Well normally I'll beat that TAC user at the long range fight.... however I'll whine horribly about it as I do so.

I mean how is his bullet gun outranging my light gun?

It's not bullets but plasma which dissipates after a certain distance, unlike a laser which is an ongoing beam of superheated light.

The combat rifle is going to be projectile based and so is the gauss rifle. Scrambler rifle is energy based and all(including laser) should have farther ranch then a plasma rifle.

Where's the logic in that?

I don't mind having a 1v1 firefight with a Tac AR user while I use my laser(with me winning most of the time). But when getting hit and my laser not being able to get any hitmarkers due to range, that's bogus. I would understand a Sniper being out of my range. A laser should have more range then any assault rifle especially an assault rifle that has a better sight.

My inner physicist just died a little...

The combat rifle is going to be projectile based and so is the gauss rifle. Scrambler rifle is energy based and all(including laser) should have farther ranch then a plasma rifle.

So what you're saying is heavies are going to be obsolete again? :(

...Until CCP adds a heavy weapon with gloriously fun amounts of splash damage. That **** is gonna be awesome. And whatever heavy Amarr laser rifle they come up with. That **** will be ****. Seriously can't wait for it.

Since there isn't a gauss rifle and sniping is a **** now, there's no real effective counter to lasers. Seems to be working as intended for the time being. On a side note, the TAR really feels like it should be a Caldari weapon.

cool story bro.

TAR is superior to every other weapon. it should be inferior to LR at LR range and it should not be superior to AR at regular AR range. the TAR is supposed to be able to project the damage farther out but not to be superior than everything else.

also there is an easy counter to LR => close range.

Yeah, that damn thing needs a wider hip fire spread and maybe a smaller clip and ammo capacity. But it still doesn't fit into the plasma rifle range. It's like CCP made the gauss rifle said "**** it" half way through and made it an AR.

If they called it a Gauss rifle I could accept the range but the LR still needs a bit of love.

Oh I'm sorry I'm not a genius and don't know all the technical aspects of a laser. Why don't you enlighten me, Mr. Physicist as to what a laser is in a "videogame" so I can sleep better at night.

Not a physicist, but a laser is not "an ongoing beam of superheated light", christ I've met children that knew better than that. a laser is simply a concentrated stream of radiation released in a directed fashion.

Laser: a device that utilizes the natural oscillations of atoms or molecules between energy levels for generating a beam of coherent electromagnetic radiation usually in the ultraviolet, visible, or infrared regions of the spectrum

^merriam-webster's dictionary definition.

sorry that I got to this in the morning, I apologize for all your lost sleep. Then again, considering your previous response, it probably would have done very little for your cognitive functions anyways.

also, the laser rifle in this game is technically 3 individual lasers, and an "optic spacer" that focuses all 3 on a single point. as the weapon is fired, the blending and focusing portion of the weapon(optic spacer) suffers heat buildup and if not vented(normally a failsafe is in place to vent the weapon automatically) causes feedback, sometimes lethal. of course venting it causes to spacer to get warped out of shape due to rapid cooling and on firing again, it must recalibrate back to each individual laser.

It's not bullets but plasma which dissipates after a certain distance, unlike a laser which is an ongoing beam of superheated light.

The combat rifle is going to be projectile based and so is the gauss rifle. Scrambler rifle is energy based and all(including laser) should have farther ranch then a plasma rifle.