What?! That's bogus! So if I come barreling down the road at like 60 mph, and hit a guy, it just moves him out of the way? That's ridiculous. So much for real world physics.

As for all you whiners who cried about this to the point we had to bend the laws of physics, I'm roadkilling every last one of you this weekend GTA style.

The new Logistics skill bonus isnGÇÖt ideally suited to the Logistics role and is a short-term alteration until proper equipment bonuses come online. Once they do weGÇÖll outline the full skill changes in another blog.

Here are some figures in the form of a table!

http://i.imgur.com/tLiMw1K.png?1

Pre-patchPost-patch
clip53
ammo (max skills)88
lock on time (max skills)1.21.05
fire interval20.3
reload (max skills)3.8253.825
Time to exhaust clip14.83
Time to exhaust clip + reload20.6257.125
Time to exhaust ammo (inc. reloads)27.42518.15Boost
Burst ROF (single clip)0.341.00194%
Exhaust ammo ROF0.290.4452%

So a 194% boost to burst ROF and a 52% ROF increase to exhausting all your ammo.

And that involved bending the laws of physics and taking away murder taxi's? Not fair. If you'd have buffed swarms like you did, and left murder taxi's alone, that would have been fair to both sides. But now, what's the point in even pulling out my LAV's? I can't use them unless I have a gunner, so if I'm not in squad they're useless, if I end up where I'm the only one driving my LAV, I have no way to kill anyone except stop, get out, and shoot someone. And if they're in a group, that's even worse.

Overall, most of the patch stuff is good, or I don't care about it. But the murder taxi take away is bogus and you know it. It's not even something I do all the time, but it's a part of combat and if people don't like it, stay out of the open. You just took away one more combat option that made this game unique from other FPS.

*Swarm Launcher base lock-on time has been increased to 1.4 from 1.2 and its fire interval has been reduced from 2 to 0.3

As a swarm user and rarely a vehicle driver I still feel this is HOLY BALLS THIS IS NOW OP!

... you fail at running over people in an HAV. I run over LAVs for crying out loud.

And that involved bending the laws of physics and taking away murder taxi's? Not fair. If you'd have buffed swarms like you did, and left murder taxi's alone, that would have been fair to both sides. But now, what's the point in even pulling out my LAV's? I can't use them unless I have a gunner, so if I'm not in squad they're useless, if I end up where I'm the only one driving my LAV, I have no way to kill anyone except stop, get out, and shoot someone. And if they're in a group, that's even worse.

Overall, most of the patch stuff is good, or I don't care about it. But the murder taxi take away is bogus and you know it. It's not even something I do all the time, but it's a part of combat and if people don't like it, stay out of the open. You just took away one more combat option that made this game unique from other FPS.

What?! That's bogus! So if I come barreling down the road at like 60 mph, and hit a guy, it just moves him out of the way? That's ridiculous. So much for real world physics.

As for all you whiners who cried about this to the point we had to bend the laws of physics, I'm roadkilling every last one of you this weekend GTA style.

Delicious tears already!! GREAT JOB CCP!!

Oh, and hey Reimus. Guess what! There is already a way to automatically gain the active SP--PLAY THE GAME! The fact that you'd directly ask to keep AFK farming makes your tears SO MUCH BETTER!

On the one hand it will draw more concentration for the logi, but imagine how it will affect attackers as well. You won't be able to see among 5-6 players who has shields and who doesn't necessarily. I've been saying this for a while, that this is a small nerf to the mass driver, especially since their proper aim does not reveal any target intel. To deal with targets most efficiently, more 'fires direction' will have to be verbal or with squad commands. And we've been told that squad commands are being iterated on here fairly soon.

* Swarm Launcher base lock-on time has been increased to 1.4 from 1.2 and its fire interval has been reduced from 2 to 0.3
* The Swarm Launcher Operation skill bonus has been changed from increasing the clip size to reducing the lock-on time by 5%

I play a bit, have a 12m sp account, so I am pretty used to the current DS3 "feel". Having played the 1.4, I am a big fan of the changes, feels more fluid and easier to track and target.

* Swarm Launcher base lock-on time has been increased to 1.4 from 1.2 and its fire interval has been reduced from 2 to 0.3

* Implemented idle timer to prevent AFK farming in battle ground or MCC. Players not performing any PVP action in a certain period of time will be kicked out of the game

yes less feedback, less clutter. You only need to know the HP of people you can get to safely, and even then inside your squad, you will still see their chevrons, letting you aim, and then see their HP.

Also, I have found for sure that when a blue-dot turns yellow on the overview that means they have lost HP in some way. They could be under fire, or just hit by their own grenade or fall damage.

"Implemented idle timer to prevent AFK farming in battle ground or MCC. Players not performing any PVP action in a certain period of time will be kicked out of the game"

Holy crap you just fixed Dust 514

Bravo!

Looks like an awesome set of updates.

Only one I am scratching my head on is the swarm buff. But unlike the freakoutery I read here, I will take a wait and see on that one, and would encourage others to do the same.

Thanks for the early patch notes.