It's the only weapon that actually works in this game. That's why everyone uses them. Popular doesn't mean OP. The other weapons are the ones in need of a buff.
The Forge gun.SMG and the MD also work.NOT OP.Just work.

Mass Driver left that sink hole and are doing their job now. Assault variants might just have too much splash radius and rate of fire, but the others are fine. If you haven't noticed most people here cry MD is op are the Gallente scum who armor tank. Hellooo the gun has 130% armor damage!. Get some shields!!!!
Agreed.

The other light weapons are just lacking. Scrambler Rifles are only good for dropping shields but suck at killing, the assault variant is worse than a vanilla AR. That's why you don't see Scrambler Rifles.
Agreed. The Ascr is actually pretty bad.I dont get killed by it even while running with my Scout suit with 250EHP, and i get killed by EVERYTHING.... : /

Laser Rifle overheat at 40 ammo left and range is a joke, for it to be decent at all you need the proto Amarr Assault dropsuit so that it overheats at 20-25 ammo left. Even with that 85m optimal makes it laughable compared to Chromosome's lasers.
Agreed. PLUS you forgot the main reason me and others stopped using lazors.The Sight. Bro a MID-LONG ranged eapon like the Laser rifle CANNOT work effectively without an AIMING SIGHT.

Plasma Cannon tiny splash for just 1 missile at a time is useless. Should have like 10m splash radius and 500 splash damage. It's one shot per reload it should be powerful. How can a MD's small payload have a larger blast radius than a fat cannon plasma missile? It should also have a bigger bonus vs vehicles. Isn't this the Gallente's variant of the Caldari Swarm Launcher? Should have known...
I actually think, THE ONLY thing the Plasma cannon needs is a POWERFUL RELOAD SPEED BONUS per level.But we both agree on the Plasma needing some kind of buff.

The proto SMG is very powerful yet I haven't seen anyone complaining about this one. That's because only few pros use them. Same story with the Assault Forge Gun it is so obvious it's OP but not many people complain about them. Just as of now most heavies have jumped into the FOTM bandwagon and we can see the effects.
My Main weapon is Proto SMG , in every loadout. I hope people realize that the lack of range makes its specialized weapon and wont really whine about it :/ . BTW i also Use a Forge gun , But the Kaalakiota one, not the Assault variants.
And obviously heavies are basically MAINING the Forge guns, HMG got nerfed to hell in uprising....

But I never ever complained about the AR. It's an automatic rifle that has low range. That's it, nothing special really. Everytime I use one I feel like I'm playing the only part of Dust that actually works. The other guns mentioned just have too many drawbacks. They need a buff.
Actually the AR have WAY too much range. I could hit dudes on the oof of a map forge sniping with my Toxin AR with Pof 3 and i would WIPE them.An they were FAR away. And i wouldnt miss a single bullet. BUT ITS AN ASSAULT RIFLE. Thats what its supposed to do.As OP says, they just need to make other weapons at the level of the weapons that actually work.

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