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Originally Posted by TheLinkMan2002
You made the ec weapons way too cheap for their effectiveness.... Tech9 is also way too cheap for how much better it is than any gun in its price range.
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With respect, I think you're underestimating:
Gun Stats for 'ap7':
Damage: 20
Rate of Fire: .3
Freeze: .1
Reload: .2
Spread: 0.05 (5.72°)
Clipsize: 16
Tech9 70k
Damage: 20
Rate of Fire: .4 ******
Freeze: .05
Reload: .4 *****
Spread: 0.05 (5.72°)
Clipsize: 18
My goal was to give a gun to newer players that is .05 freeze because, let's be honest, you need to learn how to use a .05 freeze gun to truly be effective nowadays. The massive massive trade-off is the clip/reload/rate of fire. I think the Tech9 might be better than the Ap7, but I don't think it's as terrible as you say.
Regarding the other guns, I'm quite happy with all of them but the galil. I will be tweaking it ever-so-slightly. To be honest with you, I failed to test the .35 rate of fire (compare this to any other .05 freeze gun) enough in an actual combat situation (a downside to releasing new guns is you can't PK with them).
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Originally Posted by TheLinkMan2002
yeah but it makes other much more costly weapons less attractive. That I do not agree with, they already have access to gang guns for 50 points that are really good, why more handouts.
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I do not agree that it makes weapons ~400k any less attractive. Souizen is still better. Sten is still better. BAR/Luger etc still fill their niche.
Inadvertently, this may make guns in the 200-400k price range less attractive. But I can promise you a) nobody who can afford a navy will choose a tech9 over it and b) nobody who has a tech9 wouldn't jump at the chance to get a navy.
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Originally Posted by bloodykiller
the last thing era needs is new guns... what are guns for if nobody pks?
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I don't disagree, TK. But I can only do so much in my position (Gun Admin). In fact, I was sincerely hoping that these guns would increase player involvement. The gang point guns were meant to encourage raiding (planned out before the surprise of gang-draft....) and the EC guns to encourage events. This was to get people out of the rut of sitting at OSL and merching all day to afford my stupid 1.2M cash guns.