These last few weeks, a lot of talk has been going around about a particular gun: The Piranha
It stands out in its quality of very high rate of fire, large clip, low weight and high damage. So much in fact, that it seems that some people have blinded themselves looking only at its good qualities, and demand a ner.. rebalancing of the weapon.
What these people seem to forget is that its good qualities come at one particularly bad one: At arms lenght, you cannot hit the broad side of a barn with it.
In fact, its accuracy is so bad that it perfectly outweighs everything good about the gun, and lands it at a solid "okay" weapon rating overall, as its high damage: 88,7 (or a whopping 1774 damage per second) is calculated on the assumption that all pellets hit.
The Experiment
In comes the relentless horde of re-balancers: "You can spec for accuracy and put a smart choke on it! That makes you able to frikkin snipe with it." If you can show me someone actually sniping with this weapon, i would be very pleased, but untill you do, allow me to show you what it does at range:
- Character: Destroyer w. accuracy spec and devastaror mode engaged = 25% more accuracy.
- Weapon: Piranha X with Large Caliber Barrel V and Smart Choke V = 50% more accuracy.
- Total: 75% more accuracy compared to the weapons base value.
- No ammo powers, no amps were used.
- All shots taken from cover.
The Proof
The distance to the end wall is 24 meters, anyone with a sniper rifle will confirm that, and if not, i have snaps of that too. This means that the distance to the target is probably closer to 20 meters, but lets call it 22 for good measure. As you can see, the outline of the target does only cover 5 out of the 8 pellet holes in the wall behind him. Lets call it 6 hits on a good day, or 75% effectiveness @ 22 meters.
Next up is 30 meters:
It is a bit hard to see the holes in the wall, but the are most definantly there. In fact there are a lot more there than in the target - only 3 out of 8 pellets hit at this distance. With a bit of luck that could have been 4, so 50% effectiveness on a good day. By now, most AR's can do the job a lot better.
At 40 meters it wouldn't matter if i took a screen shot. It would only feature a target with full health, as at that distance, it would be more effective to take out the bullets and throw them.
Video Of hot Prianha on Cerberus Action
Thanks to Major Durza, who spend a lot of time recording and uploading, we have some more video to show how overpowred the Piranha actually is in action: www.youtube.com/watch
The Conclusion
The only rational conclusion must be that there are no grounds for ajusting this weapon.
Remember that this was done with the second highest possible accuracy increase (Tsol gets slightly more) - on all other classes, these numbers could practically be cut in half(!), meaning that the Piranha is a terribly ineffective weapon outside of a set of very specific circumstances, and that there is no reason, besides some players personal oppinions, for ner... balancing it.
Doing so would render it completely useless, as the player already has to be near point blanc range in order to reap the benefits of the weapon, and by doing so is putting himself at high risk of becoming more of a liability than an asset to the team.
A little quiz
To finish up here, would anyone like to guess how many shots it takes to kill that Pyro in
the second picture? All relevant info is in the post already.
It took 5 (FIVE!) well aimed shots.
The difficulty? Bronze.
TL;DR
The Piranha is useless @ +25 meters even with all accuracy mods. Nerfers have no case at all.
edit: Second highest accuracy increase. All shot were taken from cover.
Modifié par ABjerre, 03 août 2012 - 03:39 .
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