On Tashi's Discussion About BR vs. Precision Starts

Tashi was discussing how to increase the gun play skill gap in competitive Halo on Twitter. He even went as far as to question 5 shot precision weapon vs BR 4 burst starts.

I would like to suggest another possibility to increasing the gun play skill gap: a slight reduction in cursor friction on both inputs?

Why?

  1. The Battle Rifle is a 12 shot weapon
  2. Prior to increasing cursor friction on mouse, the BR definitely felt like a 12 shot kill, which is why mouse felt so imbalanced
  3. Controller has no sense of the individual shots in a burst, and mouse barely does since the friction increase
  4. This would immediately increase the skill gap on ALL weapons, including on the pistol

You can’t completely remove all friction, because the game would become impossibly hard, but a slight reduction seems viable.