[quote=“ProfPlump;83248”]
The Blishlok isn’t supposed to be as good as all the other SMGs! It’s supposed to exist as a sub-par SMG that forces some mercs to rely on their other abilities in combat (such as Fletcher needing his bombs) or simply encourages mercs to focus on their actual roles (such as Aura being a merc who should primarily focus on healing and reviving first, and combat second).[/quote]
This makes no sense. Nader has access to any other SMG than the Blishlok, which are much better than the Blishlok itself, and I have yet to see a Nader forgetting to use the Grenade Launcher. Has for the “don’t forget your medic role” argument, Sawbonez and Phoenix have access to better weapons than the Blishlok (everything is better besides shotguns, so it’s not hard to outperform it), and yet you won’t find players that outlook their medic role besides newbies, while Aura has far worse weapons than everyone else. New player’s common errors being a reason for a weapon being underpowered would be a seriously flawed idea. If I follow you there, I should give Arty and Skyhammer pistol as primaries because they don’t share ammo then ?
Blishlok is the worst SMG. It makes no sense to give Bushwhacker and Sawbonez a weapon that performs so badly while they can get much better weapons with augments that are as good as the Blishlok Loadout cards ones, or even better. As for Fletcher and Aura, the shotguns needs a rework badly so those two could be more on par with others. Blishlok is your only viable option, but once again if Blishlok was the SMG designed to make “Shotgun users having something else than shotguns without making them OP”, you wouldn’t find the Blishlok on Bushwhacker, Sawbonez or Phantom, and you wouldn’t see Proxy with the Hochfir.