Slight Changes to the Diamondback

[Royal Chairforce]

Alright, since I guess all of us agree that the Diamondback is a bit oversituational to make for a decent sidegrade to stand alongside the Revolver and the Ambassador as it stands here are 2 tiny things that, in my opinion, could be done to fix this:

Turn the damage penalty into a rate-of-fire penalty.

This would

• increase burst damage to stock level
  
• make the crits 15% stronger
  
• and make tracking your target easier

all without changing the current damage/time output.

Give it Enforcer-like accuracy.

And by that I mean the Enforcer's

• ~25% faster spread recovery.

Not only is it frustrating to see your hard-earned crits randomspread into nothingness, additional accuracy would also make for a nice stand-alone perk for when sap-able buildings are scarce, especially in combination with the reduced rate of fire giving you more time to aim between 2 shots.


Just a cerebral hiccup of mine..
What's your opinion? Would these changes be a step in the right direction?

[Tim Timsen]

I kind of agree, I'd use it more often if it was a little stronger.
I only use it for showing off in trade servers atm.

[Dipper Pines]

This would be great, the Diamondback has needed a buff since it was first released, practically the only reason to use it over the other revolvers is it's badass look and sound.

[System 32]

I wouldn't mind if this happened, theres really no big reason to use it, but if this happened I would use it.
It would basically be an Ambassador with situational crits instead of headshots

[jetjet]

Yeah, it's been a long time that i gave up on this revolver, the concept is also bad designed. Could use a change of it

[A Salt Raifu]

You do know that all revolvers share the Ambassador's accuracy attribute, right? The only difference being the Ambassador actually shows when it'll hit spot on by use of the crosshair. I believe you need to wait approximately 1.5 seconds between shots.

[Nuclear Kangaroo]

just give me 2 crits for each destroyed building and im happy

[ADP]

My only problem with it is that it's crap in MvM unless there's Robot Engineers. If they made it so that it got crits when you destroyed a Robot via Sapper, I would be fine with it.
Note: Yes, I understand this is completely irrelevant to the topic of the main game.

[Tin Foil Hat]

Yeah the only time i used it was when engineers spam mini sentries, really only used it to combat Frontier Crits. Other than that i didnt use it, soo i scrapped it :P Been working hard at trying to get better with my Ambassador.

[jetjet]

Originally posted by ThisLD FirePyro192:

My only problem with it is that it's crap in MvM unless there's Robot Engineers. If they made it so that it got crits when you destroyed a Robot via Sapper, I would be fine with it.
Note: Yes, I understand this is completely irrelevant to the topic of the main game.

It's a good point to show how this weapon completely makes it way too underpowered in every aspect.

[Royal Chairforce]

Originally posted by The Crit-Magnet Brony:

You do know that all revolvers share the Ambassador's accuracy attribute, right? The only difference being the Ambassador actually shows when it'll hit spot on by use of the crosshair. I believe you need to wait approximately 1.5 seconds between shots.

Ah my bad, I picked the wrong gun.
Fixed.

[Ecolo]

I love the first option. The Diamondback was supposed to be able to one-shot an engineer with a crit in the first place.

[Land Mantis]

I agree with this, the Diamondback would be a nice and viable weapon if the reward of it wasn't so meager and situational.

[It's Spy Noon]

I see spies attacking engies while sapping buildings rather than after its destroyed so I would suggest:
No random crits
-20% slower firing rate
-Deals minicrits while having an active sapper

[Ecolo]

Originally posted by thinklogic:

I see spies attacking engies while sapping buildings rather than after its destroyed so I would suggest:
No random crits
-20% slower firing rate
-Deals minicrits while having an active sapper

No, let's keep the crits like they are.