please no, we dont need the bullets to magically do nothing do to distance. no thanks.
It is a starting weapon…it should work.
I simply hate damage drop off…it is illogical.
There must be a smarter option than bullets simply doing less damage due to distance. Just ruins games. Ruined the lancer in gears etc for years.
no please.
I feel the best option for the game would be to make the ar the baseline and go up from there, like instead of nerfing it down hard it would be better if it had a drop off of bullet range but still have a chance against midrange weapons
also like some weapons need a huge buff like the hydra or ravager to compete with it. there’s a lot of weapons that just feel useless compared to the ar and that’s been a problem with the br in the past like why use any other weapon than the br in 3 or dmr in reach
I’ll always defend the AR as being in the suitable position as it is now. Its a decent weapon - probably the best iteration that the AR has ever seen - but its not perfect. If you’re running around and you see a Battle Rifle, are you going to walk past it? You’re still going to pick it up because it still has quite the few advantages over the AR when played correctly, especially in BTB, and as soon as you pick it up you’re going to start playing to those advantages. A Battle Rifle is still an upgrade and even in maps such as Live Fire or Aquarius you’ve got plenty of distanced sight lines where the Battle Rifle will easily topple an AR-user whether by keeping your distance or offering support fire for your charging comrades with their ARs.
This is what should be the standard: being given adequate weapons that you’ll still want to switch with something better whether it be power weapons or tactical rifles like the Battle Rifle. More importantly, it draws people closer into those firefights rather than it used to be in previous games where everyone’s just gonna stay back, pick their spots, and just keep taking potshots at each other while hardly ever picking any other weapons to replace it save for the one power weapon that spawns during the match.
That aside though, we do have BR-starter game modes: Ranked is all BRs, and then there’s Tactical Slayer which was recently added. I suspect that a BR-focused Team Slayer will eventually be added in given time and by then I suspect that a good percentage of these complaints about the AR will disappear.
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I rather take AR starts any day over BR and DMR starts…
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BR+AR starts with the AR getting a range nerf. Done!
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everything you said is better than I could have summed it up.
The gameplay is fine with AR starts…except maybe BTB
Please no to the range nerf.
it is fine how it is. No need for change.
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I think AR starts are still relatively fine in BTB. They’re bigger maps and having a BR becomes more preferable with said maps having a good number of spawn points for ranged weapons but there’s still a good number of closed-in paths and areas where the AR can remain pretty handy if you keep in mind to its playstyle.
I already have plenty of experiences of people still managing to go on killing sprees even when they’re running around with Hammers on those maps, lol.