Good things most weapons are good enough to replace the Assault Rifle. It all depends on the situation mostly more then anything.
It has more range than people like to give it credit for. It’s no Bulldog or HCE Shotgun, but you can still damage with it beyond point-blank.
Point-blank is the only range where the weapon will outright kill though.
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…You serious?
Let’s be real here, most weapons just don’t beat the AR on 4v4 maps. The primary issue with the Assault Rifle is that it’s so middle of the road and good at everything, that specialized weapons don’t have the ability to be competitive with it. Take the Pulse Carbine. It’s really good in a specific zip code, at a specific latitude and longitude and when the stars align. Alternatively, you can use the AR which is dramatically easier to use and basically does its job but better.
Even weapons like the Bulldog and Heatwave just aren’t competitive with the AR. The Bulldog and Heatwave don’t have the range the AR has to engage from longer distances. One TTK chart I looked at had the AR as the weapon with the shortest non-power weapon TTK (excluding Sidekick with headshots), especially if the Bulldog and Heatwave are being used from longer ranges.
Halo Infinite’s AR definitely needs to be tuned or other weapons brough in line with it. Halo 3’s AR may not have killed in a mag due to random spread, but it certainly felt better balanced because it was dependable back-up as opposed to the weapon you always keep on you (an issue 343 has had with every Halo game they’ve made)
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