Talk:PDW-16 Hailstorm/@comment-108.84.77.227-20170330113531

It has a high TTK making this SMG not very reliable against most run-of-mill weapons. It has a moderate TTK, or average TTK. Problem is, a lot of weapons have a moderate TTK. If you were to take the AF-19 Mercenary for example, the weapon has the same TTK as the Hailstorm just in a different damage model, and has the same moving ADS cone of fire. The Mercenary has the edge with a high damage bullets which it will capitalize on the first shot and the Mercenary has a lower bloom for the damage it does. The list goes on, the Soltice VE3 is competitve as well. This is before 21m at that. Over 20m, the weapon's TTK gets even worse. All the Hailstorm has is better hip-fire, faster ADS movement speed, and larger magazine. This is not really a personal defense weapon. This weapon is really meant as to harass the enemy more than anything as a CQC weapon traditionally has above average TTK. Interesting thing about it it has a relatively quick short reload speed in respect to it's magazine size.

It's recoil doesn't seem out of the ordinary either except it's horizontal tolerance of 0.735 which is not bad for a SMG, or CQC centric automatic weapon, but it does have angular vertical, and the variance is 3 degrees. A compensator is suggested to mitigate the adverse effects of it's angular recoil if you are doing a ADS play-style.

You have to be very careful how you pick your engagements with the Hailstorm and feel comfortable disengaging from a fight even if you don't get a frag. Basically this is sort of like a LMG type of SMG. You sacrifice TTK for shorter down-time. In a defensive point-holding position, Hailstorm should be technically the best SMG.