Wrong. But even going with your flawed logic (BTW it's clear to anyone with brains that people migrate to what is OP, hence the term FOTM) Even that aside, the AR overusage is killing diversity in the game.

There's no point to most of the other weapons.

AR usage is about equal to that of the lower used 10 out of 12 light weapons/sidearms combined! That's terrible diversity, and bad for the game regardless if you want to attach the well deserved OP moniker or not.

Except this is what 30 matches for him? 8 for my data, and even a nice donation of PC stats. All confirm the same thing. AR is killing diversity.

Look at the scrambler rifle - 10 times as many people use the AR as scrambler rifle. lol! and the AR isn't OP, nope.

Here, I can do the wikipedia link too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial


Bottom line. Don't call it OP if you can't stomach the truth, but the numbers don't lie. The weapon is a huge problem for diversity in the game, and this diversity issue needs to be addressed ASAP.

Example:

130 people play and are studies:
100 people use the AR and they average 9 kills and 4 deaths
10 people use the Flaylock and average 15 kills and 2 deaths
10 people use the Mass driver and average 12 kills and 3 deaths
10 people use the Scrambler rifle and average 7 kills and 3 deaths

the AR had 900 kills
the FLhad 150 kills
the MD had 120 kills
the SR had 70 kills

the AR had nearly 3 times the kill count

Conclusion, the AR is OP and a dominant weapon

lol. keep defending your AR OP EZ mode please.

Listen. The stats don't lie.

The AR is a problem, it's used 10 times more than a supposedly similar weapon, the SR.

All this data shows is that the AR is dominating the game, and all that time the devs spend on other weapons is wasted. That sounds like a problem to me, but just in case you need more detail:

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=92678

Also, he definitely has enough data here to reach statistical significance.

Toss out OP, and you still have a huge problem. Accept the truth, and it's the biggest weapon related problem in the game. Again though, I know I'm a dissenting voice because I'm not one of the 75% relying on the crutch of the AR.

Keep in mind what the OP has shown is kills, not usage.

hail AR 514. Hail king AR.

That's what these data show.

Pick a scenario.

That's funny. You see, it's people like the OP and myself that are presenting the objective facts. All you've done is blow hot air.

I stand by my numbers. I stand by his.

Hail AR 514. Go AR or go home.

Like I said. I understand that I'm a dissenting voice. I don't expect to be accepted.

The facts are the facts though.

Hail AR 514.

I wish to completely distance myself from Buster's comments in this thread, as they do not reflect my own views or conclusions.

The purpose of this data was never to show that anything was OP or not and I don't believe any of this data alone could possibly show this. It is quite obvious that the AR is the most used weapon and gets the most kills - that does not infer it is OP. Likelihood is that many people use it because it is the most familiar weapon to them after playing other FPSs.

My point was only ever to provide some data. I was a little irked by a few people recently publishing lists of the weapons that kill them over a number of games because these all relied on a single player's playstyle - this data is a generalised version of those attempts and no one else has provided this information previously.

I realise my dataset is limited but I will continue to expand it over time. 30 matches and thousands of kills is a good start. The reason I don't have those 50 flux grenade kills is that none of those happened in any of the matches I happened to be watching - i.e. I can't collect data for things I don't observe.

Heh, yes, this does mean I spend a few hours doing nothing in MCCs but damn it's frustrating and dull. I sometimes wish I could go down and help out, especially when I can see on the map exactly where that sniper on the killstreak is hiding or when I know I could get that LLAV buzzing around murder-taxiing everyone but I resist, so that I in no way skew the results. If I was playing, you'd see a lot more pistol kills. But it is boring and I don't get to do anything else whilst doing it because I literally have to be watching the killfeed the entire game or I miss stuff - it's hard as it is when there's 5+ deaths within seconds and I have to mark them down before they disappear because only the last 3 show at once.

I've been unemployed for well over a year now and have been desperately seeking work, whilst doing my own games design projects. Fortunately, I have an interview tomorrow and another 2 on Wednesday, so I won't be in this state much longer (fingers crossed). I hate feeling like a bum :(