Something has to be done about this weapon please. No brainer, no skill crutch in the game that carries people. I am not sure MSE why you want a fully automatic sniper rifle in the game that kills players in mere fractions of a second and unlike Harecs weapons which AT LEAST take skill and have one bullet this one sprays several that have high damage output at targets. It is a really broken game.

You say you want raiders to clime the ladder of MMR but when you FAIL to balance out broken weapons like JK5, Last Wish and K&K many people rather just keep MMR low to AT LEASt have the AI advantage over your broken overtuned guns. Until these weapons get put inline with the rest of the roster I will have no shame keeping MMR low nor will I have any sympathies for antags at all.

Fix you weapons.

Can we buff Javelin please? This gun literally does minimal damage up close and so it only does more damage far range, but even at that it only wounds them. Even with Toxic all that have to do is roll. And if you run up to them that is your death wish as they will just meld your weak 60 health, no armor cougar form as you SLLLLLLOOOOWLY transform to normal. So we can clearly see that it is not made to be a follow up on wound weapon. It cannot kill anyone only wound. It only does any damage at range. So it is really quite weak. Those of us who don't want to use all of Ginebra's "gimmicky" weapons and want a straight forward weapon have only one of the worst weapons in the game to use.

This is coming from a time when we have such GLARINGLY overpowered weapons right now like JK5, K&K and Last Wish and somehow Jav is as impotent as it is.

Please consider making Jav a viable weapon against players. Killing bosses is not really a major need in today's meta. It's the ONLY weapon she has where we don't have to play pool and/or rely on the environment to deal any damage. I don't see Mikah, Doldren, or Iune having to rely on the environment to do damage.

Please put a goddamn muzzle on that weapon and nerf it already. You have a 140 health opponent with more fire power than most of the characters in the game. At least with the Locals they sacrifice health for that damage they do and you can theoretically kill them quick enough. But at 140 health very few people can damage her faster than she damages you.

You devs need to play more. Apprently you have never been shot at in game by the weapons you design.

You have WAY too many spawns at lower MMRs. I had 5 missions in a row that wwre absolutely no fun at and they were all in the 30% range. TOO many grunts, TOO many elites, TOO much health for low MMR and TOO much damage for low MMR. I notice it doesn't adjust these values much when an antag is present. The matches are 30 minutes or longer. And the rewards are not worth that long of a game and with no entertainment value at that.

PLEASE do something about your MMR difficulty. I am forced to lower MMR even further than usual now just to enjoy myself as a Raider. Keep in mind I don't active antag and have a clean reputation of never fighting against raiders when I lower MMR and so I am not one of those antags who lower MMR to have an easy time against Raiders.

But this is a HUGE problem. I had THE WORST time playing this same that I've had in a LONG time. I find it hard to say good things about this game or to even log on after todays horrid experience.

I'm not sure what you guys are trying to do exactly with this game and what the purpose of these changes was but it feels REAL bad.

AlberttoEcoca is spamming the forums with adds.

(Why do they do this? Who actually think this kind of adverts work? Who actually looks at their adds?)

I can see Doldren snicker now!!!

Don't think I didn't notice! Thank you MSE, I can see the level up animations of ALL the characters now. Their full personalities and the creative talent that went into them.

So there has been a high level of win rates and success with Harec lately, mostly due to his Rare weapon Ignis, coupled with his ability to stalk with no minimum cool down and a card called Firmness.

First we should talk about the weapon. This sniper can, like all snipers, head shot from near infinite distance relative to map sizes. Now this by itself isn't a big deal. Traditionally sniper rifles reward power to those who have patience, aim and timing. Vindicta Anima, Aura Mortis, Ferox Impetus and Easter Egg (in it's sniper fire) all have this balance. The trade off for one shot power is waiting for a charge and in most cases aiming for the head. The stronger the power the longer the charge, naturally, it's about balance. This is done I imagine sothat we don't have a spammable one shot weapon. You will notice as the charge gets shorter the power gets weaker, this is, again the balance. Ignis Fugit breaks this rule, and thus breaks the balance.

Ignis has a VERY short charge up and while being the weakest out of his sniper rifles, it makes up for it by chargeing fast. When they changed Ignis to have an alternate fire with automatic crit bullets this effectively made an Aura Mortis with a short charge up. This means you no longer have to head shot, you could shoot someone toe or graze their elbow and it would, at the very least, put them in wound state. This can EASILY be followed up by another FAST shot or if they are lucky enough to find cover Harec merely needs to stalk to a new position and finish them off before they can ever get up again. This weapon by itself breaks the balance of this game in a lot of ways.

Keep in mind the other characters and their weapons. Ignis has infinite range, the highest damage, fast firing, and can crit on demand. You would think that other weapons would be balanced in a similar manner. But they're no where as good, but this isn't the only reason Ignis is a problem, it's also in combination with Harec's ability, which is also the best special in the game right now. The solution would be to simply take away crit bullets because it currently outshines it's counterpart rifles and gives no incentive to use them if you can use Ignis and do all the same things and more. There has to be a payoff to using Aura Mortis, it takes longer to fire and does more damage, but Ignis marginalizes this and kind of breaks the balance of the weapons right now.

Stalk, this allows you to fly to most surfaces on the map on the x, y, z axis. when you stalk you are immune to damage and untargetable. Ony when you land on a surface are you targetable. The distance you can stalk is considerably far to. This sound ok so far, but here is where it becomes a problem. When you stalk there is no cool down if you don't stay long enough. You can spam stalk. Coupled with Ignis and it's fast fire you see where this gets abused and has very little counterplay. Two things would make this a more reasonable special that falls in line with the rest of the cast. A) Give it a minimum cool down, say 2 or 3 seconds. This would allow him to have to be more selective of his stalking and allow counterplay when he kills someone and has to come back. Or B) Have him have a minimum time he has to stick to a wall. This is is less favored by me, but if he did kill someone the victims allies could retaliate before he stalks away. Either way, either of these would allow counterplay and less stalk spam, which in my opinion, is very skill less and unfair to opponents. Currently in the game right now it's a headache as you have to work much harder and have quite a bit of luck in order to deal with Harec and Ignis more so than ANY other character in the game.

Finally we have the Firmness card which essentially ignores 60 damage. This means when he stalks and you are skilled enough to shoot him first, it doesn't matter, he ignores the damage and head shots you, or at the least, escapes. Again, this allows for no counterplay at all. As a player facing off against Harec you AREN'T rewarded for shooting him first in Stalk and so are head shot by him all the same.

I'm not sure if a combination nerf to all three of these aspects would be good or just a focused one on a single. But I feel something seriously needs to be done because the combination of these three, with a heavy emphasis on the weapon itself, is creating a new power meta right now where this is the new unstoppable character/weapon combination.

MSE, if you have access to the data please review Ignis Harec pick rate and, most of all, win rate. From the limited perspective of what I have seen, personally or through many videos from many different Harec players, it's clear to me that victory is weighted heavy in this weapons favor.