Less fire rate, less damage to shields, whatever you say man...

When you give a duster a dev blog, thell want more, when they want more, they develop a taste for developer blood, when they develop a taste for developer blood, they spam the forums, when they spam the forums, the moderators come in, when the moderators fail, all the moderators lock every topic! And the forums are destroyed....and thats why the devs waited this long.

a question about bolt pistol
it has charge time 0.25s, rate of fire 0.4s

then, is it going to be :
hold the trigger > 0.25s > pew > 0.4s > 0.25s > pew > 0.4s > 0.25s > pew > 0.4s > 0.25s > ...

or ?
hold the trigger > 0.25s > pew > 0.25s > full charge and wait (0.4-0.25)= 0.15s > pew > 0.25s > full charge and wait 0.15s > pew
bolt pistol can charge up first and wait for the second shot?

Because nerfing the already obsolete AR variants (Burst-Breach-Tac) was ABSOLUTELY necessary!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Do you ever plan to increase the ammo capacity with the MD? The ammo count has always been subpar and the nano hive nerf still presents a problem to it in 1.8.

Do you ever plan to increase the ammo capacity with the MD? The ammo count has always been subpar and the nano hive nerf still presents a problem to it in 1.8.

Pretty concerned about the grenade nerf to be honest, I am currently seeing allot of heavies driving round in LAV's jumping out a few feet away from people and trying to kill them then jumping back in and driving off. Currently with the speed of LAV's and how bad swarms are, swarms are no good at taking them out (if they bother to fit the LAV) forgeguns can still hurt LAV's, Plasma cannons, well I can hit LAV's with them but its not particularly effective. So at the moment the best form of defense against a LAV is AV nades and it currently takes 3 packed ADV to take out one unfitted MLT LAV in 1.8 you will only be able to carry 2.

1.8 is going to be lots of heavies driving round in LAV's as the only thing that can really worry them is a tank.

Review :

I've seen the nerf of all "OP" weapons, nice job.
Hard nerf for RR and CR (They deserved it.)
Soft nerf for ScR and AR.
=> Really Nice

Nerf of damagers => Nice, people don't understand than now their "proficiency" has gone, it's the ONLY way to increase firepower, so 5% is HIIIIIIGH. Since there's no other Passive skills to increase raw damage (Exepting Commandos which makes them REALLY intresting for 1.8)




NOW the huge problem.

1- Mass Driver Buff, WHAT THE HELL ??????
It seems CCP forgot they were totally OP before hit detection issues and was not nerfed.
They were underdog ONLY when facing Rifles. Now that Rifles are nerfed WHY did they get buffed ?????
Turn back CCP before it's too late. I'm an Mass driver user since Chromosome.
This is will be the begin of HELL.

2- Proficiency that affect Armor and Shield, okay nice seems a good idea BUT it's absolutely NOT balanced !!!!!!!!!!
I mean shield is rarely over 400ehp. Extender re way lower than Armor plates.
While armor is about 1000ehp.
Giving bonus to armor piercing means giving a damage boost to kill 1000ehp.
Giving a bonus to kill shield means a bonus for ONLY 400ehp.....

For an Anti-armor weapons it's really easy to cut down the shield since they are pretty low and then TOTALLY destroy the armor with their heavy bonus to armor.

For an Anti-Shield Weapons, they will destroy the shield easily but...THEN ? There's still 80% of the target ehp.
And they receive high penality to cut down these armor ehp....

Anti-Shield weapons will become totally useless and totally less powerful overall exepting against Caldari.
=> AR / SCR / LR.......
But a flux would do the same afterall since you can't dodge it.)

agree with most things but now with this huge nerfs to damage (which seemed necesary), heavies gonna be godly. they r hard to kill on 1.7, but with the extra dmg reduction on 1.8, they r going to be a pain in the *****. Is like giving tanks a buff and a nerf to AV weapons, wait that alrdy happened -¼-¼.

nerfing rifles while buffing MD's in the same update is a very dangerous move - in fact it is exactly the kind of move that produces FOTM-Spamfests over and over again.

have you at least COMPLETELY striped the MD's explosions of the side-effect of COMPLETELY disrupting rifle aiming at ranges of 40 meters and above, denying them any chance of firing back anywhere near efficient? i doubt it - new FOTM "confirmed"... - please listen to your community and exclude the MD-Buff from 1.8!

also - decreasing TTK is great, i fully support it - but with decreasing damage-per-shot without increasing clip-size, it just becomes more and more an un-stylish pain: when do you ever see someone reload or only head-shooting in a Sci-Fi movie? barely/ not enough damage-per-clip to kill tough ground-troopers with bodyshots alone opposes stylish, Sci-Fi gameplay... .

BTW - will my MLT Locus Grenades (/Blueprint) have it's carrying capacity reduced to 1 now? it already has higher (PG) fitting-requirements than my ADV M1's... - please consider info/ changes here.

Since it's more powerful , it needs less ammo to kill.
So inderictely (I'm not an English native user...Sorry.) it's a buff to ammo capacity.
And there's skills to increase ammo capacity, use it. it's 1 ammo per level.
Making my mass driver carrying more than 17 ammo. (These are grenades you can't carry 80000 grenades you know.....

Oh and people seems to forgot MD was TOTALLY OP.
And became underdog ONLY when facing rifles.

Now that Rifles have been nerfed, MD is like before in the old time of Spamful MD.
They REALLY don't need a buff for ammo capacity.

Can we get before and afters for the Massdrivers and Laser Rifles??

Pretty please

However I'm concerned that shield-based weapons will ultimately be inferior, unless shield-based suits are more balanced (stronger) against armor-based suits than they are now.

MD won't be fotm. With heavies running around with their reduction to splash damage

Looks pretty nice, except swarms still feel kinda useless...