Your right it does.....it brings it to the level of the assault scrambler rifle. So you can spec into the sharpshooter to make the plasma rifle as effective as the scrambler in terms of recoil/dispersion. Goodjob...you spent 1.5ish mill SP to get the same effectiveness of a starter scrambler rifle (in terms of recoil/dispersion).

easiest weapon to skill into? wth, maybe for the basic lvl 1 with no other side skills

It's not a Gallente Rifle, and if you're crying about the SP difference between Weaponry 1 and 3.....I just.....

Change it. Go for it. Make it lv 5. It's so petty and minor....

I can't believe I used to be on your side of the fence

:/

For shame.

The only possible indication for that is the art, and basically everything is a placeholder right now, so.

Overheat takes 1.5 mags.....I dont know about you but I have usually killed all of the enemies in my area by the time I have used this many shots......either that or I am dead already.

If your talking about the imp scrambler....well yea after 20 shots you have to wait if you dont want to overheat....but then again after 18 you have to reload the tact rifle so...............

In the end you point is meaningless. 1.5 mags of continuous fire to overheat actually means nothing in battle. I have to purposefully overheat the assault scrambler as I NEVER get even close to overheating it in actual combat. Well to be honest if you are talking about a downside to the scrambler.....the scrambler has no downside either. I dont rememeber the fittings but it might be that the scrambler takes a little more PG to fit but it takes less CPU while AR takes more CPU but less PG. The scrambler has the plasma rifle beat in every way.

Do i need to repeat myself? Its has a larger mag, faster reload, higher accuracy, less SP cost to skill into (has same recoil/dispersion from start that the AR gets after speccing fully into its tree), higher dmg (especially against shields which most ppl tank), similar ROF, similar range, better sight.............. only downfall the potential to overheat if you are ret@rded and cant release the trigger button after 1.5 mags and it costs 30K isk more per weapon.....what dont you understand about this? The numbers prove that the scrambler is better.

The Gallenta Plasma Blaster is the Gallente rifle

The look is a place holder.

Every other AR that is a placeholder is made by Duvolle laboratories.

Just saying, standard AR is not Gallente AR. Crappy mc crap crap Breach AR is Gallente.

At this point based on your reasoning on why the scrambler is balanced (the fact that is can potentially overheat even though noone other than a moron would actually be able to overheat the scrambler rifle)......this means one could argue that the plasma AR is balanced because of the reload glitch and you have a chance to not reload your gun after the completed reload animation causing you to have to initiate reload a second time. I have not had this issue at ALL with the scrambler but had it constantly with the AR. This would indicate that the AR is perfectly balanced because it has something that will rarely if ever be seen in an actual combat situation but if it does happen completely screws over the user.

I was mainly being rediculous for a reason. It would be fine with me if you add a jamming mechanic where if you shoot 108 plasma bullets without stopping (other than to reload) then you will cause a problem with the gun that you have to take a few seconds to correct. In the end it means nothing. Assault scrambler users will NEVER overheat their gun.....its just not possible in actual combat to do that unless you are just a freaking moron with no aim whatsoever (currently takes about 108 shots stopping only to reload in order to overheat the assault scrambler). So if you make the "jamming" issue with the plasma gun act exactly the same then fine....noone will ever worry about it but at least it will look good on paper.

Honestly not even sure why a downside mechanic must be involved at all? Its just to try to make the guns "seem" unique when they are really just replicas of guns already in the game. CCP knew that 1.5 mag overheat would not matter. They made the overheating mechanic for the imp scrmb and then nerfed the tac such that its alot lower than the scrambler so its overheating means nothing if all other similar guns have to reload after 18 shots when you overheat at 21. Basically the overheating was a gimick they made to stay "true to new Eden" while making it not actually matter in game. The MD doesnt have a "bad round" negative where you have a potential for the nade to get stuck and blow up inside the gun....I could go on but you get the point.

So I assume that you will be complaining about the combat rifle and the rail rifle not having some kind of overheat/jamming mechanic right?

I find it to be a stupid mechanic but hey make the mechanics fit the game. TBH calling this game challenging is a laugh. If by challenging you mean having to deal with all the bugs that STILL exist in this game since I started playing in beta (August of last year) then yes this game is challenging. If you mean challenging as in the competition thats just a laugh. This is the easiest FPS I have ever played in terms of competition...the average player base in this game is way below most FPS games.

I believe this is a dumb reason to add a "weapon jam feature" or whatever. But like I have said if its put to the lvl of the current assault scrambler it doesnt even really matter as only the morons will have to worry about this issue. If CCP did this then I would just chalk it up to 1 more stupid decision they have made as this game creeps ever so slowly towards oblivion.

Btw guys, thanks for absolutely obliterating my notifications, not sure if I got an answer for anything else or not