The Combat Rifle is the new Duvolle of old. All you see in the kill feed nowadays is RS-90 CR or BK-42 Assault CR. It is getting ridiculous.

You can get the jump on a combat rifle user for them to wheel around and take you out before you can fully count to two. Its 95/110 damage profile is too balanced leading it be an extremely fast killer. If anything, projectile ammo should be the least effective to shields (after explosive damage) and the damage profile imo should be changed to 80/110.

While everyone was crying foul over the RR in 1.7, the CR sneaked right through the door.

EDIT

My proposal is to NOT touch its damage per shot, but to tweak its damage profile to 80/110.

Every weapon in the game depending on its damage profile can be countered except for the CR and SMG.

Example

Dying too much to Plasma Rifles, Scrambler Rifles, Scrambler Pistols, Ion Pistols -- stack more armor
Dying too much to Mass Drivers, Flaylocks (lol), Locus Grenades, Missiles -- stack more shields
Dying too much to Combat Rifles, Sub Machine guns -- you're SOoL

EDIT 2

Disregard my 80/110 damage profile...I'm not a math major, and I've been told that 80/110 is terribad math apparently (homeland security major here). I do know for a fact though that the CR's power lies in its current damage profile of 95/110, what do you all propose as a new damage profile?