Three Round Burst

[Schindler's Lifts]

Is there any shooter out there where a burst fire mode is actually useful? I feel like most guns that have a three round burst fire mode in games just have it out of formality, because "the gun has it in real life, so we need to have it in our game as well". The game is rarely built and/or balanced around using burst fire mode, and its inclusion often feels like an afterthought. It's oftentimes better to just set the gun to full auto and control the spray yourself.

CSGO is even worse. It just slaps on three round burst on weapons that don't have it IRL, and gameplay wise it's SIGNIFICANTLY worse than firing full auto.

Note that I don't have an issue with the mechanic itself. Burst fire itself can be great fun when balanced properly, and some of my favourite weapons in games are weapons that can only burst fire. The SCAR in Left 4 Dead 2 and the M16A4 in Insurgency come to mind.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

-Single shot is for maximum accuracy and control of single shots.

-Full auto is basically just for suppressing fire because it is inherently inaccurate.

-3 round burst is more for conserving ammo while trying to combine the multiple rounds of full auto with the accuracy of single shot, and was made for inexperienced soldiers so they wouldn't "mag dump" or "spray and pray" all over the place every time they got scared.

Eventually on some firearms they made 3-round burst so that it would fire 3 shots at maximum RPM (usually must faster RPM, above 1600 RPM, than a full auto version of the same weapon) to try and get 3 rounds on target before recoil impulse would make the shooter inaccurate.