Keep this thread nice and short, there isn’t one.
I have to agree. From what I have seen and gathered from using it there is no glaring weakness in the DMR.
None. There’s no disadvantage.
The hidden weakness is that when 343 finally does nerf it everybody that uses it will suck.
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There is no bleedthrough with it. Both the BR and LR have “bleedthrough” because of their burst fire.
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It is more punishing when you miss shots since it is single shots.
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It has bloom.
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Has a slower kill time than the Light Rifle.
> The hidden weakness is that when 343 finally does nerf it everybody that uses it will suck.
I hope all they do is nerf the RoF a tad bit and make the battle rifle a 4sk.
I DO NOT want them to nerf the damage because there would be so many disadvantages in using it. Plus, the DMR has always been my favorite weapon and I don’t want to see it become useless.
> 1. There is no bleedthrough with it. Both the BR and LR have “bleedthrough” because of their burst fire.
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> 2. It is more punishing when you miss shots since it is single shots.
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> 3. It has bloom.
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> 4. Has a slower kill time than the Light Rifle.
1)The bleedthrough isn’t true bleedthrough because it actually drops your shields then kills you with the next headshot instead of damaging through them, not the burst fire mode.
2)it has the highest rate of fire so even if you miss, just keep spamming.
3)that bloom is a joke even at max bloom a headshot is the easiest thing in the world.
4)that kill time is the scoped in LR, which is much more difficult to use due to less RRR and more flinch and less magnetism.
The DMR doesn’t have any disadvantages really…
> 1. There is no bleedthrough with it. Both the BR and LR have “bleedthrough” because of their burst fire.
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> 2. It is more punishing when you miss shots since it is single shots.
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> 3. It has bloom.
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> 4. Has a slower kill time than the Light Rifle.
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Both the BR and the LR (unscoped) can only kill with the fifth bullet of their fifth burst and DMR has a higher RoF, so DMR advantage as no bursts.
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So much aim assist and bullet magnetism that if you miss, you were shooting rocks, so DMR advantage.
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Bloom is decorative (same with human sniper), so DMR advantage
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Slower killtime than LR (scoped), but more efficient in all ranges and has massive bullet magnetism so DMR advantage
So pretty much, no disadvantages.
They just need to take down the aim assist for something around 30% and the bullet magnetism in something around 40%.
In all weapons
A person who is good with the dmr will kick -Yoink-, those who is not will have to learn how to use it.
> They just need to take down the aim assist for something around 30% and the bullet magnetism in something around 40%.
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> In all weapons
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> A person who is good with the dmr will kick -Yoink!-, those who is not will have to learn how to use it.
The DMR also has a higher rate of fire, more accuracy, and more damage per bullet than most other starting weapons.
The least you can do is nerf the RoF so the killtimes go from 1.43 to 1.73 (which is still faster than the BR’s minimum times).
Simply, it has no disadvantages…
There is one flaw: you won’t use any of the other precision weapons and therefore your commendations will suffer as a result.
> > 1. There is no bleedthrough with it. Both the BR and LR have “bleedthrough” because of their burst fire.
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> > 2. It is more punishing when you miss shots since it is single shots.
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> > 3. It has bloom.
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> > 4. Has a slower kill time than the Light Rifle.
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> 1. Both the BR and the LR (unscoped) can only kill with the fifth bullet of their fifth burst and DMR has a higher RoF, so DMR advantage as no bursts.
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> 2. So much aim assist and bullet magnetism that if you miss, you were shooting rocks, so DMR advantage.
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> 3. Bloom is decorative (same with human sniper), so DMR advantage
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> 4. Slower killtime than LR (scoped), but more efficient in all ranges and has massive bullet magnetism so DMR advantage
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> So pretty much, no disadvantages.
The bloom isn’t decorative on the DMR. It only really applies to long range shooting where the DMR would already have the advantage by default, but it can be the difference between having a one shot guy get away to cover or shooting a little slower and landing the 5 shot.
> There is one flaw: you won’t use any of the other precision weapons and therefore your commendations will suffer as a result.
Oh god…how could I not have seen this sooner!
Listening to the cries of fallen on Waypoint.
You spawn with a DMR, you now need 0% skill to be any good at this game. It encourages a total -Yoinking!- campfest for all players using it. Just look at this, the guys reticule was not even on his enemy.2:35 Is when madness begins in the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWaDwsGb1c0
For gods sakes, just remove the thing.
> You spawn with a DMR, you now need 0% skill to be any good at this game. It encourages a total -Yoinking!- campfest for all players using it. Just look at this, the guys reticule was not even on his enemy.2:35 Is when madness begins in the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWaDwsGb1c0
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> For gods sakes, just remove the thing.
This
well the DMR doesn’t slow down people as much when they run because its a single shot…
But honestly this bad boy needs a nerf. I say there are 3 ways of making the sandbox balance.
1: make the BR a 4 shot and make it have no recoil make the carbine a 7 shot and the lightrifle a faster killtime when not scoped
2: make the DMR’s rate of fire slower than BR’s by a few milliseconds
3 make the DMR kill the same time as the BR, make the BR a 4 shot, a carbine a 7 shot, and the lightrifle unzoomed a 4sk.
I like the second option, a lot easier than the others.
It’s doesn’t have a ‘single’ disadvantage. Not a single one.