Actually the points of this particular argument have already been played out with the weapons ingame. Why doesn't anyone use a Premium Steiner LM-5 Assault Laser?Originally posted by Dropcid
just a quick point to make... as I said before your rude "suck it up" reply, I am a fixer who uses a nasty manex. I look at my damage output and say "woah, that is just silly". Do I like doing loads of damage? sure. Do I think the gun is well balanced? No. And i think this is a problem with more than just the manex. Instead of making existing weapons worthwhile, there is always one super uber best weapon, killing all chance of variety in the game. I'd rather use a keran's grinner, but I don't really have a choice (would you like to beat that baddie with a rock or a thermonuclear missile? You can throw 2 rocks a minute, or 1 missile every 10 minutes... the choice is pretty clear)
On the other hand, if Jayde is truly saying from an unbiased view that the gun isn't that bad, then I'll probably side with him. The only thing that doesn't seem taken into account is that with the way ACs are calculated, Slow hard hitting weapons are inherently better than fast weapons.
I.e. a weapon that does 100-200 damage every second is not as good as one that does 200-400 every 2 seconds.
-D
Well yeah, the ammo clip size might be an issue. But I offered it as an extreme example to make the point more obvious: high damage + slow atk/recharge usually balances itself out with lower damage + fast atk/recharge. And in the case of the OT Kerans and Manex Catastrophe, nothing is preventing people from wielding both of them according to whatever the situation calls for.