Crutch much?

Hell no! A lot of it isn't opinion. There are a lot of instances where the AR is plainly the wrong weapon to bring to the fight.

what kill data, the top two weapons that get kills in this game are AR and sniper rifles, and AR's get easily double the kills of sniper rifles, all other weapons don't even come close.

if you add up the kill feeds they will usually look like the following

AR- 85 kills
snipers 50 kills
tanks/vehicles - 50 kills
scrambler rifles - 45 kills
mass driver - 30 kills
everything else - 30-50 kills depending on how many heavies you have using forge guns

Really another idiot like buster actually exists!!!

Wow that actually surprises me since his idiocy was on a whole different level. Lets see here your data collection means nothing....all it means is that a majority of kills are done by ARs......and we all know ARs are the weapon the majority of players use. So by your same logic I can ask CCP to give me a weapon that will insta kill everyone and makes me invincible....but as long as I am the only one to use it then it wont be OP since it will only be a small percentage of the total kills. Seriously kids who think they know anything about statistical data gathering or interpretation make me laugh. They dont even know the first thing about gathering data and analysing said data. I am sorry but this type of idiocy will not go unchallenged.


Now to Regnum.......its true people want their crutch....I mean who couldnt want a MD that has a AOE of more than 8 meters that does 100 or more dmg per shot to armor. If you are slightly better at aiming you can use a weapon with a stronger AOE it just has an AOE of 5-6 meters. Honestly noobs need their crutches so they will come on here and argue/defend these weapons all day long. Personally balancing these weapons would be very easy. If you lower the AOE dmg then you probably nerf it way too much. I think the easiest/best way to balance is to change the AOE....AOE for the regular MD should be 3.0 (which gets boosted up to 3.75 when fully skilled) and the assault MD should be ~4.0 (with skills this would go up to 5.0).

explosives just need a whole rework in this game.

Sure you can nerf flaylocks/mass drivers/nades into the ground so they aren't viable but in general explosives are not working like they should.

Most importantly we need better damage fall off throughout the blast radius. I don't know how it works now but we need damage falloff for explosives fit a fairly narrow gaussian distribution, and then tweak the maximum blast radius and peak damage on all explosives to compensate.

There should be no distinction between direct damage and splash on explosives.. just peak damage which happens at 0m from blast and then fall off as you move out of the range.

This is a big problem with flux nades too.

What you fail to understand is overuse does not mean unbalanced. You cannot force ppl to use certain weapons so that there is an equal difference in weaponry uses. What most "AR" users dont realize is that the scrambler rifle stats are all better than the AR stats. So why talk about "balancing" the AR when there is already another weapon that is definitely better than the AR? The AR is unbalanced is just chosen by more ppl to be used....this does not mean its OP it just means a majority of ppl use it.

LOL not a member of the AR nerf brigade.........your hilarious. yes thats why at every turn you talk about the OP AR. Sorry buddy but you cant "force" ppl to use different weapons. People gravitate towards the AR because they are comfortable with it. I know ppl who have only used the AR exclusively and they know there are weapons that are better for them but they still just use it because they are familiar with the AR and they will never switch. You cant force these ppl to switch without CCP taking over ppls accounts and making them spec into weapons they dont want to use.

And I will be shredding your heavy from further distance and with more damage for greater accuracy with an ASCR.

ASCR 514 is born

Actually the problem is your logical reasoning is flawed. You want there to be more diversity in the weapons people use. So in an attempt to obtain the diversity desired you wish to uber nerf a weapon that is infact balanced in an effort to force ppl from using this weapon to using a different weapon thereby increasing the "diversity". Only this is perhaps one of the most insanely idiotic reasonings for nerfing something that anyone could think of. A player should not be "forced" to not use the weapon they want to use just to increase the diversity of the weaponry in this game. Even if you do this then how can you make people spec differently...what if they all specced into ASCR? Then your have ASCR 514 (according to you) and you back to the exact same place you were before with a vast majority of the kills being done by 1 weapon because a vast majority of players have chosen to use that weapon.

Simply put you cannot/should not be able to force diversity in a game where you can choose the weapon you use. Like I said there are better weapons already on the market for people to use and many people despite knowing that there is a better weapon will continue to use the "inferior" weapon because they are familiar with it....or like it......or like the looks of it...(whatever reason they personally have). People migrated to the flaylock because it was OP...and some people follow that trend. However even with the flaylock being OP you still didnt see a majority of people using it because they chose not to. Heck I chose not to spec into the flaylock because I knew it was a noob weapon and I didnt want to use it for that reason (i also rarely if ever use sidearms). You cannot dictate other players person preferences. Heck eventually we are supposed to have 4 different models of assault rifles (1 for every race) and yet you will still probably see a majority if players stick with the original plasma rifles even when there are better options out there.

