Your thoughts are reasonable. +1
You posted in Feedback first. +1
Your feedback post is well organized. +1
Neither posts are soaking wet with tears. +1

I am now recommending CCP add the Matakage Tactical AR officer variant. Instead of improved weapon stats, mercs that fit this rifle get a 10% passive bonus to proper forum posting. GG

Your thoughts are reasonable. +1
You posted in Feedback first. +1
Your feedback post is well organized. +1
Neither posts are soaking wet with tears. +1

I am now recommending CCP add the Matakage Tactical AR officer variant. Instead of improved weapon stats, mercs that fit this rifle get a 10% passive bonus to proper forum posting. GG

I'm not sure I'd say the AR should be better in CQC by far. It should definitely be clearly better, but the TAR is still an AR, not a sniper, and it should be viable at shorter ranges, though at a disadvantage. My concern is that CCP will do something like reducing the mag to 20 like you suggest, AND nerf the hipfire spread by like 50% or something ridiculous.

What I would like would be;

Base Damage @ Proto : 100ish
ROF ~180
Clip size 10-15
Increase the Kick

same spread.

Here's what I've been putting together. Been trying to build some consensus on it.


GLU-5 Tactical Assault Rifle
Damage: 61 HP
Rate of Fire: 450 RPM (compare with full auto Breach AR) down from 789.5
Accuracy Rating: 42.9 (similar hip fire spread to the Burst Scrambler Pistol) down from 56.1
Clip Size: 30 (increased) up from 24
Max Ammo: 180 (reduction) down from 300

Duvolle Tactical Assault Rifle
Damage: 64.2 HP
Rate of Fire: 450 RPM
Accuracy Rating: 43.5 (exactly .6 higher than the GLU-5, as intended) down from 56.7
Clip Size: 30
Max Ammo: 180

Lmfao, so nerf the hell out of everything and make it useless again. Peachy. While we're at it, let's give LAVs another buff. Say, 120% that way Starter LAVs can have 4500 EHP.

Well.. I hope you ready to spend a full day writing about the Scramble Rifle... because that is coming next.

Sarcasm won't help fix anything.

Sarcasm won't help fix anything. These are numbers generated from a number of players actually. Please review the thread.

This is actually a nerf buffer. And keeps it inline with the other ARs.

Well, I ask you. Would you use the Breach over the Tactical, for cqc right now?
Would you use the full-auto over the Tactical right now?
Would you use the Burst over the Tactical right now?

I have a preference for the Tactical as well. But we must be reasonable. It's the king infantry weapon. Especially a duvolle with a couple damage mods. I've been using the tactical ever since we came to Uprising... the other ARs are a novelty by comparision... actually every other weapon is a novelty by comparison. Even in Chromosome, the tactical never really needed a damage boost. Not sure why it got one.

Actually the overheat function on the scrambler rifle is what mitigates. A person cannot remain in a state of non-stop offense for his entire clip using one.

The Tactical AR has no such limitations, and it's ammo is nearly equally effective vs. armor and shields.

I use one on a regular basis. The weapon is just slightly overpowered right now.

Is the nerfing circle mate... The TAC is the most dominant weapon right now, and the weapon that K/D ratio obsess people are using, once the TAC is nerfed, all that people will move to the next "Dominant" gun in the list, which is the SCR. And that progress will continue, to all the weapon are nerfed, and we need another 10% weapon boost ...

Deja Vu anyone ?

Those same people relying on the TAR also aren't very accurate. If they were accurate they would use sniper rifles.

They rely on the TAR's enhanced range for protection from counter-fire and strafe around in place while emptying their clips with impunity. It's the weapon that grants potent attack at long range, without penalty of things like sway and kick common in sniper rifles.
And if they want to run up close, it will overpower there as well.

If the TAR takes a hit like the numbers I propose, it would still be potent, but only harder to use, and therefore reward truly skilled players.
Reduced ammo, means less shots fired with impunity.
Increased hip fire, means keeping track of your position so you don't find yourself in CQC.
Slightly reduced damage prevents killing Heavies in 8-10 shots (amazing what a tactical does with 3 damage mods can do), and reduced rate of fire mitigates modded inputs.

I'm sure they went to the SCR, and found it hard to use. I know I did. I went with the SCAR instead, because the overheat kept stopping the maintained offensive style I wanted to do.
I really doubt we need to worry about the SCR.

You don't understand ... is all about numbers, and percentage. The more people that uses a " Specific " weapon, the more often you get kill by it, and the harder the QQing is.

The TAC is not "Easy" to use.. you still have to AIM, and tap the button as hard as you can. The reason people is QQing, is because the percentage of people that is using THAT specific weapon.

I'm no saying that TAC doesn't need a " FIX " ... i just trying to avoid the CCP BIG NERFING HAMMER.

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