The sickle nerf is fine actually

[McFuzz]

You're not sposed to overheat it.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by McFuzz:

The sickle nerf is fine actually
You're not sposed to overheat it.

No one who uses the weapon correctly complaints about the patch.

[Noob Herder]

Sickle was trash on the harder difficulties imo. Sucks for sickle users though. Rip my fave loadouts though.

[McFuzz]

Originally posted by FilliesAreBest:

Sickle was trash on the harder difficulties imo. Sucks for sickle users though. Rip my fave loadouts though.

It paired well with lascannon, quasar, or autocannon, but like, it will still pair well anyway for me cuz I wasn't intentionally overheating it lol.

[Raziel Kanos]

I agree, never really used more than 2 mags on a mission with it, but the nerf for the Erradicator is really hard

[Kleiner's final Form]

This update is gonna be an IQ test for weapon usage I reckon, watch out for all the people saying their weapons are worse

[StaunchStache]

I agree.
It has great DPS, insane "magazine" size (and that's assuming you shoot without pausing at all) and infinite ammo as is.
It makes sense to punish overheating a little more severely - and even then, you'd be hard pressed to overheat more than three times before finding ammo.

That particular nerf was one of the most logical decisions in this patch.

[Raziel Kanos]

Originally posted by Kleiner's final Form:

This update is gonna be an IQ test for weapon usage I reckon, watch out for all the people saying their weapons are worse

not really. I run the Erradicator vs the bots, and you really need ammo for this thing once they start to chase you - the 50% ammo loss is REALLY hard, PLUS they reduced the explosion radius - so I guess it might get tricky to kill fabricators with it now too, but I first have to test it... if I find motivation to open the game.

[YMD]

Originally posted by FilliesAreBest:

Sickle was trash on the harder difficulties imo. Sucks for sickle users though. Rip my fave loadouts though.

I agree.
Sickle only good against the small fry.
Useless against the medium and big fry.

[Blerrger19]

This is a good post.

[Malidictus]

The Sickle nerf is the worst of both worlds. It's incredibly heavy-handed and looks absolutely awful on paper. It's also entirely inconsequential, because the Sickle generally doesn't overheat. So you have a nerf with very little if any practical effect, but significant negative PR. Seriously, Arrowhead have been in the video game business for over a decade. Why do they consistently behave like this is their first video game?

[Katitoff]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by McFuzz:

The sickle nerf is fine actually
You're not sposed to overheat it.

No one who uses the weapon correctly complaints about the patch.

I'm going to argue that this goes for all the changes to all the weapons.
People do not know how to use weapons and screech doom the moment anything about them is changed, regardless of how irrelevant it is.

Just a bunch of temper tantrum throwing 20-year old toddlers there.

They screech about weapon being unusable now, despite most of us never having to reload it more than once per game, but they completely ignore they fixed foliage not blocking shots anymore.

[Kleiner's final Form]

Originally posted by Raziel Kanos:

Originally posted by Kleiner's final Form:

This update is gonna be an IQ test for weapon usage I reckon, watch out for all the people saying their weapons are worse

not really. I run the Erradicator vs the bots, and you really need ammo for this thing once they start to chase you - the 50% ammo loss is REALLY hard, PLUS they reduced the explosion radius - so I guess it might get tricky to kill fabricators with it now too, but I first have to test it... if I find motivation to open the game.

I only really use it on bugs so my perspective might be skewed, but I don't think I ever use more than 6 magazines before finding more ammo. I concede that bots are different, but I'd like to make the case that the niche it fills for them is being the only primary sniper rifle. I would call being ammo starved natural. But it's in a fine spot as a bug specific rifle.

[adobo]

If you somehow manage to burn more than 4 reloads with it, WTF are you even doing?

[!2B]

Typically, you only need one magazine.

Nevertheless, it would have been nice if they had gone down to 4 first.

[Chaos]

Eh, fair enough, otherwise there are no reason to use Lib.