DUST Search - A Serious, Honest Question for CCP (No Sarcasm)

Summ Dude wrote:

Duran Lex wrote:

The Sentinel bonus is for the upcoming Heavy Laser weapon. CCP stated awhile back the reason for the bonus is that they are consistently looking at the big picture when developing, hence the Amarr Sentinel suit having a bonus to an Amarrian weapon. (as a Heavy from when i first started a year ago, It has been a very difficult wait for our proper weapon to be developed.)

I'd also like to note to people who still don't seem to understand the other bonus, the reload speed. It is not 2% reload speed per level. It's a flat 2% reload speed. There is one other suit in the game with this same ridiculously under powered bonus.

Also OP, I'm not sure why you feel like your question is so important to warrant a dev response. It's old news, that was already covered and explained by CCP in the past. You being fairly new doesn't make your "questions that have already been answered" a top priority. Not to mention people have already posted in your thread the answer to your question. The answers you scoffed at because it wasn't a blue tag.

So now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Ok so as has been said multiple times, the weapon feedback damage bonus is the general Sentinel bonus, which makes no sense even when 'looking at the big picture'.

This has already been covered by CCP? When exactly? Got a link? This question 'deserves to be answered' because I can't see the logic behind it, and I'd like to know what it is. If there was something in mind when they made this bonus than answering shouldn't be a very challenging task.


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Duran Lex Amarr Templars Amarr Empire 346	Posted - 2013.10.19 16:50:00 - [1] - Quote The Sentinel bonus is for the upcoming Heavy Laser weapon. CCP stated awhile back the reason for the bonus is that they are consistently looking at the big picture when developing, hence the Amarr Sentinel suit having a bonus to an Amarrian weapon. (as a Heavy from when i first started a year ago, It has been a very difficult wait for our proper weapon to be developed.) I'd also like to note to people who still don't seem to understand the other bonus, the reload speed. It is not 2% reload speed per level. It's a flat 2% reload speed. There is one other suit in the game with this same ridiculously under powered bonus. Also OP, I'm not sure why you feel like your question is so important to warrant a dev response. It's old news, that was already covered and explained by CCP in the past. You being fairly new doesn't make your "questions that have already been answered" a top priority. Not to mention people have already posted in your thread the answer to your question. The answers you scoffed at because it wasn't a blue tag. So now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
Duran Lex Amarr Templars Amarr Empire 346	Posted - 2013.10.19 17:02:00 - [2] - Quote Ion Crush wrote: I agree with this message. And these other 2 guys. Though I am surprised at how many people still don't know that it's the sentinel suit bonus that reduces feedback damage and the Amarr bonus to reload speed. This would mean that ALL RACIAL heavy suits will have reduced feedback damage, not just the Amarr suit for the Amarr heavy weapon. One can only assume (or hope rather) that when all racial variants come out for each suit, they will change the race specific bonuses towards their respective races weapons. Feedback dmg reduction on a Minmatar suit wouldn't make much sense. But currently there isn't a need to diversify since there isn't much diversity to begin with.
Duran Lex Amarr Templars Amarr Empire 346	Posted - 2013.10.20 00:33:00 - [3] - Quote Summ Dude wrote: Duran Lex wrote: The Sentinel bonus is for the upcoming Heavy Laser weapon. CCP stated awhile back the reason for the bonus is that they are consistently looking at the big picture when developing, hence the Amarr Sentinel suit having a bonus to an Amarrian weapon. (as a Heavy from when i first started a year ago, It has been a very difficult wait for our proper weapon to be developed.) I'd also like to note to people who still don't seem to understand the other bonus, the reload speed. It is not 2% reload speed per level. It's a flat 2% reload speed. There is one other suit in the game with this same ridiculously under powered bonus. Also OP, I'm not sure why you feel like your question is so important to warrant a dev response. It's old news, that was already covered and explained by CCP in the past. You being fairly new doesn't make your "questions that have already been answered" a top priority. Not to mention people have already posted in your thread the answer to your question. The answers you scoffed at because it wasn't a blue tag. So now you know, and knowing is half the battle. Ok so as has been said multiple times, the weapon feedback damage bonus is the general Sentinel bonus, which makes no sense even when 'looking at the big picture'. This has already been covered by CCP? When exactly? Got a link? This question 'deserves to be answered' because I can't see the logic behind it, and I'd like to know what it is. If there was something in mind when they made this bonus than answering shouldn't be a very challenging task. That's because you actually aren't looking at the big picture. There are hellof a lot weapons on CCP's plans to eventually be released. Since currently the Amarr Sentinel is the only suit that's out for the Heavy dropsuit, and within the next couple of months (hopefully) a new Heavy Weapon laser is coming out , the bonus will make sense then. Racial dropsuits were put high up on the shelf of things to develop. More then likely we won't see them for another 6 months at the very least. They are "fixing" core gameplay mechanics atm...and the next 3 months are towards vehicles/AV rework. Since racial dropsuits aren't coming out in such a long time, and the Amarr is the only Racial suit available, the Sentinels general bonus being the feedback damage reduction makes sense (or will once the Heavy Laser is released). Upon speculation of the way they are developing this game and how they developed Eve, we have a hopeful assumption that once all racial dropsuits are available, they will tailor each general bonus towards that specific race's weapons. After all, feedback damage reduction would be entirely useless for a Minmatar Heavy, that will assuredly have a bonus towards the HMG. Or with completely opposite speculation, they might eventually introduce Heavy Weapons of each race that all have weapon feedback damage and then the general bonus would make sense far into the future. CCP hasn't let us know anything about that, cause well...we don't need to know, It's not even close to being released. What we do know is that the Sentinel feedback bonus is for the new Heavy Laser, as stated in the past by CCP. I can't help you beyond that. And no, I don't feel like scouring the forums for a link. Though If more then one person in your thread having the same answer means nothing to you, then i guess goodluck on getting that dev response.