Re: Weapon Spotlight: L-Star and new Hop Ups!

I haven't had much experience in the way of Hammerpoint rounds apart from the odd game or 2 with the P2020. The opponent at the time didn't have a shield so of course dropped fairly easy to a point I was pleasantly surprised. It makes a useless gun competitive for early gunfights and maybe for those later on when someone wants to mix it up. Can't speak much for the Mozambique. 

As for the L-star, hated it initially because it seemed everyone had one but it has grown on me somewhat. In my eyes it seems somewhat balanced to a point I'll pick it up early/mid game but drop it for a fully equip gun for end game. The downside is the overheating and muzzle flash/sights, I can't seem to hit a thing! 

Lastly the Distrupter rounds, I don't know what to make of them really. As with the P2020 I feel the hop up makes the gun somewhat competitive (talking about the Re-45) but is too much when equipped on the Alternator. I'm not sure a nerf of the hop up is needed as it will again reduce the effectiveness of the re-45 but as it stands I see myself dropping every other light weapon for it on an Alternator. Perhaps the hop-up or Alternator need to be somewhat harder to find and more obscure? Seems I find one off the bat or find one in the the first death box.

Hopup:

If I found those two hop up early, combination of them are deadly especially early in the game so I will keep it to end.

But most cases, I already build my weapon then suddenly they show up at end, so I will just ignore them.

L-Star:

Early when session-2 launch everybody want to try it out, but now, none of my team mate want to pick it up.

I don't want it too, the reheat is so fast, the reload is too long, the muzzle flash is too much, the bullet trace is too obvious (attract 3rd party), so most people ignore it these days. 

Even It's deadly weapon in close distance but I rarely see enemies using it as well. 

New Hopups-

I'd be tempted to leave the Hammerpoint as-is because you're basically sacrificing your 2nd weapon slot for a situationally powerful weapon.  Neither gun is any good until your enemy's shields are down.  This makes them OP at the start of the game, but then most guns are.  It's not worth balancing the weapon around people not having armor when people who drop into high loot areas regularly have blue or purple within 3 seconds of their feet touching the ground.

The Disruptor rounds are still slightly too powerful by my reckoning.  I don't think the dmg to shields needs to be lowered or the base weapon tweaked (I LOVE the new alternator) but if they did LESS damage to health as they do MORE damage to armor : it would make them more of a choice than a flat power increase across the board.  This is kind of how it already works with the Hammerpoint, which is why I think people don't mind them as much.  The guns are borderline useless UNTIL the special effect comes into play.  If the RE/Alt were made LESS useful against health as a trade-off for damaging peoples' armor more : it would add a lot of nuance to when to use the hopup or not.  This would finally give more of a reason for players to be able to remove items from their guns to carry around for alternative loadouts, which up to now has been a feature but not really one that's been capitalised on.

  Currently an Alternator with purple mag and disruptor is the best weapon to have in most situations.  An alternator with purple mag is a solid weapon anyway, so the disruptor rounds RUINING shields is just icing on the cake.  You can easily shred an entire teams shields with a good alternator burst and have enough ammo left to drop at least one target.