I recorded deaths from the Kill feed Just before the TAR nerf. The data is a bit old, but it is interesting to see the fall of the TAR and the Rise of the FP.
Kills across 7 matches:
-AR --269
-TAR --143
-Scrambler Rifle --37
Assault ScR -- 20
MD --13
SG --19
SMG --56
sPistol--11
Snipe--110
Vehicle--80
Vehicle turrets -- 24
Lasers -- 1
Flalock pistol-- 4
grenade -- 33
remote explosives --2
AntiVehicle --57
nova Knife -- 8
HMG --59


The TAR isn't used as much now, did those numbers get moved to the FP?

No, his numbers are skewed. TAR users aren't FP users. Most of the MD users have moved to FP though, and probably many of the SG users. I think most of the TAR users went to AR or SR.

These numbers seem much more like what I still see minus the TAR kills.


Also, we haven't discussed game mode have we? I play exclusively (or almost) skirmish.

Most of this makes sense, your armor tanking so explosives will do more, you don't have any kin cats and your losing speed from armor plates so being run over is a problem, but please explain to me how you get killed by free LAV's that much with proto AV nades.....

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I don't think I've even had an LAV death in about a month. I really can't remember the last time.

Then again my main occupation is Forge Guns. Getting a read on their movement patterns and the general behaviour of the drivers is a large part of being able to make longer shots at more awkward angles. That insight no doubt helps in their avoidance outside of a heavy suit, too.

Had a near thing one game where I baited an LLAV that was being a tricky customer into running me down. Shot the driver out at the last moment with a Breach Scrambler headshot then made an ungainly dive out of the derelict vehicle's path. Was surprised it even worked. Good round, I enjoyed his ride. Even ran him down with it once. Charybdis with whatever modules he had on it, disregards Swarm Launchers, acquires roadkills. Crazy stuff. Had a tearful parting as I left it parked behind the enemy redline a minute before the match's end.

I kept track of the reasons of death for 130 matches.
I died a total of 205 times.
It is as follows:
6% Spawn deaths
27% LLAV's
23% Free LAV's
15% Flaylock's
11% Assault rifles
11% Snipers
2% mysterious deaths (Deaths that I have no explanation towards, just died out of nowhere) + RDV's
5% other (Every other possible cause of death)

This is rounded up to make nice numbers.

My fit for all of these matches (I wanted to keep it consistant so I used one suit):
Assault gk.0
Duvolle AR
2x Complex damage mod
1x Enhanced damage mod
1x Basic Plate
1x Enhanced plate
2x Complex armor repairer
1x Nanohive
1x Proto AV Grenade

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What would be really cool to see is taking video of 100 matches, and counting everything in the kill feed.

However.. pub matches are a really bad metric to balance from. PC matches are where weapon balancing really should take place.

I hope CCP has a way of distinguishing weapon performance in PC vs IB... ill bet the metrics look completely different.