I f the Br was a 4 shot kill it would overpower all weapons at close range. It might lose to the DMR long range but it would severely destroy all other utility weapons including the dmr at mid to short range.
One think we didnt think about when arguing about the BR damage is how fast the rate of fire is on the BR and how it would affect the rest of the sandbox. We just argued between DMR and BR without thinking how it would affect assault rifles and the like.
Discuss?
This is probably why automatics should be secondaries. But yeah, utility weapons have always dominated autos. But saying that, autos have the benefit of being very easy to aim at their optimum range and have little about them to differentiate skill level so maybe deserved to be fairly weak.
I have no problem with the BR being a 5 shot, Only the DMR is better, it has a faster kill time and a longer range of effectiveness.
What we really need are some gametypes without DMRs or where the DMR is a (weak-tier) ordinance.