Quasar Nerfed

[YMD]

Finally people will learn to use other weapons

[!2B]

Auto Cannon. So the weapon you already encounter 99% of the time?! No thanks, the nerf was once again too strong. 20% would have been enough, then we would be at 12 seconds. This thing can't even kill a hulk with one shot if you're just 1 mm off. And we have to fight multiple hulks at once.

[Chaos]

Eh, people will just go back to EAT.

[Nihil]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Eh, poeple will just go back to EAT.

THIS
EAT and Autocannon.
It was the same after Railgun got nerfed. It will happen now again.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Eh, poeple will just go back to EAT.

We never went away. The furore around the Quasar was entirely overblown.

[Nihil]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Originally posted by Chaos:

Eh, poeple will just go back to EAT.

We never went away. The furore around the Quasar was entirely overblown.

I blame as always streamers and youtubers.
Every self promoting webcam freak jumped in the "quasar and shield pack for the win" train and started uploding videos about it and a lot of people simply got baited.

[( °□°） ︵GAMBALUCK]

So back to autocanon and EAT nice balance

[Endarion]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Eh, poeple will just go back to EAT.

i mean that and autocannon are the only good thing left lol

[Katitoff]

Oh no, not the poor, niche Quasar, which only 90% of players ever took to every single mission!

[Frostbeast]

Np. I just go back to my old setup. They havent touched it.

[Desolane]

By "other weapons", you mean EATs.

[Akameka]

Originally posted by Desolane:

By "other weapons", you mean EATs.

Don't worry, EAT will get nerfed in time. They just check usage rate to decide which gear will be nerfed next. They don't even ask themselves "Why" it's more used. If it's more used --> it's OP and should be nerfed.

[Nihil]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

Oh no, not the poor, niche Quasar, which only 90% of players ever took to every single mission!

Agree with you that it was way too overused. Boringly overused. But arrowhead again just postponed an issue. And didn't solve it. Now everyone will go back to the good old EAT and Autocannon. Which was just as boring as 90% Quasar and the 90% railgun era.

[DMD]

as long as this game is balanced around content creators who play the game every day with the same group for 6-8 hours "insert x00 hours played", "ngl it's OP tbh..lmao", we will keep getting these nerfs

[Katitoff]

Originally posted by Nihil:

Originally posted by Katitoff:

Oh no, not the poor, niche Quasar, which only 90% of players ever took to every single mission!

Agree with you that it was way too overused. Boringly overused. But arrowhead again just postponed an issue. And didn't solve it. Now everyone will go back to the good old EAT and Autocannon. Which was just as boring as 90% Quasar and the 90% railgun era.

Before quasar, I've seen people use EATs, RRs, even occasional Spear.
After quasar, we've seen exclusively quasar.

Now we will see all 4, depending on preferences and weighting advantages against disadvantages of weapon.

Call me mad, but I call that good horizontal progression balance.

We are supposed to get access to MORE options, not BETTER options.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by Nihil:

Agree with you that it was way too overused. Boringly overused. But arrowhead again just postponed an issue. And didn't solve it. Now everyone will go back to the good old EAT and Autocannon. Which was just as boring as 90% Quasar and the 90% railgun era.

This is why balancing the game on pick rates is a bad idea. A weapon being popular or over-represented doesn't on its own mean it's overpowered. It means people like it. Maybe they like it for being overpowered, but that's not necessarily the case. Just as often, people latch on to weapons because they offer unique gameplay that nothing else does. Responding with stats nerfs like an AI is missing an opportunity to learn what your players actually like.