The only meta that I have hated worse than this was vigilance and graviton back in warmind.
The most braindead one dimensional sandbox to date. Sturm/True Prophecy x Felwinter’s Lie.
Throw in some sword peeking and ice and I can’t do it anymore. Absolute ignorance of the importance of range in their own game. Naivety when it comes to ability balance. And a community that is afraid of the word nerf.
Over balancing is bad. Semi regular balancing is good. Don’t forget it.
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120's are definitely much better than they were buy statistically they still have one of the slower ttk's in the game. There both forgiving in the sense you only need 1 precision and 2 body shots. But there also really punishing to use because if you miss one shot your ttk shoots wayyyyyy up. I know you mentioned pulse rifles but they are technically meta now too. Specifically high impact pulse rifles like cold denial and stars in shadow. Both have a 0.6 second ttk I believe (correct me if I'm wrong there) Also vigilance wing is very very good. While not meta I've found alot of joy using sidearms and scout rifles. (Lonesome and the raid scout are my favourite). Basically what I'm saying is yh 120 hand cannons are good. But only if you can use them well. There are alot of other viable options. And if things go really bad just freeze and smash everyone.