Rifleman Archive
Thread: Why People Hate Rifleman
. I know this has been said but thought it was worth reposting.
j/k we all need an adjusting a bit, im not a nerf hearder im a doc im just saying CM may need a tad bit of limitation and people don't seem to realize a guy with 90% comp and a 6 million dollar ion using his money to any profession can be good (excluding some) ever wear a non stun suit and face a bh/pistolier with a geno? they just hate us cause its somethign to hate and they havn't been hit with a 1200 tick disease while warcry delayed 
MarcoRenaldi wrote:
OK i have been gone for a while and now I have come back
WHy do people hate rifleman so much??? Stun and Mind hits
What do these two things have in common? Horribley set up systems
STun owns now because of composite. Why is composite so popular?90% resists to everything except(in most cases) STUN. WHy did SOE make a all in one armor??? To tell you the truth I have no idea. IT seems to me to be causing more problems than it helps. So riflemen for the most part are the only ones capable of hammering through this UBER armor.THis problem is only made worse by the 75% dmg reduction.
Why is mind dmg such a big advantage? Most would say because you cant heal it.Wrong the real reason is because people are so used to buffing all their pools up 2000+ points plus foods. Theb est you can buff a mind is 1100(for a human) plus foods. However that is not the real reason. The real reason is because everyone has novice medic which can heal 500 pts of dmg with a good stim b. This really needs to be fixed.
To conclude yes we are a working proffession. Yes we are a good proffession. However if these two uissues are fixed we will cease to be such a huge impact and everything will become more balanced overnight. Just think about it blance without significant nerfing of any profession
I'd agree that those are two major reasons why people hate rifleman. I think you can add to the list of flawed designs buffs as well, or perhaps it should really be the interaction of buffs with armor.
The devs designed the armor system so that the drawback to wearing armor was supposed to be that special attacks would have huge costs via the encumbrance system. Well, the drawbacks can be completely eliminated with the huge buffs people can receive to all stats through doctors and chefs.
So it used to be that a rifleman couldn't really afford to wear full suits of the best composite because the only easy to obtain mind buffs were from muon gold. Well, with the introduction of Brandy and Canape I can now where my full suit of 37% stun layered composite and still fire off specials with little to no cost and I'm a b*tch to take down due to the huge armor and buffs. The only reliable way to do it is through poison.
The mind pool is poorly designed. I disagree that the problem is the buffs over the ability to heal it. Most times in battle I'll see people with mind pools at equal levels with the others.You can get a fairly large mind pool through dancer buffs+ powerboost + brandy + muon and still be killed because you ran out of mind, so the problem is that itis unhealable.Obviously anyone will take out the one pool that can't be healed. And combined with armor, if a person cannot attack the mind pool they are screwed. They'll do piddly damage to them, which can easily be stim'd away.
These few problems are what really has everyone hating us, but even if they fixed that I'm not so sure we'd be balanced to everyone else. We still would be able to outdamage everyone, so you also have to take into consideration the borked speed equation. Or if the speed equation is left as is, then I would say our accuracy at close range is way too good.
