The breach is great for one thing popping dropships like over ripe tomatoes

The Breach nerf probably had to do with Dropships more than anything else. Their effective HP without modules on is MUCH lower than it is now and if Forge numbers had stayed the same then they would have been in a pretty precarious position.

Actually no, the Breach has always frightened me far more than the Assault when I'm flying, particularly if he's with a friend or two with AV. The Breach could almost one shot any dropship, my fit and a couple others can limp away, but when you add just one militia swarm or forge or even plasma cannon if you're close enough, and it's lights out.

Most other dropships just pop.

I use the IAFG over the BFG because I'm a lonewolf nutjob and I need the mobility. The breach is best in squads, and best at popping dropships. I'm not entirely sure what the breach is for right now, since its alpha damage isn't too powerful. I personally feel somewhere near 2,400 would be good, but there's no way to know until we actually sit down with everything (though you math magicians certainly do a good job)

Not horrible... a 25% nerf to DPS (IAFG = 1215DPS now, 925DPS after patch). Still might be a bit much but i prefer the nerf stick over the nerf bat.

It's one issue but certainly not the only one, I'd still argue that, thanks to their range not having changed, the Forge is still in a position where its got a HUGE advantage over anything flying in the air. With Swarms I at least have some sort of warning in which I can hear their approach and respond to their general direction upon being hit. Forges don't leave me that opportunity unless I already have line of sight on their position and am within renderable range of my target. The hit indicator is often misleading and turning on to respond to any one threat or another often doesn't gleam me any relevant information about where your shot may have come from. My only real option, as a pilot, is to run and hope that the hit indicators on my Dropship haven't glitched to the point where I'm running into another shot.

There's no sort of compelling or satisfying gameplay there, no back and forth between AV and Vehicle in which I can choose to gauge the threat of my target and decide whether or not to attack or flee; it's find a supply depot, find a nook or cranny, charge up and destroy.

You're a tiny glowing dot that may or may not render at any given time that could be literally anywhere on the map without me having a single clue that you've even spawned and you've destroyed me without me having any clue how or where I could have responded differently. Is that the sort of gameplay you want?

Sorry, sir, but math. Normal FG got a 25% DPS reduction, AFG and BFG both got a 33% reduction.

I disagree that an extra 8% takes something from a stick to a sledgehammer.

AFG will still be the one gun to rule them all. (From a distance.)

I'm glad that you mentioned snipers as it illustrates my point pretty succinctly.

It takes a considerable amount of skill for a sniper to 1 shot a proto with anything short of a headshot (or multiple given the HP values I see running around). There's multiple avenues of cover that an infantry person can take compared to a Dropship that's in the air. Having shot at me I can see a weapon trail that leads directly back to you, the sniper, and can choose whether or not your worth my time to try to pursue. If I choose to engage you and can navigate and avoid your shots well enough then I'm rewarded with having put you out of your effective range, getting close to you weakens you and strengthens me.

None of this happens with a Dropship vs. Forge. I get close to you (assuming I saw where you shot from to begin with) and you're in no way less powerful or potent, if anything you're MORE powerful because I've lended you a larger target to shoot at, your damage hasn't fallen off and its no more difficult for you to take me out at 30m as it was at 300m.

JudgeRhadamanthus goes over this point further in his dropship video series, if you're interested in seeing the other side's point of view then I'd suggest subscribing and checking out his videos. All credits to him for the original source of the argument I've (tried) to present.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w-sVXgJKSQ

Justify the swarm launcher range nerf in the light of your last statement.

Problem = fix dificulty = FG fix < rendering fix

If "IF" and when rendering EVER gets fixed then the FG can be easily rebalanced. Sounds to me like you're just trying to defend your unfair advantage here

The distances with which the FG can be effective is also an issue here. At the extreme end of the opporation range of the FG the FG opporater is EXTREMELY dificult to locate, not to mention target, due to size/distance.

Some kind of lingering tracer needs to be added to the FG round as it travels at the very least. As well the light emitted from the forge should be far more easily identified at extreme ranges.

Still needs a random trajectory deviation to make sniping infantry a little harder.

Dont think it would help.
Seems like its a "scanhit" weapon, so the sway is cosmetic only?

When I try to use it to kill infantry and get a direct hit, i get the 50 WP credit, before the animation of the big blue shiney finishes travelling to the target.