Situational Awareness > Scanner

So you thick headed numbsculls haven't figured out that the reason you are dying so fast is because you are fighting within the optimals of the hardest hitting weapon in the game.

Just wait for the combat rifle. I'ts probably going to be a longer range burst, with a better RoF. With its bonus damage to armor, my guess is that it will be more lethal against the hybrid tanking and the superior armored AR users with d-mods. It won't have the TTK of the AR, but it will still be very deadly in that it will be able to pick on you from further away.

So adapt now! Learn how to evade and fight mostly from cover. Stop charging headlong under/at AR fire. Pick up a scrambler rifle and mess around a bit. Make sure someone in your squad is using a support weapon like an MD or laser. Make sure someone has a scanner. If you ARE going to go AR, consider dropping that extra armor module that doesn't help your rate of death THAT much and throw on a dampener that lets you hide from ADV scanners so that you can get the jump on more people.

Projectile Tech is short range tech in EVE and therefore similarly in Dust.

lol, if you need that thing to see something on the field, yer blind.

Yeah pretty much this.

In Eve, if a Gallente blaster boat lands on top of you and you cant get away YOU DIE.
If you CAN get away and outside of its effective range AND hold it down you have a GOOD CHANCE at taking it down.

Minmatar gets around the blaster threat by either kiting the blasters outside their range, fighting a cap warfare battle first to nuetralize its blasters and scrams, or speed tanking under the guns of the blasters while flying faster than they can track.

Minmatar fighting style revolves around hitting your opponent fast, avoiding damage rather than tanking it, and controlling when and where you fight so as to minimize risk.