Well not necessarily. Yes, now you can’t get quick scoped or a lone sniper take out a squad from a distance, but unfortunately now this hurts SMGs and pistons a lot (wingman is an exception). Now late game is dominated by a plethora of red evo shields, which increases the importance of landing every shot and having high powered guns. At the beginning now, when there aren’t attachment really any attachments, it make picking up some of the less powerful guns pretty pointless since in a fight it just gives you a false hope that you can win a fire fight.
With less HP, people had to be smart about engagements and use tactics. Now it feels like they killed off the ability for less skilled players to get the drop on the “higher” skilled players, and gave the advantage back to the skilled players who are able to fully level up their evo shields with ease. For example, Gibraltar now has over 300hp with his little gun shield, plus the bonus on taking less damage bec he moves slower. The prowler with purple mag does about 500 or so damage, so you would need to be over 60% accurate with the most powerful SMG (excluding the R99), which just makes my point of giving the advantage to skilled players again.
