- mortabunt
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The next person to assume I am talking about ranked, do us all a favor and look at what I play!
I'm still anti-BR, but I use it because I have to. I remember the absurd amount of aim assist in Halo 2. I once picked up a BR and watched an enemy walk in front of me, and as he did, the reticule moved across the screen at 1/3 of his travel speed, and I wasn't even touching the stick. I still don't see how the BR is better than the AR because it kills in fewer shots (optimal conditions.) These optimal 4-shooting conditions rarely happen. Frequently, the opponent typical takes anywhere from 6-10 bursts to kill, and the attack power decreases with range. Even though the first bullet is supposedly 100% accurate, it is not. i tested this on standoff, where I had two spartans facing each other on opposite sides of the map. I got a BR, and shot at hte target's head. It took all 12 bursts to kill him. And the BR is not good at close range. It can be beaten by spikers, AR's, shotguns, swords, plasma pistols, plasma rifles, SMG's, maulers, rockets, gravity hammers, brute shots, and flamethrowers, so it is by no means an ultimate weapon. In practice, it is actually a relatively weak weapon. It is most effective on enemies that are already injured, or when used with coordinated fire from other BR's. This is becuase getting the 4-shots and headshots that this weapon is famous for is rare and difficult. At close range, unless your opponent is already injured, you will probably lose a rush-melee duel. I do agree about the players who think that they are superior because of their usage of the BR. They have skill, but only in gametypes that are BR dominated such as MLG and SWAT. I recently played one like this in a team slayer match on assembly in social slayer. My team only had me and another guy, while the enemy team was full. The enemy team lost, and afterwards, the guy challenged me to a 1v1 MLG duel on blackout. At first, I dominated him. He only gained the upper hand by hiding and using sneak attacks. In open fights, I frequently bested him. Afterwards, I dueled him in a default settings game on snowbound. I overwhelmingly beeat him with a KDR of 5 to 1. He was excellent at stealth, but only decent with the BR, pathetic in direct confrontations, and abyssmal with other weapons. I finally have to say that I am glad about how bungie balanced the BR. My only complaint that doesn't have to do with killing with it or being killed by it is that it's too common a weapon, and for something so versatile it is too common. I think that on most maps, the number of BR's should be cut in half, and make people use alternate styles of combat instead of relying on one weapon. It would spice up multiplayer and make the BR, an important weapon, into a strategic resource.