did anyone put time into the battle rifles, like the FTAC Recon? Its the second tab in weapons. I leveled up all the weapons I could, beta capped you at 1 level under max since I think maxxing out one weapon unlocks other weps and they didn't want you to have them all.
but man battle rifles were the one gun i could not deal with. they are 3 shots with one pull, but no auto fire so you have to release and fire again for another 3 round burst. which is great IRL aka trigger discipline not spray and pray, but in game i almost always lost a 1v1 with a battle rifle. I guess its more meant as a sniper gun? but when an AR works just as well I am not sure what the point of the battle rifle class is.
It's literally all I used, sorry I called them the TX-15 and G3(which I believe are their irl counterparts). To me, they felt fucking amazing. I personally can't stand guns like the M4, I always leaned into the slower-firing weapons with higher dmg output. In MW2019, they felt absent but what did exist was the FAL and SKS.. one was a rifle and the other was a marksman. The Oden kinda counts being an Ash-12.
Some notes I ran into with them.. could change upon live, but they felt pretty OP. I questioned the tx-15 at first because I was running it with silencer, but once I swapped to the muzzle break.. people just started dropping but had the opposite effect in things like Invasion and GW. While the muzzle break kept the damage going, silencer let me live longer instead of getting swarmed. People would just rush the fuck out of me. I pretty much treated it as a regular rifle, it didn't really feel like a DMR as the long-range damage output felt low.. so mostly mid range.
In CQB situations, it was pretty 50/50, SMG won a lot but the hip fire isn't terrible but not great either; so its do-able just not as reliable.. The low mag size ends up hurting you the most, so in TDM and Dom CQB, it's tough when its a wave of people.. so you're mostly looking for range. 3v1's and 2v'1s were possible but as more people keep showing up and you're not getting the room to breathe, it gets hairy. Going up against the sniper rifle, was nearly impossible if the person is at all competent.. 1 shot vs 3 is a bit of a nuisance.
It also has two firing modes, it was bugged.. you loaded in "Burst Fire" but if you swapped it to Single, it was actually Burst. Which was good for that CQB but I usually just spammed lq. I think actually getting a hold of a variety of attachments, the gun will feel better for sure. Things like Vertical Foregrip, heavy stock, and muzzle breaks.. esp since firing loud weapons doesn't ping you on the mm anymore.
I'm sure spraying 45rnd mags is more effective, but I was managing to top the majority of my games in kills with both of the BR's.. but there were some where I felt useless and swapping to an smg or rifle would have been the better solution. Particularly the map Farm is where I felt that the most.