A little chart I made.

Hypothetical Max dps of Rifles

Discuss.

Exactly, I am just trolling on a saturday evening. Forgive me.

This allows us to identify and rectify the damage versus range curves, as well as normalize each path, IE strongly buff TAR's, somewhet BRAR's and BAR's, and play a little with the Assault variants.

It seems painfully apparent along the various rows of that table that there is no DPS tradeoff for range.

Also, 'theoretical maximum DPS'?
I notice the burst weapons (CR and burst AR) are both treated as if there's no burst delay. I'm pretty sure there's a burst delay - looking at the SDE:

Burst assault rifle:
m_fBurstInterval0.08

Combat rifle:
m_fBurstInterval0.06

This is also noticeable whilst using the weapons - they have a 'rhythm' to them as a result.


The top row on first glance shows horrendous skew, but it's not like normal humans tap the trigger fast enough for the SCR to max out on DPS.
That said, the overheat isn't really much more of a drawback than the clip size on the TAR. I'd argue that the clip size is actually more restrictive as you need to reload while the SCR can cool down for short moment before finishing off a target.
The overheat allows a similar number of shots off before overheating to the TAR clip - but overheating doesn't necessarily happen if you're smart about it.

I'm not really a fan of the TAR and breach being the ones 'euthanised' though.

If some variants have to go, I think it should be the ones that don't really have as much of a unique role.

The breach is just another full-auto rifle with a different RoF:damage per shot balance.
The burst isn't much different from the combat rifle other than just having worse damage/RoF - and a tweaked balance of them.

The TAR, though, could actually serve a role as an ease-of-use semi-automatic. The SCR performs admirably well in the semi-automatic category but with the overheat it's a little different from what I would say is a 'normal' semi-auto.

Of course, the overheat barely counts as a drawback when being compared to the TAR on account of the pitiful clip size that the TAR has, but the point still stands - if the TAR wasn't in a position where it was flat out worse than the SCR then of all the variants it has the most potential to fill its own role.

Less about the numbers than the pattern, AR short range and RR long range, left to right, that sort of thing.

How are things different in America?

The Unreal 3 engine is not in yards

Yes, all the Assault/Plasma Rifles will have the same range as the Duvolle and all the Tactical Assault/Plasma Rifles will have the same range as the Duvolle Tactical

No comments yet as it's still the weekend. I'll take a look next week when I'm back in the office.



That was the initial plan, but it's not off the table. No guarantees though.