One thing that kept me playing this game was the fact that the devs were dedicated to not nerfing weapons. It's basically the one thing that MA has on WR, and now it doesn't have it anymore. The damage control isn't helping, revert this change, it sucks. Make it have a longer time before it fires instead. No weapons without aim assist should exist in a mobile game, aiming is absurdly hard on a dinky phone screen. TBH, longarms and railguns should also get aim assist as well, and change the stats to compensate.

Hello! We are trying to avoid the rebalance of the already released Content as much as we can. Nevertheless, the game develops and evolves, so sometimes we have no choice but to change the old Content to keep the game balanced and enjoyful to play for the majority of the community. Such decisions are always hard and painful, but still, they are based on our resources, feedback, analyses, and calculations. It's not all of a sudden, and we see your reaction.

Rebalancing the Weapon, we considered making it still powerful. For now, it's still one of the most decent Weapons in the game. Yes, right now it requires more skill from a player but at the same time, it's one of a few guns that are able to one-shot almost any Mech.

now in no way am I siding with plarium. if they put in the terms of service anything added to the game can be buffed/nerfed at there descretion it's not plariums fault players do not read the fine print 

They might have the right if there is something like that, but fine print doesn't make it right by the players or less shady, and Plarium shouldn't be surprised when players stop purchasing items and abandon their games.

It's not about their terms of service, really. When you play games online you should understand in game item can have changes made that make them less effective in a match so they have to consider that when they buy.

I think a lot of people here complaining things shouldn't be NERFed are anticipating a cycle of exploitation where new items are brought in as intentionally overpowered items to only be NERFed later. I have a feeling we're looking at players with war robots whiplash who would actually be more understanding about balance changes if they didn't come from a game that abused them.

It's also a very real fear that mech arena devs are going to begin this abusive monetization cycle. So it's not really their fault for complaining.

The deal with the post NERF em rifle is the shot delay. It would be a fine weapon still without the shot delay. But they removed the auto-aim and kept the shot delay. Now the weapon sucks. It used to be that you could hide around a corner, click shoot and wait until the shot delay was over to pop your EM out and let the auto aim do its work.

With other snipers you point and shoot and it's manual aim. That would work for EM if it didn't have the shot delay. But it does. So now how you play it is completely different from how you played it before and from any other sniper and it's worse for it. Now you have to manual aim and you have the shot delay. So you have to line up your shot after you've pressed the fire button and are stuck with an empty magazine if you miss, which is going to be often because that obnoxious f***** laser tells everyone where you're aiming long before you have your shot lined up. Good luck even making that happen now. Oh I guess you could stand behind stuff and wait until the shot delay ends.

Ooh fun, now I have to not only line up a shot after I've pressed the fire button and before my weapon fires. I also have to do it while moving and making sure I don't shoot into a f***** wall, all because I'm trying to make use of a weapon that used to serve me well. This sucks.

Maybe if devs implemented the NERF people were asking for, like increasing the reload time, we could still have auto-aim EMs and maybe even the double damage chance wouldn't need to be touched and the EMR could keep all of its fun qualities and not be stupidly overpowered.

Or devs could remove the shot delay, which would effectively reduce the reload time and make it so the weapon isn't so predictable or hard to work with. Then the weapon could be fun agai, but in a different way. But they decided to make it suck all around.

And the EMR really sucks now. Whatever the usage statistics say to clueless devs now I don't care. They're bound to change because I know most people think EMR sucks now. And I know it sucks. I know why it sucks.

