Blaster rifles (the current ARs) fire heated plasma. Now, how come the rifle doesn't overheat if you fire too many rounds?

I suggest that every weapon gets a unique heat cost. Why do small blaster turrets overheat while ARs don't? It would at least make more sense if they have higher DPS, but they don't.

CCP can even expand upon this and make higher meta weapons have reduced heat costs than their counterparts.

Some weapons will take a long time to overheat (such as standard projectile weapons) while others will overheat quickly (such as laser weapons). Though even this won't be true within classes. An HMG might overheat faster than an SMG, for example.

I find this to be an alternative solution to fixing the TAR problem by giving them more overheat than a regular AR. This will also add realism to the game because weapons heat up in real life.

I believe the TAR has more damage due to its full auto/more "precise" shots.

1.ARs are gas operated air cooled, they don't overheat because of the heat dissipation with the design of the weapon.

2. Lasers and scramblers are energy weapons with little heat dissipation.

3. HMGs overheat in the game just as they do in real life. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say many of you haven't fired a real HMG. After a sustained period of firing you have to change barrels to prevent the barrel from overheating.

Blaster rifles (the current ARs) fire heated plasma. Now, how come the rifle doesn't overheat if you fire too many rounds?

Many of you are using real life ARs to back your arguments. The ARs in DUST shoot heated plasma, something entirely different from modern day bullets. No matter what cooling system you have, that stuff should heat up your barrel. This gives room for the devs to make higher meta weapons have better cooling systems that reduce the amount of heat generated.

When the Minmatar rifles come out, then you can compare those to modern day weapons. They will have close to no heat build up with higher meta possibly providing no heat build up at all.

Hybrids should have heat build up, though not as much as energy weapons, considering the fact that they shoot heated plasma (for railguns, they shoot the canister of suspended plasma instead, but heat is still produced from all the energy involved in firing these canisters)

Heat consists of random vibrations in a material. If a magnetic field connects two objects, then it creates a mechanical coupling between the two objects. Such a coupling will couple vibrations, therefore heat will be conducted by the magnetic field.

In practice, the effect will be very small, but given enough time, heat will be conducted by the magnetic field. The same applies to suspension by a combination electric and magnetic field.

An HMG might overheat faster than an SMG, for example.

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Duplicate threads are rather frowned upon on forums. The author should have used the search function.

Dude, really? You need to declare you posted this before? Give the dude a break...

Welcome to the internet, where things work differently than real life.

Adapt or leave.

The same could be said to you...

Many of you are using real life ARs to back your arguments. The ARs in DUST shoot heated plasma, something entirely different from modern day bullets. No matter what cooling system you have, that stuff should heat up your barrel. This gives room for the devs to make higher meta weapons have better cooling systems that reduce the amount of heat generated.

When the Minmatar rifles come out, then you can compare those to modern day weapons. They will have close to no heat build up with higher meta possibly providing no heat build up at all.

Hybrids should have heat build up, though not as much as energy weapons, considering the fact that they shoot heated plasma (for railguns, they shoot the canister of suspended plasma instead, but heat is still produced from all the energy involved in firing these canisters)

I wouldn't knock a heat build-up mechanic for the ARs.

That WOULD address concerns for the TAR, and practically EVERY weapon. Even two-clip tangos would disappear. Hybrid weapons overheat too. (Blaster turrets, rail gun turrets), why would/should their smaller counterparts be any different?

Then I think about all the new players that come to Dust, that start wondering wtf their ARs are overheating and exploding in their faces. Then they leave Dust saying, "all the weapons in Dust suck. everything overheats and explodes in your face."

So while it is a fair and fine remedy to a majority of our weapon balance problems... you run into the problem of making the learning curve for new players that much more steeper.