Rifleman Archive
Thread: My top 2 balance issues concerning Rifleman
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Beliathon
Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:34 am
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1.) This is the big one. You've seen it before and you're seeing it again. Rifle vs carbine/pistol accuracy at long range. Pistoleers and caribieners suffer no penalty at 64m, which leaves us with no real advantage. Therefore, rifleman suffer the DISADVANTAGE of being innacurate at closer ranges, with no ADVANTAGE at longer ranged. That is not balance. Pistols should be as inaccurate at 50 meters as rifles are at 10 meters.
2.) Discrepency in DPS. I haven't seen this issue mentioned very much on these boards, and I'm not sure why. If you compare your average pistol to your average rifle in DPS, you will notice a big discrepency. Take a scout blaster and compare it to a DLT20a. Or a Spraystick versus a DH17. I've found on gorath the best unsliced DPS you can get from a rifle is roughly 35. For a pistol, it's 55. I think this is a huge detriment to riflemen, UNLESS this was intended by design to make up for the fact that rifles can hit for unhealable damage. That may very well be the case, but I'd like to get a dev response saying so if it is.
Number 1 needs to be fixed ASAP. It is making the rifleman class almost completely obsolete..
2.) Discrepency in DPS. I haven't seen this issue mentioned very much on these boards, and I'm not sure why. If you compare your average pistol to your average rifle in DPS, you will notice a big discrepency. Take a scout blaster and compare it to a DLT20a. Or a Spraystick versus a DH17. I've found on gorath the best unsliced DPS you can get from a rifle is roughly 35. For a pistol, it's 55. I think this is a huge detriment to riflemen, UNLESS this was intended by design to make up for the fact that rifles can hit for unhealable damage. That may very well be the case, but I'd like to get a dev response saying so if it is.
Number 1 needs to be fixed ASAP. It is making the rifleman class almost completely obsolete..
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