So, essentially what your saying is this isn't related to the Assault Rifle anymore - it's related to anything that isn't a specialist weapon? Just the bread and butter of the races?

DPS is largely the same and each have their own strengths and weaknesses. This was thrown up because I'm tired of people making false assumptions about weapons they really have no clue about because it just happens to be useful and used by other players who are effective with them.

Range is also a significant factor as Assault Scrambler Rifles, while having the same optimal, have larger fall off range - so by all rights it's a better weapon with the single exception of low armor damage. Of course, this isn't something you really have to worry about considering that it's forefront design and philosophy is for use against shield tankers anyway and considering how many of them are left over from the FotM Caldari Logi, you shouldn't have a problem at all.

I've yet to see any information provided that gives legitimate reasoning, let alone with accurate information, as to why the Assault Rifle should be nerfed.

Easy. Flux Grenade (removes equipment!) + Mass Driver.

I run Assault as a specialization, it's my job to deal with everything and I know a hundred and one counters to anything infantry based.

I challenge that theory - and I won't even use an Assault Rifle to prove it.

Words are just that. It's a tried and true method used in PC frequently. We can sit here babbling on all night because you think it doesn't work and I am certain that it does - so maybe one day I'll catch you in a public match and show you.

Plenty of other options.

Yeah, you're just god's gift to shooters man. Nothing can beat you with all dem words and speculation.

As stated before in another thread - I deal in facts and numbers, not word of mouth and speculation. Someone said the Scrambler Rifle has more recoil so I went out of my way to show the difference between the two and wouldn't you know it, now that I have, everyone is tying the SRs into the mix and wanting them nerfed as well.

This is RAMBUNCTIOUS. The reason those people suck is because they don't know how to use their weapon effectively and I can almost guarantee that they weren't using it in a squad-based environment which is probably what it was intended for (which basically classifies ANY specialization weapon).

You can't run up on someone with a mass driver and expect to get results. You attack from afar and have the benefit of other team mates shooting at them.

You can't gun down someone with a Laser Rifle and not expect to be vulnerable when you're aiming down the sights or engaging at close range.

These weapons WERE NOT DESIGNED for people to run up and die at 30 meters and then whine and ***** about the assault rifle doing it's job - they're uninformed players who's sole instinct is that if it killed them (the entire point of this game might I add) then it MUST be over-powered because there is no possible way that they did something wrong.

Too many people grew up with World of Warcraft and got a reward everytime they did something. Your average gamer foams at the mouth when you mention "patience" or god for ****ing bid "think". What in the bloody hell did you expect to happen if they just died when they attacked AN ASSAULT RIFLE head on????????

I can't wait to see your corp go up against Red Star or Molon Labe, I really can't.

Ah, well, maybe one day you'll see how awful it is to be assaulted by Mass Drivers and Forge Guns throughout the entire game.

Alternatively you could just use a weapon that requires more skill to use.. Not like it's shameful or anything.