The way i understand it, every racial rifles will have all variants guys : full auto, burst, breach and tatical. But every race will have its favorite type that's gonna outmatch the others in their own field of expertize.

Gallente, short range and DPS. Making their full auto variant the best choice for close fights.
Minmatar. Overall balanced, decent range and accuracy. Less DPS (through lower rof perhaps) than gallente overall.
Caldari. Higher Range, less DPS. Making the breach variant the logical choice to inflict pain from a distance
Amarr. High DPS output through charged laser weapon. Way bigger dispersion and recoil than any other racial rifle

Overall, all the rifles need one main advantage and one main downside that will make one variant the most balanced choice for that specific rifle.

If you want early feedback, could you give us the range you have in mind for each racial rifle once they're all added ? I really hope the gallente wont get a nerf or then it's gonna be a useless AR compared to the others.

Changing the RoF to something that would ameliorate the advantage given by modded controllers would likely make the weapon feel a bit worse when using a standard controller (some people can press the fire button faster than others... I have years of Track & Field defeats to prove that. Man, I miss that game. But I digress!). Using modded controllers is tantamount to using a GameGenie or GameShark back in the day. It might be fun, but it ain't cool. We'll need to address it, but not by making the intended behavior worse. That said, we'll look at making adjustments to the RoF to prevent the shameless exploitation currently being seen.

Speaking of shameless exploitation... does CCP plan any counter-measures (e.g. banning players who used modded controllers)?

This is really annoying especially in PCQ battles. I'm afraid that if CCP is not going to curtail such exploits very quickly and with draconian measures, this misbehavior may spread among the player base until PCQ becomes a total mockery.

I like the overheat idea some of the players suggested.

The way i understand it, every racial rifles will have all variants guys : full auto, burst, breach and tatical. But every race will have its favorite type that's gonna outmatch the others in their own field of expertize.

Gallente, short range and DPS. Making their full auto variant the best choice for close fights.
Minmatar. Overall balanced, decent range and accuracy. Less DPS (through lower rof perhaps) than gallente overall.
Caldari. Higher Range, less DPS. Making the breach variant the logical choice to inflict pain from a distance
Amarr. High DPS output through charged laser weapon. Way bigger dispersion and recoil than any other racial rifle

Overall, all the rifles need one main advantage and one main downside that will make one variant the most balanced choice for that specific rifle.

Breach variants are the shortest range ARs in the game.

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

Here's what I envision for the ranges of the rifles - a couple might seem high compared to what we have now, but we seriously need more range on this stuff.

Blaster Rifle (Gallente) - ~60m optimal
Combat Rifle (Minmatar) - ~75m optimal
Scrambler/Laser Rifle (Amarr) - ~90m optimal
Rail Rifle (Caldari) - ~100m optimal

I've suggested some high ranges for a couple of the weapons, but as long as the damage is noticeably lower that shouldn't be a problem.
And we seriously need more range. Sharpshooter removal was a good thing in some ways, but we have all these open maps, and we need range to use them properly.

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.

I get the feeling CCP won't make everything have more range than it does now. The Minmatar and Amarr tech will likely have around the range AR's have now (60-70m), the Gallente will likely have a shorter range (40m), and the Caldari tech will have longer range (90-100m).

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

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.

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:
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

They won't be removed, no, but they will be tweaked slightly. The idea being that each race will have it's base variant be Assault, (Gallente) Burst (Minmatar), Breach (Caldari) or Tactical (Amarr) and then the variants are a specific race's take on the others using their own tech. So, you'd get an Assault Rail Rifle that attempts to somewhat mimic the behavior of the Gallente Assault Rifle and a Tactical Assault Rifle that attempts to mimic the Amarr Scrambler Rifle and so on.

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

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

Are you saying you do not have a way to test anything that is added? So we're gonna do this routine where you add stuff, it doesn't work, we cry, you add stuff to market, we cry hard, you announce fix, we cry less?

I am offering you a service that some guys charge $20 an hour to do, for free. Slide that client to me under the table, nobody needs to know.

I have a question that might be off-topic, what of other weapon balancing? The skill tree has questionable skills that effect weapons. For example, Plasma cannon operation reduces charge, but the charge is 0.6sec so the skill is pointless(I also believe it is broken, but since the difference is infinitecimal it is hard to guage). Another example is flaylock pistol optimization reduces PG, but by design the pistol uses no PG. There are other imbalances that do not make sense.

There is also the matter of misfiring weapons. Several complaints have been made about guns not shooting. If possible I would like this post forwarded to Wolfman.

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.

Changing the RoF to something that would ameliorate the advantage given by modded controllers would likely make the weapon feel a bit worse when using a standard controller (some people can press the fire button faster than others... I have years of Track & Field defeats to prove that. Man, I miss that game. But I digress!). Using modded controllers is tantamount to using a GameGenie or GameShark back in the day. It might be fun, but it ain't cool. We'll need to address it, but not by making the intended behavior worse. That said, we'll look at making adjustments to the RoF to prevent the shameless exploitation currently being seen.

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