Did any1 else get promised player marketing? Or get the idea that tanks would be nerfed. Because its not like we don't play the game everyday to see that these things need to be added and fixed, like..... where are the proto tankers that are happy to see tht proto AV grenades have been lowered from 3 to 2. I guess we patient soldiers will have to wait till 2.0 to see a change in how the simple basis of this game needs to be changed before buffs and reductions to simple stuff like LRs and a snapshot active scanner. Like, who cares bout tht? I wanna sell these pointless Thales for 200K ISK or maybe to trade it in for a Krin Sin. I'm just raging on how I don't see anything in this patch except new weapons and dropsuits, should be tasked before overpowered tanks and ambush being a den for COD bums and proto idiots. Once they fix those issues before 2.0, I'll be sure text Logibro and all of CCP a hood letter saying, "Now we have a true MMORPG". If they don't, then I guess I'll keep playing this and COD till I get Destiny or my new gaming computer.

And so the Buff - Nerf cycle spins again. And they're already nerfing Rail and Combat rifle. I bet you my bottom dollar that the Mag-sec will be over-powered as hot fudge over Megan Fox's buttocks, and then will be nerfed again by 1.9. I CANNOT BE BOTHERED to earn that many skill points each month.

Great patch notes

To be deployed on 2014-03-25

Please note: A full refund of all skill points and ISK spent on skillbooks in the Dropsuit Command skill tree will take place when the patch is deployed.

Path to Game and Overall UI
* Inline skill book purchasing added back to the marketplace.

Gameplay
* War Point rewards for vehicle damage have been reintroduced.

Dropsuits
* Added Caldari, Gallente and Minmatar Heavy Frames. This includes Basic, Sentinel and Commando roles for each faction.
* Added Caldari and Amarr Light Frames. This includes Basic and Scout roles for each faction.
* Base stats have been adjusted for all Medium Frames. This includes Basic, Assault and Logistics roles.
* For full details of the dropsuit changes, please see the dev blogs available on the DUST 514 website.

Weapons
* Added Caldari Magsec SMG.
* Added Caldari Bolt Pistol.
* Added Gallente Ion Pistol.
* Mass Driver:
- Increased base direct/splash damage from 242/116 to 300/145.
* Laser Rifle:
- Increased effective range and increased damage at short range, reduced heat cost at ADV and PRO tiers.
- Improved zoom FOV.
* Time-to-kill (TTK) improvements:
- Proficiency skills of handheld weapons now grant 3% damage per level to either armor or shields (depending on the relevant weaponGÇÖs profile) rather than a flat increase to both.
- Damage mods have been reduced to 3%/4%/5% bonus to weapon damage from 3%/5%/10% previously.
- Base damage has been reduced on the following weapons: Assault Rifle, Scrambler Rifle, Combat Rifle, Rail Rifle, Submachine Gun.
- Grenade count has been reduced by 1 for all grenade types.

Modules/Equipment
* Added Cloak Field equipment.
* Altered stats of existing equipment:
- Active scanner cooldown times increased. Scanner functionality changed to now perform "snapshot" scans in order to stop 360 degree spins.
- Range on repair tools reduced.
- Drop uplink spawn times increased.
- Nanohive nanite supply reduced.

Skills
* Altered existing skills for Assault, Scout, Sentinel, Commando and Logistics roles:

* Assault [5% reduction to PG/CPU cost of light/sidearm weapons per level]
- Caldari Assault: +5% to reload speed of hybrid railgun light/sidearm weapons per level.
- Gallente Assault: 5% reduction to hybrid - blaster light/sidearm hip-fire dispersion and kick per level.
- Minmatar Assault: +5% to projectile light/sidearm clip size per level.
- Amarr Assault: 5% reduction to laser weaponry heat build-up per level.

* Logistics [5% reduction to PG/CPU cost of equipment per level]
- Caldari Logistics: +10% to nanohive maximum nanites and +5% to supply rate and repair amount per level.
- Gallente Logistics: +10% to active scanner visibility duration and +5% to active scanner precision per level.
- Minmatar Logistics: +10% to repair tool range and 5% to repair amount per level.
- Amarr Logistics: 10% reduction to drop uplink spawn time and +2 to maximum spawn count per level.

* Sentinel [+5% damage resistance to splash damage per level]
- Caldari Sentinel: 3% shield resistance to hybrid - blaster weapons, 2% shield resistance to laser weapons per level.
- Gallente Sentinel: 3% armor resistance to hybrid - railgun weapons, 2% armor resistance to projectile weapons per level.
- Minmatar Sentinel: 3% shield resistance to laser weapons, 2% armor resistance to hybrid - blaster weapons per level.
- Amarr Sentinel: 3% armor resistance to projectile weapons, 2% shield resistance to hybrid - railgun weapons per level.

