Unless this aim assist is removed or everyone's HP receives some kind of crazy triple buff, the Dust 514 experience and economy is in serious jeopardy. There is no justification for the speed in which players die now and the related costs are far too excessive. I refuse to believe that this was the intended effect because it's way too radical compared the way Dust was before 1.4.

What say you?

Just increase the TTK's probably best done on the weapon side.

Agreed. TTKs are too low, more likely due to better hit detection than aim assist. But i'm sure AA isn't making TTKs any longer.

Unless this aim assist is removed or everyone's HP receives some kind of crazy triple buff, the Dust 514 experience and economy is in serious jeopardy. There is no justification for the speed in which players die now and the related costs are far too excessive. I refuse to believe that this was the intended effect because it's way too radical compared the way Dust was before 1.4.

What say you?

i hope your jokeing about the strafe thing because if you need that to win an have fun you suck just as much as the guy who made the post.

Yes and HD is probably more important those Duvolles ******* hurt now let alone the Balac's

Your both wrong. The 10% buff was because of the removal of the 10% buff that the Weaponry skill used to provide that was removed at uprising when the whole skill tree was changed. the damage has not been buffed at all.

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.

Strafing is wrong, if you use the "kbm strafing" that is, and any of you who have used such tactic against any DS3 user should feel ashamed and quite frankly I bet you just played Dust to feel like you were big shots, now.. well, now you are target practice mofos, so suck on that.. ahahhaah

*this was for the lulz, nonetheless I'm serious about all of it

I want to use this quote 'Strafing is wrong' ... lol zomg lol ... if what you say is true and I play Dust to feel like a big shot ... I thank you for the QQ deposit sir! :)

being a heavy and having over 1000 EHP and over 10mil SP invested into the heavy class, i feel like its wasted since now that i die in about 2 seconds flat from an exile AR. shields gets torn apart like its paper and armor doesnt last that long enough is there really a point in having a heavy now in this game? a heavy is suppose to be good at CQC but even at CQC an AR user with AA takes me out in 2 seconds.

so basically after 1.4 playing as a heavy doesnt seem so viable now. im running with my skin weave suits since heavies just can't survive anymore with the AA on. We already have it tough before 1.4 but that was still manageable, now after 1.4 not so much

I can't believe that some of you prefer this drastically different TTK in 1.4. Whole classes have been devalued because of it. Support logis can hardly do their thing without getting obliterated; scouts die almost instantly; and heavies have little to show for their HP advantage because standard and militia ARs rip through them like a knife through warm butter. These maps are too big and this game is too diverse for it to become some Tom Clancy tactical FPS where people instantly wither under fire.

The only people who benefit from this change are cheap fit assault players who now enjoy far too much success thanks to a game mechanic that doesn't require AR users to have any individual skill to slay high HP players.