Talk:Burston/@comment-124.13.107.87-20130809175100/@comment-13117751-20130812131558

It actually is. Well, on "paper' anyway.

It has theoretically one of the highest DPS out of any of the long rifles, as is suggested by that sheet, but sheets like those, while accurate on a pure data standpoint, aren't necessarily true in all practical situations.

So basically this is one of those "in theory, it is amazing, in practice, it is just 'good' " situations.

That DPS sheet is one the assumption that:

1) None of your shots in the burst are missed

2) Your framerate is ideal, and you never miss a trigger-pull window when the gun is once again ready to fire

3) Your enemy has infinite HP and no defence whatsoever.

To clarify on these points:

1) While it's relatively "easy" to land all three hits if you compensate with mouse/aim movement while the burst is firing, this still takes quite some time and practice to master, and even then it's still difficult to land all three shots perfectly into a single weak/unarmored point. Other guns you wouldn't necessarily have to worry about this and instead would be concerned with the weapon bullet spread, so this really pans out in the end and doesn't matter as much as the second two.

2) As it is burst fire, whether or not you achieve the ideal fire rate (and ideal DPS as a result) depends on your framerate. If your framerate and lag conditions aren't perfect, you will miss the ideal time to pull the trigger and will not be firing the weapon as fast as possible, thus the 'true' DPS is somewhat less than what you could mathematically calculate.

3) Realistically enemies dont' have infinite HP, so more often than not you will be placed in a situation where it will take, say, 4 burston bullets to kill a target. This means you have to fire SIX bullets (two bursts, since the first burst is not enough) to achieve a kill. Other weapons can fire whatever they need to, then transition to another target faster than the buston can. Because you have to fire that extra burst, your time to kill becomes, in practice, somewhat longer than the actual time to kill (when your fourth bullet hits). Of course, all this is assuming your enemy has no armor as well, so toward high level enemies your burston will get "weaker".

Don't get me wrong, the burston's a great gun, especially after the buff, but theory-math always has a point where it falls off.