This AR may very well be my favorite iteration. I was actually happy with 343’s handling of the AR both in 4 and 5 and they continued to deliver for someone who had always loved the AR and wished it would find a much better future than it was seeing with Bungie.
Its a good, solid weapon in close quarters and mid-range if you keep to shorter bursts, but it still can be beaten by other weapons like the tactical rifles at range and the Bulldog or Heatwave at close range. I have a couple PC friends who still feel like the Sidekick is a more preferable weapon than the AR with some of those pistoleros managing to come on top against it. I don’t feel like I’m shooting a pea shooter where I’ll know I’m dead meat if I go one-on-one with someone who had any other weapon that wasn’t an AR and, instead, I feel like I have a fighting chance as long as I take care and pick the fight that will turn towards my favor than mindlessly charging in.
Marksmen with their BRs hesitating at engaging an AR at closer ranges should be the norm in my opinion. As anyone who would play BTB would tell you, a BR will still slaughter an AR user as long as they keep their nominal distance and should be considering to switch to their ARs if they see a close quarters fight coming.
The problem isn’t thr AR but the fact that the other weapons do not have a high success rate at kills. The bulldog should need 1 shot to kill at 15m or less. Insane that it takes two. Especially if all projectiles land.
I’d argue that you barely have to tap… most of the time it’s full auto and you’re good untill pretty far out. How you’re saying it is played isn’t my experience… and that’s the problem for me.
Im torn between enjoying it, and slightly disliking it. Im okay with it not being touched as long as BR starts are a thing and that thing gets left out. It is pretty much a power weapon.
The recoil of the assault rifle needs addressed. There is no reason that burst-shotting the AR should produce more recoil than just going full-auto. Firing in such a way causes more recoil than the Halo 2 SMG. I don’t know why it wasn’t just left with Bloom and shot-spread; that seemed to work just fine.
I adhere, I come from the HaloCE and the truth is that seeing that the AR is so useful gives me satisfaction, for me it is balanced, it takes a magazine practically to lower it to one, I think they should buff the Commando Rifle which for me is useless.
Kind of too late since they already stealth nerfed it I think when the Tenrai event started. It kills noticeably slower than when Beta started. I think it’s in a pretty good place right now though.
I still prefer the Technical Preview build even though it is just one bullet weaker now. Sometimes one bullet is all you need though. As Master Chief puts it.
Commando and Ravager need fix and/or reversions back to their previous build tho.
I have been using the Commando and it loses to AR fights all the time in close range…even in longer range. I’d rather they boost Commando damage at close range than they nerf the AR because then the AR loses utility against other things like BR or Pistol. I’m already seeing a shift to switching to the pistol as soon as you spawn because the spam shots from it drop shields quicker than the AR does at full auto.
FOR ONCE we got a good AR. It literally is a pleasure to use it.
At worse just buff some other weapons instead, like the ravager or FOR GOD’S SAKE THE PLASMA PISTOL.