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Those might be too much, but they'd instantly give an argument to use the thing over just bringing 500kg. That's the problem. There's no real reason to bring this over the 500kg. The usecases in what they can destroy largely overlaps. It's awkward as fuck to use because you need to call in the silo, collect the laser, move far enough away to not get ragdolled, and the whole time you need to hope it doesn't catch one piece of shrapnel from anything. Its only edge is that it is long ranged, but most maps are pissfog central and the ATE does that even better. I'm not sure how intelligent the guidance is within urban settings but I'm guessing poor.

People need to remember how to find balance. It's like their zoomers that never used a manual scale. You don't seek out the balance point by making a billion little tiny changes. You start with bigger changes that deliberately overshoot the balance point and then alternate back and forth with progressively smaller adjustments until you find it.

The swedes have two major problems with balance changes. First they're thin skinned pansies who are PETRIFIED at people saying mean things to them if they nerf something. Secondly they have massive fucking egos and think that making any kind of balance change makes them lose face. Like they're pretending that they're infallible gods walking among men and they can't afford to let anyone see them bleed. Balance changes, especially among new equipment, should be common in both directions.

The community needs to man up and stop throwing such hissy fits over any nerf, but the swedes encourage the community to throw such tantrums because their balance changes are so rare and it is like pulling teeth to get them to reconsider any values because again their egos make them act like they're gods among men and that making any subsequent balance passes to the gear would be like admitting fault and losing face.