Barrett for the Hero?

RawrJafrikan wrote: »

Wrong. The Barret does more damage but is slowe reload and ****.

Not everyone's familiar with all of the guns in other versions of the game, no need to be rude...

RawrJafrikan wrote: »

DEFINITLY!!

Cause you know, this change will "Better the world as a whole"!!!

Seriosly? Stop being full of yourself, this change will only make people angry in HM and probably cause people to complain really badly.

If anything, they should just implement it into the game, not make it a "experiment".

That "better the world as a whole" line was just a joke. Calm down. And I don't really see how it would make people complain, it would just give the hero an option to use a weapon that in most respects is worse than the original... the Barrett does 400 damage on a regular shot, 600 damage on a headshot, and fires about once every two seconds. The FAL on the other hand can do 400 damage to multiple mutants at a time with grenade splash damage, and shoot twice as fast. I've gotten trapped in a room with several mutants, and just by spamming the grenade launcher at the ground while jumping around, got literally 10 thousand damage and a double kill before getting mutated. Add on to that an automatic weapon with a 60 round magazine, fast reload, bullet damage comparable to the AK-47, low recoil, over 500 bullets after extended ammo and better knock back than the Barrett... no one's going to complain if someone chooses to use a Bolt action rifle instead.

Adding the Barrett would just give another option for people that want to do more long range/precision shooting, and not force them to get up close and personal because their AWM got replaced with an unscoped, automatic rifle. The weapon could, however, be considered overpowered as a regular weapon. Even with it's high weight and low firing speed, it has enough power to one hit kill to any part of the body... though a box. In MM/HM, while one rifle may not be able to off balance the sides, a team of players with half machine guns and half Barrett's would be almost impossible to defeat. The developers are hesitant to include it in the regular game because of this high power, and they have basically said flat out that we should not be expecting the Barrett any time soon. And can you really blame them, after seeing how much people complain about the M12s?

Still, a lot of people do want to see the Barrett come to this version just because it's a badass gun, even if it does have it's overpowered elements. That's why adding it as an option for the Hero, to be used by maximum one player at a time, by a team that's already at a disadvantage, would be better than just introducing it as a regular weapon that you equip. If it turns out to be as overpowered as some people say, it would still be perfectly suited for the role as the "Hero's" gun.

Alternatively, if the community thinks that it's power balances out with it's firing rate and weight so it wouldn't disrupt the gameplay of normal modes, it could be added as a crate/coupon prize. This would give some much appreciated variety to the sniper rifles you see in normal matches: AWM, AWM reskin, AWM, DSR, AWM reskin, etc... Another 1hk rifle would be great to have, and a lot people (myself included) have been hoping for the Barrett to come to our Crossfire for years. Thanks to the recent inclusion of purposely-overpowered weapon of Hero Mode, this could be the Barrett's ticket into CF NA, and there's really no reason that I can see of people having a problem with it.