Noob_Guardian 421 Posted August 13 (edited) No really. It's the most balanced gun in the game, ever. That's why it's the most used, and any attempt to unseat it, is met with massive backlash. NTEC ursus was a mistake purely done for making money off a then nerfed weapon, NTEC never stopped being god tier, every attempt at balancing has fell flat on it's face. You'll only ever on occassion see kill numbers with most other weapons over 20 kills, but never 30, unless someone's cheating, or using N-TEC. Want to use any other weapon? Good luck, NTEC will likely dominate you unless you're using an OCA sub 10m and even then it's a 50/50 chance, or an hvr at 70m+ out. The fact that the massive elephant of imbalance remains untouched, simply goes to show how impossible it is to balance the thing, even after 3-4 iterations, it's never once been non-meta. https://imgur.com/vGwcDmq Edited August 13 by Noob_Guardian Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EC2Jonathan 17 Posted August 14 MCD CLAN APPROVES OF THIS POST. THE NTEC .45 COMBO HAS DOMINATED THE META FOR FAR TOO LONG. ALL MCDOUBLERS WILL BE ASSIGNED THIS CASE! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlatMan 732 Posted August 14 It's the only alternative to the STAR when you're new, and people are reluctant to change what they're used to even if it's not the best. At some point it's not the weapon if you keep dying to it after many nerfs. Besides, it not like you don't have access to it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vsb 6207 Posted August 14 Any premade dropping 30 bombs on you with ntec can do it with any other weapon too bro but what the hell there’s only 300 players, let’s make ntec ttk .75 just for funsies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
koenyboy500 73 Posted August 14 STAR is underrated. Infact (and I'm well aware the weapons are 95% the same) I think that the FAR is THE Assault Rifle in the game that has the best multi-purpose use. It is the middle ground between STAR and N-TEC and does both sustained fire (STAR) and accurate burst/semi-auto fire very well. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Noob_Guardian 421 Posted Thursday at 01:23 PM 4 hours ago, koenyboy500 said: STAR is underrated. Infact (and I'm well aware the weapons are 95% the same) I think that the FAR is THE Assault Rifle in the game that has the best multi-purpose use. It is the middle ground between STAR and N-TEC and does both sustained fire (STAR) and accurate burst/semi-auto fire very well. Star is great, it's functionally almost identical to FAR except for accuracy mods, reload, and .75ttk. Definitely underrated for how good it is. But, in top play, FAR performs better marginally, and NTEC is simply the best due to tapfire. I understand why the STAR wouldn't be the "best rifle" in the game which is fine. I think it's annoying that the NTEC feels like it outclasses everything within its range. I never understood why they didn't up it and the FAR's TTK slightly. Sure it wouldn't effect midrange burst/tapfire much, but CQC would be effected in a slightly more positive way "at least". I'm leveling roles up and change weapons often so I get to feel the weaknesses of every weapon, and boy does the NTEC (especially ursus) come off as the most annoying thing to face in most situations. Even when I got Rifleman to 16, I could easily pull 15+ kills per match with ntec/ursus constistently. Ended up using FAR or star unless "trying hard" more often than not because I got tired of using it. 5 hours ago, vsb said: Any premade dropping 30 bombs on you with ntec can do it with any other weapon too bro but what the hell there’s only 300 players, let’s make ntec ttk .75 just for funsies Oh, i'm aware, normally it's from my teamates. We had the absolute unpleasure of an annoyingly long match, added ontop a near 9 minute 3 item heavy objective hold. Ursus/NTEC was the top 2 fraggers, the one with 37 changed to AV at the end of the game and picked up another like 8-10 deaths. He was like 30/6 initially. Though yeah, i dunno why they never .75'd ages ago, it wouldn't do much except help more close range weapons be more able to compete "slightly". 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ardita 208 Posted Friday at 11:35 AM On 8/14/2025 at 9:46 AM, vsb said: but what the hell there’s only 300 players, let’s make ntec ttk .75 just for funsies That's the main problem. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N66 103 Posted Friday at 12:32 PM (edited) Another day another one.. Edited Friday at 12:32 PM by N66 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites