It isn't. You're thinking of it in terms of what we've had so far and so it seems strange, but it makes sense for a shield tanked heavy. It's designed to be hit and run, while the others are stand and deliver. So it has a fairly high delay (4s) to prevent it from being able to stand and deliver like the armor heavies, while the depleted delay just gives it a fighting chance if the Caldari heavy makes a slipup because there is no shield repping nanohive, there is no shield rep tool, etc.

Remember, shields do not recharge under fire, so the Caldari heavy will still need to fall back if his shields are depleted - the low depleted delay just means it won't take an eternity for his suit to be able to get back in the fight - again, balanced by the fact that an armor heavy can retreat and get his armor repped but no such luxury exists for a shield tanker.

It seems very fair when you consider how the suit is supposed to be used and the fact that you can only ever equip a single shield regulator due to the suit only having one low slot. All other heavies will be vastly superior at stand and deliver style engagements while the Caldari suit will be more suited to brief skirmishes.

Swap Caldari's and Gallente Scout's skills. Just mkaes more sense tbh.

Unless we're all missing something, I think there's an excellent case made that the Amarr scout is under-bonused compared to the other three.
I think it would be a good candidate to get an additional bonus, to the efficacy of the cloaking module.
This makes a good contrast to the Minmatar bonus to Nova Knives.

Wow, scout seems really OP now lol. We shall see I guess.

Min scout has a flaw with that hacking bonus. I know a lot of ppl want it and I gotta admit it's really nice to have but... half the maps have nothing to hack, this effectively makes Min bonus tied to the Skirmish maps. Seems kinda lame, don't you think?

Let's start by looking at the skill bonuses.

Sentenel:
The base splash resistance is nice. But does it apply to all splash, or just explosives? (IE a railgun shot). As-is, most splash damage effects deal 70% damage to shields, 130% to armor. This will help armor tanks way more than shield tanks.

Caldari: 15% resist to blaster, 10% resist to laser.
This means damage profiles will be as follows
Laser: 108%, Plasma: 93.5%, rail: 90%, Projectile 95%, Explosive: 60%
This makes lasers stay king of the hill, good.

Gallente: 15% to rail, 10% to projectile
thus:
Laser: 80%, Plasma: 90%, rail: 93.5%, Projectile: 99%, explosive: 90%
Looks good.

Amarr and Minmitar:
Hoo boy. the bonuses can only apply to ONE type of tank, so to get the full effect of the bonus out, you need to dual tank. Whereas the other two suits can dual tank OR single tank with other sorts of mods, and still get the full bonus.

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Commando:
The base effect is good, and will disproportionally effect swarm launchers and plasma cannons.
Caldari:
Light railgun weapons... So the Rail rifle (two variations) and the Sniper rifle (two variations). Not a lot of versatility there.

Gallente:
It will get bonuses to the assault rifle( FOUR variations) , the shotgun (Two variations) and the plasma cannon, which was already significantly buffed by the other bonus.

Amarr:
Bonuses to Laser rifle and Scrambler rifle (two variations)

Minmitar:
Bonuses to.... Combat rifle (Two variations). (and eventually, the precision rifle, when that gets released)

Huh, looks like the Minmitar gets bonuses to ONE possible gun, which has two variations, so their bonus shoehorns them very hard. Meanwhile the Gallente have three different base types of weapons, of which there are LOTS of variations, in addition to having the plasma cannon already buffed with the reload change.

Bottom line: Minmitar got a crappy bonus, Gallente has an excellent one.

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Scout:
As far as the bonus goes, I can't rightly say, as we don't know the cloak's pg/cpu cost.
Caldari: Scan radius and precision. Wonderful. Looks worthless, as this data is not shared with teammates.
Gallente: Scan radius and profile reduction. The profile reduction MIGHT come in handy. But given the static scan precision of active scanners, there is a target that once you are under, additional reduction doesn't help.
Minmitar: Hacking speed is a good bonus. Why does this suit get a bonus to a Caldari weapon?
Amarr: The slowest scout gets a stamina boost? I think this would work wonderfully with a laser rifle. Good job.

Like the idea of the Caldari Heavy.. but not liking the idea that a flux and a shotgun shot is gonna instant kill me.

Is it just me or is the PG on all the Commando suits way too low for them to be useful?

If I take a gallente heavy and add 4 complex armor plates with max skills i get 1332 armor.

THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

Please give gallente heavy 4 extra base armor to right this wrong.