Please do not mess with the hmg. If ccp want to makes autocannons in that way go ahead, but the hmg is good as it is right now. I wouldn't tolerate another nerf, in that weapon.

Also that is off topic. Talk about the Tar, ascr n bar.

It needs a range buff. The tactical rifles should be good at picking at people from long range, but you actually have to enter combat rifle optimal to use the TAR well, this means its going to be directly competing with stuff like the CR/ACR/ARR that can just poop way more damage unless you are using a modded controller on that TAR.

The range difference and the difference in kick is why the scrambler is better than the TAR, it doesnt have to deal with the damage falloff or the weapon kicking off target, so the SCR ends up being much better at all ranges.

P.S. please nerf SCR burst performance (not talking about the charge shot, talking about the massive 10+ shot alpha damage you can crap out in half a second)

Also TAR and SCR are still horrifically exploitable by people using modded controllers to fire as many shots as they can in virtually 0 time.

Not even close to the same scale as the ScR. Think Burst HMG vs MLT gear; it is that fast. This would be fine if the weapon were more limited in its arena of competence, but this is not the case.

Example:

While running Assault Ak.0 ast night, I got shotgunned twice in the back by a Advanced Scout wielding a CRG-3. I twirled around and melted him in ~0.3 seconds with Adv ScR (no dmg mods) and without the slightest effort in aiming. This was an experienced Scout whom I've played against many times, and he had me dead-to-rights. The moment I melted him, I knew that this was wrong-by-design. I am not a KB/M user, so I twirl more slowly than others; I am not a modded-controller user, so I spam ScR more slowly than others. Even in my sub-optimal, old-man hands, I find the "panic spam" feature of this weapon to be straight-up broken.

What happened last night shouldn't happen, and it is happening every day. This is the impetus behind my recommendation.

I don't make stuff up.

He died in under half a second. If I had to estimate, I'd say I volleyed ~4 shots in roughly one third of a second. He was running Advanced GalScout. I was running Pro 5 Adv ScR. I haven't done the math, but I'm sure it checks out because this is exactly what happened.

And, yes, panicked ScR users "spin-and-win" against SG and NK Scouts every day. I know this because I see it everyday. It is nothing short of a free pass, and the fact that one of longest range rifles available is the very best at it only adds insult to injury.

The weapons I had in mind were the FAD and the MK14 from MW3. One rifle is as accurate as a submachine gun from the hip but relatively weak at range. The other rifle is absolutely devastating down range but horribly inaccurate from the hip.

These are two ends of the rifle spectrum from one CoD title. As a rule of thumb in all CoD titles, the more effective a weapon is down range, the less effective it is when spammed from the hip. I know that Dust isn't CoD, but that doesn't mean we can't look to CoD and appreciate the things it has done right. Weapon balance is one of those things.

I was under the impression that the ScR's efficiency (kills/spawn) was higher than any other Fine Rifle.

According to these tests performed in-game, the range is about the same (SCR is higher by 1m).

I'm aware that weapon ranges were normalized across each tier, however beyond said normalization there hasn't been any changes to SCR or RR range, meaning that no matter what tier they were normalized against the difference is still 1m, in favor of the SCR.

Effective Ranges are hardly relevant as weapons are less effective in that range than they are in their Optimal.

Maybe Trello doesn't like decimal points; could be he meant to write 1.5%.
If it is only 1.5%, I'm with you on the more menacing colors and sounds.