New BR-14 Adjudicator Rifle is weird

[Kurotoge]

Is it broken or something? I went to try it out before work and every shot seemed to spread more than a freaking shotgun. Like I'm not asking for a sniper rifle but the Diligence and Counter Diligence perform better than BR-14 Adjudicator Rifle. And yes I understand that there is fall/drop off in this game but the way the new marksman rifle acts, its as if the bullets weigh a ton or something. I'm hoping I just had silly lag and will do more testing after work but...oh boy.

[Zheppon]

honestly i feel the same, i take it to the bot and so far the regular diligence seems more better than adjudicator for me anyway

with diligence i can reliably shot bots head with the new one it feels wierd and its so hard to even take down regular bot

[Wutever]

"Awful ballistic performance" seems to be the theme of this Warbond, and the Adjucator is affected by it even though it makes no sense for it to be. It's not even explosive ffs.

[the trashman]

everyone says it's "set up for headshots" but it takes like 5 headshots to kill a devastator with it, and with the spread, good LUCK making all those shots connect WHILE under fire from ur target and the million others, it's just not good at what its designed to do, but the devs have said before they want weapons to either excel at one thing or be okay at everything, this thing is just.. not okay with accuracy, and sorta okay in damage? at least you get a lot of shots and a fully auto selection when in close combat. but yeah literally any assault rifle we have is more accurate than a DMR, hell the sickle is more accurate. the balance of the primary weapons in this game (while not really affecting my enjoyment of things overall) is all over the place.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

It's cheeks. Just pointless. It's got medium armor penetration so I tried it against bots. It 2 taps basic bots if you don't headshot, and headshotting can sometimes be an issue because it has spread.

Way worse than the scorcher. I put it away and just put scorcher back on.

[Fizzie]

Flashback to previous warbond. 1/3 effective weapons. At least the stun grenade can be useful, thermite feels terrible. Need to test eruptor in bots, should one shot hulk/devastator heads.

[Midnight]

Well, imo it's in the running for one of the worst weapons in the game.

It's not merely weak, it's barely usable due to its ammo economy alone. It won't oneshot scavenger on body shot. You have to two-tap scavengers with this 25 mag, 6 mag count waste of a primary slot.

[BenBandit]

Gun feels way too sluggish, and the recoils kills it for me personally. I just wish they'd stop rolling out mediocre bs

[Prince-Nyan]

It's worse than the liberator-pen, which has it's uses, able to apply full damage to light armour. This new gun, it's penetration is bugged or barely within the medium category, it cannot damage medium armour, bouncing off. It's damage for a MR is barely higher than the Defender, which is a SMG.

I just don't understand why they're so afraid to make a MR function as expected. The slugger, a shotgun, is still the best Marksman Rifle in the game despite the nerfs.

Also weapon description; " though its restrictive magazine limits its effectiveness against large groups." - I sure am glad there's no 'Large groups' in the game.

[Diomedes]

Originally posted by Halbzeitbandit:

Gun feels way too sluggish, and the recoils kills it for me personally. I just wish they'd stop rolling out mediocre bs

This is honestly a tight rope act.. Make them too powerful/meta and they will be accused of being pay to win... In making the weapons overpowered at launch.. They then get even more backlash if they decide to nerf them, because of the premium bonds, in which they wil be accused of baiting players.

[ItzPress]

It looks like it's struggling to be in a place. From the "higher mag cap, lower damage" vibes in comparison to the Diligence, it started looking like a Diligence that's made for more repeatability, but then you have higher recoil too, and then higher armor penetration despite being weaker.

Something made for high repeatability and higher recoil needs to have some really good strength in the right circumstance if you're actually making the most damage out of such dimension of a gun. So is that like... trying to rapidly and with good recoil-taming, taking down higher-armor targets? Huh?

[TheSuit]

Its a headshot \ weakpoint weapon.

Works best at short and midrange
Even though it says medium its more like a above average light penetration

[Valhalla'sRevenge]

something, something, using the playerbase for QA.

[Katitoff]

Alright, so I have played with it a little bit more.

1st most important thing about it:

DO NOT CHANGE TO FULL AUTO.

Once you do that, its really alright and precise weapon for mid-range.

Takes bots heads in a single shot nicely and accurately, easy to pick strider pilots and pretty alright vs devastators.

[nadata]

you'd think they would make premium warbond guns GOOD so people are more likely to spend money on it...

[Gauss]

one thing i noticed, i nothing effectiveness whise, but when you reload you can see through the model