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you see that's not what you say , you say EM- and just the nerf,, EXPENSIVE LEGENDARY WEAPON , WHERE PLARIUM STOLE EVERYONE'S MONEY, and then you say hce they made 8 shotgun useless, personally no shotgun bothers me and it's not even an expensive weapon since blueprints are being re-registered every day. EVALUATE THE WEAPON CLASS BETTER AND SEE HOW MUCH FERQUENCY THE PROJECTS COME OUT, whoever developed EM with ACOIN .. now has been robbed and these fraudulent people should be arrested.

baloney lies and childishness ,,, REMOVE THE MORTAR ROCKETS, RETURN THE MELEE WEAPONS TO -MEEL WEAPONS , so the game is balanced.. NOW AN ARC TORRENT DOES MORE DAMAGE THAN EM RIFLE. BUFFONS

and you think you can free me again , that i will bring other weapons to max level for YOU to nerf them and ppi tell a lot of trash to your customers ?? you have already lost my credit card that you won't see here anymore, and I think that of many others... what's the point of spending to be killed by a f***** ROCKET MORTAR or a super ROBOT, with 140% reflexes and 7 weapons stars --- what's the point give me give me a reason why this players are happy to spend their money... there are other ways without cheating anyone. greed leads to death.

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EM rifle after the NERF really does suck. Let's be honest the usage statistics after the NERF doesn't tell you much. Assume players have yet to reinvest.

I hate playing this weapon now. The shot delay prior to the change wasn't a big deal. Now it's everything wrong with the weapon.

Prior to the change you saw the delayed shot and laser would warn players of incoming fire. It wasn't a big deal because you could hide behind cover after you've pressed the "fire" button and pop out just before your weapon fires. But now you have to do that and manually target your opponent as you're peeking out. And that's tough because sometimes you don't have direct sight and have to rely on map knowledge. Not so helpful when you're trying to hit the exposed parts of enemies behind cover, who are as invulnerable to EM shots as ever because of this. You could get them in your sights but then you have to sacrifice cover and give up on covering that obnoxious laser that tells everyone you're shooting the EMR. And that's the second reason people behind cover are as invunerable as ever to EMR fire. I really thought manual aim would eliminate this weakness the EM has compared to other snipers. Not only did it do nothing to eliminate that weakness, it made EMR far weaker against totally exposed opponents who have always been your only true targets with the EMR.

Perhaps if devs listened closer they would have known to simply increase the reload time on EMR because that was the community consensus on the change would retain what made EMR fun while making it less porent still. But they had to ruin the weapon and make it bad and unfun. From here the changes should either be reverted in favor of increased reload time, or the shot delay should be removed as well.

I think its a fair play cuz em riffle is almost the MOST powerful weapon and maxed out with implants , it feel's like a one shot , so i think is fair but dont blame me its my opinion

The major issue is that EM rifles were sold as they were, and after months of Plarium selling them, they then changed them. If Plarium made an item that they determined was flawed and needed to be corrected, then it should be on Plarium to refund people in exchange for losing the item. If there are people who still enjoy using it, then fine, they can keep it, but for a lot of people, they bought it for what it was, and wouldn't have bought it as it is now. With that being the case, those people should be refunded. It was a shady tactic that Plarium used to take people's money, and that's the primary issue with it.

it is evident that you do not use it and you cannot understand....

The only evident thing here is you have overly relied on EM rifles being ridiculously OP and have used them as a crutch this entire time.

EM rifle post nerf is still absurdely broken.  the x2 damge chance needs to be 0%.  even then the damage em rifles do would still make them the best weapon in the game.  Nerf was not only well past overdue it didnt go nearly far enough.

And YES I use EM rifles.  I know how they work.  I would very much like to stop being FORCED to use them but that would require even more nerfs to EM rifles.  As of now its still the best weapon in the game.

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And I want to mention that when we post things in this topic,it often skips the last 

"extremely shady tactic"? 

Phhhhhh. Yeah right. 

It's their game, and they can do what ever they want with it. t's their game, and they can do what ever they want with it. 

If you ain't happy, just stop playing. 

They shouldn't have to give a refund to people with EMs. After all, they still have them, and they are still OP. 

That would be like charging everyone who has a minigun just because they got buffed. 

I don't want to see the amount of people complaining that I do. 

If anything, the buff makes EMs stronger because you can hit the corners and such of a hitbox. 

You've just got a **skill issue** and can't handle the changes. 

In the meta it's basically impossible to NOT use EMs just because of how good OP they are.

You are basically forced.