Weapon Damage feels inconsistent

The best way to show your disapproval is to not play the game. When player counts start dropping they'll do something, but as long as ya'll keep playing they dagf. Every time you login to play your telling EA nothing need to be done to fix their **bleep** servers.

It's a mix between REALLY bad weapon balance and high RoF guns bypassing server tick issues since they're vomiting out a clip in the time it takes for one of these 60hz or 45hz ticks to go off.

This is why SMGs are massively over performing while LMGs suffer so much. SMGs clip size and accuracy mean they can dump a mag in a second and many of those hits are going to register.

On the inverse you have LMGs dumping gigantic mags and even when you see hit detect work (blood on shots connecting) half the time the server doesn't update and those shots don't deal damage.

The tick rate/hitreg is a severe problem...but even if we ignore that...SMGs just deal too much damage and have too little bloom and/or recoil over large distances. The only times they're ineffective is when your scope can't make any details out to actually hit something.

It doesn't matter if SMG damage falloff is massive at range when you can accurately magdump into someone's head and do it so fast that the hitreg problems play in your favor.

Yep do you guys even know how to play normally without worrying if your shots will hit or not Just use SMGs because ARs and carbines feel so inconsistent You never know what is going to happen I have like ten thousand clips where I am shooting a standing guy in the head and it is not even a headshot Then I switch to an SMG and everything works fine Hit registration is good there is almost no recoil fast ADS good hipfire LMGs are decent ARs feel weak carbines feel weak shotguns are too strong SMGs are too strong They really need to fix this The first patch that was supposed to fix bloom helped a bit but it still feels off It is so frustrating to lose mid range fights like at 50 meters to people just holding the fire button with an SMG and tracking without even bursting

glad to know its not just me that's experiencing this. 

Hope EA are reading this?

From what i have found this is an issue with multiple things.  Hit detection is absolute garbage I have had the CLIENT show me 3 hit markers and the hit counter (which i have turned on) only registers 1 hit IN THE CLIENT.  So the game doesn't even know what it is doing.  And the client is registering hits but the server is not, this seems to be anywhere from a single bullet to as many as 5 in a single gun fight.

 
The bloom or cone of fire on almost every single weapon except most SMG's is ridiculous.  They seem to have implemented different damage depending on the body part you hit.  You can verify this in the shooting range seeing how much damage a shot does if you hit a leg vs an arm vs outside the "A" zone on the chest.  Some weapons dont even do the damage that it says they do at 10 yards.  I found several that do 4 less damage than the 25 that it says the weapon does. 

Client registered hits vs Server registered hits is anywhere from bad to absolutely broken it seems that they try to normalize ping so when you have a couple people in the lobby that have a ping of 100+  you end up dying around corners and seeming to get one shot by smg's, assault rifles and LMG's and having the client show you 5-10 hit markers and still dying.  Whatever they are doing to try to make it playable by people with  stone age internet or a bad connection is really screwing up most of the game when it comes to ttk, feeling like you get one shot or having to empty a mag into someone to actually kill them.

I think the 2 biggest things that are affecting the way weapons feel in this game is the "limb" damage being less than "A" zone damage so your cone of fire may hit the "A" zone initially but the cone starts hitting limbs and the damage is less for those hits. (I have not tested every single weapon just a few at this point in the shooting range).   The second thing is whatever they are doing to try to make the game playable for high ping players is completely screwing everyone once you get 1 or 2 players with a high ping all of the above mentioned things are 100x worse.  

wonder if EA will every fix this? hope they do.

Yep. It's random. Sometimes it's awesome, sometimes it feels like your are shooting from toy gun.

Yeah, hit reg is non existent for me. I die so many times to people I had  the drop on. it makes me not want to play or even buy another BF game. you'd think hit reg would be a core focus on a shooter game, but apparently it wasn't.

another  thing I noticed is in the test range, the guns I tested took one more bullet to down the target than it should, at the closest 10 yard target. as in a gun that does 25 damage, took 5 shots at 10 yards and 6 shots for all other targets.  it should only take 4 shots at 10 yards. this is the M4 carbine BTW. if there is damage drop off before 10 yards, that's gotta be broken.

Hope EA see this and get it fixed. its very frustrating

I've been having the same problems m8.  Been complaining about it, hope it gets fixed