I just played a few matches using only Starter Fits. I have not spent 1 single skill point on AR. Still did ridiculously good in all of the matches I played tonight except 1.

AR is OP, Final Answer.

How about it is not overpowered but... it is where it belongs?

Keep nerfing the AR and breaking the game. AR actually needs a lot of buffs to make it just feel like a real weapon and not some toy.

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The AR and flaylock are the only good weapons left in the game, nerf that and everything will be balanced. Oh wait, I think you didn't get the memo, this isn't supposed to be a twitch shooter. That thing were people don't die in 3 bullets? Yeah, that's how it's supposed to be.

Buff the AR?
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Keep nerfing the AR and breaking the game. AR actually needs a lot of buffs to make it just feel like a real weapon and not some toy. To do this other guns needs buffs as well to keep up and be real weapons. (Don't expect all guns to be equal it just won't happen and in some cases shouldn't happen.)

Don't believe me? Look at the player count.

This just in: longer TTK = bad game design

Keep nerfing the AR and breaking the game. AR actually needs a lot of buffs to make it just feel like a real weapon and not some toy. To do this other guns needs buffs as well to keep up and be real weapons. (Don't expect all guns to be equal it just won't happen and in some cases shouldn't happen.)

Don't believe me? Look at the player count.

AR actually needs a lot of buffs to make it just feel like a real weapon and not some toy. To do this other guns needs buffs as well to keep up and be real weapons.

So...buff all guns?

Oddly enough, CCP may be doing just that in 1.2. How about we all drop the nerf threads for a week and find out?

This just in: longer TTK = bad game design

So...buff all guns?

Armies in general through history rely on a standard weapon. In Dust, it is the AR. Specialty weapons offer advantages and disadvantages over this baseline and are utilized in a situational manner in support of unit requirements.

Also, cry more noob!!! jk

Hopefully they're smart enough to not buff the AR

They're only giving it an Absolute range beyond the falloff, which means that it'll do damage out further, but at a far higher penalty-per-meter.

Yes.

That was the problem when they killed the Tac rifles (which did need to be pulled back a bit, instead they got the ******* nerf hammer). They took the only gun in the game really worth using, and instead of pulling up everything, and pulling that back just an inch, to be fair in that way, they knocked it down to meet the other totally useless gun standards.

It's like they're trying to carve out what everyone expects to be Michelangelo's David, but instead of using a chisel they're using a sledge hammer.

I just played a few matches using only Starter Fits. I have not spent 1 single skill point on AR. Still did ridiculously good in all of the matches I played tonight except 1.

AR is OP, Final Answer.

Yeah it does, when its the ******* disgusting framerate, hd and aiming thats causeing the problem

Also, ar may still be the most versatile weapon, as it should be, buts its the most crappiest ar i've ever seen in a fps, the range is a complete and utter unfunny joke, and no i dont want to be sniping across the map with it, but as it stands its ******* pathetic, especially given the map sizes

All the weapons suck, and its all you c.unts with the "op" threads that are to blame

I don't know if OP is the right word, but it works TOO well in every situation.

Me thinks you don't understand how balance works

All weapons suck = balance = no weapons suck

All weapons are good = balance= no weapons are good.

Now, if your problem is with long TTK (time to kill), then perhaps this game isn't your style

If you think the TTK right now is fine

*puts loremaster hat on* Plasma-Based blaster weapons such as the AR are short range high damage weapons not these mid-range killing machines that they are.
ScR and the upcoming CoR are mid range and the GauR is long range