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    Stability change???

    Ok I heard there was a change to stability, can someone explain what the change was? And why???
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    It was a nerf to the stability of the g36. One of the puppets of UBI came to rededdit forums I think and announced that at first he didn't hear/see any changes but of course after a user did some data mining and proved him wrong, he retracted his statement and said "ah yes there was a change, whether it was intentional or a mistake with the nerf he wasn't sure of." Low and behold it was on purpose just wasn't announced to us....as usual.
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    Ok, thanks, I can see where sometimes the Community managers dont get all of the information, sometimes Devs forget to update all of their notes etc. I can see where it was an honest mistake, and that they just need to get better at internal communication, it happens at every corporation (I know this from experience!)

    It just seems that the stability of some other assault rifles may have gotten impacted too, I dont remember my LVOA-C having this much climb.
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    The nerf was huge and very noticeable if you've played with your G36 much at all before the nerf. My G36 went from very steady to suddenly pulling upwards to the point I had to pull the mouse down whenever I'd shoot the gun nonstop...and that was something I never had to do from the time I looted it day of 1.3 going live until the nerf. So in my opinion, nobody needed to data mine anything to figure out it's stability was nerfed. It was very very noticeable.
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    Originally Posted by Blackthorne08 Go to original post
    Ok, thanks, I can see where sometimes the Community managers dont get all of the information, sometimes Devs forget to update all of their notes etc. I can see where it was an honest mistake, and that they just need to get better at internal communication, it happens at every corporation (I know this from experience!)

    It just seems that the stability of some other assault rifles may have gotten impacted too, I dont remember my LVOA-C having this much climb.

    Bro if it happens once nobody cares but you can´t use that excuse 6 times in a row. Everytime they stealth nerf something and the community finds out they use this excuse ****....it gets useless !!!
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    Well I have a lot more rise on my Black Market AK74. Unless I am almost on top of the NPC, I have to burst fire much, much more and if they are that close, then I would be using my SMG.
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    Well you have to mod for stability on AR/ G36 with this nerf taking a DPS hit because you are exchanging accuracy for stability. Accuracy is no help when you can't stay on target because of poor stability.
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    Yup, the stability "adjustments" are more annoying than the 15% reduction in damage. In my case it's gone from a nice tight shot pattern to a water hose that wanders up and to the right. Swapping out mods to add stability nuke it's damage badly so that option is only viable if you want to battle 30's - 32's. I've found the G36 is only useful when it's fired in short bursts. At least then you can pulse and get the critical damage bonus with repeated head shot bursts. Before this nasty adjustment it was pretty easy to match up to any 34's you encountered. Now, you'd better run...

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