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mass drivers are OP... NERF THEM!


seriously.... too many rounds perclip and to high on splash dmg... and to much range...

QQ thread is full of tears and bad ideas.

Skill into EXO-5 (mass drivers level 3) and use it for at least a week then come back.

It's awesome!
I can miss someone by 5 meters and still do massive damage :D

He is crying about it because he can't stand being killed by anything that he isn't using himself.

It's simple really. Some people don't have any tolerance for diversity. They won't be happy until they turn DUST into a1v1 dueling match so they can demonstrate their elite shooting skills.

They can't stand the thought of a messy battlefield where they may die because someone got the drop on them with a situational weapon. They rage whenever they die to anyone they don't consider as elite as themselves. They compensate by deriding anything other than their choice of weapon as "noob" weapon. That way they don't have to take responsibility for having died and their fragile ego can remain intact.

The sad thing is that they can actually be quite good shots. Skill doesn't necessarily factor into who is going to fall prey to this way of thinking. In their mind every battle should be an exactly even contest, mano a mano. If you shotgun them in the face or MD them from a roof you are lousy cheating scum who is using a noob weapon to win, because you certainly couldn't beat them if you were using their weapon (like a real man).

The only cure is to realize that DUST is modeling a messy battlefield with many different weapon systems that all have different strengths and weaknesses and if you die to one it doesn't necessarily mean you are "bad" or that your teammates should laugh at you. It shouldn't threaten your ego if you get popped by a shotgun to the face.

Just let the rage go and enjoy the diversity that is DUST.

It's awesome!
I can miss someone by 5 meters and still do massive damage :D

Let's get to the real point of this thread.

Do AR's really need more then 40 shots?

They need 5 more chances .. just in case they miss the 1st time, or the 2nd time, or the 3rd, or 4th, or the 5th ...Is very hard to hit a target with Explosive grenade launcher... you know.

screaming what! who is screaming!

At the end of the day bud, you're using a noob toob and aiming at peoples feet... with 6 shots

It's been 16 pages and nobody has brought in hard numbers to prove that the MD is OP? 16 pages of QQers complaining about a weapon but instead of anything numerical, they all talked about trees and flowers. CCP already based the first MD nerf off of it being popular in the office, buffed and buffed it back up slightly because they were wrong. If this 16 page circle jerk causes the MD to get nerfed by ignorant players that don't understand the concept of area denial, all these doomsdayers trolling the forums are right because CCP will be catering to the lowest common denominator.

You can all continue your QQ now, I just wanted to point that out.

Now actually go do it.

It's been 16 pages and nobody has brought in hard numbers to prove that the MD is OP? 16 pages of QQers complaining about a weapon but instead of anything numerical, they all talked about trees and flowers. CCP already based the first MD nerf off of it being popular in the office, buffed and buffed it back up slightly because they were wrong. If this 16 page circle jerk causes the MD to get nerfed by ignorant players that don't understand the concept of area denial, all these doomsdayers trolling the forums are right because CCP will be catering to the lowest common denominator.

You can all continue your QQ now, I just wanted to point that out.

Because hard numbers isn't all.
Can you really put a numerical value of how confusing being shot at with the mass driver is?
How hard it is to aim through the puffs of smoke that keep appearing?

Can you put a numerical value to not hiding behind cover when someone is lobbing slow moving grenades at you?
How easy it is to make a tactical retreat to make a more indirect approach?

The problem is that the MD does something not many other weapons force you to do- change your strategy. Everyone wants to run around all willy-nilly in a conga line from objective to objective, mowing down everything in their path with their full auto plasma hoses. The MD forces you to go "Oh $h!t, I need to do something different!" But nobody wants to do anything different because they're used to running around on auto pilot. They hate the weapon because it forces them to play in a different way and they'll cry nerf until they won't have to. Everyone in this topic crying about a grenade launcher that works like a grenade launcher, trying to degrade its users, calling it a 6 round noob tube as a throwback to a balancing mechanic to CoD, it just shows that the MD is doing its job. Send me your hate, resentment, your fanmail... your anger only makes us massholes stronger because we're the game changer and will carry your ill will as a necessary burden.

PS: The explosion nerf in Black OPs 2 has actually made the real noob tube a viable, balanced weapon in grenadier loadouts. More any more players are calling it the pro pipe.

Hard.
3 shots and I'm dead.
Finding cover while being confused is harder than you think.

I'm starting to think you just have ekriphobia.

In an open field, sure, I know what to do, but in an enclosed complex, surrounded by tons of blueberries and grenades?
It's one of the most confusing feelings in this game.
Especially with the low frame rate.

You should try being in the recieveing end, get a Gallente dropsuit and run some matches, try to encounter a MD.