Well you’re clearly in the vast minority in believing the commando in its current state isnt hot garbage. It’s literally a weapon that I see so many people just avoid picking up. the only reason anyone currently picks it up is because they have a challenge for it. it gets outgunned by an AR in close-mid range. and gets out gunned by ANY of the precision weapons at mid-long range. its so bad right now.
The Commando is great. I got the Achievement the first day. I use the Commando often and I play in Xbox.
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It’s called an achievement. Not every achievement has to be handed out to you. If you can’t get a perfect kill with the commando, get better
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There seems to be a very mixed reaction to the commando.
A lot of people clearly are having no luck with it at all, but I can assure you that if it were to be buffed, all 5 of us who love this gun are going to suddenly get very good at Infinite.
Broadly speaking, I think it’s a hard gun to use. It shouldn’t be placed interchangeably with the BR on any map. Nobody looking for a BR wants a commando.
The Commando fits into a more niche place in the meta, with a particularly good use as a general gun in BTB. It’s better than the AR at range, but will always lose to the BR. And it’s vice-versa up close.
The achievement can be unlocked in Bot Arena matchmaking. It’s generally not that hard to do, just tap fire after you shoot a few bullets and you can get it fairly easily.
If you’re wanting to get it on actual PvP it’ll be much harder. The weapon is great, just has a skill gap to actually be effective and get continual headshots with it.
Since you are emotional and not neutrally rational here I will end repeating my initial comment now towards you:
you all just haven figured out the weapon and its ruleset!
-range of use close midrange
-get comfy with a simple down motion to control recoil (same with sentinel beam.)
-Commando dmg on unshielded targets: 1 HEADSHOT ONLY.
Get better and quit your zoomer mentality
again dont fix what isnt broken the DMR was perfect in all halo’s the commando is pure trash
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Commando is not a replacement for the DMR. You may not believe this, but it’s actually a brand new weapon!
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While I wouldn’t call it a outright joke as it is now, it’s certainly odd why 343 even bothered to nerf the Commando. During the flights it was a decently powerful weapon, but you could get outplayed by a AR or BR player if they know what they are doing.
Currently the Commando is in the same spot as the H5 BR post- weapon rebalancing: you can still get some decent kills with it but you have to put in way more effort to do so than the player with the AR/BR (or in H5’s case, the Magnum).
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I got the achievement for it and will probably never touch it again.
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I feel like the only person who likes the commando lol.
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The commando is clearly a mix between the reach Dmr to a lot of people I’ve asked about it, and functional it doesn’t achieve nothing the other two accomplished with the Dmr range superiority and the carbine almost automatic firerate but large spread
Nothing wrong with that, I just think it doesn’t really have a place
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I know what you mean, it’s in a bit of a weird spot in the sandbox.
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Again, the point isn’t about the achievement nor does this help your point. I don’t care about the achievement nor grind for them. The point Is about the commando and how underwhelming it is, especially on console. I used the achievement as a reason for my thinking
With the AR being good at close to medium - longish I feel the Commando doesn’t have a place in the fight. long-range would go to the BR, full auto medium to close the AR wins. Perhaps I’m misremembering but I thought the TTK of this was slightly faster than the BR assuming you went full auto and hit your shots which would require recoil control with a head shot. I felt it was a viable option during the first flight but now it seems not to be a fit at any range when there are better options.
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Yeah, the “joke” was more for the eye catching property and to spark discussion. I do think it’s in a odd place though, where it’s trying to fulfill several role at the same time, and being outclassed in said roles, even by the sidekick
I’m not denying it good, especially on pc, but on console it fills very weak imo, like it trying to fill a role, which can easily be outplayed by the other weapons in the sandbox
I use it on console and I have no issue with it.
With the vast majority agreeing it either not good or doesn’t have a solid spot in the sandbox, it’s not a matter of getting better or a mindset sure it one shot to the head, like nearly every other weapon currently, but with it strong recoil and bloom, landing said headshot and not running out of ammo can be challenging