zerozen00 wrote...
Yesterday (while I still could, sigh...) I played with my trusty Black Widow I alongside a guy who had the Valiant II.
Still managed to outscore him, even if he was close to my score and played very well.
I'm not saying that I'm super good, just that the BW is perfect for a sniper cloak cycle, while a Valiant, while very powerful and super-fast, screws it up.
/zen
I know I am not using the idiom/saying in it's proper context but I will just say it. It's not the gun but "man" behind the gun who matters.
Me and my friend got in a bit of argument and decided to test Black Widow I vs Valiant I without (sniper rail amp or ammo equipment of any kind) in a friendly match against geth on gold on FB White. He took the spot outside near the ammo box and I camped inside near the entrance of lower level popular farming spot. Other two friends also took positions near me and the match began. One of the friends was playing as Asari Adept and other was playing as engineer. Me and other friend were playing as Infiltrators. He was geth and I was salarian. Don't get me wrong. That friend who was using black widow is a crazy good player, has a high N7 rating and gets tons of kills/points when he uses geth pulse shotgun X.
Anyways the game started and by extraction I had 26k score more than him. I am not saying black widow is a bad sniper rifle or valiant is super awesome. If get hunter mode didn't hurt my eyes and gave me headache I would use black widow on geth infiltrator without a doubt as 15% faster fire rate and 25% extra damage is pretty awesome for killing enemies without needing to headshot them. But as salarian infiltrator I mainly use valiant because during those multi hack objectives I find the shorter tactical cloak recharge time better and I also like to down non boss level enemies faster as everyone else usually focus on banshees/atlas and primes and during that time squad is most vulnerable to marauder shields and the likes...
Damn those marauder shields. They are beginning to convince me to trade all my ultra rare unlocks for the same damage/accuracy phaeston they use.
TLDR both sniper rifles are quite good but what matters more than weapon is players skill.