Did you have any reason to expect otherwise?

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.

But they never mentioned anything on the board at Fanfest 2013 - so why assume that they magically came up with something when they already had concepts fleshed out?

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.

Edit: As of yet these are all the screenshots I have/felt were necessary. Will update with more information as I mine data stuffs.

BEAR IN MIND ALL INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE - BEWARE THE CRYSTAL BALL

Note: color is inverted for some weird reason

More Boosters

More Active-Omega Boosters
Faction Boosters (??? Edit: Probably for completing new tutorial)



Standard Combat Rifles
Advanced Combat Rifles
Prototype Combat Rifles

Standard Rail Rifles
Advanced Rail Rifles
Prototype Rail Rifles



Combat Rifle Skills
(edit: Note shown: Combat Rifle Sharpshooter - 5% reduction in dispersion per level)
Rail Rifle Skills




Vehicle Damage Mods (now with the basic/enhanced/complex layout we see in dropsuit modules)
Vehicle Armor Repair Modules (same)
Missile Ammo Expansion Unit Modules (similar for blasters/rails)
Vehicle Turrets (variations such as compressed nyxxed)
Militia Vehicle Mods (including ammo capacity/damage amplifiers)



'Praetorian VII' Madrugar
'Grayscale' Saga
'Nullarbor' Myron
'Logicloop' Scout M-I
'Remnant IX' Logistics mk.0
'Hellmar' Sentinel ak.0
'Tigris' Sentinel A-I
'Flying Scotsman' Assault ck.0
'Foxfour' Assault G-I
'Rattati' Assault G/1-Series
'Wolfman' Assault A/1-Series



Turret Operation
http://i.imgur.com/YObi9Tv.png
http://i.imgur.com/TGJg0r5.png
http://i.imgur.com/xuY212H.png
http://i.imgur.com/0blYQBS.png

Vehicle Upgrades
http://i.imgur.com/nSebJgO.png
http://i.imgur.com/tXXLRJk.png
http://i.imgur.com/m54f1PP.png

Turret Upgrades
http://i.imgur.com/74XiXIX.png

I dont think you understand how the crystal ball works

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." .

What is funny about it? They said that guns like the AR and TAR were placeholders for the combat and rail rifles. Now all they are doing is renaming them and adding more skills to use them. That isn't diversifying the weapon pool, it's just making it needlessly bigger.

Edit: As of yet these are all the screenshots I have/felt were necessary. Will update with more information as I mine data stuffs.

BEAR IN MIND ALL INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE - BEWARE THE CRYSTAL BALL

Note: color is inverted for some weird reason

More Boosters

More Active-Omega Boosters
Faction Boosters (??? Edit: Probably for completing new tutorial)



Standard Combat Rifles
Advanced Combat Rifles
Prototype Combat Rifles

Standard Rail Rifles
Advanced Rail Rifles
Prototype Rail Rifles



Combat Rifle Skills
(edit: Note shown: Combat Rifle Sharpshooter - 5% reduction in dispersion per level)
Rail Rifle Skills




Vehicle Damage Mods (now with the basic/enhanced/complex layout we see in dropsuit modules)
Vehicle Armor Repair Modules (same)
Missile Ammo Expansion Unit Modules (similar for blasters/rails)
Vehicle Turrets (variations such as compressed nyxxed)
Militia Vehicle Mods (including ammo capacity/damage amplifiers)



'Praetorian VII' Madrugar
'Grayscale' Saga
'Nullarbor' Myron
'Logicloop' Scout M-I
'Remnant IX' Logistics mk.0
'Hellmar' Sentinel ak.0
'Tigris' Sentinel A-I
'Flying Scotsman' Assault ck.0
'Foxfour' Assault G-I
'Rattati' Assault G/1-Series
'Wolfman' Assault A/1-Series



Turret Operation
http://i.imgur.com/YObi9Tv.png
http://i.imgur.com/TGJg0r5.png
http://i.imgur.com/xuY212H.png
http://i.imgur.com/0blYQBS.png

Vehicle Upgrades
http://i.imgur.com/nSebJgO.png
http://i.imgur.com/tXXLRJk.png
http://i.imgur.com/m54f1PP.png

Turret Upgrades
http://i.imgur.com/74XiXIX.png

Were there any stats available through the market on the test server?

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

RS-90 Combat Rifle

The Grind begins to have you in my arms at launch.

I guess most likely the Lv4 CR, hopefully with reduced fittings that can go well with my scout.

SR or CR - decisions decisions.

CCP - dont mess around

Well, if you want something with low fitting requirements, Scramblers are most definitely NOT the way to go

Well, if you want something with low fitting requirements, Scramblers are most definitely NOT the way to go

They could go insane with CR/RR fittings. But right now the plain Scrambler has the highest PG reqs of any regular weapon in the game.

Forge Gun
Sniper Rifle
Swarms

Hell, everything Caldari is pretty well off, lol.

They never said such. They said that the other races rifles would do one variation better than the others.

An example is that you will likely never see an assault variant of the plasma rifle because it is the premier assault variant out of the four race's rifles in terms of normalized engagement range, combat approach, and damage.

It's where DUST was operating through a lot of it's closed beta phase. And where they do a majority of tests for EVE online, and probably now DUST aswell.

Not quite Wolfy-boy, the Assault variant of the Blaster Rifle, currently named the Assault Rifle, is going to be the shortest ranged, highest damaged, most ganky-scouty combat role of them all, not the 'normalized' median. If anything the Combat Rifle will be a nice median as that is the role of the Projectile weapon; namely jack of all master of none. It's the one weapon I'm looking forward to to go with my Minmatar-iness.
If we do get a respec, oh well. If not, I have enough SP saved to V out Ops.