Would it have been better to just remove crits for AR's? (Destiny)

by Earendil, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 16:54 (3775 days ago) @ iconicbanana

Balancing the lethality of an AR in a skilled users hands with the penchant for less skilled players to use AR's seems to be the biggest issue with this weapon class, likely from the start. Would a better move have been to keep the original base damage, and just not have AR's do bonus headshot damage at all?

I get what you're saying, but I don't think that would be a good thing. One that that head shot damage does for a player is
1. Allows them to fight better if they're playing better
2. Give them a noticeable way to measure how well they are improving their gunplay.

If ARs effectively had no bonus to aiming, the difference in a good vs bad fight would be much smaller, and a player would show little combat improvement as they got better at aiming.