Tracer dart gun nerf
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 gravity
- Velocity will be decreased from 500m/s to 250m/s
- Lock-on duration decreased from 40 seconds down to 12 seconds
I 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.
