2142 Best Weapons: Assault

I've had experience with most of the unlockable weapons now and figured it was past time to shoot my mouth off.

First, a suggestion:
Unlocks are precious.
If you roll with a decent squad you should be getting plenty of temporary battlefield unlocks- when you get close to your dream weapon, give it a test drive. Weapons are a matter of taste and the ones I think are fantastic might not suit your temperament or play style.

And a disclaimer:
I don't know the names of any of the guns except the SCAR 11, so pardon my clunky descriptions.

Unlockable Assault Weapons

the light machine gun at the end of the 'medic' tree...the Voss?

I don't like it. It takes forever to kill anything and the accuracy is nothing to write home about. The large capacity clip is nice- if you were looking to suppress the foe in a squad environment so your teammates could wipe them out it might serve. But I felt slightly cheated after burning an unlock on it. IMHO the default AR is superior in every way except ammo capacity.


the heavy assault rifle
Oh yeah baby, now you're talkin' my language!
You'll probably want to use it on single shot most of the time for reasons of accuracy and ammo conservation, because both the recoil and the rate of fire are crazy. But it puts big holes in things and it has fantastic single shot accuracy. And if you get up close and personal where you can let it rip full auto, you can MOW.

Two paws up, with a stern warning about fire control, because it burns through clips like an alcoholic frat boy burns through cans of crappy lite beer.