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20 dmg for 20 heat? They should set ghost heat for IS PPC and ERPPC to 3, though even then they would still be the sheetiest weapons in the game. Because 20 dmg on a slow moving bullet is sheet. gauss can do 30 on a fast moving 0 heat alpha. So why should the ppc be 20. In this day and age of 40 - 70 dmg alphas. 20 dmg is WOEFULLY PATHETIC. 20 dmg for TWENTY HEAT even more so. 20 dmg for an absurd 20 (or 30) heat on a shot that has a decent chance of missing anyway even more even more so. Add to that the ritardirt minimum range of 90m?! Even more even more even more so. PPCs should be renamed to JUNK, which stands for "Just Useless Not Kool".
ER PPCS. Even junkier. How often do you think you fight at 800+ m? And even if you do so, what's the % chance of you hitting with your PPC? The C LPL will fight you at 800+ m for slightly more dmg (because the 13 dmg of C LPL will be reduced to about 11 dmg at 800+ m), less heat and near 100% accuracy (albeit probably spread, which isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be).
ER PPCs and PPCs. 2 worst weapons in the game. Clan ERPPC. 3rd worst weapon in the game because at least you do 15 dmg, albeit 2.5 spread to each torso, which to me isn't even a nerf at all because most mechs are damaged all over the place anyway, and people are going to hit the part they want between 20 to 70% of the time anyway. Stop pretending you're some computerlike aimbot player who can consistently put your PPFLD on the part you want. Pretty sure 90% of the forum posters here can't. But the way you see ppl on here talk about how spread is bad, it's as if 90% of them are computers.
The most logical rationale for why they talk as if they have 90% hit rate on the part they want is because their brain only remembers the good stuff. Cored Robot! Alpha strike him with my PPC, BAM! He dies and i feel the rush of endorphins. Boy am i such a hot shot. Next 4 instances where you see a cored robot and you alpha him with your PPCs/AC20/gauss and didn't hit the cored part. Meh, chuck it off into the bin of forgotten memories. On the 6th instance, you alpha and the target dies. WOAH IM A HOT SHOT, i have 90% hits on the specific component i want! When in reality, you only hit 20% of your shots.
If a gun was so bad that it needed so much quirks (and varying degrees of goodness too, which makes it confusing to realise the speed) to make it usable, then you should buff the gun overall, not only for a sprinkling of trash bots.
Suggestion:
0) Change IS ghost heat to 3
1) Drop PPC heat to 8.5, ERPPC to 11
2) Change speed back to 1500m/s. ERPPC speed to 1700 m/s
3) Remove 90m min range
Edited by PholkLorr, 01 June 2016 - 09:01 PM.
