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Posted by: Sentox6
Exactly this. Determining the most useless weapon means finding the weapon that is the worst at the role you would practically use it for.
Yes, the Repeater does more damage to health, but as RC Clone points out, you would never want to use the automatic weapons on an unshielded player ingame (unless ammunition constraints forced you to). Therefore, in terms of the role to which automatics are at least somewhat useful (stripping shields), the Rifle > Repeater.
Of course, there are still better options most of the time, the Repeater just comes at the bottom of the list.
The repeater does more DPS to an unshielded opponent than the AR does. In my books, that means it's not at the bottom. As much as it's a somewhat unnecessary role, the repeater fills that particular role (automatic for health damage) the best. On that note, I suppose the plasma rifle fills it's role (automatic for shield damage) similarly, although I'm not sure whether the spiker is better for shield DPS.
Both roles are better filled by other weapon types (plasma pistols for shields, precision weapons for health damage) but that doesn't mean the plasma rifle/repeater is the least useful gun in the game. Just redundant.