The Railgun, you are probably right in your assumption. It'll heat up 50% faster since it is per shot. Though the Blaster states that it is Heat Build-Up per second, rather than shots fired. In theory, if CCP follows that mechanic to the letter, the Heat Build-Up for Blasters should be the same. It should be able to take advantage of its bonus fairly effectively, then.

The Railgun, you are probably right in your assumption. It'll heat up 50% faster since it is per shot. Though the Blaster states that it is Heat Build-Up per second, rather than shots fired. In theory, if CCP follows that mechanic to the letter, the Heat Build-Up for Blasters should be the same. It should be able to take advantage of its bonus fairly effectively.

If that's true then I would retract my complaint, at least for the blaster, as that would eliminate any negative of having the faster RoF. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, or maybe a blue could grace us with a clarification

Yes, that's usually the issue with any changes. Can't really tell what is what until it's implemented, lol. As for the Railguns, if they finally fix the damage bug, it could still be fairly useful despite the increased Heat Build-Up. Alpha damage is a lot more important than sustained damage for AV and that will be all the more true if CCP manages to balance the active module uptime/downtime properly. So while it would heat-up 50% faster, you still get the damage out on that enemy vehicle 50% faster. That could mean the difference between their active hardener coming back up in time or not.

Not entirely shafted in a sense. Still more useful than before, but I agree with you. Very lame if it does behave that way.

Also starting to look like the roles are reversed because

Armor repairs being passive means very slow recharge and long down times.

Shields being passive, but with boosters and injections means faster downtimes and full repairs.



So, whereas armor before used active repair and gained HP back quicker, and shield used passive repair to gain shield back slower


Armor is going to use passive repair to gain hp back slower, and shields will use active repair to gain hp back quicker (plus their built in passive regen)




Will armor repair rate lend it self to sustaining damage in combat? Or then what is the advantage of armor in 1.7

shield extenders need buffs lolz 168>300, 300>450 or 500, >600
only way to stop getting 3 shotted, 1 shot w/o hardener=half shields gone

Yeah, unless forge dmg took a hit then DS will still be cannon fodder.
and I didn't see the numbers on large rail turret damage but that could be the biggest pain in teh *** that makes every pilot quit Dust because if its OP vs DS, we won't see a fix for another decade.

look at the equipment a pyphon can equip
yer not much with out wuring the HP

STD=1450
ADV=1688
PRO=1885
one shot will bring down your shields with the crap light extenders we have in 1.7, no matter what you cant know when a rail will shoot.
rails need 300m range or damage dropoff near 200m or 250m to be balanced AT ALL.

STD=1450
ADV=1688
PRO=1885
one shot will bring down your shields with the crap light extenders we have in 1.7, no matter what you cant know when a rail will shoot.
rails need 300m range or damage dropoff near 200m or 250m to be balanced AT ALL.

Fit 2 complex shield hardeners, a basic heavy shield extender, and a PG mod. This will give you >6k ehp for 1min with a 15sec cooldown or 12k for 30sec.

it will take 4 shots for you to die lol
1885X4
higher than 6k, please give rails 300m range max or reduce rof
btw you dont double ehp, LOLZ, 6kX2 doesn't work that way

Do hardeners still work in the way that they run for so short of time, you need to predict when the un-rendered red line rail tank at 600 meters is going to 2 shot you 2 seconds