The assault rifle nerf is bad and feels totally crappyThe spreadreset duration is much too long that micro burst does not workI understand that you have to do something to make the range of the assault rifles worse but this option that DICE brought live is probably the worst and requires way too many adjustments afterwards to give the weapons a good new feeling.Easier is simply:- Increase Recoil by 20%-30- AR max dmg from 50m set to 18dmg for all and after 75-90m depending on weapon to 15dmg- set headshot multi back to 2.0x- decrease projectile speed Then just adjust some assault riflese.g. remove the shortbarrel on the RM68As it is now the AR feel as bad as never before, just play on big maps like Renewal , Discarded +++ so on the weapons are realy bad in their category as long as there are no adjustments to the spread mechanics. And the scaling between the different AR's is also completely broken.Most of you are probably playing Reclaimed right now and there it is not that noticeable because the map has many small distances for the gunfights.Either we get a spread system like in BF3/4 or adjust the recoil/damage valuesAnd my biggest worry is that these adjustments we get in 5.0 will have a big impact on the gameplay and more people will play sniper/marksman/lmg and with that there will be even more useless campers on the map edge than it was before and that makes the game even more frustrating than it was already beforemy 2 cent

I hope there are changes coming quickly and we do not have to wait weeks or months!

The dispersion changes seem to also affect single- and burst-fire mode accuracy on the ac42, which doesn't make any sense. If only they playtested their game properly sigh

the reset is also bugged... if you tap fire you will still not get the reset applied fast enough. especially if you microburst... just like BFV a sweeping change with zero to no actual testing... GG DICE

I think they need to remove the AR update and figure something else out.

@GrizzGolf Like you know...balancing each gun based on its performance instead of applying flat nerf across the board.

Assault rifle feedback 5.0 | EA Forums

25 Replies

Metal_Daryl97
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
The dispersion changes seem to also affect single- and burst-fire mode accuracy on the ac42, which doesn't make any sense. If only they playtested their game properly sigh
sk1lld
Legend
3 years ago
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse... lol
X-Sunslayer-X
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
the reset is also bugged... if you tap fire you will still not get the reset applied fast enough. especially if you microburst... just like BFV a sweeping change with zero to no actual testing... GG DICE
Moab23
3 years ago
Either they buffed certain SMGs again or there's dodgy stuff afoot, because certain players have a tendency to laser you at range with an SMG while they tank the entirety of an AR magazine. No great surprise these players are usually low ranked as well and have a nasty habit of constantly showing up in your exact location either. Blasted one with an RM68 point blank, for way longer than needed. Got insta-beaned by their PBX and they still had 44hp left. Ranked 9.
Jafrito
3 years ago
I did not like Reclaimed.

Even playing old maps, I've tried ARs that I was familiar to play, as M5A3, RM68, SFAR-M GL.
They seems useless, strange TTK, strange recoil.
They made the game worst to play.
Ne0tax
New Vanguard
3 years ago
@Jafrito It's much worse, just because you're marked on the minimap longer because you shoot longer, it's crazy how many people shoot at you when you spend a second shooting at a person who's in the headglitch.
GrizzGolf
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I think they need to remove the AR update and figure something else out.
UP_LordPlumber
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@GrizzGolf Like you know...balancing each gun based on its performance instead of applying flat nerf across the board.
Ironhead841
Hero
3 years ago
@UP_LordPlumber
I think that is one of the problems that the plus-system introduced, essentially with the right loadout/setup you can make almost every class of weapons mimic the other weapons classes.
Any of the ARs (with the right setup) can be a very effective AR, SMG, or DMR.
Balancing weapon "variants" like in previous BF games doesn't really exist in BF2042.
UP_LordPlumber
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Ironhead841 I would disagree that every AR can be molded into whatever you want.

Sure, something like M5A3 or AW40 can be set up in a way that caters to different playstyles. But AK24 or AC42 or ScarH are very linear weapons with not much room for different playstyles.

Same can be said about RM68, its a very linear weapon. The only problem that it had was its insane damage and lack or recoil. Nerfing damage drop off or giving it 10-15% more recoil would've done a better job.

The worst (for me its funniest) part is that this "change" was aimed at skilled players who were capable of beaming others within 100 meters in an instant, and to a certain extent it's still possible with a bit of practice IF you're one of those skilled players using the right setup.

On the other side of that firefight, if you're the one who got beamed, I have bad news for you - It won't help you. The other bad news - now you cannot fight as effective because you too have to learn a new mechanic in order to be competitive. Spraying and praying in my general direction now does absolutely nothing because of the spread.

I've already had multiple instances of someone holding the trigger and dumping an entire 40-round mag only to miss 95% of the shots.