I used to mindlessly say that DMR over powered the BR, but recently I discovered that all the tough competition where using it on smaller maps and kicking my DMR -Yoink-. I switched and found my encounters to be more favourable. Its advantage seems marginal, but did something change?
The DMR has the fastest kill time, most aim assist and bullet magnetism, it can’t be strafed unless the opponent has no accuracy.
The BR doesn’t have a fast kill time, has little aim assist and bm, it is the second most punishable precision rifle in the game.
BR requires skill whereas the DMR just bring in CoD fanboys that love ridiculously unfair kills brought on by an idea that fast kill times are balanced
Nope, people just over exaggerate, and base too much on the bigger maps.
It also doesn’t help that the most popular play list is Big Team Slayer, where big maps are almost exclusively played…thus the DMR being the obvious choice.
No. People need to stop this argument.
People are using the BR more often because it is the only primary weapon in the current “MLG”/competitive settings.
I don’t know, I mean it’s pretty easy to win mid-range DMR vs BR with the BR.
I’m pretty sure people are just over exaggerating.
It’s not so much power so much as it’s just the DMR’s accuracy that gets people’s jimmies rustled. It has a clean accurate reticule that’s efficient even when not scoped.
DMR is too helpful in every situation, the BR like previous post say, requires more skill of the two. Something that REALLY needs work, and this is just my opinion, is the Carbine.
Technically, yes. However, the gap is completely situational and the better player will win every time, no matter who has which gun. People like to exaggerate and make it sound as though the DMR makes the Battle Rifle utterly useless.
If the DMR has a quicker killtime than the BR and has the range that it does (which it unsurprisingly does) then there are virtually no reasons to use the BR whatsoever.
That right there makes it overpowered, because it makes the BR basically worthless.
The Carbine is much harder to use, is not hitscan, doesn’t kill that much faster than the DMR and is a hell of a lot harder to achieve optimum killtime with. Again, the DMR absolutely outclasses this weapon.
Same with the Light Rifle, given how easy it is to use by comparison.
The DMR is too strong. It just outclasses all the other primary weapons.
“It’s not so much power so much as it’s just the DMR’s accuracy that gets people’s jimmies rustled. It has a clean accurate reticule that’s efficient even when not scoped”.
The accuracy is annoying and the accuracy, range and ease of use warrant a killtime that is far below the other weapons, so that it is kept in its niche as a ranged weapon.
Instead, it maintains the excellent flexibility it’s got and is blessed with a killtime better than the BR, close to the Carbine and far easier to achieve and better than the unscoped LR, though lower than if the LR is scoped.
How does this make any sense?
“I don’t know, I mean it’s pretty easy to win mid-range DMR vs BR with the BR”.
It’s easy to slaughter noobs using a DMR with a BR, yeah. Put it this way. You V Yourself, one of you has the DMR and the other has the BR. Assuming you can use both, and you should be able to because they’re both hitscan and easy as all Hell to use, the BR user will rarely even get a kill and it will get none without outside assistance.
“I used to mindlessly say that DMR over powered the BR, but recently I discovered that all the tough competition where using it on smaller maps and kicking my DMR -Yoink!-. I switched and found my encounters to be more favourable. Its advantage seems marginal, but did something change?”.
Here’s my conclusion: you said ‘mindlessly’ and you get better performance with the BR, so you can’t use the DMR in CQC.
If you could use the DMR in CQC, you wouldn’t need a BR. The DMR is barely harder to use, and that’s debatable based on a player’s natural inclinations, and simply stronger than the BR.
If you were ‘practiced’ with it, not that that takes much time or effort, you wouldn’t have much of a problem with BR users at all.
“Technically, yes. However, the gap is completely situational and the better player will win every time, no matter who has which gun. People like to exaggerate and make it sound as though the DMR makes the Battle Rifle utterly useless”.
What if two players are equally skilled? Why choose the BR?
Actually, why ever choose the BR, since choosing the DMR will allow you to defend yourself against better players armed with worse?
It kills quicker, is not hard to use and has ridiculous flexibility. Overall, it outclasses everything else you could choose. If we’re offered choice, it should actually be a choice, not the illusion of choice.