Talk:NSX Masamune/@comment-184.65.140.104-20200122121326

It is an interesting weapon. It has the ability to oneshot infantry like a decimator with faster recoil due to its hipfire, yet lacks the range of one due to its unique hipfire.(although theoretically it can kill more people in a shorter time due to its faster reload).

Furthermore due to its cone of fire, it is able to scare off bad esf pilots from A2G ing you with hipfire, but lacks the burst to one shot them reliably like a decimator. Overall, this weapon suffers from lack of damage despite its long TTK in zoomed-in mode, while lacking range when hipfiring due to its unique recoil. This makes this weapon have an interesting yet unreliable niche of dealing with VERY close range infantry/armor or having a very lackluster yet accurate tracking with zoom-in mode vs enemy targets.

In the end,, I don't like this weapon due to its unreliableness in CQC-med range combat vs ground, infantry and air while its long range targeting ability is very lackluster due to its damage over time trait (although it can farm air deterrence ribbons quite nicely vs large air). However, I feel that if daybreak added the ability/boosted the damage for this weapon to oneshot a ESF with its magazine as long as all rounds hit to deter A2G users who get up close, then I would certainly use it more often.