Fiesta is not really the place to be talking about rebalancing a weapon for a singular game type. It’s fiesta it’s meant to be wacky, insane and chaotic. Now due to the oversaturation of power weapons that will appear on the maps, occasionally you do notice some issues with multiples of the same weapon being deployed at the same time. Much of your complaint could also be said about the Hydra or the rocket launcher as they both do good damage one quite a lot more with a lot more splash damage and the other with a homing ability. The Cinder shot is just fine.
Trust me I’ve played plenty of fiesta to be able to tell you that the only thing that’s really a serious issue in fiesta is the combination of sword with grapple shot and any other power weapon in their back pocket. That’s usually the real issue because all the maps you play fiesta on are small arena maps. People can just Sprint around and grapple shot across the map and slice people up without anyone really having a chance to retaliate unless you have a rocket launcher and can blow yourself up in the process.
You may find it hard to believe, but it does happen, I have hit people with dead on shots, and the only thing that happens is it bounces them away, same thing happens with the rocket launcher sometimes.
I am sure there are times when I get hit with the weapon that I don’t take damage either, and I get bounced away, and so the attacking player is now swearing at the game. Simply, I find many of the weapons in HI unreliable, and as a result, I don’t play as often as I would like.
That sounds more like a desync issue to me. Just a bad connection keeping you from getting those kills. That’s not on the weapon, that’s on the game. Changing the weapon won’t fix that. Fixing the issues causing desync will.
After playing this game since launch, I can honestly say this is the only weapon in the game I actually hate. Every time I’ve picked it up, I immediately just start wishing that it was a Reach nade launcher.
I find the Cindershot to be noticeably more difficult to use then the Rocket Launcher at least. Rockets you just need to aim for a spot around them, fire and then often can forget and move on. If not, swap to another weapon and finish targets off. The large blast radius makes it easy to heavily cripple, to wipe entire teams with ease too. You also get a second shot before reload in the off chance you some how screwed up with the first.
Okay. Now I know what y’all are talking about. The effect is way more obvious in Custom/Forge than online just like every other physics based effect on your SPARTAN.