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I agree with flying steel and parasiti. You're just making it so that nobody will use the nex in any situation other than the most unusual situations in 1v1 matches. You can't use it in a serious dm or tdm firefight, as you will basically be totally defenseless (can't laser out of there even) after firing one nex shot. However, camping with the nex will not change at all, it will be business as usual. Campers don't give a damn about weapon switch time, they don't need to switch weapons. You're basically solidifying the nex's function as a camping weapon, which I assume you do not want.

I also agree with merging nex and rifle. Nex damage could be moved down to 80-90, while headshot damage can be around 100. I hate having two weapons that do virtually the exact same thing. Another good point is angular velocity - it's much easier to camp with the nex than to use it well at close range, with a person in your face moving all about.

Combos are highly important to the game. A lot (and I mean a lot) of people are currently comfortable with the mortar nex combo, which is quite popular. You cripple the nex in this way, they're going to be just mortaring, and that makes for a less interesting game. Oh, wait - they can't mortar either, because mortar primary only explodes on contact with a player - sticky grenades are only useful in chance situations which might happen once in 10 games. Every other time they will explode harmlessly far far away from anyone. So now you've got a group of people who play xonotic, try to do a mortar nex combo, find mortar does not explode when contacting floor, find nex refuses to switch like a normal weapon, and they think "lol this sux" and go play another game.

When it comes to the mortar, old mortar primary is perfect. It's range means that you can't use it for long ranges, and it's explosion radius means you can't use it in close range. It is exclusively a medium range weapon, it's not the all purpose weapon that you make it out to be.

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This isn't what i said, your either being completely ignorant and/or purposely missinterperating what I wrote.

It's definitely what you are implying/working toward.

Flying_Steel I did indeed ask for the camping rifle to have some changes done to it, it's really easy to use actually/aim,

How is this possible? If anything, I have more trouble hitting people with crifle than with nex.

I also am confused with what you want to do with the nex to make it 'fixed', the 'stickyness' doesn't fix anything, all it does it basically allowing for the animation to finish, which in such makes using it all the time less effective when your close that's all, I don't see how it'll promote people camping, if they want too, they will do, it'll promote the weapon being used less up close unless your prepared to fire a shot off and wait for (stickyness/animtime), or fire 2 shots or more.

Because people will decide "hey, I can't combo with this weapon, it's clearly not meant for this. However, this stickiness doesn't affect the possibility to snipe, so let's try that out."

Stickyness is the wrong word to use, it's the animation time, like Halogene said if there was something to show on the weapon that it was reloading/or/when it's ready to shoot again you'd know when you could swap to another weapon, personally I don't have trouble but I can imagine some will without some kind of colour change to show they can shoot again or swap weapon.

Don't make this into a marketing issue, we're not discussing the name or aesthetics.