yeah, sorry we missed that from the patch notes, totally slipped my mind.

Wait, where are the patch notes?

Okay, so I poked wolfman with this thread immediately after my previous post.

Guess what?

Armor burn is gone in 1.4 :)

This bodes very well for my confidence in CCP Wolfman and Remnant for hteir upcoming vehicle overhaul!

Wait, where are the patch notes?

I think I love wolfman. There are scrambler pistols... and now this? The man deserves an epic theme song or jingle custom made that plays every time he does something right for dust 514.

yeah, sorry we missed that from the patch notes, totally slipped my mind.

Ah, maybe they've not been released yet. Double ooops!

*runs away*

well this will probably make tanks even harder to take out..

Out of all the tanks I've lost, not a single one was to armor burn.

Also, Wolfman, Love the response time. You got a friend in me.

...at least for dropships, but honestly all vehicles.

I was flying my Python today and took quite a bit of damage from what I believe were proto swarms and some forge gun, leaving me with arout 150-200 of my 1000 armour left. So as I'm booking it out of there the fire alarm starts going off and I steadily begin to lose health, and being unable to either find a supply depot or recall my vehicle, I'm stuck behind my red line watching my 600k brick fall helplessly from the sky.

This is ridiculous for two reasons: It favors armour vehicles over shield and negates our last defense points.

Armour vehicles rarely have this problem, granted that they can repair their armour, but what can a shield vehicle do about it? The only options are to either carry a repair tool or find a supply depot, but really what kind of an answer is that? Am I supposed escape the AV players whilst on my last leg, land safely without blowing up my ship, all within the 3-5 seconds left of my ship's life? Ludicrous.

And why bother having the last 200hp of my armour if it doesn't even matter? Let our defenses be our defenses, not our detriment, that's what they're there for. Could you imagine if dropsuits used the same mechanic? I can't tell you how many close calls I've had that have left me with 1hp, imagine if I suddenly began to "lose air" or "my life support was damaged." Even in EvE the ships don't suffer damage from low structure health.

TL;DR/Less ranting: Remove the damaging "fire" mechanic for near-dead vehicles. It's unfair to shield vehicles and negates our hp.

when will pve become available?

this is the one thing i cant wait for...

...or least what the devs have said in different forums/topics under one offical thing.

Okay, so I poked wolfman with this thread immediately after my previous post.

Guess what?

Armor burn is gone in 1.4 :)

This bodes very well for my confidence in CCP Wolfman and Remnant for hteir upcoming vehicle overhaul!

Out of all the tanks I've lost, not a single one was to armor burn.

Also, Wolfman, Love the response time. You got a friend in me.

Okay, so I poked wolfman with this thread immediately after my previous post.

Guess what?

Armor burn is gone in 1.4 :)

This bodes very well for my confidence in CCP Wolfman and Remnant for hteir upcoming vehicle overhaul!

Ah, maybe they've not been released yet. Double ooops!

*runs away*

If anything CCP should do the opposite and make it more common.

Vehicles in Dust are unlike most other FPS games, and not in a good way. You cannot "damage" a vehicle in Dust, only destroy it. By that I mean, you can bring a vehicle down to very low hit points and he can still move and fire and do everything else that he normally does without any penalty. You can't immobilise a tank by taking out his engine or tracks, you can't neuter a tank by destroying his turret or main gun. You can't even blow off one of the little turrets.

So If I fail to kill a tank, he can just roll round a corner, switch on his repper and come back in a minute back to 7000hp like nothing happened. It's ridiculous.

TL;DR - Take your scolding.

Okay, so I poked wolfman with this thread immediately after my previous post.

Guess what?

Armor burn is gone in 1.4 :)

This bodes very well for my confidence in CCP Wolfman and Remnant for hteir upcoming vehicle overhaul!

Ah, maybe they've not been released yet. Double ooops!

*runs away*

[Wolf]man deserves an epic theme song or jingle custom made that plays every time he does something right for dust 514.

A good "Time to get out of dodge" would be a siren or red lights flashing. Have only fire as an effect would be silly.

...at least for dropships, but honestly all vehicles.

I was flying my Python today and took quite a bit of damage from what I believe were proto swarms and some forge gun, leaving me with arout 150-200 of my 1000 armour left. So as I'm booking it out of there the fire alarm starts going off and I steadily begin to lose health, and being unable to either find a supply depot or recall my vehicle, I'm stuck behind my red line watching my 600k brick fall helplessly from the sky.

This is ridiculous for two reasons: It favors armour vehicles over shield and negates our last defense points.

Armour vehicles rarely have this problem, granted that they can repair their armour, but what can a shield vehicle do about it? The only options are to either carry a repair tool or find a supply depot, but really what kind of an answer is that? Am I supposed escape the AV players whilst on my last leg, land safely without blowing up my ship, all within the 3-5 seconds left of my ship's life? Ludicrous.

And why bother having the last 200hp of my armour if it doesn't even matter? Let our defenses be our defenses, not our detriment, that's what they're there for. Could you imagine if dropsuits used the same mechanic? I can't tell you how many close calls I've had that have left me with 1hp, imagine if I suddenly began to "lose air" or "my life support was damaged." Even in EvE the ships don't suffer damage from low structure health.

TL;DR/Less ranting: Remove the damaging "fire" mechanic for near-dead vehicles. It's unfair to shield vehicles and negates our hp.