I cannot believe sharpshooter doesnt increase ar range anymore. What a shame. I get they are making the scrambler rifle the mid range weapon but goddamn ars are almost useless now.

The AR isn't "useless' by any means. While the range on it has been reduced, everyone has suffered a similar reduction due to the SS skill being removed. I do agree that the range on it is pretty pathetic. I'm pretty sure a slingshot could shoot farther than some of these guns. I don't think the AR alone needs a range buff, but all guns in general. The maximum range of all guns needs to be increased, or at least add some sort bullet physics to it if need be. I don't understand why bullets simply disappear after about 50-60 meters. This is the damn future, why is it that we can't manage to shoot a projectile, be it plasma or what have you, further than a slingshot could?

Did you not see all this talked about like 2 months ago? The game was broken with every AR user having the ability to mow people down at >60m range. That was like 200+ dps in a second. It was a huge nerf to heavies and lights since it meant that the heavy's speed was a death trap and the light frames low HP was its own ruin. It required that all teams have mostly AR/assaults users on their team. It lead to boring twitch combat which is not what CCP wants.

Just get out of your tiny little heads that we should all be fighting like we have been for the last few months. This game has fundamentally changed.

This is a game not real life. No one would play if everything behaved realistically, i would just go outside and do something.

^This.

What we currently call an "Assault Rifle" is actually a Gallente Blaster Rifle. The four racial variants are the Amarr Scrambler Rifle, Caldari Gauss Rifle, Gallente Blaster Rifle, Minmatar Combat Rifle (the only projectile assault rifle).

Blasters fire extremely hot balls of plasma that literally evaporate within a split second. At anything beyond close range, you get hit by the force of a hair dryer set to "hot".

While the exact range (50m, 75m, whatever) is debatable, the weapon is working as described in the lore.

If you notice, all of the Gallente weapons we have are very short range, but nasty. Look at the shotguns- those are plasma weapons as well.

My thoughts exactly. All guns need a LARGE boost in range, if you can see someone, you should be able to shoot them and vice versa. The only problem with Sharpshooter in the old build was that people who didn't have it complained due to being at a disadvantage. Well, just give the bonus from it to everyone, problem solved.