It should be the measure. There's no need for any other weapons if everyone is going to run the AR. The only future proof weapon in dust. Doesn't sound fun to me, but meh, that's where we're heading.

lol that game where you threw that metal blade thing around...

Never heard of it. It was a popular shooter?

Have faith - CCP actually did good with the TAC and I think they could do similar with the Flaylock (standardized radius and lower RoF)

People will claim it is ruined but users who actually love it and use it properly should still be effective.

I dont praise CCP often but I think what they did there and what Remnant has posted about weapons and ranges seem fair.

You site the TAC rifle, and yet... how many things did they actually change on it? If anything, the tac rifle is proof that CCP doesn't know what they're actually doing, they just make a bunch of changes and hope it works.

When they first nerfed the HMG, they nerfed range AND damage, do you not see how stupid that was? When trying to balance something, you need to change as few variable as little as possible, not drastic changes. Dmg and range were overkill in the HMGs case, so bad that they actually had to go back and re-buff it.

This si why people always assume OP stuff is going to get nerfed to ****, because it's what CCP does.

+100

Thats out of about 110 people ive spoken to 'in passing' regarding the flaylock. I dont play very much any more. A good game in beta just got annoying. Closed beta was plagued by op rocket launchers getting instant kills, open beta by massdrivers, how the flaylock got through early stages of quality control i have no idea. Just look to these imbalanced LAVs (which of course will be used as murder taxis) to see just how wrong things can be when released.

so i think there are two overarching problems here

A) problem at hand: how to balance the flaylock.
B) how to prevent this with all the other new things on the way.

Re A), my 2p is that

1) ROF should come down (its an impact sensitive explosive, it should be handled carefully inside the chambers of the weapon)
2) connected to point 1, occasionally they should backfire, this is nothing strange, scramblers overheat.
3) shells that fit inside a pistol will be small, and as such, should do LOW damage.
4) the barrel of a pistol is SHORT, thus accuraccy should be bad.

Sure, keep the weapon for diversity, but it needs to come down a long way (cue the 1000 hardcore flaylock users outrage). Its not even a primary, the fact you are using it as one shows it is op. its nothing personal.

Why can my tank not slaughter infantry? And why does a low -mid range weapon behave differently from a mid - high range weapon that is completely different aside from both having splash damage? And why am I allowed to ask such a stupid question?