Re: New Railgun is very unbalanced
It did look a little OP killing tanks and infantry with ease.
I'm sure it will get adjusted after a bit.
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Remember how everyone said Crawford's minigun was going to be overpowered or Lis rocket?
Yep, I do. I'm just speculating based on the videos I've seen, but you're right none of us will actually know until we see it in-game.
- @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.
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?
@NazT55 wrote:Remember how everyone said Crawford's minigun was going to be overpowered or Lis rocket?
That was different
Much of the speculation was made before gameplay was available
This is flat out ridiculous and anyone who's ever sniped knows this is gonna be the only gun people are gonna use to snipe
@NazT55Lis rocket is overpowered indeed. Since S1 launched ground vehicle with no APS is a sitting duck.
- @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 😉
It's not a Battlefield pickup, it'll be available to everyone, it may end up being OP but the amount of hyper-ventilating I see about it is worth the price, lol.
- @Ironhead841 How do you know that though?
Dice, any chance we can NOT nerf a weapon before it is released?
I played with a guy last night who went 42/0 in a jet in air superiority. If I clipped the video and people watched, they would scream "Nerf the Jet immediately", even though this specific player is in the top 0.1% of jet fighters, and the other 99% of us can't even go 10/0 on a good night.
Point being, some players are just much, much better than others with certain weapons, so until Dice gets internal data from 100,000 sample of players, watching a single pro clip of anything is statistically meaningless.
Thus we just need to wait a few weeks to find out the verdict...no need to cancel the railgun...👿
@Ironhead841 wrote:It's not a Battlefield pickup, it'll be available to everyone, it may end up being OP but the amount of hyper-ventilating I see about it is worth the price, lol.
Guilty as charged for hyper ventilating 😁
One good thing about the Rail gun is that it shows the 2042 community is evolving into a proper battlefield community again where most people are talking about OP guns and vehicles instead of the old boring "not real battlefield" nonsense.
Why is it hitscan though? It's a railgun, not a laser.
@cope_more wrote:Why is it hitscan though? It's a railgun, not a laser.
Gotta give Timmy a reliable way to snipe without him actually needing to get good
- @DeepSixxxx
Good points and only time will tell. Anyway we don't have long to wait now until all will be revealed. 
EA_AticDICE Team
Lets not judge its book by its cover, we will see tomorrow. :D
Looking forward to see what people think about the new guns and it will take some days for the new guns set the meta so to speak.
/Atic
@DeepSixxxx wrote:Dice, any chance we can NOT nerf a weapon before it is released?
I played with a guy last night who went 42/0 in a jet in air superiority. If I clipped the video and people watched, they would scream "Nerf the Jet immediately", even though this specific player is in the top 0.1% of jet fighters, and the other 99% of us can't even go 10/0 on a good night.
Point being, some players are just much, much better than others with certain weapons, so until Dice gets internal data from 100,000 sample of players, watching a single pro clip of anything is statistically meaningless.
Thus we just need to wait a few weeks to find out the verdict...no need to cancel the railgun...👿
People should also bare in mind that that is an edited video showing the 'best bits'......
It may prove to be OP and it will definitely be overused but I agree, plenty of time should be given to allow the novelty to wear off before objective changes are considered.
That said, it does look rediculous!
We should just wait and see...
I'm not saying this gun is balanced, i say we can only try to guess on such video, and will see by ourself. maybe the "charging" time before shooting will make this gun awfull to play for most players. Magnum 44 have a small delay before firing (trigger action) and many players hate it even if the revolver is powerfull.
It's a montage from a professional gamer using a high end top PC.
You've never seen a vidéo showing a fantastic tool and then tried it by yourself to see it might be more difficult than the video made you think ?
Personally when i watch RAVIC i'm pretty sure the GVT 45-70 is OP... then i play it by myself and don't think soo.
We will see tomorrow if it is OP! Can't wait to try it and the new map.
- Increased NTW-50 Damage against Light Vehicles slightly with Anti Materiel ammo and substantially increased with Anti Materiel High Power ammo
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- Increased NTW-50 Damage against Light Vehicles slightly with Anti Materiel ammo and substantially increased with Anti Materiel High Power ammo
- @NazT55 Liz's rocket was op that's why it nerfed into the dirt....
