Well I liked the original AR from Halo 1 and it felt balanced back then, but you could only reload it twice before you magged out but it was no instant killer like our Plasma Rifles are.

Building recoil is a flawed design unless there is something to stop you from just rapid tapping. Something like the TF2 Heavy's spool up. There just needs to be noticeable kick and recoil ON EVERY SHOT, but it needs to be done carefully. Too little and those with Sharpshooter and Operations skilled up won't even feel it. Too much and unskilled ARs will be heavily damaged.
I HATE ARs, but we need to be careful how much we work on them lest they bounce back bigger than ever.

Oh, that buff. I'm fairly certain that was already added in the 34 that it shows. I'll have to go look through some old blogs and posts on it to find out.

CCP Cmdr Wang]Posting the following info on upcoming changes to weapon damage and HMG balance on behalf of CCP Rement since he's knee deep in making these changes. He will also be answer questions and discussing this topic in this thread as well.

Tl;dr version:
GÇó In the next hot-fix weapons will all get a 10% damage increase to compensate for the removal of the Weaponry skill bonus.
GÇó HMG damage buffed to 18 HP (including aforementioned 10% increase) and given a 5% dispersion buff.
GÇó In the near future, we will address range issues by removing the hard stop that currently takes place at maximum weapon range.

In Chromosome, the Weaponry skill gave an across the board 2% damage bonus to handheld weapons per level. Given the low SP cost of the skill (and the fact that itGÇÖs a pre-req for every weapon in the game) the majority of players would just skill straight to level 5 making the skill pretty pointless. So, in Uprising we removed the skill bonus. The side effect of this, of course, is that time-to-kill has increased.

This, combined with some of the control issues weGÇÖve been seeing, has led to combat feeling worse than it did in Chromosome. We will address this with a hot-fix that gives an across the board 10% increase to all handheld weapon damage to put DPS back to where it was. Additionally, weGÇÖve increased HMG damage and reduced the dispersion penalty when moving by 5% to address issues with the weapon.

The removal of the Sharpshooter skill (which gave bonuses to range) has also highlighted some issues with range in general. Weapon classes need unique range profiles. I doubt anyone would dispute that. And the sharpshooter skill was pushing far too many weapons beyond their intended engagement ranges. While itGÇÖs removal has caused some issues, the SS skill was a crutch and it hid more deep-seated problems with range in the game. It will not be coming back.

Right now, all weapons have an optimal and maximum range. Unfortunately, at its max range the weapon simply stops doing damage. This is bad for a whole host of reasons and weGÇÖll be addressing this with a point release in the near future by giving all weapons an optimal, effective and absolute range. Up to the optimal range weapons will do 100% damage (shield/armor profiles notwithstanding) and then drop off slowly towards their effective range. From effective range out to the absolute range damage will drop noticeably but weapons will still do incidental damage even at extreme ranges.

Yeah, just found it myself. It doesn't actually say the 10% is shown for ARs but it does it for the HMG so I'm gonna assume they did it for the ARs as well; why would they add it in for one and not the other? I seem to remember the ARs having a base damage of around 30 prior anyways, so that would put them in and around having a 10% buff to 34 now.

Enough with the Halo references, this game is nothing like Halo.

Tommorows technology Today!!!!

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Because guns don't kill people. People kill People.

Either a gun sitting across the room went off all by itself from across the room......or You don't understand the analogy.

Stupid or Lying ..Which one is it?

Guns go of them selves all the time, you have concentrated a highly explosive material into a condensed space, its volatile!
Try telling my friend from cadets bullets don't spontaneously fire, he broke his collarbone while he had the safety on!

This isn't a bad idea, but I think CCP should wait for the next wave of rifles, and the changes to AR that result from that before making too many changes now--only to change them again in another 5-6weeks. This game has too much nerf/buff see-sawing as it is.

Yeah, but a lot of people are spec-ed into ARs(myself included, even tho I don't use em that much anymore)

I honestly wouldn't mind any changes made to the AR just so long as it's still usable. Still need it for my Gallente Assault suit since it's the only hybrid weapon that's really useful for what I do with the suit.

Breach variation of ar has a shorter range, the act of breaching by definition is close quaters!!