u/DanHarkinz

Sorry couldn't screen cap these on Xbox so had to use the ol camera. Hopefully this allows you to zoom in on each weapon.

I've heard legend about this gun for the longest time I thought it was just a myth but today I finally got one.

Time to play the lotto

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That's how the SMGs ranked at the end based on performance. The bottom 3 were a struggle the last two weeks.

My favorite SMGs would be

1. Carbon

2. Sturmwolf

3. Razor

Don't think I'm much of an SMG player at the end of the day but it was fun trying my best.

How do the SMGs rank in your opinion and which ones were your favorite?

Probably picked the worst time to get this to 250. Like I should have really gone into HC to finish this up because in MP it was very lackluster.

It's not terrible and it's not great but I know some folks swear by it. I started to call this the hurt you gun simply because I would get people close to death before I got immediately deleted by our wonder S5 weapon meta.

What was the gun like in the before times? I found my only issues was it just doesn't hit hard enough in its primary ranges and that it's horizontal recoil is a bit much for me that I invested heavily into horizontal recoil so I could become more accurate..

Overall for me it's a 6/10 SMG but it does show off weapon camos really well and it's kind of well-rounded just doesn't do anything particularly great to make me choose it over another gun.

With this done I am moving onto the Razorback and hoping I like it.

Sure there's times that I don't but I always like to keep things as close to the same on each side. Here's a few of my combinations.

It does slightly annoy me that I can't have two robots because both reaper and TEDD are on the guild side.

I reviewed over 100 matches (40 S4 matches and 60 S5 matches)with the help of GPT to identify trends and analyze my matches since we got the S5 update. It identified the following few things.

1. Ping was on average was 50ms. Prior to S4 the average connection was 28ms.

2. 53% of my matches the enemy had a clear statistical advantage over my team in general score. I.E 4-5 of my teammates were severely outclassed by the enemies skill.

3. My performance compared to the top 3 enemies was relatively equal with only a few matches where one or two enemies clearly outclassed me.

4. My average teammates EDA was 0.70-.80, while my opponents were 1.5 EDA on average.

5. Most of my wins required me to to carrying the team and it determined over 40% of my wins required this with the other wins slotting me into probably contributing to a win and struggling with my team.

6. My average wait time was 40s to get into a match and 70% of those matches were a join in progress.

Overall, matchmaking is taking longer to find players to put into a lobby. It's also sacrificed my actual latency. In S4 I was finding matches with stronger connections vs after S5 where connections have taken dip.

My enemies were mostly on even footing but team balancing was still lopsided.

Lobbies disbanded every time but I would have the same few people from previous games up to 2-3 in a row but not the whole lobby.

Matchmaking is finding closer skilled players to my level as opponents but not finding me teammates of similar skill level to support a more balanced match.

This is why matches are even more of a blowout now than in S4.

This was on Xbox series X with console only cross play.

If you're interested in trying to see how you're performance is, you can save a screenshot of your scoreboard and upload it to whatever your preferred A.I system to have it analyze your data.

Unless you're really big into maths, which you could do all those calculations manually.

With the ability to only akimbo it was interesting but the gun isn't straight garbage but I wouldn't say it's very good in is present state.

The slow reloading and limited ammo just hold this gun completely back. Even with fast hands I found reloading to so be slow and you are spending most of your time reloading.

You have an option between a 26 fast reload magazine or 30rd extended with some penalties that just aren't justified for this magazine.

Damage is alright and hip fire is fairly okay. You just never seem to never have enough ammo to really streak up even if you opted to being Scavenger.

It does do one thing particularly well and that it's actually pretty decent at range. If you just pepper people you can get a bunch of longshots and it's pretty accurate.

Overall it's a trolly weapon in my eyes and like someone who posted earlier, it seems to be more focused on being a secondary and a primary. I would almost argue that it should switch from the SMG category and move into the special section if they were to keep it as it.

If I were to make any changes I think I would just speed up the reload or increase the extended mags to 35 and keep the current reload speed.

How you folks finding it?

Nobody wants to spend 2+ minutes searching for the worlds laggiest game. All you had to do was update content and fix some issues and balance weapons.

Now it's back to the way it used to be pre BO7 but worse.

:( guess it's now endgame and zombies because I am not interested in playing 80ms games.

After getting blasted by this every day I thought I might as well finish up the last 100 levels and started to use the MPC.

I've no idea how people are beaming the shit out of me with this gun as the recoil is a pain in the ass to control after the first few shots. I found medium to long range figures to be extremely difficult with the MPC.

Close quarters it worked out pretty well.

I like this gun and after a while I didn't mind using the iron sights on it. Just wish I could consistently replicate what I've seen in the kill cams when I'm being deleted.

I have a gunfighter Build as well which has worked out pretty well but I can never settle on if I want the aim walking stock or the recoil stock and what laser I would want to run in it.

I found the damage range and recoil stabilization laser to be a good option along with the ADS laser.

What's your go to build? What do you think of this gun?

Overall a solid 7.5 from me.