PLEASE, JUST BURY THIS THREAD ALREADY. Here, these links to TVTropes will keep you away from every other website for the next few days, and especially this thread.
IJustSignedUpToPostInThisThreadThatNeedsToDie wrote:I'm surprised about how stubborn rifle users are in this game, I actually thought it's fairly obvious that it's overpowered
Firstly, I'm sick of people bitching about the rifle
suddenly becoming all about headshots. For starters, we only had the rifle, and I joined on the
very last day that there was only a rifle (0.52). Then the SMG came out (0.54). From memory it was a
useless piece of crap only usable for griefing.
SIMOX wrote:It will always hit it's target 100% pin-point. It's perfectly accurate even when not looking through the iron sights.
This is no longer true, as there is a
random spread on the rifle.
I really don't like
the types of people Ben is trying to attract to this game by
nerfing the rifle and
buffing the SMG.
Gorman wrote:Keep AoS simple, intuitive, and not based on luck
You know a thread's full of stupid arguments when Gorman is completely right.
You also know I want a thread to die when I start
doing silly things like
posting links to TVTropes.
Oh that reminds me, I've yet to post an image macro. Here we go!
DrPain wrote:Moreover, it's the people who are using it that are overpowered... actually more like the people getting killed by it are underpowered. Let's face it folks, most of the people in this game are f2p newbs(as opposed to f2p pros?)
^ THIS.
Oh yeah, here are some statistics.
Rifle:
Firing rate: 0.5 sec -> 0.8 sec (former 0.75, latter 0.76.0)
Spread: 0.006 -> 0.003 (lower is better, ideally should be closer to 0 than this)
Damage: [100, 49, 33] -> [200, somethingrather] x DamageFalloff
And I forget what the SMG / Shotgun stats are, if I ever looked at them.
This thread was started on 6 February, 2012. It is now 21 July, 2012. (please don't argue about timezones, the time difference is pretty similar.)
People have signed up just to post in this thread so it won't die.I'd give my personal summary, but that would just get people to reply to it.