Seriously? I've had so much fun with the new Catalyzer. All they did is swap the charge and the normal shots. It's not rocket science.

Nah OOO messed it up, like every other weapon

Seriously? Cut them some slack, the only other weapon they've really messed up was radiant sun shards. In the gunner update, we saw-

1. Plague needle/volcanic pepperbox buffs = those are now much better than they used to be. I loved them before the buff and they got way better.

2. Iron slug becoming god-like but also hard to use = incredibly good balance, akin to the alchemers

3. Pulsar balance tweaks designed around lockdown as well as PvE. Pulsar damage is now much less, which prevents spam from being as effective.. but pulsar shot speed also went way up, which allows us to more quickly shut down turrets and move enemies around with them.

4. More weapon variants that provide coverage and encourage playing the arcade. Guns like winter grave are balanced, because of the re-freezing factor. Some of the new variants were even community suggestions- like wildfire and gilded griffin.

Catalyzers weren't some top tier thing before the gunner update at all, people hated them and Three Rings at least tried to improve them and came pretty close at first when all weapons detonated the bullets but charges detonated them twice. This striving to improve should be applauded- change is the only way they're going to get catalyzers right.

New Catalyzer is trash. It's what happens when you listen to the wish lists of people who were never going to use it instead of the people who actually did use it.

The reason people didn't use the old style gun was because the bullets were slow, which has the effect of rendering auto-aim useless and more importantly, forced gunners to chase after the targets in a rush to strike first before swordies rendered your efforts useless.
This was the issue at fault, not the tag and detonation mechanism.

As a gun, Blasters walk all over new Catalyzers because they can actually hit things and do higher damage in a shorter amount of time.
It's pointless to set up half a dozen orbs on a target and detonate because by the time you did that you could have already done more damage with less mistakes and redundant shots with a Blaster.

As a cannon, new Magnus and Autogun types have taken over that role due to the multiple hits. This was the primary attraction of the gun, the ability to load up ultra high damage at the expense of additional complexity but that fundamental feature was stripped away from it. Instead they increased the complexity even more by forcing the normal shots to support the charge (rather than the other way around) and the explosions aren't even worth setting up anymore because they are weaker now and other guns do high damage bursts better anyway.

Last time I checked, Neutralizer had it's damage output reduced behind Biohazard for no good reason. At least the Biohazard charge still has a use as a good source of poison, unfortunately the poison+shadow combo has strong competition now due to the Obsidian Carbine and much more significantly, the Maskeraith sprite.

tl;dr
To fix the Cat they need to revert the changes, increase the speed of the normal shot at least, revise the damage of the Neutralizer, and ideally revise the poison chance of the Biohazard.

My favorite type of cookie.

Is the snickerdoodle.

And you can go around catalyzing everything if you really want to, but it's not going to change the fact that the weapon is complete garbage. We've all tried to make it work and most of us have, which is why we're telling you that it's trash compared to everything else we've made work.

I wanted a Biohazard to pair with my Polaris.
I guess I'm gonna get a Permafroster now.
P.S. I already have 2 Pulsars ;)