It's pretty clear that FLD ACs are superior and that Clan AC/UACs are going to be burst no matter how much anyone does not agree with it.
What I do think, is that they need improvement.
What they need is actually very simple:
1) The need faster projectile speeds than they have now. There is no reason that a cUAC 10 firing little 2.5 damage (or whatever they are, I think it's a 4 shell burst) rounds in succession should have a fairly bad 950m/s speed.
*(I'm not saying make all of them 2000m/s instant hit rounds, just speed all of them up a bit - UAC 2s are fine).
2) Once that is fixed, the bursts might need to be slightly tighter. I.e. the time to complete one full burst should be shortened.
Why?
Well, for the weight, the crit slots, the ammo requirement, the time on target - they really are not very good as weapons outside of Dire Wolves who can boat the hell out of them. - and it's getting awful boring using basically Gauss and Lasers or maybe missiles on nearly every build at this point (and I love ballistics, but not these ballistics)
Sure there are some exceptions here and there, but generally speaking I think these improvements would be good.
Edited by Ultimatum X, 25 August 2014 - 09:36 AM.