Breakin Stuff
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2014.11.24 13:07:00 -
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Ladies and gentlemen, lunatics and neckbeards
I bring to you a topic of discussion that is going to be a hotbutton but I think it should be addressed.
Today's battle rifles in DUST are varied, carry their own distinct strengths and weaknesses and carry their own flavor.
Perhaps they are too diverse, because each of them is so very situational. I'm at the point where I call them situation rifles rather than battle rifles.
Each of the four main rifles is supposed to be the primary racial go-to weapon for it's main line infantry. Unfortunately each of them fails to be particularly good.
If a rel world army had to pick tfrom them only the CR would pass muster for functionality.
It makes no sense for a racial army to build a line battle rifle that cannot compete with enemy rifles.
I think it's time to normalize the function of the rifles and vary them by impact, rate of fire, etc as well as by the damage profiles.
It makes no sense for the gallente to have a rifle that cannot reach their caldari enemies entirely. It's equally ridiculous that caldari should have a weapon useless against gallente brawlers in the barbed wire.
Each of the rifles is too quirky and doesn't have enough generalized function which leads to people abandoning weapons they might otherwise prefer because another is clearly superior.
They need to have similar range, damage and ammo capacity with variations based on lore, not lore absolutes that render entire weapon lines undesirable.
I'm looking at you Assault Rifle optimal range.
The damage profiles provide the best distinction in weapon performance, giving bonuses or penalties based on whether the target operayes shields or armor as primary.
But they're all too disparate at the core stat level.
Right now only CR and scrams behave like general use rifles with the CR having the best and most balanced overall stats. It just happens to be dealing primarily with the current armor meta.
But there should be no clearly inferior weapon type among battle rifles. As long as they remain so very disparate there will always be one that is better than yhe others overall.
EVE Online is what you get when engineers attempt to create "fun" without consulting someone who comprehends the word.
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