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Forward Path
Hi Guardians welcome back for another destiny in-depth review where I review exotics and legendary gear in order to give you a comprehensive understanding of the gear so you can play this game as efficient and effective as possible.
Today we are going to review the Iron Banner Auto Rifle the Forward Path.
This is a fast firing auto rifle that sits in the 600 rounds per minute archetype, which is similar like the Scathelocke , but then with higher stability, reload speed, handling and aim assist. I can tell you now if you like the Scatehelocke then you will like this gun even more.
Lets have a look at the perks. It has the Adaptive Frame.
The Red Dot 2 MOA, Red Dot Micro, and the Rifle Scope. I like to use the Red Dot Micro, it is nice and clean and increases the range as well which is very important for an auto rifle.
Armor Piercing rounds which overpenetrate targets and increases range.
Extended mag, increases the mag size at the expense of a slower reload speed.
And Tap the Trigger , which will grant you increased stability and accuracy on the initial trigger pull.
The Forward Path's strength is the fast handling and the fast reload, so in terms of perks I would pick armor piercing rounds over extended mag. Extended mag can give you that extra bullets but it comes at a cost of your reload speed which is the strength of this gun, and 43 rounds in the mag is more than enough so there is really no need for extended mag, so I opt for Armor Piercing rounds instead which can keep the strengths of this gun and make it even more lethal by increasing the range and have the added ability to overpenetrate targets. This is an underestimated perk that can be useful in certain scenarios where guardians are clumped up together. This can become particularly useful in the current meta where opponents are often clumped up together to team shoot you, so with your returning fire you can actually hit multiple opponents with this perk.
So how does this gun performs in Pvp? The gun feels very smooth in its handling and the big mag of 43 means that you have plenty of bullets to hit your targets so it is very forgiving if your aim is a bit off, and the big mag also allows you to pre-fire around the corner without any worries that you will run out of bullets.
And when you are out of bullets the reload is super quick to get you back in the game as fast as possible.
The gun is, despite its high fire rate, surprisingly easy to use and the recoil is very manageable.
You won't have any problems hitting your target as this gun just works very well as an auto rifle, as long as you stick to the short to medium range. You can hit your target further away but your damage falloff will be very steep.
The range is less than the popular 450 rounds per minute auto rifles, so like I said either stick to the short to medium range or switch to the 450 rounds per minute auto rifle or scout when you are on a bigger map.
Talking about the 450 rounds per minute auto rifles, these still have a better time to kill than the forward path.
The popular auto rifles like the uriel gift and origin story will kill in 1.07 seconds, but the forward path is not far off at 1.1 seconds and the body shot time to kill is actually faster than the 450 auto rifles where their bodyshot time to kill is 1 tenth of a second slower at 1.6 seconds.
So there is a slight tradeoff with these two archetypes. The Uriel's gift archetype has a faster optimum time to kill and can do so with less bullets and have in general better range than the Forward Path archetype, but the forward path does have a better bodyshot time to kill and has much better reload speed , handling and a huge mag.
So if you are an accurate player, you might want to stick with the Uriel's Gift archetype, and I would say that the Forward Path is a more forgiving gun that you can just pick up and have a great time with it. The optimum time to kill might be slightly slower than the popular auto rifles, but the body shot time to kill is actually better, so the gun is still very competitive and you can still do very well with. And The Tap the Trigger perk comes in very handy with any gun fight to give you that extra stability and accuracy boost upon firing.
The Forward Path is a great consistent workhorse that is just very smooth and easy to use with perks that complements the gun very well. If you are not sure what gun you want to use than the Forward Path is never a bad choice to pick, so yeah it is not an overpowered gun, it is just a damn good auto rifle that is very easy to use, and thus I am going to give the Forward Path a B.
Thank you so much for watching this review, I hope this review gave you the insights you needed for this gun.
So I have now reviewed all of the Iron Banner guns, you can find the reviews in the description below. The only ones that are left is the Fusion Rifle and the grenade launcher, let me know in the comments below if you want me to review those guns as well or let me know which gun you want me to review next.
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