BTW I am a ASCR user....before that an AR user. I moved to the ASCR because I saw that it was better than the AR in every single way. But I dont have an issue with ppl using the AR because thats what they choose to use. Maybe I just dont understand the mentality that is behind your thought process of "the devs need to make sure that the weapons usage is diverse so they should nerf/buff weapons accordingly to create a diverse weapon environment". Perhaps its just my libertarian mind coming through that refuses to allow me to accept such a gross example of freedom of choice being taken from a player.

Yes you gamer who is good at using sniper rifles...CCP has now designated you as a shotgunner...as such you can only use the shotgun now because we must maintain a diverse weapon usage and we see that there are just too many sniper rifles in use as such your name has come up as one of the players who will now be using the shotgun exclusively. Have a nice day

Sigh......yes because the ASCR isnt better than the AR.....

I swear debating with a wall is better than debating you...and least it gives intelligent replies in the echoes.......

CCP didnt force usage of the flaylocks.................your ramblings are becoming more inane by the moment.

I love your logic though....I need to petition CCP to make me a weapon that will kill everyone in a single shot and makes me invincible on the battlefield. As long as there are other weapons with higher kill counts than my OP weapon then my weapon is in fact not OP but balanced and helps "diversify" this games weaponry.

At this point I simply cannot even comprehend how you can think this as you have basically just stated that CCP should in fact force players to use a certain weapon so that there is plenty of weapon diversity. I guess we arent mercs anymore but we are infact standard military and should only use the racial items based on our racial choices right....that way weapon diversity can be upheld.

At this point i dont believe there is any way to help you understand how stastical reasoning and data analyses actually works and what conclusions you can reasonably draw from that analysis. You cant read numbers and understand what those numbers are actually telling you..instead you read numbers and you put your own conclusions into the fact presented attempting to use the facts to prove your conclusion despite the fact that they in no way shape or form come close to supporting your conclusion. A suggestion.....if you are still in school do not go into science, stastics, mathematical reasoning, or medicine. Your analysis skills are seriously lacking in your ability to determine what conclusion should be drawn based on the data given.

What numbers you asshat, are you citing your scrubby pubdata to me again. Please come back when you actually know how to gather legitimate data, till then take your pseudoscience and poor methodology back to community college where it belongs.

Buster, you should ask CCP to put out data, same way they did in the last dev blog to do with balancing weapons.

If they would do that then it would be much easier to make recommendations on all weapons

Well what he cant provide is a proportionality rate either. He cite AR's have the most kills on a killboard but also cites its the most commonly used weapon. Hmm I wonder why? Also will he complain when new rifle variants are added? All of which people will migrate to as they will be increasing in range. Combat rifle especially.

Nope all he can cite is the is a larger portion of AR use over other weapons. Well seeing as most other weapons are niches and situational I would expect that. How about Assualt classes what the proportionality of Assualt and Logi compared to Heavy and Scout? Wouldnt that serve as a factor?

After all does anyone expect there to be a wider use of SMG or Scrambler Pistols over Rifles?

Lazer rifles are niche, the only weapon that is on par with the AR is the SCR and those who know how to build a SCR build would chose an SCR over AR anyday except most dont know how to keep the range to their advantage. Now add to this that both of these rifle fall more into a carbine category then true rifle and you will see a spike in rifle gear.

Also it just might have to do with the fact that the only 2 BPO's are the SMG and the AR currently.

Lastly the spike data in Flaylocks shows the increased efficacy of the weapon itself. For all his bluster about the OPness of the AR sure doesnt seem to provide any insight into the efficiency of the weapon compared to other weapons.


Let me give you a clue with a normalization to account for usage your entire analysis is invalid.

Until you realize that the ASCR is actually a better AR with a downside that isn't much of a downside at all
If you anything you should be complaining about it, not the AR.

The mass driver, and explosives in general, and done fundamentally wrong in this game.

Notice how we're going from one FOTM explosives weapon (flaylock) to another FOTM explosives weapon (mass driver)?

Explosives in the game are bad... they are programmed really bad.

They programmed damage fall off for weapons... they need to do similar for explosives, period.

So yeah... MD is OVERPOWERED. It is overperforming the role it is supposed to. Not because of damage, not because of blast radius, and not because of clip capacity.

It is overpowered because of terrible programming and poorly planned splash damage mechanics.

Honestly.. grenades are the same way... but we don't complain as much because we can all use grenades.

The game certainly wouldn't be AR 514 anymore lol.

What about just a slow and steady decline? (as we've been experiencing since 1.0)

Didnt you hear?? They arent OP DUH!!!