Until I opened my eyes and learned to love the AR.

CCP, I wish you could feel the anger and sense of hopelessness I feel. I feel borderline forced into using the AR due to the fact that the other weapons simply do not compete.

The AScR is terribad due to the fact that it fires in a cone, has a ridiculous amount of kick while firing, and has seizure inducing muzzle flash....oh and I almost forgot that it does a laughably low amount of damage unless point blank.

The HMG...yeah heavy frame users are using it in panic as the AR users overwhelm them

The Sniper rifle is the only thing that can really take an AR user down and that is because it stays out of the AR's range.

The LR has a LOWER range than the AR and it is a f****** LASER!

The Semi SCR's have been passively nerfed due to the Armor buffs...with its already low damage rate to armor, even the IMP SCR struggles now.

The shotgun....yeah an AR user just needs to back up and spray.

Plasma Cannon....yeah just yeah.

Mass driver - same as the shotgun - back up and spray.

Forge gun - if the player can kite with the AR and is within the the AR's optimal, that forge gunner is going down.


As you can see, there is no real reason to use anything besides the AR, it is the best killing tool in the game, nothing truly bests it. In order to stay competitive, a smart player would gravitate to the AR's with no hesitation, that's the reason I dropped the IMP and Carthum, and moved on to the GEK and Duvolle - they do every other weapons job (besides swarm launchers), and then does it better.

Why would I use anything else?

Now the nerf AR forces have reason to come for the nerf reduce the weapons range, increase it's spread and kick too.

I feel you man. I avoided the AR for as long as I could because I really like niche play. Now, there is no niche play.

I believe that the solution for this problem lies close, with 1.5.

Why, you ask? Simple. The current incarnation of the AR that we have is a "general purpose" AR. It was meant to work in a game with bad hit detection and no other racial variants, so it had to, more or less, "contain" all other Assault Rifles variants. The result is a weapon that deals extremely high damage in a reliable manner over an incredible distance, because if it weren't like this there would be no other weapon to fill the "hole". When you fix hit detection and, arguably, enable Aim Assist its only natural for such a weapon to start to dominate the battlefield.

But here enters 1.5. DEVs have already confirmed new infantry weapons for 1.5 and, although this will be mainly an vehicle update, truth is that it is very likely that we see at least one of the two missing AR variants, and maybe both. Ideally both, because this would present the perfect opportunity for CCP to fix the AR and distribute it's strong points with fitting weaknesses across the racial variants, and make it balanced for the current core game mechanics. Players would have to opt for which aspect they believe to be most important in detriment of the others and this could bring balance and diversity not only for the ARs line, but for the whole game.

I want to believe that all this was planned, at least to a degree looking at how close 1.4 and the new weapons at 1.5 are, but even if this is not the case I still believe that this is an opportunity CCP shouldn't pass on.

90% of guns all used now AR

What???! No arrow to the knee?

Sigh

I don't want to spec into the AR, but if CCP doesn't actually do anything about this I might have to.

I use the Assault Scrambler and it seems to be working fine, but only the prototype version. The advanced is slightly less accurate, but that little bit of inaccuracy goes a long ways.

It's just stupid that I can't be competitive in terms of firepower anymore because the Assault Rifle wins every time.

The AR had been the staple weapon in fps since um so far back I cant remember. This is why its so popular. .

The AR is truly the only weapon worth using, all the other weapons are highly situational in their effectiveness, but the AR is literally good at nearly everything in most any situation.

I could make a huge write-up on what the AR is ideal at doing, but I think it's just easier to write what it isn't good at.

- Can't counter-snipe a sniper.
- Isn't good vs vehicles.


That's about all it's weaknesses. I look at all the other weapons and think "I would really like to use that weapon, but unless I want to die a lot trying to get a few lucky kills, I might as well stick with the AR for guaranteed results".

The LR has a LOWER range than the AR and it is a f****** LASER!

I melee people with swarm launchers