stepping out from the gun question - since you seem quite knowledgeable on Infil - I'd like to hear your opinion on suppressors. I tend to run it, but I know you drop off radar when you cloak. The benefit is really only if there are multiple enemies around to "see" you when you take down your prey. Do you personally find it worth the velocity decrease? With the Hailstorm, SPA and Supressor makes me feel like I'm throwing noodles at the enemy any further than 5-10m

Suppressors are a weird thing. They absolutely do make the gun worse while chewing through most of the benefit you get from loading SPA (costing you a grand total of a quarter of your already low velocity) and thus for a very long time I swore them off. But then my second MKV aurax revealed their true use.

There are times as an infiltrator where you will work in very close proximity to lots and lots of enemies. In those situations, the suppressor gives you a huge advantage. You see, in that scenario, casualties happen all the time. Someone seeing a corpse isn't going to think much of it. And sure, they will notice your motion sensor and potentially go investigate but you don't really need to be near that. It gives you the ability to stay very close to the enemy and cause massive damage without ever really letting people know what is happening.

On the flip side of the coin, planetside also often features smaller fights and scenarios where you are often engaging one target without any friends or allies in the area to immediately respond there is no real reason to use a suppressor. The guy you're shooting knows they're being shot at after all so you might as well ensure the rounds you sling are as effective as possible.

To put it simply, if you are in a scenario where your target has allies in the immediate vicinity potentially ready to respond the suppressor is excellent. If that is generally not the case at the current fight, take the suppressor off.

And, while we are at it, never run flash suppressor or compensators. The former causes your COF to bloom quickly while the latter reduces your hip fire accuracy and neither confers a benefit you'll even care about on the weapon.