DUST 514 is a dissapointment to me.
When I first started playing EVE years ago I wanted to imagine that hand-weapons and vehicle-grade weapons for the different factions were the same as their in-space ships. Later this changed to the belief that the only really effective and trustworthy hand-weapons could be projectile based. What the ammo was, was up for debate, how complicated or advanced the weapons were, was up to debate, and stuff like tanks might have some versions that used heavier non-projectile weapons, and such.
But frankly, many of the reasons for this belief have something to do with the example made from the Empyrian age novel; The Caldari EMP's the planet and everything down to hand-guns, relying on power for their blaster-like rifles, are EMP'ed into non-functionality? W.T.F?
I mean sure, the Fed's are obviously so incompetent they can't even shield their weapons from EMP effects or utilize non-EMP'able weapons, to avoid this. Of course not.
THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE. 
Esentially, it boils down to this; There is no reason to make a laser-tank when the ability to damage the enemy is based on a direct line-of-sight and a single impact-point - better to use a shell-fedd cannon that can fire over obstacles and use ammo with a wide variety of functions, like armour-piercers, high explosive rounds, EMP shells, plasma charges for massive anti-armor damage etc. Direct-Fire laser weapons work fine in space with few if any obstacles between ships and no gass-based atmosphere where the intensity of the beam can be effected, and so on. Not so much on the ground. Also, there are power-needs, cooling systems etc. etc. Rail-gun tanks for long-range artillery is not to bad, but should in theory have many of the same issues as laswer weaponry.
In short, relying on constantly improving the potency and usability of missile/projectile based weapons in dirt-side combat is far more practical and reliable than the more high-tech options of laser/hybrid weapons, lasers more so than hybrids.
Bit of a ramble... second annoyance is the showcased uniforms so far. At first it was all 'generic sci-fi/Caldari-like' now it's more like clown-suits. WTF happened to practical uniforms with camo and who knows what manner of available assets? This folks in those images look like they carry less gear than your average infantry grunt in today's battles. Nor does it look like any of any kind of strong armor.
They can do so much better than this.
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Topic: [DUST] Infantry Weapons (Read 5560 times)