AX-50 had less range potential than HDR so for funsies god-shots 300m+ you needed the HDR. I had several fun clips of me shooting people lying down under 150m with the AX-50 in the head and not killing them. Something was fucky with it. The HDR was lower damage, slower fire rate for higher accuracy at a distance. I'd occasionally have to grab a sniper off a Grauboi and it was almost always an AX-50. I hated it. And I wasn't unacustomed to it, I ran AX-50 for the first two seasons. Just found the HDR more accurate overall. In closer to mid though the AX-50 definitely secured knocks easier if it didn't bug out.
The explosive rounds on the new sniper are pretty funny but yeah the recoil is absurd and I've heard the long range on it isnt very good. Maybe a good close range quickscope explosive sniper but the recoil yikes.
I like the FAL but sometimes in a close combat I find it fires too slow and rather have my bruen LMG
Been seeing a lot of hackers though, never ran into that many prior to latest patch
Problem with this is the classic BR. There are people who are good or above average and when the player pop dips (like CoD has recently) only two people are playing it still. The people trying it out for the first time and those forementioned people. It's like PUBG/Realm Royale/Apex. You either run into potatos or sweatters. There's very few inbetween. The nature of the game. The best thing to happen is big patches with content and fun changes that bring back the normie types who aren't bad but aren't uber meta dickfucks.
I'd be playing personally but GoD launched on Mangler and Path of Exile Harvest is pretty fun right now. As soon as my crew fixes their sleep schedule I definitely want to dip into the post-Grau era CoD BR.
I'm tired of fucking snipers in gulag. Whoever thought that was a good idea should be fired from the team.