Some people have modded controllers, or mapped the fire button to their mousewheel, yes.

the RoF + the damage +the range is the ENTIRE reason the weapon is overpowered, it outranges everything that's not a sniper rifle, or forge gun, or installation and does comparable damage to turrets mounted on cars, at a faster fire rate than the standard AR.

You yourself even pointed out that the ONE DRAWBACK this gun has is not any kind of drawback, so, what is it's weakness to balance out being the outright strongest option in the game?

and yes, it does need a nerf. if more than 2/3 of people are using a single weapon type and variant, it means that nothing else is comparable, which means that weapon is overpowered.

ergo, that ONE weapon needs to be nerfed.

No, it doesn't need a nerf, not at all, the clip would not affect the damage whatsoever, ergo, it's not a nerf. And again, I rarely use the TAR, I have a setup with it, which I whip out for medium range sniping every now and then, but my two main rigs are Scrambler Rifle and GEK. I don't intend to use the other weapons, Sniper, maybe, Swarm Launcher, maybe, they're specialised as hell.

Reducing the range, or damage or ROF would ruin the point of the weapon, it's semi automatic, as fast as you can pull the trigger, that's what semi automatic does, some people can't use it, some people can use it, extremely well.

And to you above me, wow, I'm not even going to do the whole ID SAY THAT TO YOUR FACE IVE BEEN IN JAIL DO YOU EVEN LIFT BRO ish, but just know that I would.

so you're running. never thought a Scot for a runner.

Also you must not play many games then, because there are a minimum of 4 of them in every game I'm in. that's a quarter of one of the teams, as a MINIMUM. that many people should not be using the exact same gun. typically it's more, ever seen a game with 10 of them? it's over very shortly because it turns into CoD 514 where everyone dies in 4 bullets.

I'm not running, I'm making an educated decision to stop beating a dead horse with another dead horse, and I play pretty much all day every day and I see maybe 2 in a match, every 3 matches? I'm being totally serious here as well, I'm not trying to continue this argument on, and I've never seen a game with that many, I've seen games where the entire map were running VARIOUS AR setups, mostly the Exile is the one that keep popping up on the kill list for me, and a quarter of the team using the same weapon, is pretty normal in most shooter games, that were ever made.

But hey ho.

fine, agree to disagree then? since neither of us is going to give up an inch any time soon.

Sigh, idiots.
BF3 and COD have great weapon variety.
Its actually balanced.
Go into a match and tell me how many people are using the exact same weapon.
So if there is a cream of the crop weapon, its the exact opposite of catering to BF3/COD players.

I believe TAR is going to be hit with the nerf bat soon.

TAR will get nerfed and laser should get a buff. This would fix a lot.