It'll stay that way because the community doesn't want differing playstyles. This community seems to think that everyone should be a bunny hopping butt ******* ****** blobbing all over the damn map, while firing walls of bullets at everything so they eventually hit something. Because you can't possibly want to play a FPS and not bunny hop and spray walls of bullets. There's no room in FPS games for snipers, vehicles, anything that isn't an AR. I mean really? Do you think they gonna balance the AR, they are gonna leave it as the only valid weapon to use because that's what all the ****** playing whiny brats want.

So, you're complaining that the AR - the versatile weapon of the marine - is to good for doing what it's supposed to do..? They are suppose to be good in most situations, they're built for it.

Laser Rifles are made to stay in the back of the squad and rip the shields off any enemy near the end of it's range. If you are finding yourself in CQC fights with it, you're simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Mass Drivers are made for lobbing into crowds, not 1v1ing.

The SMG is a CQC high damage weapon, just need to max out your skills in it and it's beastly (don't go fighting heavies with it).

You seem to understand what shotties are for.

Not sure why you're trying to take an AR user from the front using Nova Knives, you're supposed to *sneak*.

Shouldn't be fighting infantry with a Forge gun.

I apply my above statement to Swarm Launchers.

HMG is for spamming at crowds as LogiBro repairs you, those things rock.

Sniper - duh.

Grenades - you can't shoot them? Thats gay... Wasn't it halo that you could shoot them as they left the hand? Loved raping people with their own Spike Grenades.

Vehicles - uh?

And thats my breakdown of what I just read, probably shoulda done it in order, but I'm way to lazy to rearrange it now.

I can see why ppl complain about the AR

Its ment to be the jack of all trades (to a point) and master of 1 or **** all, currently its master of quite a bit and you can say the same for the assualt suit

I'm not complaining. I'm just stating what i find on the weapons and addressing the posts about the AR being op.

The way your post is set up makes it sound like a call for balance, when the reality is that it is balanced. AR'r are made for versatility, while many of the other weapons are much more specialized.

Only problem with the AR currently is the complete lack of recoil.

the versatile weapon of the marine

well glad the marines are up to date with assault rifles and such, I mean my branch is still using swords and spears... jarheads

um less about branch rivalries and about the issue I think AR should have more kick and unlike the SR kick it shouldnGÇÖt come back down on the exact same place.

Perhaps there isn't enough kick on the militia, but that's really such a minor issue at this point. I'd rather have 100% of the content and stability with some minor imbalance, instead of 100% balance while my games run at 15fps and I only have 50% of the content. I guess that's just me though.

I used the Tactical last build, seemed like the kick was fine to me.

This thread's eventual TL;DR
I think it's ridiculous how the enemy can actually move around so I have to aim at them. I'm not good at aiming and moving around - make the game into a rail shooter. Assault rifles are the most common infantry weapon in the world due to their versatility but I think they should be changed so that they aren't like they actually are because I can't aim and move.

AR vs submachine gun depends on the distance. at close range forget about the AR. with 20-24.2 damage and 1000-1052.6 rpm, there is no way AR wins. if you add to that side arm sharpshooter and side arm sharpshooter proficiency, sub wins in short and medium short ranges. haven't experimented much with breach subs, so I haven't posted their stats.

please do the math....and if you cannot...let me...assault rifles have more DPS then SMGs. But but they shoot faster...like really fast....please before you make some asinine statement do the math....assault rifle runs 375 DPS+ and the SMG is 350+

In the previous builds SMG did do more DPS, but since they removed the 5% per level and changed it to 3% they no longer hold their own against the ARs

before you post your half a$s pro wanna be post, go on the field and test them see what happends when you put a duvolle vs a proto sub up close.