PDWs and What Could Be Done To Help Them

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C0llis

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Tuesday, April 15th 2014, 9:09pm

Quoted from "ToTheSun!"

Quoted from "C0llis"

Come to think of it: DICE should just change all PDWs (sans the AS VAL) to bullpups, remove the bullpup penalty to ADS accuracy for PDWs and lower spread increase across the board -> profit.

That's not short of making the PDW-R OP.

It was a pretty general statement, outliers would of course have to be fine tuned. Still, I stand by that hipfire base spread and spread increase are the main culprits when it comes to the current somewhat lackluster PDWs (barring the outliers).

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And reading Youtube comments still gives me Turbo Cancer.

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It really is quite frustrating when Helen Keller sets up her LMG in the only doorway in/out of an area.

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What kind of question is that? Since when is cheese ever a bad idea?

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Hardline is a fun and sometimes silly Cops and Robbers sorta thing and I think that's great. Or it would be if it didn't suck.

ToTheSun!

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Tuesday, April 15th 2014, 9:54pm

Quoted from "C0llis"

Quoted from "ToTheSun!"

Quoted from "C0llis"

Come to think of it: DICE should just change all PDWs (sans the AS VAL) to bullpups, remove the bullpup penalty to ADS accuracy for PDWs and lower spread increase across the board -> profit.

That's not short of making the PDW-R OP.

It was a pretty general statement, outliers would of course have to be fine tuned. Still, I stand by that hipfire base spread and spread increase are the main culprits when it comes to the current somewhat lackluster PDWs (barring the outliers).

Forget hipfire spread. I won't touch a PDW without a heavy barrel on it (which excludes basically 90% of them because of the need for a compensator).

C0llis

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Tuesday, April 15th 2014, 10:35pm

Quoted from "ToTheSun!"

Forget hipfire spread. I won't touch a PDW without a heavy barrel on it (which excludes basically 90% of them because of the need for a compensator).

Really? From my experience 0.4 is enough for the ranges where I would bother engaging enemies with a PDW. It is obviously not enough to take on headglitchers with outside CQB, is that what you are referring to?

Things people said

Quoted from "Pheo"

And reading Youtube comments still gives me Turbo Cancer.

Quoted from "NoctyrneSAGA"

It really is quite frustrating when Helen Keller sets up her LMG in the only doorway in/out of an area.

Quoted from "Watcher-45"

What kind of question is that? Since when is cheese ever a bad idea?

Quoted from "LeGarcon"

Hardline is a fun and sometimes silly Cops and Robbers sorta thing and I think that's great. Or it would be if it didn't suck.

ToTheSun!

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Tuesday, April 15th 2014, 10:49pm

Quoted from "C0llis"

Quoted from "ToTheSun!"

Forget hipfire spread. I won't touch a PDW without a heavy barrel on it (which excludes basically 90% of them because of the need for a compensator).

Really? From my experience 0.4 is enough for the ranges where I would bother engaging enemies with a PDW. It is obviously not enough to take on headglitchers with outside CQB, is that what you are referring to?

I'm just saying in general. I don't like 0.4/0.5 spread and i don't feel comfortable with it.

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Wednesday, April 16th 2014, 9:38am

*facepalm*
I shali never confuse possibility with eficiency again, as long as my dyslexia may live.

Oh, and i honestly wouldn't mind a very slight buff to weapon draw times and hip firefor pdws.

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usXer

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Wednesday, April 16th 2014, 10:35am

I can't believe they made DMRs available for all classes yet PDWs are only for engineer. Why would anyone use PDWs as engineer when there's a slash n dash carbines like ACW-R and M-TAR 21? Seriously..

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Wednesday, April 16th 2014, 2:19pm

Quoted from "usXer"

I can't believe they made DMRs available for all classes yet PDWs are only for engineer. Why would anyone use PDWs as engineer when there's a slash n dash carbines like ACW-R and M-TAR 21? Seriously..

That's the thing. The weapons need to be unquestionably better than the all-kits in some way. At the moment, they aren't.

I agree with deploy times and hipfire buffs, but maybe it could be something simpler. What about twice the ammo pool? Small rounds - small mags - lots of spare ammo to spray all over the place!

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Wednesday, April 16th 2014, 3:35pm

Quoted from "ToTheSun!"

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if you ask me, PDW damage should be increased to 30 max

There are many things wrong about that which you, very clearly, haven't considered.

1. UMP-45 40+ damage?
2. low bullet velocity rounds dealing more damage than 5.56 and 7.62 NATO?

1. i never said increase the UMP-45 damage to 40+. Its fine the way it is
2. its a video game, it doesn't have to make sense. 5.56 and 7.62 rounds kill faster than .50cal machine guns that could easily rip a arm off in one shot