When was the last time you saw someone with a laser rifle? CCP really need to fix the laser rifle, before uprising the laser rifle was considered a pretty good weapon now you'd be lucky to get a kill im serious you eally need to fix this weapon.

Lasers deserved their nerf. Swiping across someone with a Viziam and taking nearly half their HP was ridiculous. I'll agree they are underpowered but that's fine. Better than the old build laser rifles. Besides, most corny trolls who can't play moved on to Flaylock pistols anyways. I guess it'd be ok if they were slightly stronger against armor, but only at the cost of reduced shield damage. Otherwise they'd be a troll weapon again. They still do nasty shield damage though.

I highly doubt that. Especially if you have no CQC skills.

I've been using the LR with my alt for the last couple of days.

I have LR skill lvl5 and prof lvl3. I use an ADV Amarr Assault suit with 2 ADV damage mods and the ELM-7 LR usually. The LR is kinda usable with this setup.


I think if LRs get their red dot sight they might be fairly useful though personally I think they could need a few more things:

• buff the range of the LR to the level of the Duvolle Tac AR (+11m or so?)

I'd guess the LR is intended to be a long range area denial weapon or something like that? At least that's what I am using it for. I stay back and harrass the enemy when they try to advance and the LR is kinda good for that pupose. Though its low range makes it hard to stay out of an AR's range.

• buff heat build-up time

The mechanics of the LR are very interesting but they need a lot of skill to master and I think this is the main reason why so few people use the LR. You have to stay out of the ARs optimal range because the LR does not stand a chance against an AR. You have to be very good at aiming because usually your targets are far away and strafing very fast. You have to manage the heat build-up or the LR will

1. do very low damage
2. deal a massive amount of damage to yourself
3. overheat before you could use even half of your clip
4. overheat and you'll be unable to shoot, reload, sprint and switch weapon!

As it stands the LR has more drawbacks than advantages. I do not want the LR to be the face melting nightmare it was in Chromosome, but I want it to be effective in its intended role. With the LR you do not need to do a massive amount of damage because your targets should be quite far away from you anyway. But the LR's many drawbacks have to become manageable for more people if we want to see it used more often.


Another thing I'm not quite sure about is the fact that at the moment I don't think the LR will be a viable weapon for any other suits but the Amarr Assault. I don't know if this is intended and if it is a good thing. On the one hand it is good because it makes the suits more diverse and gives them some roles they are better in than other suits. On the other hand though it again limits the usefulness of the LR as it is very hard to use it effectively with any other suit. Not to mention Logi suits that don't have a sidearm slot.


TL;DR

• add red dot sight
• buff range
• buff heat build-up time

Sounds very good and those seem to be reasonable adjustments.


Well, obviously not or why do you think so few people actually use the LR?


I have the feeling you are in the wrong thread.