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Seriously. The Light Rifle is complete garbage now. The unscope rate of fire had NO REASON to be nerfed at all and the only way it could even be on par with any gun if its in scope, which is completely devastasted by the insane amount of flinch. Not enough reward is involve when using this gun like i used to use. What couldve been done was to lower the unscope damage to a 4sk and the scope with a 3sk and reduced rate of fire. But even without descope, its still hindered by flinch…right now its just an awkard weapon but thats just me.
the unscope was weakened in favor of a stronger in scope.
> the unscope was weakened in favor of a stronger in scope.
Why weaken the weakest? Its was already the slowest killing primary, why completely destroy it.
Actually it’s pretty good, I don’t know what you’re talking about
> Why weaken the weakest? Its was already the slowest killing primary, why completely destroy it.
It was the fastest killing primary. If you hit someone once while scoped in than finished them off while unscoped the light rifle would kill in the same as you shooting someone 4 times in the head while scoped. This gave it a great advantage at close range, which is why its uncoped rate of fire was decreased. The light rifle is meant to be a long ranged rifle, not a jack of all trades.
Well, the LR always fit a unique niche… it played like a BR when unscoped and a DMR when scoped. There had to be a change somewhere, or else it would become the clear go-to weapon for Halo 4… why use a BR or DMR when you can carry both?!
As for how it plays now, I hope you give it more time. The LR had a steep learning curve before, and I see no reason why that wouldn’t apply all over again. I’m going to play for a few weeks before I’m confident in my opinion.
I hope the LR remains my favorite weapon but I’ll have to play with all these rifles again. Oh well 
> > the unscope was weakened in favor of a stronger in scope.
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> Why weaken the weakest? Its was already the slowest killing primary, why completely destroy it.
uhm… plasma pistol was a 12 shot in the head to kill, storm rifle is an entire clip, suppressor was 75% of the clip, then it lightrifle. and the lightrifle actually kills fast.
> > the unscope was weakened in favor of a stronger in scope.
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> Why weaken the weakest? Its was already the slowest killing primary, why completely destroy it.
Unscoped was the slowest, scoped was the fastest.
Lightrifle is along range rifle. It was weakened when uscoped for balanced reasons and so that the DMR could beat it in close range but not at long range.
It was given more RRR, and I think a slight boost in firerate when scoped to make it superior to all other weapons at range.
This way, it’s the best at long range and the worst at close range, which is as it should be. It’s not supposed to be used at close range.
Huh? From what i used of the LR it was pretty good. I could use it unscoped okay.