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10/29/2015 12:54:31 PM
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crucible and the proliferation of pulse rifles

So, one thing that has me hung up at the moment is thus, a large portion of pvpers use pulse rifles, mostly red death, nirwins mercy and now no time to explain (guilty as charged) and to me at least, this in itself is an imbalance, but really, why so many pulses? I see most posts that complain and outright state that pulses are OP get slammed, badly. Is this just folks defending their new favorite weapons, or are they on the right track? If 80%+ of crucible uses pulse rifles, doesn't this show up that imbalance? If the common consensus is 'just use a pulse rifle yourself' doesn't that indicate a bad balance? Honestly, I can't make my mind up here, I've started to use high stability PRs and tlaloc (depending on the map/team) and it certainly doesn't make me a godlike scrub, but the proliferation of pulses, and the general consensus on countering PRs is to use one yourself (to a much lesser extent, scouts are offered up as a viable counter too) confuses me. To conclude, I'm not saying PRs are OP, they definitely aren't weak, but I can't come to a strong formulated answer to 'are PRs OP?' So come forth, educate a scrub. I'll also save you some time looking up stats: I'm terrible, and should feel bad.

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  • In my humble opinion it's a side effect of the changes to auto rifles (tangent: I am glad for auto rifle buffs), the decline of hand cannons and the continuation of shotguns being just a little too good. Most People will always gravitate to the weapon that is most efficient. When HC could 2 shot they were really efficient. When auto rifles were really efficient same story. With red death and some other pulse rifles able to two burst outside of shotgun and auto rifle effective lethality it isn't surprising that they shine now. Perhaps some individual tuning of specific weapons would be the best option. I don't like broad Nerfs personally.

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