Gimme Caldari Commando, a Rail Rifle, a Swarm Launcher, some Lai Dai's and various other Caldari themed good and Ill show you FW bullds like never before. Sadly I don't think Ill even subscribe to the meta or FOTM builds just themed builds with hyper awesome factionalised gear!

HMG - Release the 'scrambler cannon'.

AR - Increase spread, recoil/muzzle jump, add sway (all of these more so with standing/moving/running)

Mass Driver - Increase damage, blast radius, and blast damage significantly. Reduce clip size to 2 or 3.

Flaylock - Convert it's rounds into tiny sticky remote explosives. Give them 1 extra meter blast radius per level. increase current damage by 15% for splash.

Laser Rifle - Fix the sight, that's it. Increase zoom on sight.

Scrambler Rifle - Fix the sight. Increase zoom on sight.

Sniper Rifle - Variable scopes, make the dot visible on light surfaces, buff headshot bonus.

Swarm Launchers - Add variations: high tracking slow speed, low tracking high speed, and ultra high speed single round dumb fire (RPG-style).

Shotguns - Add variations: standard, breach, burst, and single round slug variation with some range pump action.

Forge Gun - Increase projectile size, making vehicle hits easier, but preventing it from hitting players between cracks or barely peeking around corners. Increase dropship knockback.

Grenades - Reduce Increase fuse time, increase damage, increase blast radius, increase graphical effect.

Scouts - Buff speed, slightly buff armor/shield, give an additional equipment slot, or 2. Cloak module.

Heavies - Reduce Increase movement/panning speed. Give armor/shield hardening.

Missile/Blaster Installations - BUFF RANGE AND INCREASE THE AIM HEIGHT. Make them deployable.

HMG - Release the 'scrambler cannon'.

AR - Increase spread, recoil/muzzle jump, add sway (all of these more so with standing/moving/running)

Mass Driver - Increase damage, blast radius, and blast damage significantly. Reduce clip size to 2 or 3.

Flaylock - Convert it's rounds into tiny sticky remote explosives.

Laser Rifle - Fix the sight, that's it. Increase zoom on sight.

Scrambler Rifle - Fix the sight. Increase zoom on sight.

Sniper Rifle - Variable scopes, make the dot visible on light surfaces, buff headshot bonus.

Swarm Launchers - Add variations: high tracking slow speed, low tracking high speed, and ultra high speed single round dumb fire (RPG-style).

Shotguns - Add variations: standard, breach, burst, and single round slug variation with some range pump action.

Forge Gun - Increase projectile size, making vehicle hits easier, but preventing it from hitting players between cracks or barely peeking around corners. Increase dropship knockback.

Grenades - Reduce Increase fuse time, increase damage, increase blast radius, increase graphical effect.

Scouts - Buff speed, slightly buff armor/shield, give an additional equipment slot, or 2. Cloak module.

Heavies - Reduce Increase movement/panning speed. Give armor/shield hardening.

Missile/Blaster Installations - BUFF RANGE AND INCREASE THE AIM HEIGHT. Make them deployable.

if we rebalance all the weapons, and nerf the Ar to where its supposed to be. this game can begin to take shape and grow again.

forget the CoD boys let, Cod have them. let the battlefield noobs have battlefield. people who enjoy playing a game that requires skill and tactics will have DUST. it can recooperate from this low point. but we have to fix the things. we are lossing far to many people.

Preach it sister!

Didn't occur to me till I got board and started looking at some numbers but the STD AR deals more damage per clip then a SR

Solutions? Give ARs a 2-5% damage nurf or give other bullet weapons 2-5% buff (or both). Then we can see what happens. If not enough then we can continue tweaking (Dropping AR more than 5% may be overdoing it when you could reduce it's accuracy or clip size instead).

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`Sigh. Just another fun game of DUST.

Another diversity issue comes from not having the basic versions of many of the suits. I'm not saying they all need to be deployed immediately, but each update should try to include (to the best of CCP's ability, as coding and balance is frikkin hard) one (1) non-specialized, basic dropsuit for any weight class/race that hasn't been introduced. Not everyone is thrilled with the Amarr heavy. People get tired of the same-old of the medium suits. Scouts need all the love they can get. For as much variation as there is to this game, diversity begins to wane, creating stale FotM outfits. Some people are so desperate for it, they turned to Mass Drivers! They began to rely on a slightly inferior weapon, coupled with a decent suit, because they got tired of the (slightly) OP Assault rifles!
If not the suits, a new gun here or there. The current line up is cool, but the usable weapons are getting tired, as only a few due what they need to do, where they need to do it. So many other options fall by the way-side.

TL;DR
Add more variation > make people happy > ???? > Sell Aurum!!!!!!

Don't flame Battlefront.

Those games are legendary. If only DUST could have game modes similar to their levels of awesomeness. Anyways, while this game does seem rather bland as of late, not all of the weapons have even been implemented. Just wait until the other 3 empires get their racial rifles. Then everything would be way more diverse.