"We like the concept of these grenades, but we look at them as a situational, additional damage source that will let you take out targets during vital moments of close quarters combat. "

We've heard your concerns and we were a little shocked at the horse-head in our beds, but as per usual we are definitely doing something about it. As CCP Wolfman iterates in this new dev blog. You might be interested to read more about the changes we are making to the Flaylock Pistol, Contact Grenades and teaser into the remedy for the "murder taxis" Please leave your feedback down below!

I'm just curious as to why the direct damage of the Flaylock has suffered such a drastic change.
The blast radius and damage needed to be changed no doubt, but a direct hit seems lesser.

EDIT:
Upon rethinking I feel that it may actually still work, I occasionally use a Flaylock as a finisher, so it should still do that nicely.
Plus this may actually make my marksman skill with the Flaylock seem more impressive. Less 'Gaylock' hate.


I haven't really used a Contact Grenade so I can't comment on them too much,
however lowering damage, radius and the carry limit to just a single grenade is overkill.

I've been skilled by a Contact Grenade several times and yes it's pissed me off.
But being able to only carry one at a time just seems crippling, why not two?

I do love the idea of Sticky Grenades though, would be better than contact detonation.


Really looking forward to the details for the counters to Murder Taxis.

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.

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.

Bullshit..
Problems also in other sides, you looking in wrong direction.
Why "Fused" gr only by AUR???
Why AR have more skills?
Why other weapons still have stupid skills? like PG cost on FlayLock and charge time on ScR?
and why FlayLock dont cost PG???Why???
and biggest problem - you dont listen players.

If you read the dev blog you would know that they are changing the pg skill on the flaylock to cpu

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

The Flaylock's direct dmg needed to come down a bit to keep in on par with other sidearms. With the splash damage added on, it was just too good at killing. This should hopefully allow for a more balanced weapon - while still having it's unique uses.

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

Why "Fused" gr only by AUR???

We've heard your concerns and we were a little shocked at the horse-head in our beds, but as per usual we are definitely doing something about it. As CCP Wolfman iterates in this new dev blog. You might be interested to read more about the changes we are making to the Flaylock Pistol, Contact Grenades and teaser into the remedy for the "murder taxis" Please leave your feedback down below!