They can decrease my range when they give me drones.

I honestly wouldn't expect remnant to balance anything until combat and rail rifle are out.

At which point I suspect we'll see a whirlwind of changes occuring.

And then he'll release more racial variants, and then more FOTM, rebalancing, etc.

I don't envy his job lol.

This is a lesson many FPS Devs learn

Assault rifles arent easy mode and to me the AR range is not that great IMO. I've used AR's since the game came out its just what i prefer to use. I will not spec into the random OP weapons that come out once a month because everything gets nerfed eventualy.

Also, There was a silent nerf to AR's with 1.2 I'm not sure exactly what the hell they did to it but it dosent feel right to me

But ARs, especially being hitscan, are EZ mode. Sorry, but true.

Hitscan weapons are cheeze. The AR is EZ mode partially because of this. Most of the weapons are hitscan, which makes them easier, but most of the hitscan weapons have drawbacks that help. ARs don't really.

If the breach AR was a little better, it would be my go to rifle.

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

XD

It is a bit sad. Its not terrible, it just needs a little more dmg or a larger mag.

Overheating? As one example.

Breach AR is fine.

SMG and Shotgun both have shorter ranges. Shotgun has a tiny magazine, SMG has worse spread.

You can read right? Where I said - as one example?

So ? The tiniest blasters you can find in Eve still have a 500m optimal using the shortest range ammo with no skill bonuses.



and those are awful. I guess if it was a light-weapon sized gun that outclassed the SMG at both midrange and CQC hipfiring then that would be cool. In this case they should just be called plasma rifles or blaster rifles and get a new sound. Then the minmatar rifles can be called combat rifles, and the word "assault" can be fully reserved for weapon variants instead of being its own thing for the gallente rifles.

Yes, hitscan weapons are the easiest type of weapon. EZ mode. I stated that most of the hitscan weapons in Dust have negatives to counteract their EZ mode, but ARs not so much.

I think I have made my case.

Not arguing, just commenting. However the frigate sized light electron blasters are probably smaller than the main gun on a tank.

Except, they aren't mediocre. That's the issue I have with them. If they were mediocre in the generalist role, that would be balanced. They're not though, they're really good at their generalist role.

Fun fact: SMG has more dps in it's shorter range. That's called a niche. The ARs niche should be wide, but it should also not be dominant across such a wide niche. Simple logic really, deep vs wide. The AR has both.

Take a look:

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=92678&find=unread

Because the Gallente AR is OP, and the SR isn't? Hint: It's used so much because it's EZ mode.

The Gallente AR and the ASCR are almost the exact same gun, except the ASCR is a little bit slower and does more damage to shields. The Gallente AR has 0.36% more DPS than the ASCR, but the ASCR has more accuracy. The ranges I do agree are messed up, but in reality the ASCR should have higher range and lower DPS, while the Gallente AR should have lower range and higher DPS.

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.

Maby the AR is exactly where its supposed to be and u just have unrealistic expectations ?

So either increase SCR range and reduce DPS, or reduce Gal AR range and increase DPS.

Don't care which, just make them behave as should.

Plasma also disperses rapidly in the atmosphere so a short range plasma weapon makes sense.

On the DPS side it could be a projectile that generates plasma on impact, but that would mean it would have some sort of splash damage and DOT effects because plasma is extremely hot and would probably melt armor since our armor is made of steel . And depending how many volts are being discharged it could completely fry anything that is electronic or at least disrupt it.

Well right now in 2013 we know of certain carbon chains that are lighter but have chemical bonds stronger than that of steel. Thus if this applied to this game, a armor suit would actually be faster and stronger than a shield suit that would probably have to carry bulky electronics to generate the shield.

:I that's just silly now, its like using a proto compressed rail gun, but as a caveat it shoots rocks.

Typical CCP hating the Gallente.