You could say the same about the hitscan defenders who don’t want to have to learn how to lead targets or account for bullet drop or care about the stamina their target has.
Could that balance musket's hitscan? Discussion about musket's hitscan and more from a musket player
The musket needs some more major reworks to fit properly into New World‘s combat system. The hitscan mechanic that is currently used for shots simply doesn‘t interact well with the rest of the weapon roster and should be replaced with a projectile based system that adds a travel time and bullet drop over semi-long to long distances. This is how the weapon was functioning originally by the way around 2020 for those who do not remember and it made much more sense.
Musket in it‘s current form is simply too trivial to play and too rewarding for being that far away from targets. The entire left mastery tree is also actively incentivizing a playstyle that is extremely toxic for the overall PvP environment and should be completely reworked in my opinion.
Overall they need to make Musket more of a high skill medium range brawling weapon instead of a static long range sniper. This would also create some room for them to add a little more utility to it‘s kit. The most important part of the Musket 2.0 needs to be the removal of hitscan though.
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Imagine thinking only 5 ppl are saying to nerf musket.
This guy just came out of the cave.
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No, because other weapons aren’t hitscan
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Hit scan sucks, it’s unintuitive and feels hokey in a modern game. That said, removing it will not magically make everyone miss their shots, nor will it allow people to dodge bullets. If anything, adding ballistics to musket fire will bring it more in line with the majority of popular shooters and give a greater advantage to people who play FPS games. Leading feels more natural, and I find myself constantly having to correct for for new Worlds annoying tracking.
Bro you’re coping lol.
Are you really trying to gaslight people by saying projectile is easier than hitscan?
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Solution: Remove the musket from the game altogether
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Its funny to see people complaning about musket. I agree hitscan should end and start the projectile era. Like a good musket player, i agree with that. But guys, you shoul pay attention to other weapons. Leta go:
VG - Heavy attack makes u go forward like 4+meters and get close to enemies
GS - Same. And there is 2 skills that makes the same thing, aproaching you from enemies.
GA/WH - both does the same thing. But war hammer need to use it in the right moment(gj on wh)
Bow - people 50m+ away takes the SAME damage that close ones
None of this weapons (except bows) needs to aim too much. And all of then are extremy OP in closed range. And i never saw a musket players complaining about it.
Like i said, YES, MUSKET should have projectiles and not hitscan. But weapon seems fine the way it is right now.
#peace
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I’m saying it’s what most people have come to expect when playing a shooter; you’re generally more competent at a system you’re practiced in. Hit scan was a dirty word for shooter games long before New World
but that’s how it will be. If bullets have a travel time, then musket players must predict the target’s movement. With a travel time, targets can then also dodge.
I would give the musket a slightly faster projectile speed than arrows and a projectile radius of 0.15 and then test it.
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No it wouldn’t because people would still complain because the good musket players the ones who put time into learning the weapon will still get kills.
What people want to have the range removed without considering the follow-
-50 con- basically makes you a walking 2 tap since the nerfed riposte after the rage of the same people who want musket nerfed
-Light armor- with the recent changes to light armor + 50con your dead the second a melee player hits you
-You have to put all your points into damage to even get close to damage musket does now
In my opinion fine appease the left click bots and reduce the range to about 10m more than mage but buff and change these things-
-Rework the musket so that it scales with dex like bow, then buff the its overall damage to compensate for it being mid range now and hitscan. This will also make Musket alot more tanky which people will then complain about. People are accustom to 2 tapping musket users when they catch them if musket it rework properly them being more tanky will piss people way more than what the range does now.
-Lower the reload time from 2 secs to 1 sec
-Make it so traps don’t go away after 1 hit of damage
-And change power shot
If it’s only marginally faster then arrows then everyone will use bows. Better damage, 150 Con, colossal hit box… simple choice.
I agree with adding ballistics, but keeping the target pinpoint and the travel time high is necessary if the weapon is to remain relevant
Also GA has a 14m passive thats its bonus 15% and 20$ move speed for looking at people, I don’t see how any doesn’t fine that OP
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Muskets irl had to be manually reloaded with gunpowder and bullets from the end of the barrel. According to Wikipedia a musketeer was able to shoot 2-3 bullets per minute on average, max 5. Apparently one in six shots was a guaranteed dud aswell.
Back to the game: removing hitscan would seriously raise the skill ceiling on musket, and make it probably a lot harder for aimbots to function properly.
Can you imagine the posts here if musket could run 150 Con, and had damage scaled up to a point where it was competitive at mid-range as a maximum range? That’s like a BB all hitting on a pinhead.
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I tried to find the irl fire rate of axe generated gravitational fields and magic fire sticks to compare but they’re not there??
Yes i could and i would love it! But people on this forum dont seem to understand what they are asking for but i hope AGS listens to both side and does just what real musket users are saying. Then the real fun begins…roaming musket hit squads will fun.
Cope more, bro. 
Anyone with half a brain knows that hit scan is the issue with Musket. Zero reactive gameplay against a Musket player tapping you from render range while you are focused on the gameplay within 25 meters of you. Point Control game but getting gunned down instantaneously by indigents posted up on the Fort walls for 30 minutes or atop of rocks overlooking Sun is incredibly engaging gameplay. Can only wonder why people laugh at the Combat Devs along with the bozos who agree with them.
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What are you talking about?
Hitscan was never a dirty word and still is not.
Counter strike, call of duty, Valorant just to name a few. Nothing wrong with hitscan at all. It’s a perfectly acceptable shooter mechanic in arena shooter games.
But even call of duty has moved over to projectile snipers because hitscan snipers are too easy.
And in new world hitscan is out of place since no other weapon is hitscan and the combat is based on melee and range dodge based combat.
Hitscan has no place in new world, especially not on a sniper.
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I was right to put you on ignore months ago lol
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