true... just less kills since its range(splash) is getting a nerfing so better players can still use it effectively.

This isn't mentioned in the description of the weapon so I don't know if it's true. If the scrambler is truly only for headshots, then it's not a very viable weapon since other weapons are much easier to use, making them much more effective and leaving the scrambler seemingly underpowered compared to those weapons.

This information is also not mentioned in the description and making any weapon less effective is not balance. Is CCP trying to balance the weapons or convince players into using the AR? When the most skilled players are using the easiest weapons to handle then the other more difficult to use weapons are underpowered and everyone might as well just use an AR. The weapons are more difficult to use because they are underpowered.

Hit detection borked or not, I know I pissed someone off the other night.

Spawned in with my crosshair on a reddots face, R1, he dies, I decloak, it was epic.

I see what your saying. I would compare Dust to other FPS and how they design pistols. Pistols are generally not as powerful as other weapons but with one clip, a pistol can kill other players without headshots. The pistol can even be run as a primary weapon in other FPS games. In Dust, due to the ability of dropsuits to amass large amounts of HP, the scrambler pistol is not at all a good choice as a primary weapon. Even with the militia suits, the pistol user still has a difficult time killing with one clip while other weapons have well more than enough bullets to kill numerous militia suits. However, CCP may have designed the scrambler pistol to be vastly underpowered to other weapons to reduce it's ability to function as a primary weapon since it is a sidearm. If that was the case, the SMG would be as underpowered as the scrambler pistol.

Making any weapon harder to use only lessens it's use. Players of all skills will generally gravitate to the weapons that allow them to get the most kills. Weapons should be balanced to other weapons, not to player skill.

I use the scrambler pistol as my primary and have done for at least the last 6 months. You get a 450% bonus to headshot damage, making it a high skill high reward weapon. If it takes you an entire clip to kill anything less than a highly tanked proto or heavy suit, you're not getting headshots and need to aim up and aim better.

I one shot most suits with a headshot and at least take out all the shields on anything I can't OHK. You NEED to get that headshot though and that is tough (but not impossible) when they're dancing around. But the most important point is that nothing is wrong with them - they just require more skill than you apparently have.

Hows the range on the breach variant? Its seemed way too short when I tried it out a couple times. was that tweaked or was I just not using it right?

Used to be exclusively the assault but I recently switched over to the breach and am loving it, even just the standard variant. The reduced ROF really makes me use my shots more precisely instead of the spam in the head-area that I used to do.