damage, not radius.

Applying damage requires skill, applying damage through a radius does not. There is a difference between getting a bullseye with a dart and getting a bullseye with a shotgun.

However in Dust the two are equivalent.....

Damage and splash are not the same. Sorry if im not clear on your meaning. Max damage from explosives is fine though (except flaylock of course, always the rulebreaker) in fact max damage may need to be INcreased to justify a splash nerf, but i think damage needs to drop off, FAST. And so put skill back up where it belongs, no?

Try the plasma cannon. That weapon is hard enough already. If you remove the splash that will be just one more reason to never use it. I think you are wrong that it doesn't take skill for splash.... in fact it takes a lot of skill to throw a grenade exactly where you want it or put your mass driver shots where you want them.

I think it makes more sense to keep splash high and perhaps reducing direct damage slightly resulting in a more even distribution of damage across the blast radius, What you're advocating is turning explosives into Assault Rifles with a different skin. Weapons should have variety, and AOEs are designed to punish people from clumping together. ARs should still have the advantage if you're a skilled player. Tactics are supposed to play a huge role in the game, it's not just pure twitch like HALO.

Madness. Why not just remove sights alltogether and call in airstrikes? This is not what an fps is about

Spawn, bang, bounce.

These high splash radii, cannot breed the longevity CCP crave. Its just annoying for longer term players, perhaps because splash puts more down to chance...

Reign it in ccp? Im fed up with bouncing around on a sea of random boom.

Damage and splash are not the same. Sorry if im not clear on your meaning. Max damage from explosives is fine though (except flaylock of course, always the rulebreaker) in fact max damage may need to be INcreased to justify a splash nerf, but i think damage needs to drop off, FAST. And so put skill back up where it belongs, no?

No. Diluted madness. Why not just remove sights alltogether and call in airstrikes? This is not what an fps is about. Explosives should be explosives: Very damaging at close range

'just like an assault rifle' ?
Perspective
2m splash is way more than 2000 x bigger than an assault rifle bullet.

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I am sorry that you got killed by a flaylock today instead of an AR.

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Explosives are fine.

Try the plasma cannon. That weapon is hard enough already. If you remove the splash that will be just one more reason to never use it. I think you are wrong that it doesn't take skill for splash.... in fact it takes a lot of skill to throw a grenade exactly where you want it or put your mass driver shots where you want them.

It takes skill to target with any weapon, but it takes much less skill to use splash damage. I just skilled into the mass driver for that very reason. Now I can almost blind fire and do damage if not get kills. At the very least I get a lot of assists because I have already weakened them with all the splash from just spamming the area. Does it take a little time to get used to how it fires - yes. Does that equal skill - no. Flaylock is even worse.

QFT

Also, the explosive weapons actually take more skill to use than the AR. In fact the AR is clearly the easiest light weapon to get kills with in the game. Hitscan weapons do not take much skill.

...Now I can almost blind fire and do damage if not get kills. At the very least I get a lot of assists because I have already weakened them with all the splash from just spamming the area...

Flaylock is even worse.

This is exactly how an area denial weapon is supposed to function. You're supposed to do light-to-moderate damage across an area. People can easily avoid it by moving out of the area. It's called a tactic--have one teammate soften up an area and then have your marksmen shoot them up when they leave cover. It prevents people from clustering together and forces teams to separate and spread out. It's more fun to play games where there's more thinking/planning/teamwork to it than just strafing, and bunny-hopping around with AR's.

Argument invalidated. Flaylocks are hard as f-¦ck to use effectively.
Oh, and yeah, the rest of your arguments is basically "I can get kills with this weapon" and "its not an AR nerf it!"

Does no one remember when the MD got its splash nerfed? There was chaos in the streets. Doomsayers screeching that the only weapon viable was the AR now.

Nerfing splash on all weapons would be the end of the world according to those doomsayers.