Board Thread:Respawnables Discussion/@comment-26814398-20151219193147

Ok gonna start a series of respawnables mythbusters, the first topic is op weapons, a lot of weapons are labelled as op but it's just not the case.

Flare Gun: probably the most infamous "op weapon". This weapon is a one shot kill, has nearly infinite range, 4 agility, perfect accuracy, and the projectile has a much bigger hitbox than hitscan weapons. Sounds op on paper right? Well not the case in practice. Regardless of how good its killing power is, to even kill someone you gotta get a hit on someone. If you're going against experienced players, who know how to strafe, you're going to miss 90% of your shots, even at close range, it's not hard to dodge this. And if someone uses black hero armor or asp armor with regeneration, it's very difficult to kill them. So no, considering there is a counter to the flare gun for noobs who can't strafe (asp and black hero armor), and people who are skilled can easily strafe out of it, it isn't op.

Hunter Shotgun with SF head: This is another gun thought of as overpowered. Now let me tell you this, 90% of the 2 shots with this combo is a 2 shot kill range you would have gotten even without the headset. The only really noticable difference with this headset is the one shot kill range is extended to that of the double barrel shotgun. So I gotta say no it isn't overpowered with the headset, the main thing that helps with the headset is the accuracy since the accuracy on this shotgun is just awful. Also not to mention it's slower than any other shotgun and has a really slow reload speed.

Thumper: This is one gun people complain about being op and I just don't see where you're coming from. It wasn't op not even from the day it was released, armor was released to make it a 3 shot kill the day it was released, and since then 2 other armors making it a 3 shot kill were released. You could wear no extra hp and still survive a shot from the thumper if you just do a little fancy strafing, if not just wear 20% hp, or an AE piece. Honestly dunno why people complain about this, especially since the rocket guitar case reloads quicker, fires way quicker, has 6x the amount of rounds in the clip, and does the same damage. 