And leave people that "don't" want to use the aim-assist in a disadvantage ? What about KB/M users ?

I didn't say change the aim-assist, I'm suggesting that we balance around it instead of snowballing hot fixes to problems that have been fixed.

If you reduce the damage of weapons, that is only going to benefit people that uses the aim-assist...in fact we should do the opposite, boost the damage of all weapons by 10%, so skills, reflexes, and tactical awareness counts for "something".

Then why have damage mods? Better yet, why have SP, dropsuits, and fittings either? We can all run around with ARs and die to 4 bullets in fast paced, enclosed maps. Sound familiar?

so you can drop shields and stack mods - your choice of setup.

I would actually prefer to see the 2% put back on the skill tree. IMO there is too much levelling up of skills that do nothing

and no we are not dying to 4 bullets. The fact is we have never played this on a LAN so we have no idea what CCPs idea of time to kill is - it doesnt seem that bad to me

You're missing my point.

And you seem to be missing mine.

In Chromosome the 10% bonus was on the Weaponry skill. Aiming was fine in Chromosome and personally I didn't have any trouble with killing anyone. In Uprising they removed that 10% bonus on the Weaponry skill, which would mean that TTK would be increased to more than was intended, so they moved that same 10% bonus to all weapons base damage instead, to keep TTK the same as in Chromosome.

Due to terrible aiming in Uprising and various other reasons, everyone became bullet sponges and TTK was increased because people couldn't hit their targets properly. Now that hit detection and aiming has been at least somewhat improved (aim assist maybe too much) TTK is back at the intended levels.

The 10% bonus to damage shouldn't be removed because we're currently at the intended TTK levels.

I haven't seen anywhere where they've said these are the intended TTK levels. Would you mind posting a link?

Considering the damage values have been the same ever since December 2011 to now, I think it's a clear indication that what we have now are intended TTK levels.

Please teach us your ways, oh Grand l33t master pro.

Apparently, it's just you and a few others that prefer that twitch playstyle. There's nothing wrong with that preference, but the game needs to accommodate it or have a nice happy medium for other playstyles like we've had in the past. Fittings and character customization should dictate that instead of everyone being forced to conform to one specific way.

Also, if you want more damage, that's what the weapon proficiency skill is for. One of the things Uprising did right was bind passive skills to fittings and not simply to your character. You can have all the SP in the world but you still have to build your suit.

But has someone that actually works on this game stated that these are the optimal TTK levels. I don't want your indication, I want to see something from someone with CCP next to their name stating that. You know about as much as I do on here and the only ones that really know what's going on have a blue tag whenever they post. But at this point, I doubt they know either.

The problem is that with the new strafing cap and aim assist, nobody misses.

they play this on a LAN - they know the %

the % have not changed in over a year

To be perfectly honest, I'm a little baffled at what's happened with the Mass Driver. The reason for the splash and blast range nerf was that in playtests we found the MD to be so effective that at one point almost half the people in the office were using it in battles. Clearly, that's not been the case with Uprising and after getting the engineers to go elbow deep into the code it appears there may be a few reasons beyond dry numbers that are contributing to the MDs underwhelming performance.

One, there appears to be a de-sync between client and server so that (more often than it should) the server and client think the projectile exploded in different places. They're not far off, but enough so that shots you *think* are spot on are off the mark enough to do only minor splash damage. And two, I'm told splash occlusion is getting blocked by a single player character more than it should, contributing to the "randomness" of the damage dealt and the sometimes smudgy feeling of the weapon.

I'm hesitant to rebalance the weapon until we get these issues looked at (which is happening right 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!

Please teach us your ways, oh Grand l33t master pro.

Honestly, I have noticed very little difference in aiming. Some people say it is worse. Others say it is 'easy mode'.

I think most people don't even know what the hell they are talking about.

Try and keep up...before 1.4 aiming mechanics were 'meh'...after 1.4 aiming mechanics are 'improved'...doesn't it stand to reason that if you now actually hitting what you are aiming at, that you would kill them more effectively and efficiently?

How the kitten does that translate into 'easy mode'?

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!

Good idea, +1.

Bring back the strafing speed of 1.3, thus making it easier to break out of the AA magnetism and making AA less useful in CQC engagements.

The hit detection buffs have definitely made weapon damage too high. I would support a reduction to weapon damage for sure.

I think its time we talk about the lack of rifle kick in this game too. It might be time to remove sharpshooter and change AR/SMG/CR operation to dispersion reduction.

Either sharpshooter has to go or kick/dispersion needs to be ramped up to Chromosome values again on the AR to limit its long range capabilities. I have 0 SP invested into the AR on my main and my Exile thinks about climbing after the good part of a clip. Clip size might need an adjustment too but one thing at a time. Sweeping changes brought us here, yet again.

The ASCR never climbs ever throughout its entire clip. It does start to shake back and forth a little but nothing much.

I think the ScR is in a good place because of what kind of weapon it actually is. The overheat mechanic and fitting costs are more than enough to balance it out compared to the AR. The only thing I would change is better range for the standard variant and a militia assault version to be included with the Amarr starter fits to promote weapon diversity.

The ASCR never climbs ever throughout its entire clip. It does start to shake back and forth a little but nothing much.

defo strafing, idk about the damage buff, I like killing people uber fast