People have recently started realizing how broken the Odin can be. From Iron to Immortal, this gun is very much used. The time to kill (considering you hit bodyshots) is very low. You don't need any mechanical skill or anything like that to operate the Odin (a bit of game knowledge and positioning is required to operate it skillfully btw) . And as the lower lobbies (Gold and below) mostly rely on bodyshots rather than headshots, its almost impossible to deal Odin player with something like Phantom, Vandal or Spectre.

The Odin has very negligible impact on movement speed, unlike the Negav in CS which reduces movement speed by a huge margin and is a great tradeoff. Moreover, its just 300 creds more than Phantom/ Vandal. So low rankers prefer going for Odin than those as it is much easy to operate. As if that wasnt enough, it has got 100 round which alone can stop a 5 man push. So, if you miss the headshot on the Odin guy, you are pretty much dead. Combine that with a good Sova player's kit on Ascent and you are pretty much dead. That's why, anything other than an Odin vs Odin is not a fair fight.

Edit (from a comment): You cant even deal with it by using smokes/ leer/ paranoia/ flashes as Odin can be prefired with no recoil at all. The Odin deserved nerf before the Operator

!From my personal experience, when we were almost about to lose, we used 5 Odins and came back hard and won the game. Again, in the matches we almost won, opponents started using Odins and unsurprisingly, we lost the match from 11-4 to 11-13!<

I think Odin needs a big balancing change, and here's how i think would be best. Not all of them are necessary, but two or more would do the work.

• Reduce movement speed with Odin and increase equip time
• Reduce the maximum achievable Rate of Fire (most important)
• Make the recoil harder and increase the crosshair reset time after being fired
• Increase the cost of purchase to about 3,500/3,600 credits
• Decrease the magazine size to 70/80 rounds

Comment down below if you think the Odin is broken atm or not, and whether the changes should be implemented or not.

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ODIN IS WITH US!!