I think that the DMR REQ level should be lowered a little bit. While it’s a powerful weapon, I don’t feel that it’s so powerful that it needs to be at the same level as the sniper rifle. Many players simply prefer a DMR to a BR, especially from experience in earlier games where the 2 were more available together. First I’ll list my ideas, then the “why’s”.
Battle Rifle versus DMR:
Max Rounds: BR has max load of 108 rds, DMR 45, but the BR fires a 3rd burst every trigger pull, so you really have 36 “shots” at max. DMR has a slight advantage.
Rounds for kills: I don’t have any kind of exact figures, just my subjective gamer experiences. For a fully shielded Spartan, either the BR or DMR requires 3 “good” hits. With the BR you have 12 potential kills available to you, the DMR has 15 potentials. DMR has a slight advantage.
Range: DMR has a slight advantage, since you don’t have to deal with the spread of a 3rd burst over distance. But having said that, I have been killed by BR’s from a long ways away many, many times. So a BR can do it, it’s just a little easier with a DMR. DMR has a slight advantage.
I don’t think this is great enough of an advantage to have to wait an entire REQ level between the BR’s and DMR’s.
So, what do other players think? Would bringing the DMR in at L5 upset the balance too much? Or just make Warzone a little bit more fun? I generally hit L6, so I get to bring it out most of the time, but I’d like to do so earlier in the game. I just like DMR’s and want to use it more often.
I only have a DMR on level 8, and every time I use it, there’s only about 50 points till game over, and it takes a really long time to reach level 8, so they really should bring that down.
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> > I think the Basic DMR being 6 is fine, but I think a lot of the other variants should be lowered to 6.
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> 6 would be too low for some variants. but maybe down to 7.
Are there any that actually work better than others? I’ve used the Stabilizer Jets, Laser sight, Long Barrel, Suppressed and Basic and I find the Suppressed to be the most useful. Stabilizer jets and Laser Sight are both level eight, yet they don’t seem useful.
While the DMR is dominant to the BR, especially since it counters the upgraded shields perk, I think it’s fine where it’s at right now. I won’t switch to DMR until REQ level 8 because of how good the long barrel BR is. It’s essentially better than the base DMR at range
People have been asking for DMR to be lowered to 5 for a while now. My wishful thinking is that the batch of cost changes 343 instituted a few weeks ago was a test run, and maybe the DMR will be in batch change #2. It’s just not necessary to make people wait that long in the game, and as a result, people spend so long opening silver packs hoping for a DMR, and when they finally get one, it’s a very late game weapon. (some of you may get to 7 or 8 regularly, but for many, that’s not nearly as common as you think) I feel like once the lead team hits around 500 all base loadout weapons should be available.
Plus, it fits into a nice unlock order with the rest of the loadouts, which would help game flow:
Lvl 1/2: AR, Mag
Lvl 3: BR
Lvl 4: SMG
Lvl 5: DMR