.416 Barrett

The .50 cal Barrett isn't coming to CF NA. I get that. I'm glad that it's not, since it would be way to powerful, especially in Mutation Mode. However, I'm a big fan of Barrett rifles, and it seems pointless to not use an already made skin of a popular gun because of it's strength, when toning down the power would be simple enough to do.

Basically, most people think of Barrett rifles as shooting the massive .50 BGM round. However, Barrett also offers a smaller, extremely well designed .416 caliber round. It's casing is very similar to the .50 BMG in size, but the bullet is a good amount smaller for increased speed and accuracy, and Barrett rifles need only a simple barrel change to fire it. The .416 Barrett lacks the sheer stopping power that the .50 caliber BGM offers, and is more suited for soft targets than the .50 which can tear through an engine block, so it would be more suited for Crossfire.

If a sniper rifle that shot Barrett .416 was put in the game, it's damage would be realistically not too much more than the .338 Lapua used by the AWM. If the base damage was set at about 1.5 that of the AWM, with only the leg multiplier lowered to a 2hk, it would not be overpowered in the competitive community. With the slower movement and firing rate than the AWM, and the only benefit being a 2hk through a box instead of 3hk, plus a 5 round Magazine (5/20 sound good?) instead of the ZP-AWM's 10, it would not be overpowered in normal gameplay but still add some variety to sniping.

In Mutation Hero mode, the slower firing rate, walking speed and less ammo compared to ZP-AWM's would make the Barrett little more effective than the AWM in terms of damage per second, and only slightly more powerful during times when only one shot can be taken. Not overpowered, but it would still be the mode it does relatively the best it, and to an even lesser extent than the Gatling Gun which basically sucks in most game modes but is the noun form of "epic" in Mutation.

Also, snipers are already at a disadvantage in HM/MM, and a bolt action sniper that body shots for 200 or less damage every few seconds (which is assuming you hit every shot) really wouldn't offer more average damage than your standard assault rifle; it would just be more effective long range and less effective up close. Not to mention that a sniper with a Barrett running from mutants ...isn't. He's inching his way across the map slightly faster than someone spinning a Gatling Gun.

Bottom line, the Barrett could be implemented in CrossFire and still offer the look and feel of a high damage BFG, without being overpowered. Listed as using the .416 Barrett bullet in a 5 round mag, it would actually be slightly less effective than the ZP versions of the AWM in most game modes, and merely the sniper of choice in Mutation. If nothing else, it would be one of the few practical alternatives to the AWM, which is basically the only sniper that sees any type of even remotely competitive play.

TL;DR: Barrett with a smaller round, less damage than the .50 caliber, similar to AWM in most game types, and not overpowered.

Thoughts?
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