Since the implementation of Merge and the BR system, a lot of things have changed regarding rifles.
BA rifles are primarily on BR 1-2 (with a few exceptions that have high capacity mag or GL and thus are on BR3), semi rifles on BR 3-4 (with a few exceptions that have low capacity magazines and thus are on BR2) and semi rifles with full auto mode on BR5.
Which already makes it clear that semi auto rifles are sort of successors to BA rifles.
Unfortunately, most of them are taken only when players can’t give the soldier in question anything better. They are more or less just a filler that very few prefer to play over different weapon types.
Why is that? Because you have to look at what these rifles are up against.
BA rifles at lower BRs face mostly smgs which have lower magazine capacities, are not as accurate, and are not much effective at medium range.
While a few BRs higher, semi rifles face far better smgs that are more accurate, more effective at longer range, and usually have slightly better dmg or fire rate than their predecessors on lower BRs.
Here, it’s abundantly clear that semi rifles just can’t keep up with their contemporaries at the same BR.
On the contrary, semi rifles have less accuracy, less dmg, and just shoot faster than their predecessors. Magazine capacity doesn’t change much either btw.
If the developers plan to continue this approach, semi auto rifles should get a buff. They should get similar accuracy and damage to what BA rifles currently have.
Of course, I’m talking about weapons that don’t have a fully automatic fire mode. (Which means I’m not talking about weapons like the FG42, AVT, M2c, etc. which are still classified by the game as semi rifles)
And as a final addition, I’d like to say that all BA rifles should be BR2 at most. Of course, there is again an exception. BA rifles with GL should stay on BR3.
Imo BA vs semi is fine. They aren’t as deadly but are more versatile.
Only thing I’d change is to move most if not all semis one BR lower. Edit (I assume we will get rid of 2 queue monstrosity one day)
Yes, that could be one of the other solutions. That’s why I wrote this. And that’s where my suggestion comes from.
Plus they would have to come up with another BR4 “filler weapon”. Not even mentioning, BR4 overall has currently pretty low weapon variety. For example Germany has only one smg on BR4 and it’s not even german one, lol. But that’s different story.
I wrote my suggestion with the hope that we will get rid of the 2 queues policy in future and all BRs will be valid.
This split is not a good idea for one reason, the lower BR in the queue will always be at a disadvantage.
The ideal is either ±1BR match making (plus BR1 and BR5 will have a chance of being in the match on their own) .
Or the solution I would prefer the most, which is a ±0BR MM where each BR has its own separate queue.
I think that a dispersion buff would be very reasonable for BR3-4 semi-auto rifles.
Im not a huge fan of lowering their BR though, the solution is fixing MM not moving all weapons to BR2 or BR5.
Completely agreed. Semi autos should have a heavy reduction in dispersion and a buff in damage. I thought in 20 damage full upgraded, since that’s like the same damage a mosin carbine do without being fully upgraded and 70% of time can kill in one shot. So i think it would be fair.
But then they will be an upgrade from BA with no downsides. Imo all weapon types should be viable so this is a no no.
We could byff BA after so it remains competetive, but tbh I have no idea whow to buff one shot weapon (maybe with homing bullets).
Because SA and BA do the same role but in different BR. So it makes sense if there’s an upgrade from the starter BA. Right now im thinking in using again my USMC springfields over my garands in Br 5, and thats breake the whole point of SA. And i know many don’t even use them
You are acting like many people are using BAs on higher BRs, lol. Stop living in fairy land.
No, that’s simply isn’t the case. There’s a reason why we don’t have any BR4 or BR5 BA rifle. They’re already obsolete and I just want to improve their successors.
And as I have said, majority of BA shouldn’t be even BR3.
But the SA made the bolt mechanism obsolete. There is a reason there are no BAs at the higher tiers. Since the br system they no longer overlap each other.
I get that, but make it obsolete gradually.
With improvements to damage (that’s what many ppl sugest), even the shittest SA rifle will be better than the best BA rifle. It will be a sudden spike in performance.
Yeah, and they were significantly more expensive = less common (except for US).
Are you sure you want to go into this rabbit hole?
(A wild idea but what if we make SA rifles have one BR less if they are used by assaulters? Could be interesting.)
They do and I don’t see why they shouldn’t.
We can’t make a game with 2 BRs:
BA rifles
literalry everything else
That’s simply stupid.
(No “we”, whoever that is, don’t want to have BA rifles mode only. Just in case one of you make such “inteligent” comment.)
And that’s where my suggestion comes from.