Pancor is inbetween a Minigun and Avenger for damage, costs half the price in terms of the weapon itself and 1/6th the price for the ammo. It is usable as it is. I don't currently have the time to play this through to prove it is so (I'm currently proving crafting rockets is fine - which it is, having crafted plenty of them by now ... its nice watching Centaurs explode) so its up to some enterprising player to remove range as a factor and PvP with a shotgun.
Perks will get rebalanced when they do, most of the time is being swallowed up by fixing up the lag/crash issues at the moment.
Solar, I don't need any BS about it's damage, I'm a high level shotgunner, I pvp a lot and I can compare the damage of a minigun, avenger and a pancor, just a hint:in most cases it takes 2-3 bursts from a minigun to kill a CA high hp player, and it takes 4-6 to kill the same person with a pancor, give it a thought.
PS if you still don't belive me, find me in game, I'll convince you with some simple tests, provide you with a CA and super stimpaks.
PS sorry if I sound rude at times.
And by the way, the last question, why should a gun that suffers such severe range penalties and have such an increadible crafting price have such shitty damage and be worse than most of the guns in game? An smg at point blank range causes more damage than this baby? Do you really want all the players just make their builds around BG and sniper(lazer) rifles? We all understand (I hope that everyone does) that meely builds are dead due to the fact that you are unable to fix the engine that way so that one could hit and run at the same time, but what stops you from fixing the shell modifiers or the pancor charecteristics? You've managed to change lot's of weapons, what stops you now, stubborness or what? I don't know about the rest of the players (beta testers actually) but I've build more than 5 different types of BG builds, a couple of snipers, meely builds (all lvl 21) and I'm sick of playing the same builds over and over again, I want to play Fonline, but it's a real pain to know that there is such a small list of available successful pvp builds, while having such great variety of weapons that you simply don't bother to compare/fix/think of them.
And yeah, you know what most of the BG guys try to do when they realise that I'm using a pancor? They laugh and run towards me to burst me at point blank, cause they know that a super high power close range weapon (pancor) deals silly damage, but their minigun/avenger/P90 deals way more, and not even at point blank range, at PB they are just deadly, they also(exept P90 maybe, havn't encountered many of those guys) deal a higher damage at not PB range. Just compare, I've had a duel a few hours ago, I've saved the log;
11:26:27 • X was hit for 41 hit points.
11:26:27 • X was hit for 38 hit points.
11:26:34 • You were hit for 93 hit points.
11:26:35 • X was hit for 45 hit points.
11:26:35 • You were hit for 99 hit points.
11:26:38 • X was hit for 58 hit points.
11:26:44 • X was hit for 45 hit points and was killed.
Here's the minigun, we were wearing the same type of armor. I remember someone said that pancor is almost as good as a minigun, right?
And yeah I know that one duel is nothing for the statistics, but hell, I can bring you lot's of logs and they are almost the same as this one is, although I'm not always that lucky as to strike first. I've killed him, it took me 3 turns, then his friend apeared and finished me off with another minigun.
