Hi everyone,Just saw the new leaks about the upcoming hotfix for Tuesday the 14th of February. In it one of the things that is mentioned is a ridiculously massive (imo) nerf to the tracer dart gun. The patch notes for that are as follows:Darts will now be affected by gravityVelocity will be decreased from 500m/s to 250m/sLock-on duration decreased from 40 seconds down to 12 secondsI agree with the drop-over-time, that's fair enough. Velocity nerf will be a bit of a pain to get adjusted to and not a big fan of that, but it's essentially an air gun, so fair enough, that's fine. But the lock-on duration going down from 40 to 12 has got to be some sort of morbid joke. The soflam lock takes 2 seconds to begin and breaks 8 seconds after you stop lazing the target. This nerf would essentially make the pistol obsolete, why even bother adding in the first place? Why even use it when the soflam can laze up to 450 meters with incredible ease, the lock lasts almost as long, and can be refreshed by re-locking just for a split second. Not to mention the darts get removed when a vehicle pops smoke, AND the bug where moving vehicles sometimes don't get the dart stuck on them.IMO the pistol should have a massive advantage over the soflam when it comes to lazing targets, since that's its only purpose. Whereas the soflam can also be used for scouting with its zoom, and spotting targets. Please feel free to give me your opionion on the matter? I hope an EA Community manager might see this as well, would love to hear their two cents on all of this.

@rerk1The nerf does seem a little extreme to me.

@sk1lld wrote:@rerk1The nerf does seem a little extreme to me.i remember when they nerfed it into uselessness in bc2still irritated about that

@Psubond I tried it but, but sometimes it wouldn't even register as a "hit" (even though it plainly DID in fact hit) or if you did manage to get a hit marker, it would fail to "paint" the target, half the time.So, I don't know why a nerf was needed BEFORE it was even working properly.

There is already too few people using the tracer dart... why nerf it into oblivion...

During my playtime with the dart gun, I've found it really not that effective. Every lockon and missile gets 'washed off' by the incessant flares/countermeasures. 9 out of 10 times the dart that hits the target never leads to a hit by a 'locked-on' missile.The assumed nerf to it seems bizarre.

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rerk1
3 years ago
@Wargame_Enj0yer Any countermeasuers being activated remove the active darts. Not to mention the bug where half the time the darts don't actually paint the target, or how rarely anyone ever uses it. The nerf is entirely uncalled for
ATFGunr
Legend
3 years ago
@rerk1 How smoke or flares make a dart ineffective is bad enough, the nerf, especially the drastically reduced time, will assure that no one will use the tracer. Except for trolling individual players on foot anyways. Another stellar decision by the devs. If you start a subreddit or a YouTube channel and talk about how it needs a buff the devs might care, but they sure don’t care about the forums opinions.
sulu37
3 years ago
@AngrySquid270 wrote:
The real losers in this nerf.
Boris and Crawford.
Probably just DICE being dramatic. They are setting up those characters for some sort of epic redemption arc.
@AngrySquid270 Have you heard the tale of the BF3 Famas nerf?
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@ragnarok013 Let us take a moment to remember the Switchblade UCAV nerf of BF4 ':D
SilverJackal96
3 years ago
@sk1lldPar for the course with dice.
Introduce “new” teamwork oriented gadget that’s good as it should if it requires teamwork.

Then nerf it into the ground to make it a why would you pick this choice.

Then why does no body use teamwork?
also the people that say it won’t paint the target. It does work, but for certain vehicles you have to hit it twice for it to paint for some odd reason.
rerk1
3 years ago
@SilverJackal96 The odd reason being it's a bug. I've tested it out against all vehicles between different matches. The little bird for example, I've had times where it's an insta mark, and I've had times where it requires 4 darts. Just needs to be fixed, although why even bother now, nobody's even going to use the darts after this nerf
Padding_Ur_Stat
3 years ago
Another EZMode aint EZEnuff thread
EA_Atic
DICE Team
3 years ago
@ragnarok013 wrote:

@AngrySquid270 wrote:

The real losers in this nerf.

Boris and Crawford.

Probably just DICE being dramatic. They are setting up those characters for some sort of epic redemption arc.

@AngrySquid270 Have you heard the tale of the BF3 Famas nerf?

At least we are not there . @ragnarok013 :P

/Atic
Padding_Ur_Stat
3 years ago
Pilot posts
You will adapt
Nobody uses it
Fair
Infantry Posts
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It didnt need a nerf!
Reality
Nobody used it enough to make a difference because nobody really plays Engineers.
Psubond
3 years ago
@Padding_Ur_Stats wrote:
Pilot posts
You will adapt
Nobody uses it
Fair
Infantry Posts
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It didnt need a nerf!
Reality
Nobody used it enough to make a difference because nobody really plays Engineers.
lock SMGs to engineer and i bet you will see lots of them
Wargame_Enj0yer
3 years ago
@Padding_Ur_Stats Even if people choose to play engineer it wont matter because they all run out of rockets in no time and there's no more rockets to be found (ammo crates have become rare after the classes update).

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