Alternator with Damage Hop-Up

@tr_hybr1d 

Are you aware of the hotfix the team implemented over the weekend? They will continue to review the data and conversations we ping their way here.

Change to Disruptor Rounds Hopup

• Reduced the shield damage multiplier from 2.26 to 1.7. It's a minor tweak while we evaluate the full weapon meta next week.

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@tr_hybr1d wrote:
@EA_Blueberry So decrease the damage on it. Under no circumstance should I use a Alternator over an R-99 R-301 considering the options. 

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Well there is still a huge risk of carrying an Alternator without ever acquiring the attachment. I'll take the R-99 and R-301 over the attachmentless-Alternator every day.

@EA_BlueberryWithout the attachment the alternator is 100% a viable gun now though because of the base weapon buff. It's absolutely fine to use just as a gun because you can hipfire it very accurately and don't need to ADS unless you're putting a 2-4x on it to shoot at snipers :D

An idea the team should test internally is making the hopup cause the bullets to do LESS damage to health, proportional to the increased damage to armor.

This would mean you either keep the base gun (viable but a very general weapon and outclassed in specific situations by other guns) or you choose the hopup to synergise with someone running hammerpoint.

This would make a hopped up alternator less effective at the start of the game and more effective at the end when people have better armor and would result in some degree of nuance to the use of it instead of the gun being either OP and meta, or underpowered and ignored.

The alternator disruptor is still very common and very powerful. Something still needs to be done. I don't really dislike it being there but I think it's far to common. It needs to be a gold tier hop up and more rare to come by. 

Only problem is the Disruptor/Hammer Point hop-ups, the alternator by itself with the buff is a better weapon now.  These hop-ups were unnecessary, or at the very least should be only usable on hand guns.

@tr_hybr1dThe R99 is an SMG, and guess what? The Alternator is also an SMG, it is supposed to be on par with the R99, the only difference is the r99 has lower base damage but higher ROF, where as the Alternator has a lower ROF with higher base damage. It comes down to preference at that point.

@EA_Blueberry

I think Respawn should nerf the Alternator base damage to 12 and rebuff the Disruptor rounds to 2.25x damage for shields.

That would cause the Alternator to only do high damage to shields and low damage to flesh.

@hhnbbfggty66I absolutely love the unmodified Alternator now though. It would be a shame for it to be consigned to being a gun you'd never normally pick up again.

It now feels like the light-ammo-flatline in terms of damage and that's brilliant.

The Alternator should be very powerful.

The Alternator was the most powerful smg in Titanfall 2 dealing a whopping 75 damage!

The Alternator should have been given 16 damage at release instead of the meger 13 damage.

But now the damage has been buffed to 15 with a 1.7 damage buff to shields.

Honestly,
I think the Alternator damage should be buffed to 16 damage.

And I the the hop up should reduce the base damage back to 13 or 12 with a 2.25 multiplier to shields.

That way you can use the Alternator as a shield shredder or a strong smg.

But as is, currently, it is okay BROKEN!

I am just offering solutions..