DUST Search - How do you classify variants?

Zatara Rought wrote:

This is just for the plasma weaponry. Naming conventions being fugged up is a known issue.

Duvolle = generalist variant

enough dispersion (reduced by upgrades) to have a little spray in cqc with very manageable hipfire kick, able to do decent damage up to 40m, and then peters off limited by it's iron sights and dispersion.

Breach = Alpha CQC weapon.

High Accuracy driven weapon meant for breaching enclosed areas. Lower optimal than duvolle, no dispersion benefit for cqc (duvolle you have to worry less about strafers), and lower clip size and thus lower overall damage per clip...increased reload time compared to duvolle, and perhaps has an absolute range of like 60m.

Burst = Medium to long range weapon.

Hipfire is not that great (high dispersion on 3 bullet bursts = suck) unless you're putting the gun into someone's body before firing. High total damage per clip, acog scope allows for ideal ADS medium to long range engagements. Needs to do slightly less alpha than the charge RR that it competes with. Should ideally stack up well with the RR due to the 3 round burst benefiting from more headshot potential as opposed to the RR needing to aim while firing or needing to charge up again..the burst can take bit amounts of time between shots to line up shots better). Ideal range = 30-70m. Average reload but longer than the RR it imitates.

Tac = Long range.

Sucks to hipfire...practically unmanageable. High alpha weapon...high damage per clip. DPS good enough to entice perimeter play. Long reload. ADS should feel VERY smoothe. and should incentivize both people who just want to bodyshot dude before he turns a corner or reaches cover...and reward people who take the same amount of time to line up a headshot or 2 (saving clip when reload is 5 seconds..probably makes a difference) Effective range dps until 50m when optimal kicks in..and keeps going until about 110m. This this is the alternative to the tac sniper.

Just my thoughts...feel free to disagree or improve them.

This is just plasma though.


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Operative 1174 Uuali The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 70	Posted - 2014.11.13 23:29:00 - [1] - Quote Zatara Rought wrote: This is just for the plasma weaponry. Naming conventions being fugged up is a known issue. Duvolle = generalist variant enough dispersion (reduced by upgrades) to have a little spray in cqc with very manageable hipfire kick, able to do decent damage up to 40m, and then peters off limited by it's iron sights and dispersion. Breach = Alpha CQC weapon. High Accuracy driven weapon meant for breaching enclosed areas. Lower optimal than duvolle, no dispersion benefit for cqc (duvolle you have to worry less about strafers), and lower clip size and thus lower overall damage per clip...increased reload time compared to duvolle, and perhaps has an absolute range of like 60m. Burst = Medium to long range weapon. Hipfire is not that great (high dispersion on 3 bullet bursts = suck) unless you're putting the gun into someone's body before firing. High total damage per clip, acog scope allows for ideal ADS medium to long range engagements. Needs to do slightly less alpha than the charge RR that it competes with. Should ideally stack up well with the RR due to the 3 round burst benefiting from more headshot potential as opposed to the RR needing to aim while firing or needing to charge up again..the burst can take bit amounts of time between shots to line up shots better). Ideal range = 30-70m. Average reload but longer than the RR it imitates. Tac = Long range. Sucks to hipfire...practically unmanageable. High alpha weapon...high damage per clip. DPS good enough to entice perimeter play. Long reload. ADS should feel VERY smoothe. and should incentivize both people who just want to bodyshot dude before he turns a corner or reaches cover...and reward people who take the same amount of time to line up a headshot or 2 (saving clip when reload is 5 seconds..probably makes a difference) Effective range dps until 50m when optimal kicks in..and keeps going until about 110m. This this is the alternative to the tac sniper. Just my thoughts...feel free to disagree or improve them. This is just plasma though. Yep, pretty much. Burst makes no sense in this game though. The idea of burst is that it is an alternate setting on a single shot semi-auto rifle like the M-16. As a stand alone weapon with no real rhyme or reason to battlefield maneuvering, a fully automatic varient of the same type and little worry to ammo limit it makes no sense. The whole point of a burst mode on a rifle is that you have a choice to replicate a full auto with more control of the weapon on a single shot rifle and conserve ammo in a combat situation where fantasy crap like a nanohive doesn't exist. So, the best way to use a burst is to think of it as a better version of the tac at closer range with a better chance of getting the shots on the target and less worry of running out of ammo. Which again, is not really a situation where another variant wouldn't work better. The CR is a burst on the standard simply because the AR already has a full auto so the CR has to be matched with that for firepower. The CR is practically an AK-47 and so should be full auto. That would be terribly OP compared to the regular AR so it has to be nerfed somehow. I'm better than laser focused; I'm hybrid focused.