The full-auto ARs are the black sheep that the power hungry love.

MLT Assault Rifle, Assault Rifle, GEK-38 Assault Rifle, and Duvolle Assault Rifle are the OP ones. (The Officer Assault Rifles can stay.)
There is literally no other weapon or device in this game as imbalanced as those. People literally tell me, "there is nothing the TAR or Burst can do, that I can't do with the full-auto." and THAT is the problem, and the sign of imbalance.
Niches be damned.

Shoot, I say just wipe the full-auto variants completely, and make a fully-automatic firing mode for the Burst and Tactical variants, without changing their clip size. Keep kick for the Burst and Tac the same.

OR

Reduce the rate of fire to 500rpm, increase kick to the same as the Burst, and... reduce max effective range to 65-70m.

That would be balanced.

Try giving proof that it's unbalanced

Try giving proof that it's unbalanced
I get many kills from a Militia Assault Rifle when I use it with almost no experience and almost no allocated skillpoints.

Was going to say cut the RoF to 500rpm (or even 550). Because at the current 700+ the thing shoots faster than the Breach SMG. What good is a Breach SMG if the AR keeps working as it does? (Yet another example of the AR displacing the role of something else.)
Then buff the Breach SMG to 700+rpm. (the regular SMG already have 1000rpm)
Let the close range weapons have the close range advantage.

But your example with the Militia is good enough.
I'll find some threads if the request for "find proof that it's unbalanced" still stands.

The AR was never supposed to have RPM that high to begin with. You want a good close range AR, the Breach AR is nasty, especially with damage mods. Just get rid of the kicking animation, it's not shooting fast enough for all that.

Past, AK 47. Kalasknikov variant. This assault rifle is over 60 years old, here's some facts. Gas activated bolt mechanism for faster reloading and reduced recoil. Chambered in 7.62 mm "a large damage round', capable of 600 rpm, effective range 300 meters set on full auto. 400 meters on semi auto, over 60 year old weapon. Present, M4A1 assault rifle, gas activated rotating bolt, I can tell you from personal military experience it has next to no recoil compared to the AK. Chambered in 5.56 mm, capable of , 'wait for it', 950 rpm, effective range 500 meters full auto, 600 meters semi auto. I have operated both many times and can tell you they are both deadly accurate at their suggested ranges. Considering this game takes place thousands of years in the future, I think ccp has it right, or the AR could use a buff, stop crying.

I've stacked enhanced damage mods on a gek and still didn't reach these instakill levels of damage. Besides against scouts (which are paper at every Ar tier) most suits take a decent amount of rounds before dying. However the recoil is too negligible starting at the half wat point of the mag.

the TAR and Burst variants are both just about right... which is why most AR users say "don't use TAR or Burst, they suck". Scale back the regular full auto variants to be more in line with the adjustments already made to the TAR and Burst and you've got a balanced weapon.

lol here's a question to help drive the point for the weapon's kick.
This question is for anyone that seems to think referencing real-life matters.

Who invented the Burst Assault Rifle concept, and why?

Answer that, and you'll know why the Assault Rifle here in Dust is OP.

You use real-life to reason right?

I just stated that the lack of recoil is a problem, as for the stacking I'll try it out

It's not the AR it's the god damn Sharpshooter skill. Without the skill the AR is a CQC-mid range weapon. With sharpshooter the AR can have more range than a laser rifle, and the almost no recoil makes it OP.

Stacking is working as intended, no problems there. Its only a display bug.

I wasn't suggesting it didn't, I just don't believe it becomes op

If every weapon gained noticeable range from sharpshooter how is that a problem? It's a tiny bonus which is how I know you're bsing about the range (4 to five isn't a big difference)

You'll see. Took an assault rifle, type-2 assault suit, and 2 complex damage mods and ran a 21-2, just earlier.

There has to be a way to even out damage for the AR, so it keeps good basic performance, but not so high modded performance.

You can go 21-2 with any weapon in this game. What is your point?

If every weapon gained noticeable range from sharpshooter how is that a problem? It's a tiny bonus which is how I know you're bsing about the range (4 to five isn't a big difference)

40% is a tiny bonus?