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Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
Posted by: Sanuel Jackson
Spawning with a utility weapon such as the DMR doesn't limit people's potential like AR starts does. It's much harder to control the map's spawns when the other team has effective weapons and can kill you off their spawn if you're not careful. With AR starts, getting caught in a spawn trap is absolutely brutal.
Here's how most AR starts games play out: both teams rush for the power weapons and fight for map control while picking up DMRs/NRs along the way. One team loses the rush and all of their weapons. They spawn in the open, the other team proceeds to destroy them while they're trying to AR from across the map.
This. You can't defend yourself off of spawn, let alone pick up a DMR or NR, if you're getting spawn trapped by the other team. All they have to do is win the opening rush and then they've won the match.
AR starts just shouldn't exist.
While I agree AR starts are intermittently pointless, they have Magnums. Now, you see, if DMR starts had Magnums, I'd completely agree. However, the design of DMR starts was to give a 'skilled' weapon and then a weapon where people could just lean on classic spray and pray. In other words, on both starts the design dedicates one weapon, the Assault Rifle, for 'the less skilled' portion. This may sound somewhat superficial or elitist, but it seems to make sense.
Moreover, the Assault Rifle is usually never placed on maps as spare ammunition, instead having the enemy provide the ammo for a weapon most people are inclined to disposing of anyway. If they wouldn't be on starting loadouts, they would not be anywhere, and such a unique cover weapon as the Assault Rifle is usually never ignored like say, a Spiker or Plasma Rifle.