#Scientist issues

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blissful whale
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Currently sci feels pretty bad to play as and sometimes against unless you use very specific combos (ac tranq pistol sensor/speed greed or bow mk speed greed/sensors) , I will cover each weapon and throwable she has but some I will edit depending on what peoples opinions are on them. Some of this is based off playing against her as well.

Because I know this is likely to come up I have always thought scientist seems stronger than she is as sniper classes generally attract sweatier/better players in games, I’ve always thought this prior to even being into this game so that may affect my views on her in general as all people who I see do well as sci also do well on other humans and as dinos

Sniper rifle
This weapon has basically gone extinct after the nerf however the core issue of it didnt see to be resolved as hipfire is still pretty much laser accurate. To resolve this it should get its fire rate reverted but hip fire spread increased so its not basically just a slug shotgun

PDR
Could do with some additional spare ammo, other than that I’m not really sure what to do with it without making it overly annoying

Bow
Nerf explosive arrows as they make scientist a lot better at close range than she should be especially against nova and smaller, they make her able to use no aim to do 212 damage or so without being charged, not wanting to get into bleed here as theres other threads existing for that

AC
Generally fine outside of the whole knocking tyrants off corpses issue however thats more of a tyrant thing as its bad against nova and smaller but good against bruiser and tyrant, basically just a sniper alternative

Tranq pistol
Can feel too oppressive against tyrant at times as it can effectively shut them down with one sci

Gas mines
Increase duration and or area of effect cause just now its pretty useless

Speed greed
Doesn’t really need any major changes

Sensor mines
Probably need to reduce detection area or reduce the amount of time they show a dino for

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Scientist issues

old scarab
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I agree with these, hipfire sci needs to be removed its so annoying

pure anvil
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not removed, just more spread

dusk matrix
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spread to actually work, perchance

lusty pendant
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I think that PDR needs either a slight damage buff or a fire rate increase. That way it also reaches the 2-hit ko of other rifles, or the TTK is reduced. One or the other though, not both

blissful whale
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Those both sound good but I’m leaning more towards a slight damage buff as I believe its fire rate had been nerfed previously

blissful whale
placid kernel
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according to rigorous scientific analysis by macc, there's no problem with sniper rifle hip fire. it does have spread applied, just using a different system to what was in the game in days of yore.

for comparison's sake, the one bonus that sniper hipfire has in comparison to the heavy assault cannon is the "advantage" check, where there's an extra chance that a shot will hit instead of miss roughly 25% of the time (i think). we're considering removing that from it, since it's meant to be less accurate in general it doesn't need artificial random chance of hitting.

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the difficulty is not making the weapon completely useless for the user at close quarters due to clunkiness but it needs a degree of that so as to not be an instant win button on anything smaller than a carno attacking you.

blissful whale
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Imo removing the chance to get a hit when you should miss but increasing the fire rate would make sniper fairer at close range as it allows for better dps against bruisers and more opportunity to land a shot on a small and is purely reliant on the players skill which I think is fair considering snipers range

lusty pendant
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Any weapon that has a bonus chance to hit a shot when it realistically shouldn't have just shouldn't exist unless it's specifically an rng weapon

tired trail
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That would be all weapons except AC

lusty pendant
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the more that's revealed about hit reg in this game the more disturbing it gets PrimalYikes

tired trail
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Just a matter of framing

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In the end its statistics manipulated to make the weapons feel a certain way

placid kernel