The problem with balance is more from skills that increase heat dissipation and then total heat tolerance. These aren't in TT that I know of. So as someone posted earlier, it's not actually doing 2.0 it's higher due to the skill buff.
I'd support a vote of 1.6 or 1.7 that puts them close to 2.0 with elite unlocked.
As is, a straight nerf to 1.4 is flat out stupid.
I'm a gauss/lrm and basically ammo based weapon user. The only energy weapons I use are when I'm playing like a CPLT-C1 or the Hunchback series (i.e. 4P). I've tried the various Awesome builds in closed beta, and simply don't like the mech. However, there was a deadly player with a 3 PPC and a couple Streak 2 the other night who was a really good shot. Took my gauss cat out before I realized where the new fire was coming from on City. He ended up with like 4-5 kills against a mix of pug/pre-made.
I LIKE the fact that someone made good use of PPCs because in all the books I've read, past games I've played (MW3 & 4), PPCs and energy weapons have been viable builds.
Right now I feel that:
AC 20 is a joke (Too much heat, not enough ammo with FF and double armor, not enough knock)
SRMs were nerfed to nothing/uselessness (They were already tough to hit with bay door delay, lag, traversal. My CPLT-C4 SRM 6 x4 build is a joke now compared to it actually being deadly in close).
PPC/ER-PPC up until DHS were a joke. With double armor and the proposed heat changes they will be sub-obtimal/bottom of chain again.
Streaks knock-back is freaking ridiculous (2 missiles shouldn't do as much knock as 40 LRMs and 2 AC20s, in chainfire on an A1 this is just nuts, maybe if they fired all 6 STRK2s it should do what it does now. What happens when Streak 4/6s come out?)
Yeah, they have major issues in this game. I will continue to give them time but decisions like this one without fixing even the other issues I posted above in the weapons area are very disappointing and make fans like me cringe when friends ask how MW:O is.
"My answer the other night was, it's entertaining and fun but has a lot of issues. You need to have a good group of at least 4-6 if not 8 to play with as it's designed for team play and you will get rocked by pre-mades if you try to PUG or play wit only 2-3 friends."
My esteem for the game just dropped another point or two. Not the right direction at all.
Edited by Caleb Lee, 04 November 2012 - 03:05 PM.