well it ends up being nerfed for the short terms and tweaked later the ar currently seems to be the only weapon ccp got right on nearly the first try...

all the weaponry needs tweaking but the assault rifle in general has few drawbacks to begin with..

in real life the assault rifle is just an improved version of the smg...

its where the assault rifle came from in the first place...

its pretty much balanced the way it is currently...

in terms of gameplay..

of course the ar is probably going to be alot deadlier at range in the hands of a kbm user...

so its not accuracy so much as precision..

its quite inaccurate at those longer ranges and only a few rounds will hit but do barely any damage...


every little item on the game doesnt need to have massive drawbacks..

this game isnt run out into the middle of gunfire..

of course doing that is going to involve u getting mowed down in less than 1 sec...

nerfing the most common weapon so u can take out a large group of players isnt going to balance gameplay..

and so far the only major reason i see the nerf ar threads mostly involves a proto bear wanting to stop dieing..
so the ar stats should stay...

if u died to a gun by running out into the open u deserve that death...

just because a single weapon doesnt have many massive drawbacks, doesnt mean it should be useless...

ccp is trying to balance the game and release the new stuff..

basically doing both at the same time

its why some of the stuff has been nerfed and buffed..

Im going to be honest with you.

I dont know why CCP BUFFED the AR.
I remember it used to do 31 / 31.5 / 32.5 ish damage.
Now it goes around 37.5 at proto level.
I DONT KNOW WHY CCP did this.
Yes the AR is a pain in the butt to deal with and of course our friend CLONE117 has a lot wrong,but he does have a point.
The AR IS the most Deadly weapon in a 1v1 situation, not considering ranges.
''all of the other guns can pretty much kill very effectively with out much sp investment..'' Not really bro,you need proficiency 3-4 to make the Laser rifle work and beat a MLT AR. You are over reacting a little.

But on the other stuff i think i agree with him. The AR has an insane DPS YES,but tahts in the imaginary case that ALL BULLETS HIT>
Not taking into consideration,enemy movement, own fault misses, forgot to reload,etc...
The real nerf the AR needs is:
-ACtual Dispersion rate and recoil (For an AR they have nothing, the AR is more accurate than my LR, im not kidding)
-Reduce the Aim assist, and this goes to all weapons.

Before 1.4 we still had the AR is OP thing, but before it was dodgable, bullets hurt but did not hit all the time.
The problem is NOW they are hitting 58 out of 60 bullets,andTHATS what makes the AR feel op....

IMO that is.

Ahhh...the AR nerf shall be glorious. I can just imagine the tears already

Ah, I'd thought your opinions were uninformed.
Your confirmation was appreciated.

You know, I used to respect your opinions, until you got onto the nerf brigade bandwagon.

Do you even do PC?

Mass Drivers
HMGs
Scrambler Rifles
Sniper Rifles
Tanks

All of them are used and just one of each can make a MASSIVE difference in a battle.

after playing dust 514 for several days straight the ar really isnt op.

mass driver will destroy it at close range and laser rifle can destroy it at longer ranges.

so can assault scrambler rifle.


thats is pretty much it and the math being done here to use as evidence of the ar being op is basically stupid.


this thread just needs to die as several other guns r better or if not equal to the assault rifles killing potential.

the stats alone are stupid i think it all comes down to player skill. with the ar. no need to nerf it currently.

and off topic here.
has any else noticed the base damage of the scrambler pistol being buffed from 72 to 80 damage per shot?


and now back on topic.

the ar has more recoil than all of the other guns in the game much much more recoil.

i claim the damage mods added to the md make it op so stfu...

but then again i hate on all the damage mod lovers out there...


so stop bringing up stupid things i dont even remember happening.

mass driver didnt need any massive nerfing in damage or other stuff what it did need was a nerf in the rate of fire for it.

now stop stalking me...

those posts r centuries old so its really stupid to bring it up.

The basic assault rifle does 34.0 damage per shot. It fires at a rate of 750 RPM.
The DPS of this weapon, assuming every shot hits, is 425....

Mass Driver

Damage per shot is 242, direct hit, or 116, splash hit. It fires at 60 RPM. ThatGÇÖs 1 shot per second, or 242 DPS direct, 116 DPS splash.