The tuned Assault Rifle has significant bloom when spraying

As somebody who is vehemently for the AR and other automatics being good, I don't think it's that simple.

The AR did need to be nerfed some: Spraying and praying with it was too good, to the point where it was outright advantagous to spray full auto over using accurate bursts even out like 2 warthogs away from you, which is insane.

I think what 343 did here is part of what needed to be done, the other part, besdies spraying needing to be worse, is that accurate bursts need to be better.

Instead of being all doom and gloom and whining about it, you need to be calmly pointing this out, and in the weapon tuning feedback thread on waypoint and when it comes time to take the community feedback survey, say that accurate, timed bursts need to be rewarded more rather then just by proxy due to spraying being worse.

Some ideas:

  • Have the amount of spread gained for the first 3-5 shots be really low, and then have it expoentially increase to what you see here after that.

  • Have shots fired under a certain spread threshold deal 1.25x damage

  • Have locational damage: have headshots work even on shields, but also have shots to the arms or legs do only 75% damage. Make the headshot bonus scale inveresly with spreads, so you'll only actually get the full bonus for your first few shots.

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