Few random thoughts/proposals/ideas I want to throw out there.

Rail Rifle and Assault Rail Rifle:
- Only changes these weapons need is to reduce their ADS recoil so that it isn't so hard to hit long-range targets, per the weapon's design.

Breach Assault Rifle:
- Victim of homogenization with the AR due to what I feel is improper feedback on design philosophy. Needs to have it's range brought back up to properly emulate the Rail Rifle but to have it's hipfire recoil/dispersion brought up rather dramatically to enforce it's design as a ranged weapon. Needs it's DPS dropped slightly as well to reflect this fact.

Combat Rifle:
- There is a bug that occurs whenever you jump that causes the scope to bounce all over the place when firing.

Single-fire Rifles and Modded Controllers:
- Potential solution that I've found to modded controllers is to increase the recoil on the weapons to make them unmanageable with rapid fire. This would unnecessarily punish players with non-modded controllers however.

Assault Scrambler Rifle:
- This thing is still nigh on impossible to overheat with general use and it's heat isn't a good justification for such high DPS if it isn't actually overheating. IMO, it's heat build needs to be brought up some to balance it as a weapon of opportunity and less as a weapon of just raw power and range.

Assault Rifle:
- The viability of this rifle has decreased with strafe speed changes and I feel that by lowering it's optimal by 10m and increasing it's DPS linearly so that it retains the same DPS it currently does at 40m, it would make this weapon fierce in CQC as per it's design. How it would look on a chart

Feel free to discuss.

I feel like you don't understand the "breach" label.
Breach means (or is supposed to mean, before CCP decided the consistency is overrated) shorter range, higher DPS

While i appreciate the discussion starter on this perpetual topic I have to say that it seems like many of the discussion points are treating symptoms and not root issues. Basically...i think we (and CCP Rattati) are making this too hard.

My view is that the differences in rifle performance is simply too broad. The range differences are over the top which drives 2nd and 3rd order reactions in the form of dmg, ROF, recoil, heat, and spool time.

I will be transparent about the fact that I absolutely detest the spool time mechanic for the Caldari weapon line. It absolutely feels like a clunky mechanic that was invented solely for the purpose of trying to make the weapon different but ultimately not adding to the quality of play. I think they should have gone with a mechanic near identical to the heat build up in the Amarr weapon line but call it "capacitor". When you run out of "capacitor" (i.e. hits the current overheat mark on a SCR/ASCR) your weapon simply goes out of commission until the "charge" builds back up.

The AR could, and should, be an optimal choice for relatively close in fights but having it utterly gimped against all other LWs due to it's range shortfall is pretty ridiculous. The options I've seen some folks floating around would make it more lethal than an HMG in a short range brawl and that just confounds me as to why some folks thinks that makes since.

The CR and SCR families are in pretty solid places. The could certainly be tweaked, however, one of the reasons they are preforming solid is that that they don't really come up short in any critical combat performance categories.

Overall...i just feel we should bring the weapons closer together in actual performance (more towards the CR/SCR zone) which would emphasize damage profile differences and homogenize the drawback mechanics of the SCR / RR systems for pure simplicity. This will allow meaningful adjustments and balancing the Light Weapon Class as a whole in comparison to the other weapon classes.

the AR needs other mechanics to be adjusted for it work properly.

you need to get in close range for the weapon to work, so the suit stats need to reflect that the use be able to do so. gal suits need NATIVE dampening and sprint speed increase.

when i run the gal assault with a complex damp and kincat, the short range isnt an issue. i can run up to almost anyone i want and hose 2 or 3 of them before they know im there. and the speed helps me get in and out.

or we can add multiple suit bonuses and give the gal bonuses to damps and kincats. either way, they need the damps and speed same way gal scouts need damps and speed to use their shotguns.

yea idk man. you only balanced the weapons. you never took into account that those weapons have respective suits theyre supposed to be used on.

an AR on a gal assault at 40m vs a RR on a cal assault at 60m. 20m isnt worth a ~200dps difference. more when you factor in that the gal is packing damage mods.

this is why shield tankers keep getting shafted. no one is balancing the actual suit builds against each other. itll be another two years before anyone starts realizing that a gal with a RR is better than a cal with a RR

yea but you also cant effectively lock weapons to suits either. any race should be able to pick up any weapon and use it without it feeling gimped. there are some niche siuations where a cal would NOT want to use a RR, such as when fighting other cals you would want a ScR or AR.

but when gal assaults are raping cal assaults with RR's.... no. thats not what should be happening.

REALLY, the Assault scrambler is where it needs to be....lol

The whole scrambler family is broken right now. Why are there even assault versions of most guns let alone this one? The assault scrambler is everywhere in every game I play. Its the current FTM rifle. It now acounts for 80-90 present of my deaths. Look at my post where I keep track of it. Takes 3 shots to melt a 489/189. All the while the armored up guy loses 1/3 life.

Got to agree with you on the modded controllers.

Modded controllers largely hold me back -_-
I can fire just as fast without them, they feel ckunky so I don't aim as well, the occasional need to turn the turbo on or off. You can literally for just as fast on a normal controller all I hear is "I don't know how to r1 everyone that kills me with the spambler rifle used modded controllers. Oh know they're spamming the spambler rifle!"

Just because the ascr is what kills you most doesn't mean it's the most used. I see more variety and balance on the field than ever before. Mass drivers, lasers, rr, cbr, scr, shotty, I see all of them almost every match and I use all of them. The AR needs some love then see how the rest v gal in line. On gun at a time please.

The only thing I had a problem with, was the installations. Constantly getting shot in the back, as AV or as a vehicle, taking them down. The rest of it was a cakewalk