Unofficially all racial equivalent stuff, new roles, and new equipment are on the backburner for the next 6 months. That doesn't mean it won't get done cooking within the next 6 months but its no longer the primary focus of the studio.

Teams that work on the content are through likely to be only to be able to do that content so they're probably going to continue to plug away at it slowly while the development focuses on the core of the game.

Laser HMGS sounds OP.

Unofficially all racial equivalent stuff, new roles, and new equipment are on the backburner for the next 6 months. That doesn't mean it won't get done cooking within the next 6 months but its no longer the primary focus of the studio.

Teams that work on the content are through likely to be only to be able to do that content so they're probably going to continue to plug away at it slowly while the development focuses on the core of the game.

it's cool they're working on the core gameplay... but 6 months (give or take a couple)...

If we already had a couple races / variations then I would say alright, but we have 1 race, and 2 variations, one of which is a light weapon heavy.

Comes back to who cares about heavies, they're a minority.

it's cool they're working on the core gameplay... but 6 months (give or take a couple)...

If we already had a couple races / variations then I would say alright, but we have 1 race, and 2 variations, one of which is a light weapon heavy.

Comes back to who cares about heavies, they're a minority.

The roadmap dev blog is supposed to drop either today or tomorrow.

Let us see what is on there first, then we can burn this mother down if they ignore the heavies.

My heavy alt is dying for a chance to use some sort of magazine fed grenade launcher or laser HMG.

Unofficially all racial equivalent stuff, new roles, and new equipment are on the backburner for the next 6 months. That doesn't mean it won't get done cooking within the next 6 months but its no longer the primary focus of the studio.

Teams that work on the content are through likely to be only to be able to do that content so they're probably going to continue to plug away at it slowly while the development focuses on the core of the game.

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.