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Posted by: Vi Britannia
Posted by: SPC COMMANDO
Perhaps they didn't think it was flawed. Perhaps they figured that a gun with the accuracy of a sniper rifle should have some kind of balance to it. Maybe they figured that since the gun can kill a guy with 5 bullets, giving the gun the ability to kill 3 guys with 1 mag should require something to make it a bit more tricky to use.
Except it's a precision weapon, and bloom doesn't stop it from cross-mapping. All default bloom does is provide inconsistency at the DMR's own supposed effective range and decide a "duel" at the roll of a dice rather than the aim and precision necessary.
Couple bloom with bullet magnetism and the lower damage per shot, and it promotes the spamming that bloom was meant to prevent.
Perhaps they should have stuck to the Battle Rifle then.
Actually, they should have done that anyway.
If you want the DMR to be balanced, it should not have the smaller circle in the middle of its reticle. That thing is the same size as the sniper rifles reticle. What it should have is a set of cross hairs like the BR had. Less precise, but still accurate, and bloom would affect it more like the ARs bloom, where the crosshairs expand outward as you fire.