Sisi?

Crystal balling that 1.6 will be awsome and now placing unrealistic expectations on ccp

So I guess we are going to need respecs because they said that assault rifles were just place holders for for the combat and rail rifle types.

I dont think you understand how the crystal ball works

My understanding was the Combat Rifle is going to be like the Burst AR and the Rail is like the Breach AR, to follow with the Scram being like the Tac AR

I'd say the former is burst, and the latter is slow automatic if anything.

Both weapons have separate "assault" variants listed. I'd assume it takes the combat rifle and makes is full-auto, and takes the rail and makes it fire faster. Otherwise, what are we guessing the "assault" variants would do? Within their "variant" framework they seem to have give the guns full-auto versions to start if nothing else so people can have that comforting Gallente AR feel with some variant of the weapon.

(I realize the Combat Rifle says semi, and the Rail says fully auto - but the assault, etc. descriptions are identical too, which hasn't represented how variants have worked with other guns)

No heavy content as per normal.

They were vague about "new weapons". Two weapons is the minimum they can add and have the plural be accurate. It's possible people thought all sorts of new things were coming in 1.6, and even conservative estimates might have been "the two rifles and two pistols."

So... I can see people being annoyed.

I'd personally prefer missing suits to guns in a way, because the time and build considerations for suits are much much higher than they are for new weapons. Heavies are somewhat more... lacking than guns as well.

I meant they were vague about new weapons when they hinted at them for 1.6 before they were pushed back. People had the range/damage profile dev blog from awhile back with names, etc. - and so anything unreleased from that was probably fair game in those people's mind.

Like I said, I would've assume the missing pistols/rifles as a conservative estimate since we had commentary about those at fanfest. The Amarr Heavy weapon, etc. that were TBAs in the range profile seemed less likely to me.

Having just the two rifles is something of a let down, if that winds up being the case. Of course, they were already pushed from 1.6, so the disappointment is already flow-y.

We've had side comments from Devs about the Gallente Heavy looking cool in the past month, but they've been playing with the Combat/Rail rifles since before fanfest. It's frustrating to see them take so long to materialize.

Inb4 rail rifle is op since Caldari arent allowed to have anything nice without everyone crying

Nope! :P

Also, stop stealing all our secrets from Sisi!