R301 Legends: I think I get it now

It's still the best gun in the game.

You can obviously score kllls with anything, but you're never going to go wrong with an R-301, because it does everything at least okay.  Always, there's a limited number of OP weapons you want to pick up, but even when the 301 is off the ground, you'll notice people gravitate to the 'most R-301' like weapons, and they just try to compensate for the differences.  Flatline and Hemlok being the go tos.  

Obviously, other weapons that rule, currently, are the PK and Wingman, aforementioned Flatline is great, a TT is still the best 'sniper' weapon, if you have the skill, a 30-30.  Hemlok is underrated.  But at the end of the day, even if I pick up one of these weapons, most often I want my second weapon to be an R-301, because it always fills in the blanks these weapons don't.

I'm not necessarily down on that, but yes, it is what it is.