Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20160603044700/@comment-2001041-20160705044919

FLATtheFISH wrote:

In real steel, burst fire is more practical than full auto. Don't see why the same concept couldn't apply to the Nerf world.

And no, I'm not implying that drawing direct paralells to both are right. Just sometimes.

This is not one of those times, I'm afraid. Nerf weapons fire so slowly that the concept of 'burst fire' doesn't really match what's going on in battle. If you told me I could only fire three darts every fifteen seconds, I'd be using a Retaliator, or in fact any other bolt-action rifle, not a fully-automatic weapon. Trying to conserve ammunition in this fashion thus ruins the purpose of having such a weapon, especially when assaulting an enemy position! The point is to defeat the position, and firing full-auto is the best way to do that. It either gets them out of the battle or it gets them out of that area.