Why does a Mass Driver need 6 shots? Why does the Assault Rifle need 60?

Same answer.

You know that the TAC AR has enough range to make short work of a MD user by staying at such a range that it can be quite difficult to effectively lob rounds in?

You could have a whole squad running the setup you described, and they would still get blasted by a flux and a core locus grenade thrown by two guys.

On my heavy I pack fluxes just for groups of infantry that go shield tanking.

Complaining about someone using a flux and an armor biased weapon is ridiculous. Might as well just ask for all grenades to be removed from the game at that point.

i see no difference, between using your analogy on the MD than using it on Swarms. Apart from the obvious fact that swarms only affect tanks and that tanks are almost never popular with infantry.

Yes using the MD proficiently takes skill, using it as a FotM for tight ambush style fights is more akin to Spray an Pray, especially when a red knows to close the gap.

Limiting the Clip size or ammo count would in my opinion, nerf the system to near uselessness. I'd much rather see a splash damage nerf (and if possible, a radius increase :P).

I'm actually fine with not killing players and instead fighting for position and advantage, something which an area denial/terror weapon is quite handy for.

Sounds like you got "suppressed". There's always "that guy" doing "that thing" that annoys you when you try to hack an objective when he kills you. The situation you've described is no different than a Sniper or Forge Gun "Suppressing" an objective from atop a tower and they're MUCH harder to get rid of than a Mass Driver.

P.S. I support the implementation of an anti shield grenade that can kill.

Keep the faith.

Fluxes and Core locus both come with three. Considering that those two people can wipe out however many people you want to cram into the blast radius of the core locus, complaining about the use of a flux and MD seems needless. It would seem that at least some of the issue stems from the manner in which certain squads role, all jammed together so they can focus fire on their targets. The MD prevents this by forcing squads to spread out. Tactics at its finest.

As to the anecdote of the match, why not grab a sniper rifle and dome the guy? If he was sitting up on a roof, he could have been pegged by tank, forge, sniper, or attacked by dropship. With that many counters, it seems a stretch to be complaining. Also, at that range he was not throwing fluxes, so shield tankers would have been needing at least 3 splashes to get through the shields, so it isn't like you couldn't GTFO in time. It was just a tactical error that allowed him to stay up there. He only had impunity because you refuse to do what was obvious to kill him. Thats on you, not him.

It actually does have a limited range ( shot a long shot at a dropship that should have hit but the round exploded before connection... I think.) it's just ridiculously long. How would CCP justify the falloff though? and then to what degree? the Mass Driver wasn't meant to be a Short Range Weapon, and it's only usable at long range by the EXTREMELY skilled.

Well I think an appropriate solution might be to have Flux grenades follow the same "Cooking" guidelines as regular grenades. One of the biggest reasons that the Fluxmass Combo is so effective is that the flux grenade can be thrown, and then after two seconds detonate without being cooked. Which means you can engage you opponent very quickly. Whereas cooking a grenade to achieve the same affect would give your opponent time to react to what your doing in a 1v1 scenario. Thoughts?

That happens when any weapon hits you, it's just more noticeable when your hit by something with a much more impact like a Mass Driver, Grenade, Plasma Cannon, or Forge Gun.

...This dude is so dumb I'm going to just lol at the fact you're in Zion and troll you from now on. I have massive respect for discussion, but you're failing at that.