problem and besides using a nodded controller is cheating.

I love how you left out the 3+ paragraphs defining it's use with a modded controller.

I love how you didn't read what sort of controller mod it was. If CCP hard-bans everyone with modded controllers (read: tries to detect turbo), it wouldn't impact the kind of controller mods in the article at all.

Yeah, last I checked, I didn't have to depress the trigger half-way to get a shot off with a PS3 controller.

I mean, if you're using an Xbox 360 controller on a PS3, you kinda deserve the excuse to need a modded controller, but whatever.

Edit: Despite this, the argument still stands: Is it the gun or the controller? I'd hardly say that the gun needs to be outright removed from the game because people can't get their knickers out of a twist. They don't bother me, I use them and I know for a fact that they're effective but I wouldn't say it's game-breaking effective. Not like they can kill tanks.

If the issue doesn't exist with the PS3 (that a very similar to a TAR gun is imbalanced with hair triggers), that means the balance issue in Dust is even worse because everyone has the equivalent of "modded" controllers.

The gun isn't being removed from the game anyway, it's being removed from competition. There is no equivalent function in Dust, so it's either removal or alteration here.

Just because you can't take out a tank with it doesn't mean it's balanced. It's compared to the rest of the anti-personnel weapons, not AV.