I know that default gear really isn't something that is discussed in these kinds of fps games, but I figured that these kind of balance discussions should be brought to light due to the fact there are no perm weapons besides our default gear.

I myself am not a fan of rental weapons and I've been struggling to get along with the default weapons and armor (bar ranger's), what kind of tweaks do you think should be made to the default gear to make them more leveled with purchased gear?

Pointman: Spas-12
Tweaks needed: a larger pellet count, faster fire rate, tighter spread, increased damage per pellet, or a combination of any of the tweaks

Ranger: PMC - M4
Tweaks: No apparent weakness that are addressable, slightly op due to its high accuracy and 1shot headshot

Sniper: M24 SWS (Semi-auto)
Tweaks: Either increase its magazine size to 15, or make it a 100% damage bolt action because the Dragunov outclasses this gun in every possible way.

Heavy Fire: M249
Tweaks: Increase its stability to 40% and increase damage to 35%, the M249 should have the highest stability of the LMGs as no other LMG in this class comes close to its stability stat, but its stability is shot in the foot with its poor damage output

Dual Gunner: Dual Uzi
Tweaks: Buff accuracy to 90% but decrease RoF to 40% or damage to 15%

These are just my opinions and not reflective of the meta-game as a whole, what kind of changes do you think should be added to make the default gear a little bit more... erm... usable?

Medic should be reduced to a certain amount of heals per round/match.

Rangers should be slightly armor nurfed as their guns are Op.

Point Man needs to be strengthened as the weapons take 3-4 blast hits w/o hs.

Heavyfire is fine for me. The RPG is annoying though.

Sniper needs more effective body hitters etc...

I think the default guns are actually quite decent to be fairly honest. Of course paid weapons are much better, but that is the entire point of the game.

If guns are too good = You won't play as much because you won't need to work to buying said guns and if you don't play a lot then you will find the need to purchase items much lower.

Plus when AP weapons are introduced in commercial release, it's inevitable, then the AP guns will need to have a fairly good advantage over normal weapons for a large number of people to buy them. If the default weapons were decent then less people would feel the need to purchase weapons which have an advantage.

It's just business.

I think the guns as they fulfill the role of exactly what they are - default weapons. They aren't spectacular but they can be used well enough which is honestly what they should be.

coduxs wrote:

Medic should be reduced to a certain amount of heals per round/match. Rangers should be slightly armor nurfed as their guns are Op. Point Man needs to be strengthened as the weapons take 3-4 blast hits w/o hs. Heavyfire is fine for me. The RPG is annoying though. Sniper needs more effective body hitters etc...

I disagree with this statement to an extent. I main pointman and more often that not I 1 hit kill anybody who gets close to me. The problem is the range of damage is too wide. there are times you can 1 hit from a distance without a headshot and other times it can take 2-3 hits. it is far too random, and this goes beyond just the default, it's with any shotgun

Snipers should not be able to tank so much. It's freaking ridiculous. Fighting one when they have 0 speed gear and all the def is even freaking worse. As it is they get 1 shot kills. I'm seeing it a lot in bomb mode where they hide so only a tiny sliver of their body can be seen and they snipe anyone that crosses their camp.

Defense gear needs to gtfo the game entirely.

I don't think default guns are designed to be the best guns in the game xD But I wouldn't mind some slight buffs and nerfs on certain weapons/classes. But right now I'm fine with everything xD