Is the DPS fine? Yes.

Is the ROF fine? No. It is far too fast and is too forgiving for bad shots.

Increase damage, but decrease rate of fire so it is truly a skill shot weapon. One missed shot should be fatal.

Giving it a charge time that is noticeable would do wonders

Supposed to be effe tive for long range but not at CQ. RoF would cure that. The scope should have more zoom though. Closer to the sniper rifle. Semi-auto would make more sense though.

Seems reasonable.

But prepare to have your thread bombed by Spkr4TheDead and Takahiro Kashkuken.

AV weapons 3HKing vehicles? That's OP.

HAV weapons 3HKing vehicles? That's Balanced.

Quite ironic eh?

Giving it a charge time that is noticeable would do wonders

Is the DPS fine? Yes.

Is the ROF fine? No. It is far too fast and is too forgiving for bad shots.

Increase damage, but decrease rate of fire so it is truly a skill shot weapon. One missed shot should be fatal.

lolno. they need a nerf, not tweaking. just a straight nerf. Don't see why they were buffed, especially when blasters were nerfed.

It should spool before every shot.

Is the DPS fine? Yes.

Is the ROF fine? No. It is far too fast and is too forgiving for bad shots.

Increase damage, but decrease rate of fire so it is truly a skill shot weapon. One missed shot should be fatal.

It should spool before every shot.

because of the horrible OP-ness of the 80GJ Railgun in the vehicular-warfare aspect of the game, there are currently no vehicles in Dust514 anymore - but much more only Railgun-Fodder instead :( .

honestly - the 80GJ Railguns in their current state kill any diversity in this matter: 80GJ Particle Cannon with 3 Damage-Mods 2-Shots every 1200 + 4000 Armor-Tank and ADS's when catched without hardeners on (for the target it's a near insta-pop with 1,2 seconds minus lag to react) - and the question on the field these days is soley:
"who will engage with the I-Win-Button on who first?"

it's so sad, it needs to go - whatever method, i don't care - but DPS !!AND!! Alpha-Damage Nerf are both un-avoidable in my opinion.

Is the DPS fine? Yes.

Is the ROF fine? No. It is far too fast and is too forgiving for bad shots.

Increase damage, but decrease rate of fire so it is truly a skill shot weapon. One missed shot should be fatal.

may have to change hardeners and damage mods for it to work.

at the current moment in time missing a few shots is not forgiving for me. mainly when targeting dropships or other tanks.

i dont see how this would effect redline rails though. more or less its going to effect those not far back inside the redzone. i mean look at the charge sr or thales. they all sit in the far back of the redline taking pot shots ohking nearly every scout or mlt suit out there currently. slowing down the fire rate means more accuracy with between shots and less overheating. and more damage means all vehicles would go down in even less hits.

a nerf to the rail gun would mean that we would have to change some other things on the tanks as well to compensate. shield hardeners r hard enough to hit through.

The main problem I see is that Railguns and Forge Guns are too easy to use.
They deal an awesome amount of damage, have an incredible range, a good ROF, and the projectile speed is so fast that it almost feels like a hitscan weapon on all targets but those which are close to the effective range. I hope we see some changes in the not so distant future.

Is Spkr your cousin or something?

80GJ Railguns already have a spool up time, which has an awfully long delay if you release the trigger when firing.

Actually, that gives me an idea. Make Rail Rifles have the same spool effects as the 80GJ Railguns.

I don't know if you are trolling or not but a bit more time might make the weapon more skill intensive instead of just point and click.

Seems reasonable.

But prepare to have your thread bombed by Spkr4TheDead and Takahiro Kashkuken.

AV weapons 3HKing vehicles? That's OP.

HAV weapons 3HKing vehicles? That's Balanced.

Quite ironic eh?

Currently the spool time is negated with engagement planning, having a spool up between each shot would easily break the weapon.

You know what could really use a spool up each time? The blaster turret

What about the CR, AR and even the AScR? The RR doesnt even get a sharpshooter skill to help with its terrible accuracy when firing on full auto down the scope lol. Accuracy sure as **** aint a problem for the AR under any circumstance.

RR takes more skill to use than other weapons, people are quick to skip the demerits and jump to QQ just because the weapon has range lol

Is the DPS fine? Yes.

Is the ROF fine? No. It is far too fast and is too forgiving for bad shots.

Increase damage, but decrease rate of fire so it is truly a skill shot weapon. One missed shot should be fatal.

i chased a tank down with a blaster tank just yesterday..

sadly i was getting pummeled by the forgers.
but i killed the gunlogi first. but within seconds i died shortly after. probably shouldnt have driven after the rail gunlogi after it started running. mainly with all the av around.


when targeting infantry and av like forgunners ive had much larger success killiing them with the rail turret. they tend to stay still when firing their weapons.

with the blaster turret some1 can just pop in an out and fire and do this little trick and not take hardly any damage. as its more suitable functioning as a suppression weapon. but still as the capability to mow down those who stand still for to long. its a pain in the ass to kill moving targets though. which i am perfectly fine with. shield tanks being easy to kill? thats utter bullshit right there. especially if shield hardeners are up. and if they have 2 active at the same time? good luck hitting through that with a mlt rail gun. as your not even doing a third of the base damage with out damage mods. doesnt actually matter if they have less total hp than an armor tank. with shield hardeners at 60% resist they might as well be considered more powerful.

the higher tiered turrets i havent much bother to spec into yet. as i was specing into tank core skills.

unlocking the capability to create a maddy fit that gets 500 reps a second. 2 complex and 1 enhanced heavy armor rep.
sadly i could only fit mlt blaster. id go std but even with that i cant add anything extra so i used mlt to cheapen the price cost. only 1 cpu remaining.

most av and such will out dps 500 hps reps pretty fast. expensive but still fun to drive. get a few seconds out of combat and back to full with armor. so it has rather weak firepower but in turn has fast recovery. can only sustain heavy fire for a very short duration. unlike hardener vehicles.

i think i could get behind the one hardener per vehicle thing but this creates problems with dmg mods. and other things.
i was thinking of allowing the stacked hardener stuff but removing the ability to cycle them.such as making one hardener activate all the other hardeners of the same type on the vehicle. creating a more decent window of opportunity moment for av to use. could also give a con to hardeners by slowing the vehicle down when active as to get rid of the running away with active hardeners. so instead of escaping successfuly while being pummeled heavily at av at the same time. theyll be forced to retreat during their periods of weakness. the vehicles that go passive in terms of modules are fine from what ive seen so far. especially when considering active module tanks.

Blaster does too much damage at long range...blaster = EZ mode.

You do realize that ROF is just a variable used to find DPS right. You can raise the damage and lower rate of fire but still have the same DPS...