laser is amarr (facepalm)

sorry, not up on all the lore. still, the Cal got 2... why?

why do we have 5 rifles with 4 races? who got the extra weapon?

AR= G
laser= A
RR= C (2)
ScrR= C (1)
Combat R= M

am i right on this? will the rest of the races get a second rifle?

guesses on the rest of the heavy weapons?

HMG= M
Forge= C
??= G
??= A

any other sniper rifles coming?

GAR = G
CR = M
ScR = A
RR = C

The laser rifle is not designated as an Assault Rifle, instead it is designated a unique weapon (at the moment) along with the shotgun, mass driver and sniper rifle.

Not quite.

Caldari = Rail Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Nova Knife, Railgun, Missiles, Magsec SMG, Forge Gun, AV Grenades, and Bolt Pistol.
Minmatar = HMG, SMG, Flaylock, Mass Driver,Locus Grenade, and Combat Rifle. They use bullets. However, the Assault SMG is made by Ishukone.
Amarr = Scrambler Pistol + Rifle, Laser Rifle.
Gallente = Blaster turrets, Assault Rifle, Flux Grenade, Shotgun, Plasma Cannon.

When you get into equipment, I am fairly certain Scans are Gallente, Minmatar are explosives, Amarr are Uplinks, and Caldari are Nanohives.

I am not entirely certain if it is hugely important for their to be different Heavy Weapons. Sentinels don't get damage bonuses so it "doesn't matter is you use Caldari or Amarr." Assaults get bonuses for their new weapons, so it matters there. Between the Forge Gun (long range, high burst damage) and the HMG (close-medium range, high sustained damage), you have about everything the 'need.' Of course, I would love to see more!

Anyone here play Duke Nukem 3D? The Devastator would be a great close range Caldari weapon. Artillery Cannon for Minmatar would be cool. Amarr could have lasers with different lenses; one scattered for close range frying and focused for far range/anti-vehicle (think Void Ray from Starcraft 2; more damage based off how long it is on a target). Gallente is a little harder. Some kind of weird blaster blunderbuss would work. For range, Particle Cannon (shoot a blob of anti-particles in a force field). Balancing would be tough and actually making the weapons desirable but it isn't hard thematically.

why do we have 5 rifles with 4 races? who got the extra weapon?

AR= G
laser= A
RR= C (2)
ScrR= C (1)
Combat R= M

am i right on this? will the rest of the races get a second rifle?

guesses on the rest of the heavy weapons?

HMG= M
Forge= C
??= G
??= A

any other sniper rifles coming?

Which funnily enough means

LR = A
MD = M
SR = C
SG = G

Yes, all races will eventually get more rifles.

The amarr have the lazer rifle and the scrambler rifle
The gallente have the rail rifle and the blaster rifle
The caldari have the rail rifle and the blaster rifle
The minmatar have the combat rifle

I advocate that the OP needs to be shot by a nightmare.

Not quite.

Caldari = Rail Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Nova Knife, Railgun, Missiles, Magsec SMG, Forge Gun, AV Grenades, and Bolt Pistol.
Minmatar = HMG, SMG, Flaylock, Mass Driver,Locus Grenade, and Combat Rifle. They use bullets. However, the Assault SMG is made by Ishukone.
Amarr = Scrambler Pistol + Rifle, Laser Rifle.
Gallente = Blaster turrets, Assault Rifle, Flux Grenade, Shotgun, Plasma Cannon.

When you get into equipment, I am fairly certain Scans are Gallente, Minmatar are explosives, Amarr are Uplinks, and Caldari are Nanohives.

I am not entirely certain if it is hugely important for their to be different Heavy Weapons. Sentinels don't get damage bonuses so it "doesn't matter is you use Caldari or Amarr." Assaults get bonuses for their new weapons, so it matters there. Between the Forge Gun (long range, high burst damage) and the HMG (close-medium range, high sustained damage), you have about everything the 'need.' Of course, I would love to see more!

Anyone here play Duke Nukem 3D? The Devastator would be a great close range Caldari weapon. Artillery Cannon for Minmatar would be cool. Amarr could have lasers with different lenses; one scattered for close range frying and focused for far range/anti-vehicle (think Void Ray from Starcraft 2; more damage based off how long it is on a target). Gallente is a little harder. Some kind of weird blaster blunderbuss would work. For range, Particle Cannon (shoot a blob of anti-particles in a force field). Balancing would be tough and actually making the weapons desirable but it isn't hard thematically.

Bolt pistol is gallente.

why do we have 5 rifles with 4 races? who got the extra weapon?

AR= G
laser= A
RR= C (2)
ScrR= C (1)
Combat R= M

am i right on this? will the rest of the races get a second rifle?

guesses on the rest of the heavy weapons?

HMG= M
Forge= C
??= G
??= A

any other sniper rifles coming?

Indeed it does, at the moment. Their is Evidence/Rumours that suggest there will be more such that

4 +ù Rifle - 100% Complete - A, C, M, G
4 x SG - 25% Complete - G
4 x AOE - 25% Complete - M
4 x SR - 25% Complete - C, (M - Rumored)
4 +ù Unique ??? - 25% Complete - A
4 x L-AV- 50% Complete - C, G

4 x Pistol - 50% Complete - A, M
4 x SMG - 25% Complete - M

4 x HMG - 25% Complete - M
4 x H-AV - 25% Complete - C

Which if this is the case then when the total roster of T2 weapons is filled we will be looking at nearly 40 different base weapons.
This is excluding, assault, breach or specalist variations. Including those, we could POTENTIALLY be looking at 160 distinct weapons, with T2 alone.

If T3 is to be as diverse as rumoured you would be looking at almost a thousand distinct weapon combinations. Which if true would be damn awsome.

Bolt Pistol is Caldari. Ion Pistol is Gallente.

So NO we're not going to have more snipers.
Snipers is the specialist weapon of Caldari.
Specialist wepaon is designed by the faction by their way of battle :

Minmatarr : Explosive and compact : Mass driver.
Amarr : Pure laser weapon meant to destroy ennemies in their light of god..
Gallente : Close combat.
Caldari : Distance.

Where did you hear this? Or are you just making this up? Because we've been told about the Minmatar precision rifle since at least last fan fest.

Here is a concept art showing the Precision Rifle.
Also there are three other weapons depicted here which we have no clue what they are yet.

Tell me you've take at least 300g of pure DRUGS.

Infantry Rifles :
Scrmabler Rifle : Amarr
Combat rifle : Minmatarr
Rail rifle : Caldari
Assault Rifle : Gallente



Specialist Weapon :
Laser : Amarr
Mass driver : Minmatarr
Sniper rifle : Caldari
Shotgun : Gallente

Heavy weapon :
??? : Amarr
HMG : Minmatarr
Forge gun : Caldari
??? : Gallente

Light AV :
??? : Amarr
??? : Minmatarr
Swarm launcher : Caldari
Plasma Cannon : Gallente


So NO we're not going to have more snipers.
Snipers is the specialist weapon of Caldari.
Specialist wepaon is designed by the faction by their way of battle :

Minmatarr : Explosive and compact : Mass driver.
Amarr : Pure laser weapon meant to destroy ennemies in their light of god..
Gallente : Close combat.
Caldari : Distance.