It's well beyond "make believe" When hand cannons out range every other archetype of weapon in the game. Take these little programming kids to the shooting range with real firearms. If they actually hired ex-military, better yet, ex-contractors (alphabet boyz) They would get the ranges right the first time. I hand-load and participate in competition target shooting with handguns, rifles and shotguns (3-gun competition). It would take someone like me less than an hour to sort it out

The maps are no where near big enough for ballistics realism

They could all be scaled correctly, it's easy math. They just have no concept of real firearms, likely because of where Bungie is located (Seattle).

I was a marksman so to scale weapons against what D2 has say a scout was the equivalent of a marksman rifle pulse could be too. A 120 hc would be something like a desert eagle with 180s more like berettas Desert eagles are effective well over 100 meters, berettas max out at around that range. Marsksman rifles typically depending on calibre, scope typically 4-800m and big cal snipers past that but you also need to take into account wind, shooter stability. Being a shooter yourself you should know any ranged shooting has a large degree of technical skill not just the weapons capability. Long range Snipers have to know when to shoot In their breathing cycle and how to compensate for coriolis effect to maximize accuracy for example this is mimicked in game a little with certain skills but the full scope of marksmanship is too complex for a run and gun fantasy shooter Hcs could do with a steeper damage dropoff but you have to be careful about keeping them relevant while I the real world I wouldn't expect a desert eagle to compete with a marksman rifle I do expect a HC to compete more closely n a looter shooter. Besides in reality 1 round from any weapon can mean death so weapon selection, range and tactics play a more critical and meaningful role.

Nobody cares about your experience with guns. It isn’t relevant to a game that isn’t even trying to be realistic.

More relevant than untrained programmers who have no concept of what they are trying to emulate. YouTube videos are probably the closest they've ever been to a real firearms.

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Ngl, seems like they're just trolling. I doubt anyone is so blind as to want perfect realism in a sci-fi fantasy shooter.