They have that in CoD if you want this, play a game that has the specific play style no point in make two games the same, or try getting direct hits with forge guns if your looking for a 1 hit kill. You have the choice but no things are not going to be like CoD because you want them too, this game is called Dust 514 and its best asset is its uniqueness. Honestly what other game can you carry a hand held man portable anitmaterial rail gun.

MD needs a clip size of one. That'll sort the issue.

sure and add a splash damage off 1000 then you can have that.

Crutch much?

If a MD user has time to fire all 6 rounds at you, which takes over 6 seconds, what were you doing with your main weapon AND sidearm in the meantime???

MD:
1. Obscures your vision
2. Makes you flinch
3. Drops frame rate


Can't do **** like that.

Minus the Drops frame rate part, let's consider the others inflict blind, and inflict stun respectively and suddenly in RPG terms everything's nice and good for the support weapon.

It used to add camera shake back in beta, but even us massholes said that was OP.

Minus the Drops frame rate part, let's consider the others inflict blind, and inflict stun respectively and suddenly in RPG terms everything's nice and good for the support weapon.

Until you consider that it can still kill people like there is no tomorrow.
If they want to keep those things in, then drop the splash damage to 50-60.
Otherwise, remove the damn flinch and effects.

The flinch relates to aiming, your feet aint broken. Get outta dodge. The thing is area denial. Of course you're going to die if you're still in the area.

I die to a mass driver once in maybe 20 games despite everyone switching to them, and using them like ars now.

seriously some people just suck, and we need to balance the game around them sucking.

If it adds flinch, can you catch it on camera and report it. That's not a feature the MD should have.

Only I can't, because it kills too quickly for it to be area denial.
Oh and did I mention that it's extremely effective at being a shotgun?
Put some kin cats on, can't escape from you and can't hit you.

I am going to trust that CCP did not make changes to the flay lock pistol simply because everyone whined on the forums about how overpowered it was. I choose to believe that they listened to the community but also looked closely at hard data about kills and trends with damage distribution

And I will additionally hope and believe that CCP would use this method every time the whiney nerf begging vanilla loving horde comes a calling, Regnum.

And I expect that, when the actual data is reviewed, CCP will not see the kind of effectiveness at producing kills with mass drivers that they saw with flay locks. If that is not the case, if every time Regnum sees a mass driver in dust he dies...or whatever sky it is you are currently screaming about falling....then a nerf may be in order.

But I would like to see some data in addition to your whining dissatisfaction.

All explosives do it.

Even then, it obscures your vision and drops your frame rate, two things that make this weapon too deadly.

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

All that said.

I've been using the MD for about 9 months.

During Chromosome the weapon worked great. They decided to nerf it dramatically when Uprising was released.

This nerf made it more apparent that there was a serious hit detection issue.

As a temporary fix, they buffed the splash radius to previous levels.

I warned against this, saying that hit detection needed to be fixed before there was any buff.

At this time, the splash radius is too big. There are times I fire a shot out of desperation that missed pretty badly yet garners a kill.

This splash radius is big enough that there are a ton of rogue suicides as well. I don't get up high to use the MD because it's boring. I like to run around with it. I die as much from my own hand as from the enemy the last few weeks.

If that happens. Either you're bad or someone ran in front of you.

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