Actual feed back, not a whine thread, promise.

I'm a Galmando enthusiast. Purely for the PLC, you understand, but the AR fits well with the suit on paper so I try and make it work. In short, it doesn't. Here's why:

Standard assault rifle:
-clip size and damage per shot is good.
-ROF and dispersion in hip fire is awful; compare the feel of the AR to, say, the ACR; the latter feels like it is pushing out an uninterrupted stream of bullets that go pretty much where you point the gun. The former fires slower, with a much (I feel) wider spray, making missed shots a more prominent occurrence that costs you a significant portion of your potential applied dps.
-effective range compounds the above issue further; against other Rifles the AR user needs to close in quickly, which is a risk, and then engage opponents well within HMG, CR and Scram effective ranges. It also puts the user at greater risk to quick counters from shotgun scouts. There is no reward for the risk in regards to performance. The AR is not the blaster of EvE.
-also, those iron sights. Thanks CCP. Cheers.

yep. If rattati buffs the AR duvolle also buff the officer weapons accordingly. Last time that we got a RoF and mag increase the officer weapons got untouched. Next buff, AR's are gonna have almost identical stats because we are buffing them but not the officer AR's defeating the purpose of the stats given to the officer AR's to be OP. To me the officer AR's are what the regular weapons should have been.

The Tac AR is the only one that is the overachiever of all the variants. I don't know why it needs a buff last time we saw.

I'm not convinced it needs significant buffing.

I'd like a reflex sight, because I've always hated the ironsights. I rarely have problems with the hipfire on the standard variant, although I have fully maxed the plasma rifle and the Galassault, so that's already a 50% reduction.

Range... I don't think it should be a long range weapon. But if it's not genuinely worth the range tradeoff for CQC strength, that's the real problem.

The only issue I have with the AR is that the assault variants of other weapons are clearly better in a lot of situations.

-and, as a pie-in-the-sky idea, for the whole lineup to have access to the charge-shot of the of the ion pistol.

Actual feed back, not a whine thread, promise.

I'm a Galmando enthusiast. Purely for the PLC, you understand, but the AR fits well with the suit on paper so I try and make it work. In short, it doesn't. Here's why:

Standard assault rifle:
-clip size and damage per shot is good.
-ROF and dispersion in hip fire is awful; compare the feel of the AR to, say, the ACR; the latter feels like it is pushing out an uninterrupted stream of bullets that go pretty much where you point the gun. The former fires slower, with a much (I feel) wider spray, making missed shots a more prominent occurrence that costs you a significant portion of your potential applied dps.
-effective range compounds the above issue further; against other Rifles the AR user needs to close in quickly, which is a risk, and then engage opponents well within HMG, CR and Scram effective ranges. It also puts the user at greater risk to quick counters from shotgun scouts. There is no reward for the risk in regards to performance. The AR is not the blaster of EvE.
-also, those iron sights. Thanks CCP. Cheers.

Burst AR:
-better in every respect to the standard rifle. Tighter hip fire. Reasonable scope. ROF is solid for those with a steady trigger finger.
-again, though, effective range is an issue. It feels great until you engage a min assault with a CR at 60m out, at which point you get destroyed utterly. Which is a shame. To what degree this issue is down to the CR being too good and the AR being innately poor is up for discussion.

Breach AR:
-also good. Again, tight hip fire, good damage, reasonable range. Will actually hurt stuff, can CQC. clip size is a fair balancing factor.
-doesn't really need to be touched.

TAC
-the best, by far. Maybe even a bit too good; the recent increase to clip size has made it a much less tactical weapon. You can just spray and pray withvitnwith decent results.
-keep as is for now.

Conclusion; the standard variant is just poor. It's too short ranged, too underpowered, not accurate enough. I propose that we tighten the dispersion so it's closer to the burst and then up the ROF to 900, dropping the damage per bullet slightly to compensate. But it needs some serious punch if it's designed to be the CQC brawler we expect it to be.

There should not be an Assault variation that outclasses the Gallente Plasma Rifle
There should not be a Tactical variation that outclasses the Amarr Scrambler Rifle
There should not be a Burst variation that outclasses the Minmatar Combat Rifle
There should not be a Breach variation that outclasses the Caldari Rail Rifle