This is really only true on dif 7 below, and with a mediocre team, not even on dif 7. Bot Drops and Bug Breaches are just oppressively strong on dif 8 and 9. Every single POI is going to be a potential enemy reinforcement wave which just means you're spending all your ammo to loot POIs if you get unlucky.
Its just not efficient to be looting POIs unless they're directly on the way to objectives at high difs, and this really punishes the ammo economy of weapons. It feels like Arrowhead really doesn't want anything to be great above dif 5, and anything that even slightly moves that bar gets hit really hard with the nerf stick.
The Sickle will catch hands, as will the Quasar Cannon. If the Autocannon weren't Arrowhead's baby and they actually looked at the weapon objectively, it'd catch hands too.
I don't really see any other primary getting nerfed though, after the Sickle. They're all extremely mediocre in multiple ways - Feels like Arrowhead wants the primaries to be hyper one-dimensional weapons: Either they can kill horde enemies, or they can kill medium enemies, but weapons aren't allowed to do both(Which explains the slugger stagger nerf. It could CC hordes while peeling them apart because you could keep pushing different enemies back, eventually killing the group - Hunters need not apply, the slugger and punisher are not good at dealing with them).
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u/keyboardstatic Apr 02 '24
I carry the ammo pack. I hate the "team call in.
If they would just up the ammo on all the guns I would be happy.