1st, it only took 2 months to act on this.

1st, it only took 2 months to act on this.

I think the fuse nerf is right on the spot but i'm affraid that the flaylock will still be vastly superior to other secondary weapon (seriously who would pick a scrambler pistol over a flaylock in CB).
Nothing on the MD ?

The good thing is that when we read wolfman blog, it feels like he understood that CB in it's current state is a 'splosion fest right now, (the MD being one of the greatest contributor to the clusterfuck in CB)

I specced into flaylock in may sometime, didnt feel so op, untill everyone else got one changes sound reasonable, will soon see after 1.3

Sticky nades sounds like a plan!!

Wow... I feel the change in Direct Damage is just too much.
It fires rockets for gods sake it's meant to be powerful.

The blast radius needed to be changed, but that and the Direct Damage, you've near crippled this weapon.


You can expect cries for a Respec. now.
I feel it should be the blast radius that is changed. the current direct damage is fine, if you even get a direct hit.

Changes to explosives look good... now if only you had followed that same logic before you took the nerf hammer 9000 to the cal logi suit

looks solid, looking forward to maybe seeing the changes to contact nades in 1.4 or later? and glad to see flaylock looks mostly solid still, ADV. flaylock felt much more balanced than the core so changing the core to be more like the ADV is now sounds good.


I do want to echo concerns about direct damage in the patch though. I understand it's a sidearm and its RoF and reload speed means it has a pretty high DPS if those direct hits land. BUT I'm concerned it might not be as effective in hit & run style tactics as if currently can be (if you can land direct hits consistently). I run scout with a speed tank and a shotgun/flaylock combo, so it's basically all about DPH. I mean I can wait and see, everything might be fine one the patch hits. but wouldn't lowering the RoF and increasing the reload speed be more in line with what the weapon is supposed to be?

I feel like right now you're nerfing DPS by nerfing DPH, if it's supposed to be a high skill, direct hit weapon, why not nerf the RoF to encourage hit & run tactics and skill shots and discourage spamming the whole clip hoping for one or two hits?


as far as concerns about it being a sidearm go, it's not like the proto scrambler pistol and SMG aren't killer too if you use them right.

If you want a hit and run weapon thats a skillshot, use a Plasma Cannon.

Just a clarification on something. The ammo skill changes does not increase magazine size, but rather the size of the ammo pool.

So you'll still need to reload just as often, except you'll need to head back to the supply depo less often with higher skill levels.