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.

You shouldn't of touched Direct Damage, you should've just reduced Splash so players are more inclined to do the skilful thing and actually hit their target for once. (Risk/Reward)

The Contact Nade nerf wasn't what I expected, IWS was hyping the changes up so much and the only change was some altering to PG/CPU and amount carried, incredibly disappointed, they're still a rival of Scouts everywhere, but atleast you done something (It only took you what? 2 Months? Enough to make some money off them I guess)

At the end of the day, Flaylock nerf may have been too much, you should've kept Direct, my only gripe was the Splash, at least now they're more of a 'Finisher' weapon, rather than a Primary for some.

Contact Nade nerf wasn't enough, Splash Radius or damage should've been decreased, enough to allow every suit to tank at least one hit from them, also making them, a 'Finisher' weapon, instead of being a 'Win' button, whenever you come across a Scout.

I was under the impression AoE and direct damage could not be applied to the same target?