Not everyone but whoever has it is using it now, I personally have not gone a game since the patch where less than 3 players on each team used that gun. It's like Suros, not everybody had it, but whoever had it, usually used it. And not many weapons can compete with it period, I took it upon myself to use it also to see how it was after patch and it was mowing down most LMG's. Not to forget the Health Regen after a kill, at least with suros only the bottom half had a chance for regen. In my probably unpopular opinion, pulse rifles were fine before the patch, they were competitive and you had to know how to use it, now it's pretty easy to use Red Death, its on an AR platform just with a burst.