Ok first of all you only get kill by metallic rifle if 1. Your chasing someone and running into the or 2. Your dodging is just bad. As in spar yes is a little challenge. But in pk is a new total concept. Metallic use in pk arena or for basing, I'm not going to say it sucks but it's a lot harder then other guns (laser type guns). In pk arena or basing a planet. The environment is much larger making metallic rifle easy to dodge. Haven't you seen? Metallic rifle has a little spread over the distant the bullet is traveling. So really, Metallic is only good for spar because you are using it in a much smaller, compact environment, thus making the dodging area limited. That is why some of the players had complaint about them. I like it the way it is. But raising the price on the gun is totally worth it. The gun is very deadly in spar if you know how to use it.