Part of the deal with the Revenant is that you really have to train yourself to the weapon. As it states it is a Light Machine Gun, not an assault rifle.
I can head-shot with the best of them, but I'll still stick with Revenant.
[Preface, I play on a laptop and the touch-pad versus external mouse makes some of this easier]
Revenant's recoil is most prodigious during the initial shots. If you aim at a mid range opponent's feet and spray, the recoil will drag it up their body toward their shoulders/head. WIth a little practice you can learn to keep the crosshairs in that region and put 90% of your shots into that target. [Especially with ARA upgrade)
Practice this enough to get the feel of it, you can start with the weapon aimed at their head/shoulders and with proper mouse-work keep it there until they go down. At longer ranges the weapon's tendancy to throw about every 5th shot to the side will cause you to miss a few, but you can still keep enough fire on them with the mouse-work to quickly take an enemy down. And if they get close, just keep slinging lead, tungsten, unobtanium or whatever these things use for ammo until it quits moving.
One has to remember that the Revenant is an LMG not an AR and has to be treated accordingly. Since 2nd playthrough something I have done that works very well is use a team of Grunt and Zaeed (or Garrus). Use Revenant on Shepard, Vindicator on Grunt, and Geth Rifle on Zaaed/Garrus. The combination of all three allows you to decimate just about anything if you focus fire on it. Barriers, Shields, Armor, none last very long against that combo.
[Sorry about wall of text]
About the best thing you can do with the Revenant at long range is not even burst fire, but use it for what LMG's are meant for. Spray with suppressing fire to make the enemies duck for cover, [which if you've leaned to control the recoil you'll put enough rounds on them to do it] and move your squad up to either kill them, or suppress them for you. (Granted at LR is when I switch to Viper if I can't get anyone to advance and live through it)
Granted there is something to be said for play-style, my issue with the Vindicator is that its inability to lay a cloud means you kind of have to make well-aimed shots with it. If I am going to bother using AdRu etc for those shots, I'd rather just use a Sniper Rifle. Also with Vindicator if you are rushed by Husks and Abominations you're better served by switching to Shotgun, whereas with Revenant you can simply walk backwards and mow 'em down.
Revenant Composite: 9/10
Vindicator Composite: 8/10
Modifié par Liquid_Unicron, 10 février 2010 - 07:39 .
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when there's only like 12 enemies (granted that you make 1 shot kills, which doesn't always happen on insanity). The Revenant/Vindicator is the more optimal choice for most all situations. If you want similar power from a sniper then just stick with the mantis (I think it only does like 100 pts of damage less than the widow at base).
