BF6's gun balance is a mess
SMGs with excessive accuracy/low bloom, as much damage as most of the LMGs and extremely fast ADS time feels really bad. You can't even go into a building half the time because someone is going to be spray n' praying hallways.
Sniper rifles with range finders is borderline aim botting. Add in that sweet spot mechanic and snipers are basically single target noob tubes in the game. They take next to no skill and one shot far too often.
LMGs are just BAD in BF6. Their damage is crap, their dropoff is too high and without flinching when being shot or a reasonable suppression mechanic. And 3/4 of the time headshots don't even register as headshots with the LMG so no bonus damage for landing good shots.
This game desperately needs a balance pass, there are game-breaking balance issues that are centralizing the meta around sniping or running around in a room where snipers can't see you, with an SMG.
My suggestions to fix this
- Lower SMG damage. There is NO REASON for an SMG to be dealing as much damage as an LMG. Also deal with it's obnoxious accuracy when ADSing. SMGs are supposed to be a short range weapon. Not a "lets mag dump with pinpoint accuracy into this players head at 130m".
- Rework the sweet spot mechanic for sniper rifles. The one shot kill to the body mechanic is not good and invalidates weapons such as carbines. Also, the range finder needs to not have a custom key bind. Stop this range find+shoot at the same time crap.
- Reduce LMG falloff damage. For example, the KTS100 deals 17 damage at max falloff where headshots rarely apply even if shooting someone in the head. Not cool. Make it 20 damage max dropoff instead and see how that plays out. Also add flinching while being shot in ADS and make suppression do something more than prevent healing. Suppression should mean something and right now it doesn't.
