What? Duvolle is better than GEK because it has way more range.

I've never had that issue.

Duvolle also kicks like a mule - GEK is laser beam accurate.

I know it. You know it. The DEVS know it. The GEK is the weapon that is just better at everything...it's like obtaining a proto weapon at the advanced tier that also only costs ~8K ISK.

My thought is since the AR's are the placeholders for the missing racial AR variants (GLU = Rail Rifle, GEK = Combat Rifle), does this mean that the Combat Rifle will be the new all powerful greater than all weapon? Do you feel that CCP will be able to balance it well when the Combat Rifle is implemented into the game?

My goodness, why does everyone think that the AR's are placeholders and that the Rail Rifle will be like the tactical AR's? This is incorrect.

1. The AR's variants are not placeholders. They will continue to exists once the other racial AR's are released, but may be slightly tweaked.

2. The Rail Rifle is going to be more like a long range breach AR. The Combat Rifle is going to be a faster burst AR. The scrambler rifle is already the superior tactical AR.

And that said, come at with your GEK's - I'll be waiting over here with my CRW's.

Duvolle also kicks like a mule - GEK is laser beam accurate.

What? Duvolle is better than GEK because it has way more range.
This thread smells fishy, like you're trying to cover up something by posting random ranting.

And you have the racial variants wrong, combat rifles are supposedly burst ARs. Every racial AR with have an assault variant, which will be extremely similar to a GEK

Scramblers are too short-ranged to be tactical. They were also announced before devs said that the current ARs are placeholders, so there's a good chance there isn't an AR equivalent.
Plasma rifles will be breach ARs.

They won't be removed, no, but they will be tweaked slightly. The idea being that each race will have it's base variant be Assault, (Gallente) Burst (Minmatar), Breach (Caldari) or Tactical (Amarr) and then the variants are a specific race's take on the others using their own tech. So, you'd get an Assault Rail Rifle that attempts to somewhat mimic the behavior of the Gallente Assault Rifle and a Tactical Assault Rifle that attempts to mimic the Amarr Scrambler Rifle and so on.

I know it. You know it. The DEVS know it. The GEK is the weapon that is just better at everything...it's like obtaining a proto weapon at the advanced tier that also only costs ~8K ISK.

My thought is since the AR's are the placeholders for the missing racial AR variants (GLU = Rail Rifle, GEK = Combat Rifle), does this mean that the Combat Rifle will be the new all powerful greater than all weapon? Do you feel that CCP will be able to balance it well when the Combat Rifle is implemented into the game?

I've never had that issue.

Now, new and improved with more aimbot.

Hail king AR. Hail AR 514.

I know it. You know it. The DEVS know it. The GEK is the weapon that is just better at everything...it's like obtaining a proto weapon at the advanced tier that also only costs ~8K ISK.

My thought is since the AR's are the placeholders for the missing racial AR variants (GLU = Rail Rifle, GEK = Combat Rifle), does this mean that the Combat Rifle will be the new all powerful greater than all weapon? Do you feel that CCP will be able to balance it well when the Combat Rifle is implemented into the game?