It's server issues. The plasma round travels pretty slow, so you can dodge the plasma you just have to do it when you see the glow of the gun otherwise the server will hide the ball of plasma! Only reason there is a lot of them at the moment, is because everything else has been put into the ground. Plasma cannon also does need some skill to it, need to aim where the enemy will be etc. there is a bloke in CSM who is deadly with a PC and i've often found myself at the receiving end, and i deserved it. I do agree that the charge up maybe a little to quick. only a bit though. But i think its balanced out well.
It's like the grenade rule, don't throw unless you are okay with a bullet hitting your hand and killing you because that can happen. I think someone shot my plasma out of existance once as well.
Oh yeh i have, but thats not the weapon, thats the shitty spawn point. Thats a whole different topic haha
Forget my earlier post, was just in a Torias map and yeah I don't think it was the lag causing them to shoot so fast
I think the plasma round speed might be bugged. Sometimes it is slow and easy to dorge other times it is really fast with no hope of getting out of the way. If it get fixed to being slow then I think it is fine.
I think a lot of the problems are down to server lag, as I often die without even seeing the plasma charge go off. Just one second alive and fine, next second dead. Nothing to indicate I was even shot at all. My feeling is no weapon should insta-ragdoll you, everything should put you into a downed state at most, with a cap at maybe 50% of your downed health, so another big hit/few rounds will down you. Being downed might mean you're out of view of a follow-up and give you some chance to survive.
