Faunher
Ivory Vanguard
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Posted - 2014.02.01 07:26:00 -
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As a user of the CR (and ACR) by choice, I find it OP in its intended range. Outside of that it is near to useless.
As a user of the RR by necessity, I find it horribly OP up to its ridiculous range, and in CQC. It is down right stupid to be using another weapon.
The downfall of the RR was supposed to be its spool up time and its ineffectiveness at CQC. The spool up time does hamper it a bit, but I find that the RR is one of the most effective CQC rifles in the game.
I set up a test where I would play a few matches with the RR and the ACR, and I would only engage the enemy within the first ring on the radar, using hipfire (what I determined to be true CQC). I did 10 matches in total, five of each, and I switched the rifle every match to ensure consistent gameplay (or rather that a run of bad gameplay on my part didn't foul up the data for one rifle). On average, I got 6 kills more with the RR every match. I used AA on the ACR, and no AA on the RR. I am an absolutely terrible shot.
The RR and ACR both have very similar recoil and very similar DPS. They are both fully automatic rifles. The argument, "You are just better with the RR" is entirely discarded in this sense.
The RR is meant to be a medium-long ranged rifle. The ACR is supposed to be a short-medium range rifle. The RR is broken in the sense that it is comparable, and often favorable in CQC to the ACR.
It is also worthy of noting that most of the targets I engaged were armor tanked, and the RR is favorable to the CR in engaging armor (20% for RR, 10% for CR, correct me if I am wrong). This may have been a considerable factor in my trials.
This trend of armor tanking, as a result of the relative incompetence of shields as anything other then buffers, may be one of the leading reasons that RR are dominating in the current build. Possible solutions would be to possibly increase the amount of shield in extenders, to buff the other shield modules by a degree, or to retract the previous nerf to shield recharge.
On a sidenote: I am not some lobbyist for the CR, nor am I butthurt because of the RR. Nowhere in this post will you find an opinionated piece of data. This is pure observation. This is just a post to show how the RR is not performing as intended, compared to other rifles. |