more to read and make fun of.. lets see

EDIT: pretty good changes, aside from more P2W droplinks. only 2 high end links in the game now, totally fine with that, but of course.. 1 has to be AUR

I like the bonuses and really adds a dynamic to suit selection based on what a player does

but the cloak, while gonna be fun at first.. will break the game yet again

Any from of damage should decloak you, and flux grenades should completely disable your cloak PERMANENTLY unless you manage to make it to a supply depot to swap it out for another. Why? Because it's a device, and FLUX is basically the EMP shockwave equivalent.

People are complaining wanting to stay cloaked forever, which is pretty stupid of a request. How would it even be remotely fair for some people to be invisible semi-permanent, get shot, run behind a building... person walks past and they are able to just stab them up... all this without ever being seen. I think that if someone is trigger happy and decides to spray random bullets every now and then and one grazes a cloaked person, he should become visible.

What would be even better is that the cloak would cease to function permanently in whatever area took damage, but that would be really intensive programming to have to add.

As for cloaked units being scanned... Scanners are picking up on more than just the cloak field, so I believe cloaked units should still show up on the scanner, but if cloaked AFTER scanned, maybe the dot remains (turns fuzzy though) to show where that person was last picked up.


Come to think of it... What would be awesome would be DECOYS as equipment. Make it so someone can drop a decoy which is just a tracker device they can set drop that does the following:

standard = 1 carried, 1 active, 150 hp = still dot on radar if scanned. (pemanent)
advanced = 1 carried, 1 active 200 hp = moving dot on radar, that mimics the last 5 seconds of a player that drops it (last 15 secs)
prototype = 1 carried, 1 active 250 hp = moving dot on radar, that mimics the last 10 seconds of a player that drops it. (last 20 secs)

all have 50 hp and can be destroyed immediately

Flux grenades. Surprising enough, the tools were there all along!

Nobody cares

Scanners did not need a double nerf.
Simply removing the 360 degree spin was enough of a nerf as it forced you to scan in a single direction.

As most scanners are 60 degrees, you have a 1/6 chance of scanning in the correct direction.
Then if your 1/6 chance of picking the direction was wrong, there is a 30 second recharge time before I can use it again.
(Yes you can have some educated guesses, but if you are standing on a Null cannon with access from all angles it is luck).

* I now need to fill an equipment slot with something I can only use once every 30 seconds, and has a 1/6 chance of being successful.

Leave the fix for the 360 spin, remove the increased cooldown.

Scanners did not need a double nerf.
Simply removing the 360 degree spin was enough of a nerf as it forced you to scan in a single direction.

As most scanners are 60 degrees, you have a 1/6 chance of scanning in the correct direction.
Then if your 1/6 chance of picking the direction was wrong, there is a 30 second recharge time before I can use it again.
(Yes you can have some educated guesses, but if you are standing on a Null cannon with access from all angles it is luck).

* I now need to fill an equipment slot with something I can only use once every 30 seconds, and has a 1/6 chance of being successful.

Leave the fix for the 360 spin, remove the increased cooldown.

Months of complaining about vehicles being unbalanced with current AV.

Decide to balance equipment...

CCP...what exactly needed balancing about equipment? it's not that someone was complaining except for scanners. Another sign you don't read feedback and just another DEVblog you guys are not going to response too...

Any from of damage should decloak you, and flux grenades should completely disable your cloak PERMANENTLY unless you manage to make it to a supply depot to swap it out for another. Why? Because it's a device, and FLUX is basically the EMP shockwave equivalent.

Equip multiple scanners?

We have known for the past three months already that 1.8 won't be about balancing vehicles. I thought you knew this already. I guess not.

If you think that justifies 'balancing' equipment then go ahead and belittle me and 1.8 doesn't need to be about balancing vehicles, they could just "hotfixed" it 1.7. Seems to me they are working/focussing on the wrong things.

No, they're focusing on the right things only in a particular order. Also, rebalancing vehicles will take far more than just a measly hotfix so don't kid yourself into thinking vehicle balance is a simple as that. If it was, we wouldn't see redline rail tanks or swarms being completely ineffective against assault dropships or tankbush 514 for that matter. As Judge Rhadamanthus pointed out multiple times in his videos, the issue with vehicles will take far more than just a hotfix. Besides, we all know 1.7 was just the first phase in the vehicle rebalancing.

And fatties!

I'm thinking the cloak will be really useful for haunting null cannons with Nova Knives.

That's why I hide his post, they aren't worth the time spent reading.

Hacking while cloaked may allow you to successfully counter-hack under the enemy's nose, since the counter-hacking notification is a lot more subtle than the hacking notification. Me likey.

What is the skill multiplier for Cloaking is it a x3 like all the other equipment or higher ?

^^ really how dumb can you be to think that

I can't even think atm how the counter-hack notifies everyone. Care to enlighten us Tom? Are you sure it's not the case that you only know when you get the "virus upload failed" message?

The objective box blinks when someone is either hacking or counter hacking.