Vehicle-optimized mercs,

Through the release of Uprising 1.7 we will be bringing major vehicle adjustments to DUST 514. Alongside balance and design changes, some currently existing vehicles, modules and turrets will be removed from the game. We've heard your questions and concerns regarding Skill and Item refunds and wished to address them comprehensively here.

Vehicles that are planned for removal will be fully refunded to you in both ISK and AUR. Additionally, we will be performing a full vehicle skill tree respec (and skill book ISK refund) for anyone that has skill points invested into the Vehicle and Turret skill trees (Vehicle Command, Vehicle Upgrades and Turret Operation).

In regards to BPOs: we are removing and refunding a few specific AUR militia Blueprints pertain

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Thank you for this, CCP Frame. Will us pilots with a significant amount of SP into vehicles receive a full and total respec so we can go 100% into vehicles? I have a ton of SP into infantry at the moment, and it will be much better utilized towards vehicles. Heard the math from someone and it will take upwards of 20mil SP for one vehicle and turret type.

fair enough you change vehicles so vehicle respec... what about us swarm users who have had a massive change to how they work and skills. why no respec for swarms

For unassigned items being removed, which character will receive the ISKies?

Good to see CCP playing favorites!

In what world is it fair that people after these changes get the option to skill out of vehicles, but not into them?

Unless you stick to your often used "choices have consequences" frase and only allow refunded SP to be put back into vehicles this "respec" is not fair in any way.

I feel sad for the dedicated Swarm Launcher (and other AV as well) users that will have their role radically nerfed without getting their SP refunded. They'll be shooting a paper gun more than anything else while CCP just gives them the middle finger.

If any other weapon were reduced to less than half of its effective range and 2/3rds of its damage, people would be up in arms in outrage. Yet people expect swarm users to just sit and take the nerf.

Swarm users should get their SP refunded. Since there's such a huge change to swarms and vehicles, we should be allowed to use militia swarms and see whether they are even worthwhile to skill into when 1.7 is deployed.

So for anyone that got the 100 Falchions during the event a few months ago will be isk rich if they didn't use them.

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Sana you beat me to it