Right.... Cal isn't anywhere near FOTM, nothing Cal is, nor ever was. Cal still need's a lot of work to be viable to play the objective based game, otherwise, armor plating a cal is going to be the only way for them to be viable, which shouldn't be a thing.

They haven't updated the in game descriptions yet.

Despite what people say about the RR's DPS, or damage per mag, or even accuracy, the RR has the lowest damage output of all rifles. This is made up for by its range. What has NOT been looked at is weapon "accuracy". Accuracy is a combination of dispersion and recoil. We've asked for a more in depth explanation of how they relate and affect each other in the past.

What can be said now is that RR dispersion growth rate is neglible. It has almost no dispersion. It's recoil, however, is almost solely responsible for the RR perceived poor accuracy. It's so high that it range you end up missing shots even when trying to fire in controlled bursts. Even the officer RR is bad.

The goal is to have the RR's recoil low enough that you can empty 2/3 to 3/4 of the clip before you start missing shots due to recoil.

Something else to consider is reducing the penalties to dispersion or recoil due to movement. Trying to shoot right after sprinting will give the worst accuracy possible.

the kick reduction odes make it more accurate, but not nearly enough. for it to be combat functional, you'd nearly need to make the RR on cal assault like the officer RR. or better yet, have not recoil at all. at least then we can fire on the move with total precision or make headshots or shots through cover possible at range. zero recoil also removes the need to stop firing, which means we wouldnt need a charge time reduction.

EDIT: i see no reason why we cant reduce charge time and kick all at once as a single bonus

@ DDx77: Which is why it would/should only be toward's the RR and it's variant only, just like the Gal's ROF bonus is only to the AR and it's variant's.

@ Anmol Singh: Yeah, but it'd be too good and would put the ARR out of business, which is why a fixed CT reduction of at least .05 per level would be nice, it'd make the ARR .05 in CT and would help it in CQC engagements, the RR would be at .20 second's helping it at longer range engagements and allows slight feathering of the rifle at long range engagements and would set it apart from everyone else that uses the RR's and the variant's, and would easily set it up for balancing if future variant's are on the table, since you'd be (logically speaking) balancing the weapon around the suit, rather than it's general use.

The Laser Rifle is a prime example of a weapon being balanced around the suit, and not it's general use.