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    The First Wave X-45 Pistol Is Insane! Use It Before The Nerf!

    I'm using the First Wave X-45 with 4 sentry pieces and this gun absolutely destroys. I'm doing 200-300k damage per shot with this pistol. I was able to clear landmarks in the 231+ DZ06 bracket with it. The fire rate, the accuracy and stability on this pistol is awesome. It's so much fun to use it. But unfortunetly this weapon is scheduled for nerf. I'm sure it won't be as much fun after the nerf as it is now. Enjoy it, before they take out the fun.
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    CJ Fresh's Avatar Senior Member
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    where did you see the weapon was going to be nerfed? The only weapon getting any "nerf" if the g36 and that's not even a nerf because it wasn't supposed to be as strong as it is.
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    Finally pistol worth using, its not most powerful weapon so why would they nerf it? DZ wont be flooded with X-45s.
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    I highly doubt they will nerf it, I think they want the pistol to be a viable weapon. Prior to the the new pistol, pistols were pretty much worthless other than using it to proc the sentry talent.
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    May be they are preparing us to use "just" this pistol in next Survivol DLC... Who know....
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    Originally Posted by TKC-dflynn2 Go to original post
    I highly doubt they will nerf it, I think they want the pistol to be a viable weapon. Prior to the the new pistol, pistols were pretty much worthless other than using it to proc the sentry talent.
    I wouldn't be surprised, as it stands right now the X-45 has more than double the DPS of any other side arm in the game. It almost screams to be nerfed how blatantly superior it is to every single other sidearm available. Its not OP by any means but we see that massive doesn't know how to balance a game on what is strong or not and just nerfs whatever is "too popular" at the moment.
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    Indeed it is...
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    Originally Posted by MrFuddyDuddy Go to original post
    I wouldn't be surprised, as it stands right now the X-45 has more than double the DPS of any other side arm in the game. It almost screams to be nerfed how blatantly superior it is to every single other sidearm available. Its not OP by any means but we see that massive doesn't know how to balance a game on what is strong or not and just nerfs whatever is "too popular" at the moment.
    If it comes even close to the DPS of other weapons it is OP.
    There is infinite ammo on sidearms and therefore even with 80-90% dmg compared to main weapons would make it OP.
    Both in PVE and PVP.
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    Originally Posted by woksu Go to original post
    If it comes even close to the DPS of other weapons it is OP.
    There is infinite ammo on sidearms and therefore even with 80-90% dmg compared to main weapons would make it OP.
    Both in PVE and PVP.
    Yeah people forget the tiny details such as infinite ammo and the ability to use a shield to block all damage (however bugged it may be, it still works). I'm not sure where massive wants to go with pistols though but I enjoyed using them even before they got damage buffs. I found they were much easier to get 100% headshots with and were always good for conserving ammo in rare situations.

    People have to realize that everything shouldn't be about raw DPS and anything that adds more thinking to combat instead of raw brute force tactics is how a shooter should be. I mean this isn't he wild west where you have shoot outs with no cover during high noon and one shot kill the other person no matter where you shoot them.

    Personally I do hope they force us to use only pistols in a game mode in the future and add more mission modifiers like those you can turn on and off for UG missions. Would be crazy cool if missions turned all your gear talents off and forced you to use a pistol (with no shield)....might be fun but people would whine and cry that they spent decades on optimizing OP gear and can't use it LOL.

    Just saying, the mindset of gamers is far more childish these days than what I remember in the good ole days where players played and just enjoyed what games gave us instead of all this complaining about needing nerfs and buffs.
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    Originally Posted by woksu Go to original post
    If it comes even close to the DPS of other weapons it is OP.
    There is infinite ammo on sidearms and therefore even with 80-90% dmg compared to main weapons would make it OP.
    Both in PVE and PVP.
    It already breaches that level, the 229 First Wave X-45 I have has a higher DPS with Stable on it than my 204 MP5 ST with Deadly and Responsive. If your just looking at the sheet DPS the X-45 deals more damage faster than everything in my inventory other than the G36 and that include 2 different 204 Deadly/Brutal AR's.
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