Kigurosaka Laaksonen
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.10 02:55:00 -
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Fizzer94 wrote:Be hopeful. After we get all the suit frames, they are the only baseline thing that will be missing. Expect them soon.
Also vehicles (ground and air, racial light medium and heavy) and turrets (small and large, short and long range versions.)
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Kigurosaka Laaksonen
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.10 03:07:00 -
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safura trotsky wrote:Aero Yassavi wrote:At the bare minimum we should have 8 heavy weapons, 4 AV and 4 AI (anti-infantry).
So 6 more to go CCP. We don't need them all to be released at the same time, that is an unreasonable demand, but show us that you are making progress. 8 is a bit much, i would say 5 2 AV, 3 anti infantry, and the second AV should be the plasma cannon which shouldn't even be a light weapon in the first place.
8 follows the patterns set by EVE. Each race would have 2 versions of its racial weapon. A relatively short range, low alpha, high RoF weapon and a relatively long range, high alpha, low RoF weapon.
Amarr - Energy - Pulse / Beam (In the light weapons category this is filled very nicely by Scrambler/Laser)
Caldari - Missiles - Unguided / Guided (Strong secondary emphasis on Hybrids, specifically Rails)
Gallente - Hybrid - Blaster / Rail (Leans more strongly to Blasters, strong secondary emphasis on Drones (hint: Let's get Drones worked in ASAP.))
Minmatar - Projectile -Autocannon / Artillery
I don't agree that Heavy weapons should necessarily fall into 1 AV and 1 AI weapon for each race. If that's how it falls, so be it.
Right now with the Hybrid bonuses split how they are between Caldari being Rails, and Gallente being 'Plasma', along with almost no representation from Missiles, and the way Weapon Type and Damage Type are connected (i.e. Not like they are in EVE) , following the EVE pattern for Caldari / Gallente racial weapons will be tough.
For example, railgun artwork in EVE is clearly Caldari, and Hybrid Caldari (have generally, until recently, one example being the Moa losing its optimal bonus for a damage bonus) boats get bonuses that clearly synergize with rails. However, that Hybrid bonus would also work with Blaster turrets. A little more than half the Caldari ship line, however, is focused on missiles, and a little less than half is focused on Hybrids. Likewise, about half of the Gallente ship line is focused on Hybrids, while the other half is focused on Drones.
Basically, DUST needs to be as much like EVE as possible in an FPS setting.
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