People go down fast because they used to being out in the open firing on folks who miss horribly. Now it's a different ball game.

Like Wu Tang said, Protect ya Neck.

I'm down for that 10% decrease. But could you explain the strafe cap?

That's understandable, but how many maps actually encourage that style of play?

There was a 10% nerf to strafe speed in this patch. But overall it should be balanced out with the faster movement due to armor plate speed penalty reduction.

I see what you're getting at. I guess you have to avoid those open areas as much as possible.

So should I just leave battle on half of the game's maps now?

Remove the 10% weapon damage buff on all weapons that was a short term solution to aiming problems in 1.0 and remove the strafing speed cap. Discuss!

Why do that? There is always a way around a situation. Always.

That's not true.

The 10% damage buff was due to the removal of the 2% bonus per level from the weaponry skill.

It does feel like the time-to-kill is too short (when people are shooting at me anyway...).

I'm down for that 10% decrease. But could you explain the strafe cap?

Some people are mad that running sideways is slightly slower (10%) than running forward.

The weaponry skill is what created the TTK issues in Chromosme. If that was in issue, why keep it around when hit detection and aiming is fixed?

TTK issues? What issues?

As Garth said, the 10% "buff" was simply 10% being removed from the weaponry skill and moved to the weapons base damage instead. No weapons magically got a 10% buff.

Furthermore, do you really think these 10% would create such huge problems if there were any? On a high HP Assault suit it's a matter of a 1-3 bullet difference. Slightly less than that on Scouts and sligthly more on Sentinels.

Remove the 10% weapon damage buff on all weapons that was a short term solution to aiming problems in 1.0 and remove the strafing speed cap. Discuss!

It's a matter of sensibility. Why would you stick with a temporary fix to a previous problem when that problem has been since resolved and then later try to build around it? This is just like the nerfed PG on tanks that was implemented to compensate for matchmaking. Now that matchmaking is a thing, that problem has been (discreetly) resolved. With infantry, we're dealing with a snowball of fixes to fixes to fixes. I'd say we should start from the beginning and work it out from there.

Remove the 10% weapon damage buff on all weapons that was a short term solution to aiming problems in 1.0 and remove the strafing speed cap. Discuss!

So you want the 10% to go back to the Weaponry skill since that's where it was all the way up until Uprising?

There was no fix to any problem.

Damage in December 2011 was the same as it was in Chromosome and the same as it is now, the only difference being that the 10% from the Weaponry skill was moved to the weapons base damage.

That seems to me we're doing the intended damage currently, and that we previously had hit detection problems (and still do maybe?) that caused everyone to become bullet sponges.

Posting the following info on upcoming changes to weapon damage and HMG balance on behalf of CCP Rement since he's knee deep in making these changes. He will also be answer questions and discussing this topic in this thread as well.

Tl;dr version:
GÇó In the next hot-fix weapons will all get a 10% damage increase to compensate for the removal of the Weaponry skill bonus.
GÇó HMG damage buffed to 18 HP (including aforementioned 10% increase) and given a 5% dispersion buff.
GÇó In the near future, we will address range issues by removing the hard stop that currently takes place at maximum weapon range.

In Chromosome, the Weaponry skill gave an across the board 2% damage bonus to handheld weapons per level. Given the low SP cost of the skill (and the fact that itGÇÖs a pre-req for every weapon in the game) the majority of players would just skill straight to level 5 making the skill pretty pointless. So, in Uprising we removed the skill bonus. The side effect of this, of course, is that time-to-kill has increased.

This, combined with some of the control issues weGÇÖve been seeing, has led to combat feeling worse than it did in Chromosome. We will address this with a hot-fix that gives an across the board 10% increase to all handheld weapon damage to put DPS back to where it was. Additionally, weGÇÖve increased HMG damage and reduced the dispersion penalty when moving by 5% to address issues with the weapon.

The removal of the Sharpshooter skill (which gave bonuses to range) has also highlighted some issues with range in general. Weapon classes need unique range profiles. I doubt anyone would dispute that. And the sharpshooter skill was pushing far too many weapons beyond their intended engagement ranges. While itGÇÖs removal has caused some issues, the SS skill was a crutch and it hid more deep-seated problems with range in the game. It will not be coming back.

Right now, all weapons have an optimal and maximum range. Unfortunately, at its max range the weapon simply stops doing damage. This is bad for a whole host of reasons and weGÇÖll be addressing this with a point release in the near future by giving all weapons an optimal, effective and absolute range. Up to the optimal range weapons will do 100% damage (shield/armor profiles notwithstanding) and then drop off slowly towards their effective range. From effective range out to the absolute range damage will drop noticeably but weapons will still do incidental damage even at extreme ranges.

Aim assist is not that strong it does not even have a snap. No I'm sorry but if ur dieing loads learn the freaking concepts of cover y. The game is longer matching you up with newbs your know facing people that can shoot.

Sorry about ur ego.

Pretty much all the aim assits posts iv read are load of rubish to be honest. now everybody can fight so deal with it. If u wanted to Do PC welcome to what matches would have been like people at that level don't miss

wasn't the 10% dmg buff only meant for the HMG but CCP decided give every weapon the buff? if it has to be removed then remove only the other weapons dmg buff and leave out the HMG