CHARGE RIFLE
The new CHARGE RIFLE weapon is too strong, should be from the drop like Mastiff or kraber, everyone is running with this rifle now.
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It is a "Learn To Play" issue.
While powerful, it has a pretty high skill cealing.
Before large damage is done, player at whom your aiming already knows that they are being aimed by a charge rifle and beginning damage is low, and anyone with a half of brain will start to run. Firing from that rifle, requires ability to predict the direction where enemy might run and move your scope with them.
If there is a structure or a rock to hide, the shot can be actually wasted.
Small mag, fairly high reload time. Useless in close quarter combat.
Even though you can get occasional large shot, i can do more damage with a Triple Take, if we are comparing energy rifles here.
G7 scout with a double shot hop up is a much more dangerous opponent, considering its reload time and firing rate.
Not to mention that Charge rifle gives away your position really quick and you need to hide after the first shot, usually the person firing it is alone or a bit behind from the team. Get close and personal with an SMG or Wingman, will kill that sniper! 🙂 Bloodhound Octane is perfect.
@TrancyGoose Heard that !! The Triple take is a good weapon, decent sniper with attachments and fairly handy shotgun if your hip fire aim is good.
I think the beam from the charge rifle is more off putting than a game changer.
I think the beam from the charge rifle is more off putting than a game changer.
- @xx_Dante2k_xx because energy weapons have less bullet drop.
It is strong and it is getting hit with the nerf bat soon. Its up on the trello board posted by the devs that it will be getting looked at.
Im all for new weapons and I dont mind the hitscan, or the lack of bullet drop since it is technically a laser. But when you can sit at the opposite side of a map and pin a team down because of the damage it does alone. Theres an issue. And it's a sniper so i get it, but its not just a sniper gun. You can use that thing close range/mid range/long range and destroy people. And it basically makes the other sniper riffles obsolete since its so strong at all ranges with good damage.
I'll be so happy when it gets adjusted because its ridiculous how powerful this weapon is and the fact that it spawns anywhere means there's several squads running with it at all times.
If they dont want to nerf or adjust the weapon itself then they need to make it spawn only with care packages.
Yeah the charge rifle is to OP atm, they should atleast give him a bullet drop and reduce his damage with -20 atleast imo.
It even slows you down when you get shot at when that's also not fair since no other guns do that to you.
Have people never heard of dps/ttk and effective range? If the charge rifle is op then so is the r99, double tap scout, turbo devotion, hemlok, turbo havoc, wingman, peacekeeper. Twitch/youtube "celebrities' and their parroting followers are cancerous. The charge rifle is great for average casual players so they can do some damage and feel like they accomplished something.
So because you're a casual player you deserve a weapon that can land high damage over huge distances with little effort because you haven't bothered to learn how to use a weapon with more complicated mechanics?
Cool.
