• Pistol tweaked to return to pre-TU behavior in TU game types.
There was a slight variance between the damage output of the DRM and the Pistol. To bring them closer, we tweaked the Pistol to do slightly less damage in the TU game types. Four shots to the body and one to the head will kill the player now, as will seven to the body. The one small difference is that where four body shots would pop your shields previously, it will not now. That’s okay, though, as shield pop means significantly less in TU game types because damage bleed is active. In other words, a fifth headshot will still result in a kill.
With bleed through being removed in the March Matchmaking Playlist Update, the magnum will take six shots to kill someone because of its lowered damage. There’s no mention of this in the March update, so did 343 just overlook this, or has the magnum damage been changed?
Well since bleedthrough is being removed yes that can affect the overall damage for the pistol. But if you look at it like this taking away bleedthrough makes the game better in my opinion because it completed eliminated the idea of shields. for example if you are playing slayer pro and you have 25% shields and all health and somone uses a shot with the dmr it takes out your shields and health and then kills you this is why taking bleedthrough away was a good thing.
> Well since bleedthrough is being removed yes that can affect the overall damage for the pistol. But if you look at it like this taking away bleedthrough makes the game better in my opinion because it completed eliminated the idea of shields. for example if you are playing slayer pro and you have 25% shields and all health and somone uses a shot with the dmr it takes out your shields and health and then kills you this is why taking bleedthrough away was a good thing.
If we are using that logic, why is sniper not bleedthrough (inb4 canon excsuses).
You could be 60% shield, body shot with sniper…suddenly you are dead? Apply this logic to Grenades, shotgun, rockets etc etc makes “completed eliminated the idea of shields” invalid.
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This is probably something that is going to have to be tested as soon as the update goes live. If 343 is going to roll back bleedthrough, surely they would have considered the pistol nerf, unless they plan to enforce DMR starts, which is highly doubtful.
As a secondary note, the Needle Rifle will once again revert back to a seven-shot minimum, with the last one to the head. If I remember correctly, a paced 85% bloom DMR had virtually the same kill time as the NR’s six shot autofire. This would mean that assuming equal skill and situation, the paced 85% DMR will always beat the NR.
I doubt that even if bleedthrough is removed, the Sniper Rifle will not be affected. If it is, that would be something to note!