It’s a dumb question but every time i keep using Kinetic bolts, it felt like it does more damage to enemies (not talking about ones in vehicles).
It seems to wear down the energy shields a little faster on the Elites and the new Ultra Grunts. And seems to take down Promethean soldiers a little faster. Might be real, might just be wishful thinking, but I equip kinetic bolts on everything in WZFF. In regular Warzone 1ea kinetic (AR or SMG) and 1ea suppressed (BR or DMR).
It does more damage to the mech because it is vehicle so that answers the grunt part, but I feel it does a bit more damage but only to prometheans, I think the knight blade does a bit more damage as well, someone should test it.