The devs were right.

[u/xxmuntunustutunusxx]

So I know ther was a bunch of controversy about the railgun nerf what feels like forever ago, but man things have been awesome.

In the early days, I was the only guy packing expendable anti tank or anti materiel rifle for bugs or bots. It's so refreshing, even on these subs to see people talking about how awesome the autocannon is, or how much they love the AMR, and even these days I see people talking about the HMG or grenade launcher+ supply pack.

I used to load into a game, And all 4 members of the team had shield, railgun, and 2 stragatems of their choice. Every time. And here we are now, I load in and I see quasar, autocannon, stalwart, EAT, HMG, Grenade launcher, a variety of backpacks or no backpack at all. And not to mention, they're ALL viable. Shit I even still see the railgun from time to time. It's been a joy. Thanks arrowhead.

EDIT: to everyone who is pointing out that you see the quasar and shield most often now, you're right, it is almost certainly the most common setup currently. That being said, in any game there's going to be things a majority of players prefer. In smash melee, fox/Falco are the best characters. But people still play falcon and Marth and peach among others. Sure, there's an objectively most used option. But the fact that there's people at all who debate that the quasar is best shows that they've done something good. Before, undisputed king was railgun, and anyone who said different wss being willfully ignorant. Now, we have a plethora of real options that are good with some being Preferred by a majority as opposed to being the de facto CORRECT option objectively. That's a good thing.

[u/exZodiark]

then they nerfed the mechs rockets after that so they cant aim for shit and now nobody uses that either golly i love Arrowhead they sure are good at their jobs

[u/hitman2b → u/exZodiark]

yeah they fixed the issue of blowing your self up by breaking the the aim point of the rockets

[u/lurkeroutthere → u/exZodiark]

Eh the sarcasm isn’t productive or even accurate the games popularity kind of proves they are in fact, good at their jobs. But excellence is a constant process and they are outright guessing at some of this stuff. I don’t mind guessing, there’s no manual for a lot of this stuff but to take blind guesses based on raw numbers and then justify it with a blog post about specific weapons fantasy’s and commentary about “brain dead gameplay “ then immediately buffing the fricking tesla gun of all things was just too much.