Recently me and Maddox had me fight a spartan in the simulation. Now the first thing I'm going to say is A) Since I haven't actually PVPd in like 2 months (besides sword dueling). I am literal ass B) Since I'm trash rn I can't snipe at all
Now obviously as you can tell above I lost.
I tested out the weapons, and the spartan sniper is more powerful why, not because it has more damage but how the base of each weapon works.
The beam rifle's damage is based on movement if both players are standing still a headshot will do the max damage of 625. If one player is standing still and the other moving it does still around 600. However if both are moving it does around 400-500 damage probably. Now this has to do with the weapon's base.
Meanwhile on the other sniper each bullet does a static of 600-625 damage or more, they have the same damage on the gun, but their bases are different.
Now this small difference can mean a slight damage difference, but it's a small disadvantage.
I asked Maddox for the sim if I could use the human sniper, as I said I'm shit at PVP rn so the spartan whooped me, the lowest health I put him too during the 3-4 times we PVPd was 347/600
Now this proves two points
1) Spartans are good at pvp and if a player is inexperience will destroy them, and may have a slight advantage but that advantage wouldn't really do anything except change damage my high balling 50 dmg. Now mix that with damage reduction, and it's around 20 dmg.
2) SoS/HoJ do have a slight disadvantage on certain weapons
Now after I kept on getting trashed, I decided something I'm gonna get back into PVP. So me and the IFA started to sword duel, and then PVP. As we were PVPing we were testing weapons. We found that multiple weapons were very efficient. The covenant carbine with two headshots of us standing still, and far away was able to knock down your shields. The carbine is a semi-automatic weapon, but it's fire-rate is fast. We found that this weapon was very very OP, and so was the beam rifle and a lot of the other weapons.
So we figured something out the SoS has OP Weapons, but everyone is trash at PVP.
So we said were gonna get good at PVP, and then train everyone.
So through multiple tests, we found this out.
A) The Spartans do have a slight advantage in certain weapon categories
B) The SoS needs PVP training
C) The SoS has OP Weapons that can definitely match a Spartan
So, basically the SoS is going to get better at PVP. I am going to start doing PVP drills every day, and start training the higher SoS into being good at PVP. 1 by 1, then once they good enough at PVP they will train the Sangheili below them, and even the Kig-yar and Unggoy.
Now if you haven't realized, most of the spartans do something everyday, and you haven't even realized it. As a prior spartan this has been done for a long long time. All of the spartans every day usually PVP someone at least once. Now all this training makes them very good at PVP.
So in conclusion, if you want your men to have even a decent chance at beating spartans don't just train them against NPCs train them in CQB courses and PVP. I know that I'm going too with my guys.