Give me proof that breach weapons have a longer range than their normal counterparts and I'll not write this argument off as horseshit.
Because so far, EVERY Breach variant has exactly the same, or really damn close to,(within a few meters, and some have shorter range)the same range as the normal weapon that they are a variant of.
Every single one. No exception.

Breach AR longer
Breach MD same
Breach ScP shorter
Breach Shotgun same
Breach Forgegun same
Breach SMG shorter
Breach Flaylock same
All of these weapons, which are all of the breach weapons in the game, have ranges that are exactly the same as, or slightly shorter than their normal counter parts.
The Rail Rifle has a long range because it is a Caldari weapon, not because it it a Breach weapon.

Breach isnt long range. Breach is slow and hard hitting. That's it.

There is only racial parity in rifles. How would your argument work for assault variants for all weapons?

Just because a weapon is used often does not mean it is necessarily overpowered. Neither are underused weapons underpowered.

A great example is the Laser Rifle. It is a very underused weapon and yet it is extremely powerful when it us used. Which makes it just barely balanced.

The BAR is another great example. It is said to be overpowered because it is used more than any of the other AR types. Yet, people using the Breach AR tend to get very similar K/D's to people using the Tactical Assault Rifle and Burst Assault Rifle. Yet both of those weapons are considered underpowered.

Do you see the logical fallacy in the argumentation of many of these nerf and buff posts that assume that overused is synonymous to overpowered? It is a fallacy that is terribly incorrect and cancerous for the community.

To CCP, underused means UP. Overused means OP.

They thought the bolt pistol was UP because it wasn't used, so they buffed it.

So, the HMG and SG are technically the most OP weapons in the game, let's nerf them based on subjective data.

That is patently untrue, and falls under spreading false information.

its actually proven that the burst AR was overlooked in the AR buffs a few weeks back and is in need of proper buffing.

but yes i agree.. BAR seem powerful but when against an armor brick it sucks harder then a dyson DC50 vacuum, same can not be said as such for the SCR due to its larger dmg per shot and stupidly high RPM.

now the CR is a bit like the bar..it blows vs shields but melts armor.. and with how many armor tankers there are of course its gonna look OP and more so due to low fitting which made it very scout friendly.

now the "false positive" of the BAR is because there is soo many scouts still running around and they die very easly to BAR and other anti shield weapons because their primary tank is more shield then armor (except amarr which is nearly full armor, gal is like 30-40% shield tanking..). so with large amount of scouts getting fragged by the BAR they ofc coem to whine en masse on the forums.. so ccp and cpm think its the concensus of every flavour of suit/player

Those statements came information you've posted on these very forums. You claimed data suggested the bolt wasn't performing well because it didn't register many kills as its peers.

You posted what would be EvE type kill mails, showing the suits and guns responsible for most PC kills

FYI: all data is subjective to due circumstances and human variables.

Underuse or overuse is just a sign that something wrong, it's the symptom.

You then have to go in there and figure out WHAT is wrong, why it's overused or underused.

That is patently untrue, and falls under spreading false information.

Underuse or overuse is just a sign that something wrong, it's the symptom.

You then have to go in there and figure out WHAT is wrong, why it's overused or underused.

Underuse or overuse is just a sign that something wrong, it's the symptom.

You then have to go in there and figure out WHAT is wrong, why it's overused or underused.

That is patently untrue, and falls under spreading false information.

That is patently untrue, and falls under spreading false information.

That is patently untrue, and falls under spreading false information.

The bolt pistol has never had it's damage profile changed; it has always been hybrid - rail.

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FYI: all data is subjective to due circumstances and human variables.

Data is objective. Translation of data is subjective.

Interpretation of data.

The laser rifle was a bad analogy though. Because the laser rifle is, as you said, powerful, it also has a lot of weaknesses. It is in fact the worst rifle at MOST ranges. It is the least flexible rifle as well. So even though it is quite dangerous at it's very limited range which can only be applied in very limited situations with very specific setups against very specific enemies, it has plenty of drawbacks.

A lot of the overused OP weapons are OP not because they are powerful in a given situation, but because they are powerful in all situations. One of the things about Dust is that gun classes all have a range and enemy type at which it is weak. Some of the so called 'OP' guns don't really have a weakness. At their 'weak' area they are just 'good.'

You are right that overused doesn't always mean overpowered. But overpowered gets used a lot...

Capable of killing from 35m-100 yes it lack so much versatility clearly ccp needs to buff me

Data is objective. Translation of data is subjective.

When it first comes to things like "people using the BAR get similar K/D ratios as those using different Assault Rifles", I can only ask "how do you know this?" It isn't a number that players can easily see. Eyeballing it in games is also not a very efficient manner as Confirmation Bias starts to kick in. I mean no insult; I am genuinely curious how you have come to this statement.

Stating "Overused Gëá Overpowered" by attempting to show "Underused Gëá Underpowered" with the Laser Rifle doesn't work as well as you would think. The Laser Rifle has a crippling weakness in that it is nearly worthless at close range. At long range it is devastating but so is the Scrambler and Rail Rifle and they are not as crippled at close range. The Laser Rifle is not balanced on it being rarely used; it is balanced by having that weakness. This means the only thing you have been able to show is that the Laser Rifle is a balanced weapon despite not being very used and you are attempting to leverage that into a more commonly used weapon is just as balanced. If you were attempting to say "X isn't used a lot because it is OP because Y is underused and it is OP", it doesn't work well because no one would argue that the Laser Rifle is overpowered.

Saying "this thing is rarely used but when it is used it is really powerful, which makes it barely balanced" is implying that if it were used all the time it would be overpowered. I doubt it greatly. You then move to say "just because the BAR is popular doesn't mean it is overpowered" which I do not believe follows in your argument. You attempt to prove Overused Gëá Overpowered by starting with Underused Gëá Underpowered but you choose a weapon that not many people would question as overpowered. It doesn't work very well.

After the Rail Rifle's kick was nerfed but really when the charge was hit, what weapon did you notice become a lot more popular? I can certainly say I did not see nearly as many BAR as I did before that change happened. The term for a weapon or strategy that might be too powerful but has not been wildly discussed before is Sleeper OP. I think it could be argued that the BAR was Sleeper OP. Whether or not it is overpowered is another thing but I still maintain that your argument, at least how it is currently constructed and how I understand it to be, doesn't stand up as well as it needs to.

The BAR is another great example. It is said to be overpowered because it is used more than any of the other AR types. Yet, people using the Breach AR tend to get very similar K/D's to people using the Tactical Assault Rifle and Burst Assault Rifle. Yet both of those weapons are considered underpowered.

Data is objective. Translation Interpretation of data is subjective.

Those statements came information you've posted on these very forums. You claimed data suggested the bolt wasn't performing well because it didn't register many kills as its peers.

You posted what would be EvE type kill mails, showing the suits and guns responsible for most PC kills

FYI: all data is subjective to due circumstances and human variables.