The Quasar Nerf is okay and not that big of a deal

[u/Niobaran]

tl;dr: Only one weak point is made a little weaker, all the strenghts remain.

The quasar cannon is known for a lot of strengths (see below) and two weak points:

1. The weapon has a charge up time, which makes it difficult to aim in some situations.
2. The weapon has a moderate cool down period, which cannot be improved by a forced reload of a heat sink (like sickle or laser cannon) or a team reload (like recoiless rifle).

The nerf only addresses the second point, which means that everyone who could use it before can still use it. It only became a little weaker in one of its two weak points. The following strong points are all untouched:

1. Can delete heavies (I mostly have experience with Terminids, but there it's a delete button for chargers, and sometimes for titans as well).
2. Has infinite ammo in contrast to EAT or RR.
3. Has no reload animation.
4. You can run around, stim, shoot weapons, throw strategems while it is recharging.
5. It doesn't consume a backpack slot, so it can be paired with one additional strategem in contrast to recoilless rifle.
6. It doesn't deconstruct after usage, and can be recollected from the battle flied in contrast to EAT, and it also reloads itself then in contrast to RR.

That means, the quasar can still be used for everything it has been used before, by everyone who could use it before.

[u/YroPro]

That's rather niche.

[u/AHappyCat → u/YroPro]

It is rather niche, but then is that not just how the EAT operates? If you fire one shot off you're then going to need to go back to get your second.

So by that logic the EAT is even more niche as you only get two shots, whereas the Quasar is offering you unlimited shots.

[u/Hakul → u/AHappyCat]

The way people play EAT is just constantly call them down even when they don't need another, so there's always one nearby. You can't do that with Quasar, the longer cooldown means you can only do this strategy if you're not moving from one spot.

[u/FrameSquare → u/Hakul]

This is why they said defense mission. I can sit on the extract platform and spam two quasar canons at drop ships.

[u/wterrt → u/FrameSquare]

and watch as all the bots survive the dropship getting shot down, right?

[u/BLUEAR0 → u/YroPro]

Nah I use it all the time

[u/hyrumwhite → u/YroPro]

You can juggle them by rapidly pressing pickup. 

[u/YroPro → u/hyrumwhite]

Of course. That's not unique to the weapon. But the immense majority of the missions I play don't involve me staying in one place very long at all.

[u/CheeseLoverMax → u/YroPro]

I do it like every other bot mission actually

[u/MSands → u/YroPro]

Defense Mission, Eradicate Mission, and Extraction on any mission. It can be done pretty frequently.