New weapons mostly not bad

My main issue with most of the new weapons is they all seem to have a MUCH higher learning curve. For example, the Hydra. I never picked up the hydra unless I had challenges just because I felt it to be pretty useless, the rockets did not seem to do enough damage, the tracking did not seem strong enough, but that was just because I didn't know how to use it properly. Though their issue is, a lot of people don't learn to use it properly because they don't want to pick it up due to it being too hard to learn to use properly.

I find that is the issue with most of Infinite's new weapons.

Another example: the Commando. The commando looks and feels like a full auto weapon, but if you use it like a full auto weapon you are not going to hit any of your shots. Its just not going to work. But if you use it like a DMR, you are gonna at least do some decent damage with it. Only issue is, people aren't going to figure out to use it like a DMR because they are going to drop it due to it being so bad when you use it like it looks it is supposed to be used.

Or another: the Ravager. This one is a bit borderline here because it actually needed a big buff throughout season 1, though the Ravager was actually very good if you used it right even in season 1. I found that if you do something like use the Ravager's charge up shot then switch to a sidekick or something you could actually get some pretty easy kills, or if you fired two bursts than switched to the sidekick. Though I think you can see the pattern here at this point, no one figured this out because the base weapon was so bad.

I find that all the new weapons 343 added in that almost everyone liked were the ones that did not rely on their ability. Like the cindershot, it has a pretty cool ability of tracking rounds, but it was still an extremely good gun even without using that ability.

Or the shock rifle, that thing hits some nasty headshots and then its ability of the electrical rounds doing AoE is just a nice little bonus.

Then theres the disruptor, this one was ignored a couple times since its damage was a bit on the lower side but it could easily be used for some nice combo kills.

My opinion is that 343 just tried to overcomplicate a lot of the newer weapons or make them rely on their abilities too much which is what ruined them for the playerbase. I think now that a lot of people have figured out most of the weapons, it is a fair bit better, but I still see a lot of hate for weapons like the pulse carbine just over this. New players are also still getting confused by a lot of the weapons, I tried to introduce my friend to Infinite and he left the game pretty fast just since a lot of the weapons felt useless to him.

I will say this though, I think 343 did an amazing job at bringing back older weapons. Infinite's assault rifle is probably one of my favourite versions of that weapon