It is kind of silly to say that ARs should reign supreme when a Heavy is involved. HMGs are the king of CQB, followed by shotguns.

Only now do I finally understand why ARs have a 60m range, and heavies have 30. Still though, in open maps, heavies are just downright useless. They're immobile, and rangeless. I have been picked off by TARs at 60m quite often, and it's irritating because if I close the distance, they'll only do more damage. Thus, my only option is to run and find cover as soon as I can. And hope, he doesn't Sight camp me until more buddies have arrived.

[Solution]
All assault rifles including the tactical are blasters, which are suppose to be short range by comparison to other weapon types. Laser weapons are suppose to be long range. With this in mind, I think it would be a good idea to nerf the range of the tactical, and buff the range of the the scrambler. A scope with similar zoom as the tactical would be nice as well (though keep the current sight for the assault scrambler).A modest reduction in scrambler rifle heat build up would also be greatly helpful.

The scrambler is actually a pulse laser.

In eve every weapon system has a long range and short range equivalent.

Short
Blasters
Autocannons
Pulse lasers
Assault missiles (I think not a fan of missiles)

Long
Rail guns
Artillery
Beam lasers
Torps

The range difference between the two is pretty incredible...

Right now the tac ar and the scrambler (both short range) have basically the highest range in the game. Doesnt fit the lore...

In my opinion the tac should be removed and replaced by the caldari ar which will be a rail gun. Low rof but high alpha.

The charge scr should be made a beam laser while the assault variant is made a true pulse laser with its own skill set.

But who knows only time will tell what CCP has planned.

TARs can keep their range, but they should have to be using iron-based ammo to do so, meaning a lot less damage. The fact that there isn't the overheat mechanic (despite shooting plasma, which is heat given physical form almost) to balance out the RoF means that they shouldn't be doing similar damage to the SR at range.

Holy crap, actually overheated an assault scrambler rifle, took a lot of shooting and reloading. It still almost never happens, which makes the Amarr assault bonus almost useless.

I haven't used a scrambler rifle yet, but I want to. People never seem to factor in charge damage and headshot damage.

+1

I agree with this post.

But I disagree with the heat build-up reduction request.

That heat build-up is KEY in maintaining the weapon's balance.
If you remove that, and give it the other buffs, you're asking for QQ troubles. Right now, no one complains about getting downed by a Scrambler. I've gotten quite good at managing the heat on both the standard and assault variants.
SCR and SCAR users just need to adjust their management.

When the Heat meter says you can't keep attacking, then you simply need to pull back and cooldown. Don't move in for the assault unless you are 100% confident you can down your target without overheating.

Otherwise, the OP is spot on.

AR users also have to spend almost a mill. Extra SP to get all AR skills to level 5.
It's the ONLY weapon that has the sharpshooter skill.
It's the ONLY weapon that has 5 sub skills.

ALL other weapons only have 4 sub skills and you save a mill. SP
by training SR insted of AR but you want them to have the same stats.

Are AR users not supose to get a little bit extra for spending an extra
mill. SP on there weapon ?

AR users also have to spend almost a mill. Extra SP to get all AR skills to level 5.
It's the ONLY weapon that has the sharpshooter skill.
It's the ONLY weapon that has 5 sub skills.

ALL other weapons only have 4 sub skills and you save a mill. SP
by training SR insted of AR but you want them to have the same stats.

Are AR users not supose to get a little bit extra for spending an extra
mill. SP on there weapon ?

We'll be making some adjustments to the rifle ranges in the near future. We're currently testing the Rail Rifle and Combat Rifle internally (the two missing archetypes). Within the assault rifle class the four weapon types will break down as follows:

Assault Rifle (Hybrid - Plasma) - short range
Combat Rifle (Projectile - Autocannon) - short-mid range
Scrambler Rifle (Laser - Pulse) - mid range
Rail Rifle (Hybrid - Railgun) - long range

Keep in mind though that long range for an assault rifle is not equivalent to long range for a sniper rifle, so while they will adhere to existing category definitions don't expect massive differences in the distances between these weapons
A lot of the original assault rifle variants (Breach, Burst, Tactical) were created to fill the gaps these newer weapons will fill and so mightGÇÖve felt out of place (not to mention we just plain made mistakes with some of them). The scrambler rifleGÇÖs optimal range will be increased and weGÇÖll be releasing an iteration of the Tactical Assault Rifle with a smaller clip and much wider hip-fire spread making it less effective in CQC. If that change alone does not prove enough we will walk the damage of the TAR down slowly. No big, sweeping changes this time.

Can we test them, and tell you what we think? Can I have an account to test server and give you honest feedback?

I wish you all could. We currently don't have A SiSi like server for DUST. Wish we did. Would love the feedback earlier.