Make the AR become less accurate (Even with ADS) the longer it fires, lower it's range (20 meters optimal 50 effective), increase DPS make the normal AR breach weapon and make a stabilized variant that takes more PG/CPU but has the stats of the current one but is more accurate but still loses accuracy through continous fire.

i hopped on my cousins account for him whilst he was of in lala land doing something of utmost importance, he is an AR user so i decided to try it out, something i found odd was that i was more accurate while i was strafing+hipfiring on moing and non moving targets than i was when i would crouch and ADS on non moving targets

You should see what proficency 5, 2 damage mods and sharpshooter 3 does.

Still, what about the proposed fixes?

100 m absolute range

what it is up with all of these irrelevant players complaining about the AR? have they even gone against a full 16 man game filled with pros that use the hmg's, AV work, mass drivers, ar's,ScR's, tanks,flux, cores, grenades, team work, to its full potential? bunch of arrogant noobs dont know that everything has potential they just dont see it.

the only thing that needs a buff is the damn plasma cannon that thing blows

Who are you to be talking about nobodies? Must we get Cosgar with the MD or SoTa to troll you?

lmao i am guessing you are not an AR user and i dont even know you.

Internet Connection? How often do you DC? I had a shitty modem and replacing it made my hit detection get better.

it's wired, i almost never disconnect. I guarantee it's the game's hit detection issues.

That's a pretty weak defense for the massdriver.

yeah i'm sure it's really easy to kill someone who's shooting rapidly at your feet, taking chunks of your HP, and throwing off your aim with each hit....while using an assault rifle that doesn't register 30%+ of it's bullets

clearly mass driver users are the epitome of skill

My biggest problem is the insane damage they do to armor. They 1-2 shot anyone who gets into armor no matter the amount they have. Combining this weapon with the enourmouse blast radius of the proto flux and you have a combination that makes you invincible in any engagement.

My biggest qualm with the weapon is how badly it breaks armor tanking, the weapon single handedly makes armor tanking terrible as any one player with a basic mass driver can 2 shot you if you do not omnitank. The only time an AR has an advantage over a MD in combat is when the AR has the high ground on a ledge. Doing only spash damage and not landing a single direct hit it takes 4 shots to completely deplete most shield based logi's and assault's shields (3 if they are an armor tanked race) and takes only 1 shot to finish off the armor. Leaving 1 round to completely miss. Thats a lot of damage when you consider that isn't factoring in a single direct hit, and the weapon has a 4.4m blast radius!

Really the biggest change I would like to see is a 2m blast radius and changing the effeciency to +- 5-10% on shields and armor so that it's not a free kill on all gallante.

"KDR > Everything" Michael Jackson

It is amazing at the amount of tears produced, when someone merely suggest a tweak this broken weapon.

The mass driver... cough 6 round noob tube, is by far one stupidest weapons implemented in Dust 514. Furthermore, the fact that MD will screw up your aim is ridiculous. Furthermore, how is MD+Flux not broken? Flux nades do not need even need to be cooked and the MD does not require aim

But in ten seconds, the AR does 4x the damage of theassdriver even with direct hits, let alone splash. How is the mass driver OP ILif it can never come close to the damage of the AR? Also, you can't say "you don't have to aim" because all you have to Adonis stay beyond 40m or be uphill and the mass driver is virtually useless. You're a very bad player if you have this much problem withfighting an MD....or u r armor tanked and that is your fault when shields are obviously better. You might as well spec iintoo the lolcannon while you are meeting yourself.

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken." - Colonel Sanders

I love how people defend the mASS driver like its supposed to stack up to other guns 1v1. It's a no skill AOE weapon with a 4.4m blast radius. It shouldn't also be 1v1 nuke.

As an occational MD user I personally thins that it should be dialed back a bit.

Personally I would suggest 4 rounds for the standard (EXO-5 and Freedom) and 6 rounds for the assault variants.

This should come with at least a little more base ammo and a slightly quicker eload speed, 4 seconds would be too much.


The worst part is, I don't really have any points invested in it, I can only imagine how good it would be fully specced and with a full proto cal assault suit with 50+ shield regen, I would probably be unstoppable