New Railgun is very unbalanced
Why would you ever pick the DXR or any other sniper over this? This sniper has no bullet drop, extremely high velocity, and it can damage vehicles, making the ntw obsolete. Not to mention you can get...
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@Ironhead841 I completely agree with you it did look over powered in the video,
It looks like Dice keeps on making some of the hardest to balance decisions regarding game-design. Why make a gun that actually is more or less 3 guns in one?
We will have to wait and see what happens, but this could be another case of overpowered then to be nerfed gun.
But having the gun doing damage to at least the light helis (nightbird, stealth heli) is actually a plus for me. In real life a heli like the nightbird is pretty vulnerable to (at least) high caliber weapons and while the game is not realistic in any way, having more counters to helis is not a bad thing.
I'll wait until it's actually released before I get outraged.
A trailer is always going to show it in the best possible light. They probably had a zillion clips to choose from and picked the most exciting ones.
It'll be the shiny new toy at launch so we need to give it at least a week or two for the meta to die down before we start calling for nerfs.
- @TTZ_DipsyDo we even know if it’s a pick up gun like in 4, or is it going to be an inventory weapon that we can access anytime we want? Is the ammo infinite or do you need to get ammo? There’s so much we don’t know yet. The only reason to call for a nerf before we try it is Dice has a clear history of creating things that are unbalanced AF 😉
To be fair, any aircraft is more or less vulnerable to firearms fire, even light arm fire ' assault rifles, machine guns, etc ' if they are low enough. Hueys, Blackhawks, etc have been known to get riddled with holes on a bad mission. Pilots, Co pilots and crews gave been also shot up before by nothing more but AK fire.
So really, all weapons in this game technically should do damage to the aircrafts. I would go so far as having a damage fall off depending on the distance, what weapon you are hitting it with and even where you are hitting it.
Like, are you just hitting the bird or is your round hitting the pilot or other passengers? Are your rounds just passing through the shell or are they hitting the engines or rotors?
