One thing I noticed while testing is that assistant bolts will routinely get clipped by terrain when shooting from ontop of buildings (regularly a good place to be to get better angles on bolts). It looks like this inconsistency is from the vexing bolts originating from the middle of the assistant capsule rather than elevated or from her weapon, as Sinclair's seems to be.
You can see in the video below that Sinclair's bolt is noticeably higher, which leads to situations as near the end of the clip where the bolt will just hit the curb and effectively halve your damage output. If the origin point was just a bit higher for the assistant it would alleviate some of these issues!
You can see in the video below that Sinclair's bolt is noticeably higher, which leads to situations as near the end of the clip where the bolt will just hit the curb and effectively halve your damage output. If the origin point was just a bit higher for the assistant it would alleviate some of these issues!