Unless you're getting kills in 2 seconds with them, it shouldnt affect you much.

Reduction in magazine
Increase of hipfire scatter
RoF managed though both recoil and hard cadence set.

CCP Wolfman has a forum post covering it. Specific stats are to be known very soon.

Do you know when we might see these changes?

Thank you very much, Wolf and Pandora!

Too SoonGäó.

Whatever the new specs are going to be there's an extremely high chance it will have zero effect on how the weapon is used.

For some reason all of a sudden CCP is dead set on giving future weapon balances a gentle treatment quite in contrast to taking Mass Drivers and every other unfortunately nerfed weapon and slamming them against the wall until no one wanted to use them anymore.

Whatever the new specs are going to be there's an extremely high chance it will have zero effect on how the weapon is used.

For some reason all of a sudden CCP is dead set on giving future weapon balances a gentle treatment quite in contrast to taking Mass Drivers and every other unfortunately nerfed weapon and slamming them against the wall until no one wanted to use them anymore.

Whatever the new specs are going to be there's an extremely high chance it will have zero effect on how the weapon is used.

For some reason all of a sudden CCP is dead set on giving future weapon balances a gentle treatment quite in contrast to taking Mass Drivers and every other unfortunately nerfed weapon and slamming them against the wall until no one wanted to use them anymore.

They are balancing exactly like they should, instead of overnerfing and overbuffing in a vicious cycle.

I think you'll be surprised how damage falloff combined with the slight CQC efficacy reduction will probably bring the TAC right in line with everything else.

Too SoonGäó

The reduced clip would force more reloads and create an immense amount of combat downtime and window of opportunity to get shot back at with.

Hello!

I love semi-auto weapons and I use Scrambler Rifles and yes, I do use the hated GLU. I generally like this one more because Scramblers don't feat my mid-long range playstyle. I'm not sure, but I think many players whine about its rate of fire and blindfire accuracy.

Because I've read it can do 1000DPS, so maybe I'm the only one with a super-slow index finger and I can't simply shoot that fast . I'm able to press R1 maybe 6 times per second lol (so I guess it's about 75x6=450DPS for me) and I can't use the damn thing in CQC at all, so I switch to my SMG in that case.

So does anyone know if this incoming nerf will affect these properties? In this case I think I won't suffer at all, but I'm worried... I'm still a new player (900K SP), so if the gun is going to change its feel drastically, I'm going to have most of my SP thrown away... Sadly, these are the only 2 semi-auto rifles in the game and Scramblers have a broken range... Oh yes, they are POWERFUL (maybe even "too" powerful) and amazing, I like the feel and the sound they make, but their range is just broken... I'd rather them a bit weaker but with much better range. As I said I love mid-long range combat, but I'm definitely not a sniper.

(This is off topic, but may I try to suggest to CCP to decrease (a bit) Scrambler's damage and to increase (fairly) its range?)

Thank you very much and sorry for my clumsy english (and of course for liking the TAR lol)!

Hello Keri.

I can't tell you for sure, but I was looking for some info as well and this is what I found:

-A rate of fire Cap will be added. No idea if this will prevent people form tapping like bots (definitely not your case lol) or if it is going to make the gun jamming horribly, I'm sorry.

-The clip size will be reduced. Not sure why, maybe another reason to prevent people from spamming R1... meh. I guess a RoF cap is more than enough.

-Blindfire accuracy will be reduced. This won't hurt.

It seems its range and damage per shot won't be affected, which seems good to me. This kind of weapons (scoped-in semi auto/burst rifles) and Laser Rifles (they are underpowered) needs to dominate the medium-long range combat just like you say, if I got a GEK and you got a GLU you should have a noticeable advantage at your range and I should get the same advantage in CQC. If anything, we need (IMO) a better range for Semi-auto Scramblers and I think the burst AR would need to be closer to the TAC (speaking of ranged combat).

Right now I can snipe people at decent range with my Charged Sniper without getting shot back, unless MAYBE they got a TAR or a Laser Rifle. If they got a LR I will perform an "evil laugh" and kill them lol.

Laser Rifles need a general buff, Scrablers and maybe Burst AR need a range buff (still Scramblers might need their "charged" damage slightly reduced, because it's just crazy to me).

Hoping for the best

Nah it is just gonna force me to pull out my smg and finish the job. lol.

If you are in SMG range to begin with your TAR shouldn't haven't been your first choice anyway.

It would be epic if that was the mechanic for the "hard cadence set"

Oh, ****, I was tapping too fast, my gun jammed.

Then make them take twice as long to unjam it as it does to reload.