The main weapon of the Western Coalition, the ARC3 assault rifle is the rifle that most troops of the Coalition use. The rifle surpassed several other entrants in a design competition for the standard-issue rifle that would be used by the entire coalition. The Coalition's Assault class uses the ARC3 as their primary rifle. The rifle is lighter, thanks to a polymer body and folding stock, and hits harder than older US or NATO 5.56mm rifles thanks to the new 6.8mm WC rifle round. The rifle only fires in automatic mode, making accuracy suffer greatly.