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Posted - 2013.08.12 09:23:00 -
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Buster Friently wrote:Text Grant wrote:People use the AR because it is familiar. Not OP. if it was op nobody would use the scrambler rifle. Nobody uses the Scrambler rifle. ARs score 10 times as many kills as scrambler rifles. The bottom line is this - It doesn't matter the reason, the AR spam is beyond bad. It is used to kill as much as 11 of the other 13 weapons combined. Yeah, that means 11 weapons are pretty useless. People pretty much only use them because they don't want to be AR spamming noobs.
Thats complete bullshit, the better players see how good the proto scramblers are and they do put it to good use, the reason you wont see it as much is that people dont want that feedback damage, really they should remove the charge shot, its like crossing PRE nerf tac AR with a charge sniper - with the best scope in the game |
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Posted - 2013.08.12 09:28:00 -
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Buster Friently wrote:Ren Ratner wrote:Of course the AR is popular. It's easy to use, reliable, and many players will choose to invest SP in it before considering a second weapon to skill into simply because of its simplicity and familiarity. You said it yourself, you're complaining about overuse and not imbalance. From my perspective, you're also wildly exaggerating.
Expecting every gun to be represented equally among the player base is pretty ridiculous. If I ran a poll of everyone's favorite ice cream, animal, cartoon show, book, superhero, whatever, not one of these would receive equal representation throughout. Why should random chance or even balanced weaponry somehow result in balanced diversity in weapon usage?
Less than half of my deaths have been the result of lone AR fire. Hell, if I'm going to escape from any fire fight, it will be vs an AR at mid range. I'm just as likely to be under fire from scrambler rifles and in my experience someone in my LOS is probably holding a mass driver or a flaylock. Snipers are abundant. Scouts usually have a shotgun, smg, and/or flaylock. Heavies are obviously likely to be carrying HMGs or forge guns. I don't see plasma cannons, maybe one a day and that guy's probably just trying it out. Don't see many lasers. I see them, but not many. Same kills as 11 of the 14 weapons combined. That's more than "more popular".
And it should be popular, its a good weapon, its not OP and its not UP, for every disadvantage one model has another model has an advantage for, it is the ONLY balanced weapon currently in dust - and maybe smgs |