If you want to balance AR's then remove the sharpshooter skill. No need to fix the damage ect I don't feel but with the spread reduction your increasing the AR's effective range..I thought CCP originally removed SS to stop weapons working outside their intended ranges.

Yes, but SS worked differently then.

Interesting note, and I could be wrong, but I believe the AR is the only weapon that has the SS skill available to it?

Personally, I think more needs to be done, but I don't want to derail your thread because I believe it's a good place to start looking.

SMG has it, too.

Thanks for the correction.

Sharpshooter reduces dispersion, that means while hip firing the bullet spread is tighter in ADS dispersion is practically negligible. So unless you can hipfire up to 60 meters sharpshooter is not increasing the range.

it says it lowers the dispersion which means less bullet spread which means when you fire it longer distances less bullets will go off target on the journey, thats increasing the AR's efective range so it is increasing the range o effectiveness

Submachine guns have the same problem, I've killed people with the toxin SMG at distances that shotgunners wish they had

Were you here for the old sharpshooter skill? THAT was a range increase. This isn't.

Were you here for the old sharpshooter skill? THAT was a range increase. This isn't.

Aren't ARs the only weapon to possibly get Dispersion, Damage, and Ammo bonuses?

it says it lowers the dispersion which means less bullet spread which means when you fire it longer distances less bullets will go off target on the journey, thats increasing the AR's efective range so it is increasing the range o effectiveness

Submachine guns have the same problem, I've killed people with the toxin SMG at distances that shotgunners wish they had

Still saddened that AR bullets go into infinity, while the rest of the bullets/projectiles stop at range

Sharpshooter reduces dispersion, that means while hip firing the bullet spread is tighter in ADS dispersion is practically negligible. So unless you can hipfire up to 60 meters sharpshooter is not increasing the range.

It also makes spray and pray more difficult and with how bad hit detection is in this game you want that dispersion cone as large as possible for CQC. So SS actually nerfs your AR lol.

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