Did you ever spend any time playing halo? The issue with the crucible is that everyone likes blaming the weapons, not themselves. Every one wants a game like cod with little skill gap, and fast/easy kills. This game should never be that. Your spray and pray auto rifle should be less powerful than my handcannon, and your scout rifle should beat my hand cannon from medium range if you hit your headshots. my sniper rifle should be a one shot kill if i can aim it well enough, but since snipers are so easy to use, you have a 100% headshot rate right? Snipers, and handcannons become more lethal the more skilled the player using them is, where as autorifles and shotguns do not (excluding a few exceptions) scale with skill level. A player in his first game of his first shooter can sit in a corner and get kills with his shotgun just as easily as anyone else.