Light rifles are a Light primary weapon, not a secondary >.>

If they were a secondary, why would anyone choose a semi-auto handgun over a semi-auto rifle?

Because handguns are the much more viable choice to sprayers, who have to switch once they emptied their mag.

True but spots tend to change as everyone learns them then older spots become more useful since they can't check everywhere.



That is correct.




Then they will use the SMG.

I myself will use the rifle and a machine pistol second to have both long and short range capabilities.

This all depends on how many of these supposed spots a map will have.

Well I am not referring to light only areas exclusives. Good places to: hide, snipe, lay mines, place turrets, camp, etc etc.

With the game having a heavy parkour element too it, i imagine the amount of exclusive routes/ spots will be nearly infinite. Maybe even spots the Devs never even dreamed of!

But now you are factoring in unexpected locations. I was referring to spots deliberately planned in map design.

i know, i was just bringing up the thought

I'm afraid this is not the case.

At least the first stages of Container City didn't seem that open to me. The maps are still rather tubular with only a few options for different routes.


I was theorising the situation in which the SMG-mag is empty and the only viable option is to switch to your handgun.

Anyway, this is not really important as light rifles are a lights main weapon. But for mediums it could be important.

That is only one map I am sure other will have more variety. The ship yard for example.

Addendum:

NA: Honestly, it’s hard. It depends on who you’re playing with and how you’re playing. One of the reasons we did Container City, which incidentally is made by the same guy that made Dust [Counterstrike level of legend- .ed], it’s a bit more linear and leads the players a lot more, so is a good introduction to the game. Whereas the level we showed at E3 this year, Reactor, it’s a very different level with a lot of flanking routes, centralised objectives but requires a lot of team work. It’s hard to pick a favourite as things play out differently every time

I think this issue of exclusive routes all boils down to level design. I hope these routes are multiple for each map and give a wide variety of vantage points and flanking options. They should just be fun to manuver in general.

Chances are, that not all maps are going to be "ideal" for Lights. Some maps probably will not have many flanking routes, or maybe none at all.

That's gonna be like BFBC2 where everyone switches to engineer whenever there are a bunch of tanks on the map.

It seems to me like Container City doesnt have many flanking routes.

I hope so. Movement is a huge advantage for the lights, and Splash Damage has to allow lights to have this advantage. This is just one great way to do it.