Rifleman Archive

The worst part about this nerf is that we were outright treated like %(^*%. I'm a realistic person, and I know that this game is run by SOE, and it's they're right to change content, and it's my right to quit the game. But when they come to their customers, and deliberately mislead us and treat us like idiots, that is a huge problem. Here is what Holo posted:

So we're looking at these changes. What do you think?

MinDamage Range going from 105..195 to 75..125 (worse)
MaxDamage Range going from 298..553 to 140..290 (worse)
"worse" doesn't describe this... try MUCH worse

AttackSpeed range going from 81..117 to 51..97 (divide these by 10 and that’s the time in seconds) (better)
"better", if you like wasting mind faster and burning out your decaying weapon even faster

Midrange going from 60 meters to 50 (better)
ok, so you fixed what should have been fixed already

Midrange mod going from -40..-15 to -10..15 (Better)
ditto

Armor Piercing Value going from Heavy to Light (worse)
?????????!!!!!!!!?????????????

So let's examine that list. We have 3 "betters", and 3 "worses", what a coincidence. I guess it wasn't nerfed after all, just adjusted. Holo, we're not that stupid. If you ask me, that is a deliberate attempt to fool us into thinking we're not getting the shaft. They sat around in a meeting, brainstorming ways to break the news to us, and decided to give us 3 betters and 3 worses.

And then there's the fact that he opened a discussion, which was filled with NOTHING BUT COMPLAINTS, and yet he went ahead and made the changes exactly as proposed. What? It doesn't make sense. Don't tell you're customers "We're listening to your input", and then blatantly ignore it.

My opinion is that the T21 was great yesterday. It was very powerful, yes, but not overly powerful. Go ahead and read any threads on this subject. You won't see people complaining about the strength of the T21. That's because it's fairly balanced with respect to other trees... they have their moves (knockdown), we have our weapon. But if you really needed to lower the power of the gun, why not just tweak the damage instead of throwing in a mess of changes in the hopes of confusing us? Or did I just answer my own question?

I apologize for the "they're" and "you're" misspellings

The bottom line for me is that the weapon now seems to be worse than the Laser Rifle, which can have higher max damage and faster firing speed and is AP2. Laser rifle has lower minimum damage, but I think DPS will still work out in it's favor when you factor in the AP value.

I would just like the devs to answer one question: What purpose can this new T21 serve? Is it meant to be inferior to our earlier rifles?

I did see this coming and I expected them to nerf it, but not nerf it into oblivion. They aren't taking mind cost into account -- using rifles, even with a medic around, results in more downtime than pistols because the mind cost of using the weapon can't be healed. We don't really get a benefit for using rifle but there's plenty of penalties.

They also aren't taking into account the cost of creating this beast of a gun. If I have to paly 50000+ for this gun, it should at least be exceptional in some way.

Here is the "proof of the pudding": I will be keeping my E11 and LR. I have not seen a T21 that replaces them. Until THAT changes they have done nothing.

I don't get why they make it only armor piercing light. It should be like the laser rifle with armor piercing medium that would at least give people a reason to use it.

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MooMootheSnowCow wrote:
I don't get why they make it only armor piercing light. It should be like the laser rifle with armor piercing medium that would at least give people a reason to use it.

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I think part of the problem is that some (all?)of thepre-renerfT21s out there are going to retain their damage and speed statistics. The only way to weaken these ones was to change the universal AP rating.