Anyone thought HP might just be too low instead of all weapons damage being too high?

I assume people are unhappy about many mechanics in this game because many aspects of the game are extremely situational.

If you hypothetically approached a standing enemy starting from 300 meters you could mark at every step of the way which weapons are good at this range, which are okay and which suck. Generally only one weapon will be good and very few weapons will be okay. That means the outcomes of fights are mostly determined by situation and less by personal effort. Dust is, compared to other shooters, a lot about situational awareness and positioning.

This explains why the common assault suit + assault rifle loadout is so popular - it provides propably the most versatility you can have in one loadout. However, it too is rather useless against snipers, shotguns and tanks in specific situations, which is why people complain about those situations. They dislike being unable to affect the outcome of an encounter, even if the encounters are very seldom.

One remedy to this would be to slightly nudge all weapons (and vehicles, btw.) towards a more similar performance in most situations. Of course the different weapons should still be obviously different, but they shouldn't be so useless that you can only engage in 1 out of 3 possible encounters you spot.

For people who dont read.........the problem was that the militia shotgun is 1 shotting proto suits with over 600 eHP. And I am not even talking about from the back to the head I am talking about you turn a corner some guy is looking at your chest they fire you die despite the fact that you have a suit with a ton of HP and they are using a free weapon. All over weapons actually seem about right to me. ARs are a good fit for a variety of situations but a master of none. Pistols are headshot fiends. Lasers are awesome long rang beasties. Snipers are good at superlong range (although hitscan is kinda lame for them or most of these weapons). Only minor tweaks are needed for weapon balancing but one of those tweaks needs to be the militia shotgun that OHKs proto assaults and 2HKs heavies with almost twice the eHP of the proto assaults.

I like the idea of an SMG buff but in the right hands (cest moi ) it can be pretty beasty. I would however like to see less spread and more range though.