I have noticed that almost everyone is using the assault rifle to the point where the rest of the weapons seem to be just amusing sidebars to be dabbled in rather than actual weapons to be used in combat.

I started wondering why everyone uses them then it hit me. Right now assault rifles are basically the only weapon one need bother using because they have no drawbacks to them like the rest of the weapons.

Easy on pg/cpu
effective at basically any range that one might wish to employ it. (up to that pesky point where your bullets stop)
do more damage and are more accurate that just about anything else. (yes i know the laser is more accurate but its a beam of light what possible recoil could it create?)

I realize that it is supposed to be a jack-of-all-trades weapon its missing the key component to that old saying "master of none"

I really want to see this game become more than AR 514. so curse me for being the blasphemer i am think that something on the assault rifle has to give. It should be good at everything but not great. Right now there is no real reason to use anything else unless you really like the idea because almost everyone else uses the thing.

I think that the assault rifle should be tweaked so as to make it a viable weapon but not the only viable weapon this is the future of war not modern warfare so while i understand its the most easily relate-able weapon in the game i feel it should be tweaked as to make people feel that specializing in other weapons it worth it.

ARs are just the popular meta right now, they're easy and familiar in this strange new world. I'm seeing a lot more shotgunners and HMGers than before, still surprisingly few lasers though.

i'm sure with a couple more posts like these CCP will nerf them again, they do consult the experts on everything they do after all- that is they check the front page of the forums for any cry posts and nerf accordingly

You'd be amazed at what they take note of and what they ignore

I have noticed that almost everyone is using the assault rifle to the point where the rest of the weapons seem to be just amusing sidebars to be dabbled in rather than actual weapons to be used in combat.

Thread saying HMGs make ARs obsolete , and thread saying how ARs making everything else obsolete.

Both on the front page, how sad.

I love my flux grenade + mass driver.
People are just too lazy to learn how to use new weapons and cry for OVERPOWERED(hmg/mass driver/lazors/shotgun)!1!1! when they get killed by people who did learn.

I have noticed that almost everyone is using the assault rifle to the point where the rest of the weapons seem to be just amusing sidebars to be dabbled in rather than actual weapons to be used in combat.

I started wondering why everyone uses them then it hit me. Right now assault rifles are basically the only weapon one need bother using because they have no drawbacks to them like the rest of the weapons.

Easy on pg/cpu
effective at basically any range that one might wish to employ it. (up to that pesky point where your bullets stop)
do more damage and are more accurate that just about anything else. (yes i know the laser is more accurate but its a beam of light what possible recoil could it create?)

I realize that it is supposed to be a jack-of-all-trades weapon its missing the key component to that old saying "master of none"

I really want to see this game become more than AR 514. so curse me for being the blasphemer i am think that something on the assault rifle has to give. It should be good at everything but not great. Right now there is no real reason to use anything else unless you really like the idea because almost everyone else uses the thing.

I think that the assault rifle should be tweaked so as to make it a viable weapon but not the only viable weapon this is the future of war not modern warfare so while i understand its the most easily relate-able weapon in the game i feel it should be tweaked as to make people feel that specializing in other weapons it worth it.

Build after build the variants of the AR have been nerfed into uselessness. Why? Because people such as yourself are absolutely terrible at this game, and needed CCP to homogenize everything to the point where standard variants were the only ones worth using. Now we have DUST514 a dumbed down poormans version of COD/BF/MAG/Halo all rolled into one game.

Build after build the variants of the AR have been nerfed into uselessness. Why? Because people such as yourself are absolutely terrible at this game, and needed CCP to homogenize everything to the point where standard variants were the only ones worth using. Now we have DUST514 a dumbed down poormans version of COD/BF/MAG/Halo all rolled into one game.

Actually it's because children like you camped spawns 24/7 because you have nothing better to do, and you only ever used one weapon. Then CCP looks back and goes, oh, these kids are topping leaderboards and only ever using this one weapon, maybe we should look at it.

Then the same kids come to the forums, and complain about CCP attempting to bring the stats more in line, since god forbid they touch 'their' toys. So, since CCP won't pander to you, you do the next best thing, and lobby to get the things you dislike nerfed instead.

That's why they've been nerfed.