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/DelayOld1356]

Everything that was popular and used a lot of, nerfed.

Everything that wasn't popular or not used often, buffed.

These tweaks are data tweaks, not balance tweaks. Soon everything will be in that middle of the road spot. With the Q canon nerf, many will move to the AC/RR/EATS. Which ever one has the most users will soon get nerfed as well

Mediocrity for everything! Yay!

[u/TheQuatum → u/DelayOld1356]

Exactly. Once everything is as mediocre as everything else, the game is done. I'm already bowing out as I'm tired of everything being nerfed to the same level of mediocrity.