You were on the right track to creating a balanced engagement. The flinch reduction was necessary to have a fair fight. The magazine size reduction is a fair tradeoff for those with Braced Frame and running max stability. But the fact that you increased the time-to-kill just enough to make it equivalent to the next fastest pulse rifle just forced players to pick up a Hawksaw-type pulse rifle instead. [b]This is simply a punitive measure against this archetype of pulse rifle. You can look at any primary weapon class and there is always a distinction in time-to-kill between archetypes. [/b] The magazine size reduction is a good approach to reigning them in but you should revert the rate of fire (or frame rate added) to the 77 RoF archetype so that there is still some advantage to using them.