BF6 has worst gunplay in fps ever.

Exactly: there may have been misses, but you get all the hits at once, as if the shooting was perhaps delayed, but perfect. 

The way hit data gets bundled and delivered in a single frame—likely due to current netcode and server performance—often makes incoming damage feel instantaneous. This is the main reason players feel like they're getting "melted" before they can react.

This network behavior inadvertently skews the perception of weapon balance. Since the damage feedback arrives all at once regardless of the weapon's actual rate of fire, it creates a false impression that certain "laser guns" are significantly more efficient at securing kills than they really are.

Honestly, there aren't even any "lasers gun" now except for the RPK-74M and AK-205; the general spread is just way too massive.

Also, few people are actually playing with laser guns. People always blame lasers when they get melted, but I’ve got 650 kills with the RPK-74M, and according to the tracker website, that already puts me in the top 2.8% for RPK-74M kills—which clearly shows how rarely people actually touch this weapon. That is because its base stats are just too garbage; without running composite rounds, it is incredibly difficult to secure a kill unless you play incredibly passive and camp.

The real issue is that DICE didn't tune weapons separately—currently, damage profiles are strictly tied to caliber—and they dropped high-rate-of-fire, 3-bullet-to-kill  weapons right after the Beta without even testing them.

Probably because  some weapons are **bleep** lasers, but they just need to reduce the rate of fire on a lot of automatic, not add delay on bullets, it should be max 700. this game is already so hardcore you don't need hardcore mode, at least for health, it goes down immediatley

And now they added delay on everything

I have literally no idea why they did that. It feels terrible, completely incoherent with the seamless movement, the animations were not reworked so it feels cheap, and it's so unintuitive that I keep thinking my action was not registered. Honestly; those delays are just dumb, and tells me this team is still not sure what this game should be. 

Recoil is still manageable, what I don't like is BULLET REGISTER, it's still so bad after year release that Dice had to increase the weapon's damage. There's a YouTube video saying that literally only Assault Rifle had acceptable hit at engage range (10 - 20 m ). But it so random that Shotgun can headshotted you from 20m and I can't do it with SG553R from 5m away. And don't mention about bunny hoping and crouch sliding which had better chance than prone with ADS! 

And now they added delay on everything, like switching to side arm and selling solution with your gametime to grinding Fast Deploy. Reloading, recovery from duck / prone, prone walking, switching and deploying gadget, everything have delay. I'm always play as vehicle buster, engineer on BF4, assault on BF1, support on BF V, assault on BF 2042 but in BF6 it's so fkin annoying aiming with your RPG and can't do fast switch to main weapon. No wonder no one play as Engineer, IT' SUCK! It's only natural Assault had the best STF Sprint to Fire, but WHY THE HELL you add it also for every weapon? 

All my friend are long gone and I'm playing BFV most of the time. I missed being super soldier, stop preaching about team works, medic don't revive, support doesn't give ammo, sniper camping outside map, there never was and never will. 

for me the gunplay is way worse than before:

tap firing is a death sentence since the visual recoil does not reset soon enough so you will basically miss everything because of random weapon bounces

full auto you will get mouse input weird behavior ( bug? ) you wont be able to control your recoil for some unknown reason just like it was like 3 months ago

weapons grips seems to be bugged since stubby grip with same values as vertical classic gives you way more recoil and the mouse bug is more present 

not to mention the increased bloom that is worse then random visual recoil because you cannot control RNG

of course it does not apply to all guns but when it does it feels like a bug

and if you just play standing in corner you will not suffer from most gunplay inconsistency since its more present when you fire while moving

for me bf6 has the worst gunplay in any bf series.

Its not hyperbolic if it happens frequently to everyone who plays the game. If I could upload videos here I would post loads of them demonstrating exactly this scenario playing out over and over again.

I am not confident that its the net code, because this didn't happen before the most recent June patch. So if anything signs point to the weapon and damage changes.

Dispersion/bloom is the worst mechanic.  If I'd known it existed I wouldn't have bought this BF. If you can aim at a target, you should hit it (given recoil, drop, etc.).  Not some random luck factor while at the same time you give 80% of the playerbase autlock tracking.  

because the last patch they dramatically increased random recoil and weapon deviation which made the gunplay, well, RANDOM.

Sure, but then for that patch, they added the read on recoil to the existing bloom (I believe, there’s alas very little details on the actual implementation).

Perhaps to put it differently, if they implemented random recoil to reach the same bloom values you get now, and replaced one by the other, would that still be bad for you? I’m asking because I genuinely feel random recoil is an upgrade on bloom while doing exactly the same thing, and I keep thinking it was poorly received mostly because DICE never communicated clearly on what they were trying to achieve.

I think what they are trying to achieve with random recoil is better simulating real weapon spread created via weapons recoil but this is failing dramatically.

I’ve never fired an automatic weapon but I’ve had quite a few fired next to me, including at full bursts. Best I can tell, those things do indeed jump all over the place (admittedly the people doing the firing weren’t necessarily the best of marksmen). But I’d say the element missing is bullet arcs: it’d be a real differentiator for efficiency over distance.

But just like you say for wind factors and others, it’d probably be too complicated for this game.

I think they just need to remove random recoil or anything that adds randomization in favor for much heavier recoil which will naturally add "Spread" depending on player skills.

What bothers me here is that it creates a very narrow meta, even if only truly useful for top players: if there is no randomization and is fully controllable, albeit with skill, then a couple of weapons with great stats balanced around imprecision (so heavy recoil in this system) will rise to the top.

When removing randomization, you’re also removing one factor used for balancing. Which is fine when you have a small number of weapons, but in BF6, we’re already seeing new weapons that are similar to something that came before because there’s no place left.

Anyways, thanks for the detailed post.