News: The Cycler ARV

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by EVILPIG

I already answered this for you.

They said the sawnoff version we have seen of that gun was a carbine variant, but not what that gun actually is, thought one would presume obviously lower caliber than the Cycler.

Pretty gay calling a weapon a carbine if there isn't a larger version of it that uses the majority of the same parts.

[super pretendo]

weapon enthusiasts, like any enthusiasts, will be disappointing when their level of detail and knowledge is not matched by the producers of whatever.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by super pretendo

weapon enthusiasts, like any enthusiasts, will be disappointing when their level of detail and knowledge is not matched by the producers of whatever.

Carbine been a more compact gun isn't really detailed knowledge :P

[Canaris]

Cycler RPK..... love it!

[Aaron]

Looks sweet! But why would it have low accuracy if it has such a long barrel?

[Rbstr]

The reason it's less accurate is simply a design choice. They don't want the machine gun to be a better Assault rifle than the Assault rifle.

I, personally, like it. Devs, you're making it hard to pick my side, when you make the TR stuff look decent.

[Coreldan]

Look at the bore size Realistically speaking the round won't even be half of that in diameter, so how could it come out accurately from a barrel like that, no matter how long?! (ok, just realized u cant see the bore diameter in that pic, but in the normal cycler pic you can).

They need to add some default muzzlebreak kind of thing or make the bore size smaller cos it looks absolutely ridicilous atm

But yea, seriously speaking what Rbstr said. Balance > Realism.

I, too, am a sucker for weapons and weapon mechanisms IRL (been competing for years as well as own several guns of my own), but I try not to bring in the RL stuff too hard into games, cos RL does not know these "balance" and "overpowered" thing at all. The point of RL weapons is usually to kill, not to have a fair fight

[NewSith]

Originally Posted by Aaron

Looks sweet! But why would it have low accuracy if it has such a long barrel?

I think they mean sustained fire accuracy... Try to make two double-barrel shotgun shots one instantly after the other, you'll see what long barrel does =)

[Brokinarrow]

Originally Posted by Bags

Looks stupid, and why would a rifle like that be close quarter?

Yeah.... 20" barrel does not equal close quarters. The standard M-16 has a 20 inch barrel and a max effective range of 500 yards for a point target...