Assault rifles are rifles, not SMGs. I don't know where you get this idea anything Gallente must be shortrange by definition.



Also, this. I can't imagine how aiming at the thing you're trying to kill is Cheesier than aiming in the general area and relying on splash damage.

Overheating? As one example.

Just curious to see if any of you know what plasma (what the Gallente AR fires) is composed of? Plasma is composed of subatomic particles traveling a near light speeds. Light travels at roughly 186,000 mil/sec. Now with the distances involved in combat in Dust, the time to target, for anything fired from an AR would be imperceivable. Not to mention other weapons, such as the scrambler rifle and laser rifle, which fire munitions bases on laser technology: photons traveling inside a wave, taveling at literaly the speed of light.

I imagine that the Caldari rail rifle will not be a hit scan weapon, just as the rail turret has projectile flight time. But then again I could be wrong; the SMG fires a projectile as well and I believe it is also hit scan (which makes no sence). But I am not entirely sure about the SMG (such short distances involved) I could be wrong.

Actually Amarr heavy armor is made from steel.
Gallente use some kind of organic material.
Think carbon nanotubes.

I very much doubt any of the suits are made from anything as boring as steel

Actually, if you read thedescription for the AR I do believe that it says that the AR fires a projectile that guides the plasma (via some kind of magnetic containment I would imagine). However this projectile would have to be traveling exceedingly fast, or the plasma would simply bottleneck and disperse in atmosphere.

Sic-fi, not so convincing when you know a good deal about physics

The Gallente suit armor is made out of an organic compound.
The plates aren't.

Well.
The plates are also made to work with Amarr suits.
Which are made out of stuff that slows them down.
Which is why they are slower :X

Honestly, that's what I see reactive plates as, but they need some work to actually be viable for that role.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

As far as the Reactive Plates, you'll see in the balance suggestion thread that Cat Merc and I put together that he suggests doubling the HP of Reactive Plates.

That would mean you would get 90 hp per plate at the Proto level, 25 less than the Proto standard plates, but you get the repair function in exchange.

If I recall correctly, and I may be wrong on the number, Reactive Plates rep 2 hp/s at the Proto level.

That would mean that with no other changes made, a Gallente Assault suit with 4 Reactive Plates would have 360 hp, and rep that hp at 8 hp/s.

Aaaaaaand now we're off-topic.

On the original topic, I think that giving the AR-type weapons similar absolute ranges but differing amounts of damage falloff over range would probably work best to differentiate them, but still make them all viable such that you aren't forced to spec into other races to be competitive.

So, for instance, the Gallente AR-type weapons would have the lowest damage output at Absolute range, but the highest damage up close, and a more dramatic drop-off to damage output as you get further from your target.

I think what we really need is an increased to dispersion build-rate while in ADS using a fully-automatic weapon. Right now, you can nearly empty your magazine before the dispersion starts to kick in.

I think you should really start having to think about letting go of the trigger for a second by the time you get to the 15th round at the very least.