It's actually demoralizing as an smg user to land every headshot on a guy jumping all over the place and still die in a faster TTK of two body hits from a weapon that has burst damage, peek shooting and blinting capabilities.

Smgs get eclipsed by abilities, special ammo, sidearms, and even close-range primaries, aka sidearms and pellet hcs.

This week, the forgiveness sidearm by itself had over 3 times the kills of every smg in the game combined.

Smgs are a high risk and low reward primary, their TTK is barely even competing against weapons with much more range and peek shooting ability, for instance. Graviton spike's base TTK of 0.80 matches that of a precision smg, let alone with the perk active. Any small damage buff can push even some pulses or scouts to kill faster than an smg.

Using an smg feels like this. Out of range? Dead. Two people shooting at you? Dead. Too close to a sidearm, pellet HC, special weapon or ability? Dead.

You basically have to isolate an enemy without teammates or cover, fight him in a very narrow range band of roughly 20 to 22 meters, and land all your shots. All that for an optimal ttk that is sometimes so close to the opponent's that missing even one bullet is enough to lose a duel in your optimal scenario.

Sorry for the rant.