@biass said in Single fire vs Full auto:
I'm jumping in for Benz here.
Higher weapon damage won't make single shot more viable against full auto. It will make "Spray control" less important and shift the focus on to your target acquisition speed instead. Full auto (considering not every weapon one hit kills) will always be the higher DPS solution.
If you complain about holding a spray onto someone then I would question your target speed too, people who can hold a pattern will usually still be able to land first shot accuracy at the same speed as you - Even at extreme ranges
There needs to be a different way to make auto more challenging rather then "ADD BOOLET DAMGAE" because while sure, the TTK will be lower the balance between auto and single shot will be the same if not better for Auto (suppression is in this game which benefits full auto a LOT more then single fire) which is why i think Benz solution of making an alternative balance mechanic for auto is solid. Higher recoil won't stop me personally but is a good start.
Also, two things of note:
- Claiming someone made a logical fallacy is a cheap way of avoiding the original point entirely, they're cool to know about but you look absolutely terrible when you wave them about.
- The average Insurgency Source player is a very terrible shooter player and "i played it" should not be a mark of distinction, if you said you were pro, then sure.
If you can kill somebody in one shot, semi is viable. If it takes hosing the enemy down with a super soaker before they fall over, semi is not viable. It's a game of DPS at that point. In Ins2014, the advantage of full auto was suppression. The advantage of semi was the ability to kill somebody every 2-3 shots consistently with a run-of-the-mill assault rifle, meaning you could kill a lot of folks before being vulnerable while reloading. In Sandstorm, the advantage of semi I'm still drawing a ???? on. Perhaps you could enlighten me how it is currently just as viable as hosing an enemy down on full auto in this high TTK situation. If not, let's discuss how in Ins2014 semi was apparently not viable despite it being the most popular choice of firemode almost universally.
If the other guy had attempted to have a reasonable debate instead of misrepresent my argument I wouldn't have pulled the pic up and called it out for what it is. You seem perfectly willing to have a discussion however, so let's have it.