Weapon Balance and Gameplay Discussion

[castiel]

I'm still yet to see any change to the overpower of the AR, In reality it should be a bit weaker than the other guns seeing as you have the huge advantage of rifle jumping.

If you compare it against the smg currently, they take 5 and 7 shots to kill respectively, but in those 5 shots, the AR does 120 damage,with the SMG only 105. This means that even if you have just 4 damage taken off, you will be killed by the AR in 4 shots.

Also as I mentioned in an earlier post, with 100-100 it takes ~7 AR shots to kill, but 12 SMG shots to kill, almost double.

Of course taking into account that the AR has a slower time, it still seems largely to be much favourable, I don't think people seem to take into account what a huge advantage rifle jumping is on an open map, weapons should have perks and downfalls, such as the sniper being able to HS, the AR has the rifle jump, this means in hand to hand combat it should be a bit weaker than some of it's rivals imo.