Yep... and the crossbow was highly effective against mounted knights in armor... and who had more armor and mounted soldiers than the crown and the church.

This wasn't about banning a weapon because it was OP.... it was about banning a weapon that would give the common man the ability to take down the symbol of authority (crown or church).

and that's why I hate other people. they want the game to be "fixed" before everything is actually in. if we had all the weapons and vehicles, and gameplay we were shown and told would be there, it would be better balanced, since CCP is balancing everything for what it's going to fight in 4 years when they launch it. then it gets horribad broken since it's counter doesn't exist yet. except for the scrambler rifle, since everyone was stacking shields, it works in it's role, and look, no one is complaining about it.

The problem isn't skill. It's the fact that in skilled hands, the CFLP becomes so powerful it's not even funny. It can outshine any other weapon in CQC, and so whole teams were using them in the compound. It became less of a gun game, and more of a CQC Zerg with explosives everywhere. Both alliances hated how the gameplay had become, so they made a mutual agreement to disuse the weapons in favor of tactical gameplay.