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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.
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