When some of the best players in the game come together and say that something is way too strong and requires little skill to use, and then randoms come in and defend said weapon, I tend to side with the players who have a wealth of not only FPS experience, but DUST experience.

So. Yea. Noob tube.

Why on earth is its splash damage as high as it's direct? O.o

Why is that necessary?

We're getting faster weapon switching in 1.2, so you effectively will have a 6 round burst if you decide to equip two, as I'm sure a number of people will / do.

This thing instant kills scouts, and probably makes logis and assaults sad, though as a heavy I don't know that first hand. What I do know is I lure those stupid little rocket panzies into a cooked grenade if I don't randomly hear pop pop pop and die as I'm trying to waddle away or figure out how to turn in their general direction.

That's a horrible philosophy because skilled players will start using it and just wreck the noobs trying to collect easy kills.

We already have a light weapon for noobs, it's called an LAV.

Ok, so why is its direct so high if its main purpose is to kill through splash?

And honestly, I personally see the flaylock as having a weaker splash with a strong direct, promoting skill instead of spam :/

They're called noob tubes as a reference to the original noob tube in CoD, which was in essence a weapon used to balance that game for skill, making it an actual noob tube. Now when people see any explosive weapon in other games, they refer to it as a noob tube.

It's an insult, not a description Well, I guess it can be both

Doesn't matter to me anyways, I use the perfectly balanced and not even slightly favored weapon now, the AR. It only took me a year of testing literally every single other playstyle that DUST has to offer (aside from assaults, never once skilled into them), to some extent. And it's not because I really even want it.

I just want a weapon that's always going to be useful, will always be simple to use, no matter how much recoil or dispersion they slap on it in a drunken rage. Hell, even overheat or jamming, which SHOULD be on it, won't make it any harder to use.

It just boggles my mind when a sidearm is so damn good.

So basically I built my character around CCPs design tendencies, not my own personal preferences, since I'd rather not have to ride to broken bus all the way to the promised land :/ (or at least be at the front, instead of the back)

How often do you think people die to the FP outside of 30m?

I'm a heavy

You call players, "scrubs", that actually have to aim and hit the target in order to kill them? I guess only skilled players use flaylocks

We are. The AR is pathetically easy to use.