First I’d like to thank 343 for bringing back the AR starts. While BR battles still rage it’s nice to have just a little more variety as opposed to last week.
Second this brought up an issue I haven’t seen anyone else really talk about. Weapon swap times. A few times I’ve run out of AR ammo and needed to switch to BR to finish the fight only to see there’s an extended swap animation before I could actually fire. On one hand as time goes on players may deem that animation as problematic enough to just use BR (with high TTK, effective at all ranges, and bullet magnetism) from the start. On the other hand the extra few seconds before you can fire the BR as a backup make it inferior as a backup weapon.
Is anyone else experiencing this? How does the swap time figure into balance? As I recall snipers and rockets took slightly longer to switch to. Does the longer BR swap time mean 343 is treating it as a power weapon?
I’ll be the first to say I need more playtime to figure it out.