You, have any of you seen the Heavies with Shotguns? It's laughable, I swear they play Yakkity Sax on their walk cycle. Useless no matter how many times I see it on the startup screen.

There will not be 4 racial variants of the HMG. At least not in the foreseeable future. There will be four Racial Heavy weapons. The Minmatar HRM and the Caldari Forge Gun are not similar. The Amarr will most likely have a large laser. For Gallente I would expect something similar to the Shotgun or Plasma Cannon, only on a larger scale. Maybe a Plasma Cannon with a 5 shot clip, possibly with shorter range.

The only weapon type that is guaranteed to have all 4 racial variants is the standard Infantry Rifle: Gallente Assault Riffle (Plasma Rifle), Minmatar Combat Rifle, Amarr Scrambler Rifle, and Caldari Rail Rifle. Each of these will have variants that seek to imitate the basic attributes of the other three.

People get confused on Pistols as well, since the Minmatar have the SMG and the Caldari will have the Magsec SMG (rail SMG) they think all four races will have SMGGÇÖs, but actually the other racial equivalents are the Scrambler Pistol and the Ion Pistol.

Basically the basics that all four races will have are: Heavy Weapon, Infantry Rifle, and Sidearm. Beyond that, all others are specialty weapons and are not guaranteed to have racial variants. They may add racial variants of specialty weapons, such as the Precision Rifle which looks to be a Minmatar variant of the Caldari Sniper Rifle, but not having it does not create a hole in the lineup.

and the compressed needs to do the most damage on its level for standard and adv levels. The only one that does more damage for its level is the proto. So all the blasters excpet the normal ones. And the other HMGs will need re-balancing too

There will not be 4 racial variants of the HMG. At least not in the foreseeable future. There will be four Racial Heavy weapons. The Minmatar HRM and the Caldari Forge Gun are not similar. The Amarr will most likely have a large laser. For Gallente I would expect something similar to the Shotgun or Plasma Cannon, only on a larger scale. Maybe a Plasma Cannon with a 5 shot clip, possibly with shorter range.

The only weapon type that is guaranteed to have all 4 racial variants is the standard Infantry Rifle: Gallente Assault Riffle (Plasma Rifle), Minmatar Combat Rifle, Amarr Scrambler Rifle, and Caldari Rail Rifle. Each of these will have variants that seek to imitate the basic attributes of the other three.

People get confused on Pistols as well, since the Minmatar have the SMG and the Caldari will have the Magsec SMG (rail SMG) they think all four races will have SMGGÇÖs, but actually the other racial equivalents are the Scrambler Pistol and the Ion Pistol.

Basically the basics that all four races will have are: Heavy Weapon, Infantry Rifle, and Sidearm. Beyond that, all others are specialty weapons and are not guaranteed to have racial variants. They may add racial variants of specialty weapons, such as the Precision Rifle which looks to be a Minmatar variant of the Caldari Sniper Rifle, but not having it does not create a hole in the lineup.

Amarr's only known Heavy Weapon has nothing to do with Lasers, Caldari's other Heavy weapon is a LMG built for range, unknown for Gallente's Heavy weapons, and Winmatar's other heavy weapon would probably be some kind of mortar or something..

You mean HMG? cuz both of those MGs fit the description. I doubt theyre going to reduce anything on a weapon because a new one was introduced, personally

Amarr's only known Heavy Weapon has nothing to do with Lasers, Caldari's other Heavy weapon is a LMG built for range, unknown for Gallente's Heavy weapons, and Winmatar's other heavy weapon would probably be some kind of mortar or something.

Also, The Bolt Pistol is Caldari as well, so it would only be fair for all races to get some kind of SMG. So try that logic again.

Fox is right. I don't think they'll shorten the PR range, just give the combat rifle more range. As is the PR can hit far but it's well out the guns optimal range.

The qq when combat rifles well be doubled.

It's sad that I won't be playing it because ps4 will be here by the time the CR comes out.

It occurs to me that they might just make the Assault RifleGÇÖs optimal range really short, and keep its effective range medium-long. Then give the Combat Rifle a longer optimal range, but with a similar effective range. If the Assault Rifle has a higher base damage, but the Combat Rifle applies its max damage over a longer distance, then this might balance fairly well.

The range on the Assault Rifle (Plasma Rifle) will be shortened when the Combat Rifle is introduced. The HMGGÇÖs range is appropriate. It, like the SMG, is meant to be a close to near mid range weapon.