The AR is the standard weapon used in any fps, its so silly people complaining about it being the most used weapon. And to be honest if the ar wasnt so much worse compared to chromosome (no ss, terribad iron sight, impossible to track aim mechanics) there would be no such thing as FOTM. The hmg, forge, laser, md, shotgun were all very good in chromosome.

The reason you didnt see mass people flock to these weapons is because majority of people used ar, and the ar was very well at what it did and didnt force people to spec into a FOTM. But when you break the most versatile weapon in the game, on top of the other (specialty) weapons, this is how FOTM is created, so technically the ones who cried the ar was op all throughout chromosome, this is half your monster. You break the ar , you break the game. Now ccp has to deal with the ar is still op crowd while making fail rushed attempts to balance the rest of the weapons that we for no reason killed in uprising.

All weapons were fine in chromosome with the laser needing a little tweaking.
Id suggest they just reverse it to how it was but im not a dev, so dont know if its as simple as that.

Did we ever see a "save AR, nerf MD" thread from a non eon player? Rhethorical question.

Disagree. The Assault Rifle was outperforming most other weapons well out of it's intended range due to the Sharpshooter skill.

This allowed it to fire with:

Pinpoint accuracy

100+ m ranges

No bullet drop

Little to no decreased damage over range

That being said, the Assault Rifle was not only the most versatile weapon in Chromosome it was outperforming even specialist weapons. The Laser Rifle was a terrible casualty of CCP nerfing the wrong thing as it's power came from Damage Modifiers, just like everything else in the game. It's drawback (something the Assault Rifle doesn't have, by the way) was that it had reduced efficiency at lower ranges.

And before you say "cry harder" or anything of the sort, I have Assault Rifle Proficiency 4 and it's been my mainstay weapon since Chromosome first released. I know it's capabilities and it's a hell of a lot more balanced now than it was in Chromosome by -miles- as there is actually reason for players to specialize in other things now. I graciously look forward to the release of the Combat Rifle and the Rail Rifle to see how they perform against it and I imagine they'll squash any "AR needs a range buff" arguments.

Actually, the LR DID need a SLIGHT nerf.
Not a lot, just a slight.
>Find high spot
>Charge laser
>Swipe over people without even having to aim properly
>Get insta kills

Actually, the LR DID need a SLIGHT nerf.
Not a lot, just a slight.
>Find high spot
>Charge laser
>Swipe over people without even having to aim properly
>Get insta kills

It is not working as intended..lasers are supposed to outrange it but they don't

Last time I checked my books hybrid weapons had greater range than lasers. But lasers have the possibility to quickly change between ammunition types. Something we're missing in Dust. Ammunition types would change stats like optimal range, falloff-range and damage of weapons for example.

So in my opinion they should add that. There would be 2 possibilities how to do that:

1) Make it exactly like in Eve Online and let players buy every single shot. When you run out of ammo you can't get it fom nanohives anymore, because they would also take the ammo from your pool.

2) Give every weapon 1 or more ammunition slots. You can then put an ammunition type BPC into these slots and switch the types with the press of a button. I could think about the standard AR having only 1 slot and variants of it having 2 slots. Laser rifles should have 3. Also switching the ammunition type with laser rifles would be instant while switching the ammunition type of an AR would take the same amount of time like a reload.

With this the devs would have another possibility to balance the weapons.

Your comprehension is incredible, quote where i said nerf md

Actually, the LR DID need a SLIGHT nerf.
Not a lot, just a slight.
>Find high spot
>Charge laser
>Swipe over people without even having to aim properly
>Get insta kills