Advanced Plasma Accelerator ruined - FDev why silent nerf, why you just want to suck the joy out of everything???

TANDKO

TANDKO
Advanced Plasma Accelerator ruined - FDev why silent nerf, why you just want to suck the joy out of everything???

This is not a whining thread but rather almost angry-ish one.
I have just noticed that Advanced Plasma Accelerator was shadow nerfed to the degree of becoming completely useless.
Now fire rate is so low that Advanced PA is worse than normal PA. We already have a lot of pointless powerplay weapons why ruin one of those that had some use????
No one's ever asked for this. Adv.PA was never a meta, it was a weapon for CMDR with exquisite taste and finesse:cool: for hit and run tactics. Now it's just another PP garbage that is worse than PA but cost 50% more.

FDev, why you just want to suck the joy out of everything?(C)
 
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h347h

h347h
It was waayayyyayayayayayay too good on the Vulture now that it can run them with out issues. +mods +special effects
 
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TANDKO

TANDKO
It was not too good it was just right. You were not able to sustain fire so you had to adapt. Now there is no point to run AdvPA at all the DPS is so low that normal PA is much better choice.
Just look at numbers even numbers are bad but what's more if we look at the way of using it, you either spend time for target acquisition and then do more damage or you get close and spawn lesser damaging projectiles in a short period of time.
 
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Gryphorim

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Obviously they are nerfing PP hardware so everyone sells them off, so they can reimagine them as power-locked engineer upgrades....\



At least I hope that's what's going on.
 
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h347h

h347h
TANDKO said:
It was not too good it was just right. You were not able to sustain fire so you had to adapt. Now there is no point to run AdvPA at all the DPS is so low that normal PA is much better choice.
Just look at numbers even numbers are bad but what's more if we look at the way of using it, you either spend time for target acquisition and then do more damage or you get close and spawn lesser damaging projectiles in a short period of time.
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I am guessing you don't know about the amazing weapon special effects PAs get?

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Engineer's_weapon_special_effects
 

CMDR BOSLEY

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Frag cannons received a similar treatment and i am sad. I was planning on getting the advanced plasma accelerator and now i don't know. Do you have a video showing how it is now?
 

TANDKO

TANDKO
CMDR BOSLEY said:
Frag cannons received a similar treatment and i am sad. I was planning on getting the advanced plasma accelerator and now i don't know. Do you have a video showing how it is now?
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Frag cannons as well??? You mean burst fire or something else? I was actually planning using AdvPA with Frag, now it looks like I should do something else, that is really sad:(
I don't have video ready yet but I will just tell you it used to be 2.0 rounds/sec now it is 0.8r/s with the same damage so it can't be used as before, normal PA is better now.
 

Marshall...

Marshall...
Vasious said:
Has anyone else tried the APA besides the OP?
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Yes a number of folks have. See my initial" bug" request in the bug forum. Frontier confirmed it has been nerfed.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Accelerator-firing-rate?p=4141946#post4141946

It still does slightly more DPS than a regular PA (you are able to get off three shots to the regular PAs one), but the power draw is still way higher making it far less interesting. I also tried modding it with rapid fire, which kinda works, though the "jitter" that is added makes it far more inaccurate at anything further than point blank range :( Back to the regular PA i go.....
 
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CMDR BOSLEY

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TANDKO said:
Frag cannons as well??? You mean burst fire or something else? I was actually planning using AdvPA with Frag, now it looks like I should do something else, that is really sad:(
I don't have video ready yet but I will just tell you it used to be 2.0 rounds/sec now it is 0.8r/s with the same damage so it can't be used as before, normal PA is better now.
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Yeah don't burst anymore, because they put engineer mods that would nake the burst too powerful so now it is semi-auto. They no doubt nerfed the advpa because they have a engineer mod for plasma accelerators called rapid fire.

Nerfed it so you have to grind to get back to a similar ability level as it previously was.
 

Star Lion

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TANDKO said:
This is not a whining thread but rather almost angry-ish one.
I have just noticed that Advanced Plasma Accelerator was shadow nerfed to the degree of becoming completely useless.
Now fire rate is so low that Advanced PA is worse than normal PA. We already have a lot of pointless powerplay weapons why ruin one of those that had some use????
No one's ever asked for this. Adv.PA was never a meta, it was a weapon for CMDR with exquisite taste and finesse:cool: for hit and run tactics. Now it's just another PP garbage that is worse than PA but cost 50% more.

FDev, why you just want to suck the joy out of everything?(C)
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I am lost, since when the PA has been a bad weapon. Its one of the best weapons in the game in capable hands.
 

TANDKO

TANDKO
These two statements do not say anything about PA being bad. However I will clarify anyway - AdvPA was not better than PA, it was just different and had its own purpose; with new changes AdvPA has insignificantly different fire rate than PA and half the damage so AdvPA is just plain worse than PA, period, and doesn't have any purpose(in other words, it is useless now); PA stayed as it is.
 
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Vasious

Vasious
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Yes a number of folks have. See my initial" bug" request in the bug forum. Frontier confirmed it has been nerfed.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Accelerator-firing-rate?p=4141946#post4141946

It still does slightly more DPS than a regular PA (you are able to get off three shots to the regular PAs one), but the power draw is still way higher making it far less interesting. I also tried modding it with rapid fire, which kinda works, though the "jitter" that is added makes it far more inaccurate at anything further than point blank range :( Back to the regular PA i go.....
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Cheers, I just wanted to make sure, as sometimes it is juts someone who mistook something
 
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