Talk:Latron/@comment-77.167.191.171-20140116161214

Really really love this weapon. On paper it doesn't look too good, a subpar weapon that combines a little bit of sniperrifle with a little bit of assaultrifle/boomstick. What you end up with is a rifle I find extremely comfortable to use though. It's highly accurate, it's as quick as a semi-automatic weapon can be, and if you know how to aim for weakspots the damage is actually decent. Some of you complained about the recoil, but that's just an animation. You can keep shooting during the animation and you will hit the exact same spot you were aiming at before (provided you didn't aim elsewhere of course). You can get trigger happy with this thing and to be honest I don't even notice the recoil anymore.

"Get skills" someone said below. I kinda agree. Ones you learned how to aim, this weapon does very well both at range and in someone's face, and after having leveled both assaultrifles, throwing weapons, bows and sniperrifles for a while, this has become my weapon of choice, despite the fact that all of those weapons outdamage this old thing. It is sufficient and when I'm on my game I often outdamage/kill people using higher tiered weapons, simply because it's so easy to switch between long and short range and this weapon forces you to be very aware of where all the enemies are. In games where my teammates have a lot of flashy "template" weapons (flamers, bombards, AOE skills etc.) I get confused with this weapon sometimes and feel kinda worthless, but my main frame Ash is really quick so it's usually easy enough to work around that and pick of distant targets (which is really quite easy with this rifle) if half the room is covered in colours.

So yes, I do think this is a riflemans rifle. Give it a chance if you haven't allready. Probably not an endgame weapon (which really are though?) but perfect up till level 30 (at least, haven't been past that point myself though).