PEEFsmash, on 18 June 2013 - 10:02 AM, said:
Although the machinegun, flamer, and small pulse changes are good, they are totally irrelevant to the actual problems in this game. The Large Pulse nerf that came with the small pulse buff showed that they are just flinging their hands about wildly and occasionally hitting something that works. The big changes that would actually improve gameplay, balance the meta, etc were the ones that I outlined, and the ones that they completely ignored.
The decision to change these lasers was based on a formula,
"This puts all 3 pulse lasers in alignment of having an approximate 1.25 variance for DPS and a 1.3 variance for HPS"
So it was far from random. It really should never have been what it was in the first place, the LPL/SPL was out of sorts with the standard, which, in lemans terms, means it was buffed/Nerfed respectively..
You may not agree, and i certainly don't, with the changes, but it wasn't random hand-flinging.