I think people n beta just suck, used handcannons, experienced no ghost bullets. super consistent.

This is total speculation on my part, but one of the arguments throughout D1's life(mostly in year 1) was that autorifles needed to be nerfed because they were suppose to be "THE" close range primary and as a result they had their effective range nerfed repeatedly. I'm wondering if the entire reason to add SMG's was to make them "the" close range primary so they could extend the effective range on autorifles to where they actually wanted it. Food for thought. I'm probably wrong, but I'm glad autorifles seem to be in a really good spot in the beta build and there's no reason to nerf their effective range since SMG's are there to fill that role.

Definitely. And smgs are extremely inconsistant.