I must disagree.
The overheat isn’t far from what rail have.
The fact is that Rail don’t have to spam click. With spam click, you have a reduced RoF and cool down a bit the gun.
With a full shoot, we’ll be close to what rail is.
Anyway I don’t care how they do it. But they need to :
-Remove the spam click.
-Remove self damage with explosive bubble.
-Add a prediction marker for bubble.
-Make destroying bubble with rapid charge much more easier.
In fact it’d be cool to see at hover the distance between the bubble and us. Also, if we hover bubble while shooting a rapid charge, the rapid charge would be auto aimed (like scatter gun) to that bubble and make it explode.
The overheat on phaser is almost twice as much as it is on rails. It says 7 seconds on the weapon description. Moreover, 130 bpm is pretty darn close to twice a second. For reference, fast clicking is around 10 times a second, medium pace is about 5, and slow is around 3. It’s not honestly hard to click twice a second, but it’d be much more convenient to hold down for that. I’m sure being able to bind a key specifically for the phaser would be the most convenient, but I feel like that’s probably not going to happen.
Also, self damage with bubble is fine, the problem is that it’s hard not to blow the bubble up in your own face right now.