The sidekick is fine as is as its not meant to be a utility weapon. Its meant for mop ups.
imagine calling a weapon as wimpy as the sidekick overpowered and actually comparing it to the H4 boltshot.
If u can go for it, I personally don’t Will get the shotty whenever I can
Are we even playing the same game? Nobody good uses the AR, at all
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you can’t even tell the difference between aim assist and bullet magnetism, i refuse to argue with someone like this
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People are using Macro’s to mag dump the pistol
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The sidekick is perfectly balanced like a spirit level when it’s lying in the muck when I throw it down to pick up any other weapon that’s better than that pea shooter.
It’s rate of fire is the biggest issue. It has Bloom but it only matters at longer ranges so a fast mag dump up close can kill too quickly. Yet they can’t lower bullet damage without making it feel too weak at medium range IMO. And they may want it to fire fast to feel different from the Magnum if they plan to reintroduce that at some point. So as far as I can see all they can do is either reduce max rate of fire, increase max bloom, or add recoil. Going off how crap the Commando feels to use I would avoid Recoil. It doesn’t really make logical sense for a powered armored Spartan to experience recoil of small arms weapons anyway. Big Brute weapons or turrets/snipers maybe. But not Pistols/Carbines. So if it were me I would just cap the rate of fire lower.
You know what a handgun is right? Its not a total all purpose weapon,
The Battle rifle is an all purpose weapon.
The side kick is made for quick close-mid personal defense and finishing off weaker foes.
Using it thinking its made to function like the Halo CE pistol. Just dont…if you think the sidekick isnt balanced, its a pistol, its not made to be a total murder machine like the CE one.
Theres a reason why we spawn with the AR and Pistol, both are decent for many situations but can work as backups when we drop the other.
the only bad thing I can think of with the sidekick, its not ideal for spawning in big team, thats about it.