I'm surprised to see so many people I usually agree with, hating on this IB. This was by far the best IB I've ever had as far as leveling up. I got at least one of every gun besides the pulse and MG. Several loot drops were 7-9 levels above what I had. I had my highest lvl gear on the whole time in hopes of getting the highest lvl loot. Because of this I equipped a useless sniper most of IB. [b]I'm a casual pvp player, but I had no trouble getting the most kills on my random fireteams, several times, with nothing but my abilities and the new auto rifle. [/b] I completed the special abilities kill several matches before I could get the weapons kill bounty done. I definitely seemed to die from abilities the most as well. IMO, the new artifacts did more damage than shotguns. Maybe if fusion rifles had SOME consistency, shotguns wouldn't have been the obvious choice for so many players. [spoiler]I want to like fusions, but I can shoot someone in the numbers, from 30ft and get a kill, then run across the same person later in the match, shoot them in the same spot, from 10ft away, and barely break their shield. [/spoiler] I really am surprised so many people didn't like this IB. I played enough to reach rank 5 with 3 characters and never once thought shotguns were out of control. I had fun with it. Supremacy is a run a gun roller coaster. I can't tell you how many times my team was down by a lot, but grouped together to make a huge comeback.