Weapon balance should've been finalised 6+ months ago, yet here we are still trying to do it (and CCP still fails).

I copied this into my iPods notes a few days ago, it says range will also get reduced as well if I read it right...



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#27Posted: 2013.05.28 02:48 | Report
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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.
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Can you give a little more info on your experience with the full auto SCR? I too am looking for something to use when I am not shotgunning.I am not a huge fan of the lower semi auto SCR but the auto one sounds kinda useful.

Tbh, I just want to play this game when it is done. Hopefully then it will have been done right. If not I can then move on. The only reason I still play is in the hope CCP will get it right eventually. Although not sure how long that will take.

You clearly aren't familiar with the still ****** weapon balance in Planetside 2 that is a constant cycle of nerfs and buffs EIGHT MONTHS after launch.

By eight months, we'll have had our first expansion and time for an update or two after that. I would imagine this would all be sorted out before then.