* Commando [5% reduction to reload speed of light/sidearm weapons per level]
- Caldari Commando: +2% damage to light hybrid GÇô railgun weapons per level.
- Gallente Commando: +2% damage to light hybrid GÇô blaster weapons per level.
- Minmatar Commando: +2% damage to light projectile and explosive weapons per level.
- Amarr Commando: +2% damage to light laser weapons per level.

* Scout [+15% reduction to PG/CPU cost of cloak field per level]
- Caldari Scout: +5% bonus to dropsuit scan radius and scan precision per level.
- Gallente Scout: +5% bonus to dropsuit scan radius and 5% reduction to scan profile per level.
- Minmatar Scout: 5% bonus to hacking speed and Nova Knife damage per level.
- Amarr Scout: +5% bonus to stamina regen and maximum stamina per level.

Planetary Conquest
* Locking a district will now ensure the attacker loses clones and ISK when there is no battle.

Factional Warfare
* Adjusted the battle spawning so that factions will need to spend more time defending their districts proportionally to the number of districts they control.

Other
* Improved performance on certain maps that had a high installation count.
* To ensure parity with EVE Online support, customer support for DUST 514 will now only be offered in the following languages: English, Russian, Japanese, and German.

I'm downloading 1.8 atm and I'm xcited about the... Hmph. Can someone help me with this sentence? Grenades are gettin -1? Really? When I throw my AV grenades I'm only taking out its shields and a littl armor now? 1.8 just seems like CCP wants Dust 514 to no longer be an infantry based game. I play this for the bunker battles now. Who's better, my decked out combat rifle against that rail rifle-- WTF?? A tank just rolled on us, and it's duna! He knocks me down to 12 armor, and that dumb rail rifle just stole duna's kill. C'mon. Nerf tanks in 1.9 please.

Found this some what disturbing when I read your post. Then I went in and looked at the parts you pointed out.

There are several problems in your reasoning.

First the "derecognition loss" paragraph on page 22 that you quote from says nothing specifically about Dust 514. Your assumption is that this report references Dust 514 in that "portion of these assets would likely not have future economic benefits." that by no means spells out that CCP has ditched Dust.

Secondly, Unless you have some other knowledge as to the nature of what is being worked on in ALL of the R&D department it could have been some other project or element of a project that is no longer viable, desirable, or profitable. You acknowledged you know there are other R&D projects, but say those cant possibly be loosing money. It very well could have been another project we have heard nothing about they decided to ditch because of less than desirable projected consumer base.

The problem is we just don't have enough specific information. Hell, they could have ditched another project to ensure that Dust gets more attention/funding. While I am concerned because I love this game (despite its problems), I would hardly say that "the writing is on the wall."

vehicle dmg wp's is the biggest plus! nerf of the rifle group is also a plus. pc fix isn't going to change the issue all that much. overall though it is a better patch than 1.7! hopefully the vehicle wp dmg will cause a shift in the amount of tanks used indiscriminately. I think it will make them use tanks, dropships, and lav's more sparingly for fear of orbital strikes! don't wanna give away too many points! the weapons nerfs and buffs are good. we shall see how TTK fairs now. Can't wait to get off work to check this out! My armor and shields will actually count for something for a change lol! Kudos ccp!

Weapons
* Added Caldari Magsec SMG.
* Added Caldari Bolt Pistol.
* Added Gallente Ion Pistol.
* Mass Driver:
- Increased base direct/splash damage from 242/116 to 300/145.
* Laser Rifle:
- Increased effective range and increased damage at short range, reduced heat cost at ADV and PRO tiers.
- Improved zoom FOV.
* Time-to-kill (TTK) improvements:
- Proficiency skills of handheld weapons now grant 3% damage per level to either armor or shields (depending on the relevant weaponGÇÖs profile) rather than a flat increase to both.
- Damage mods have been reduced to 3%/4%/5% bonus to weapon damage from 3%/5%/10% previously.
- Base damage has been reduced on the following weapons: Assault Rifle, Scrambler Rifle, Combat Rifle, Rail Rifle, Submachine Gun.
- Grenade count has been reduced by 1 for all grenade types.

AV is doomed... Nothing on Tanks, tankbushes or gamemodes regarding the abuse of tankstomping.

Tanks are not overpowered. AV is fine at the moment. The problem is not with individual tanks. Two dedicated AV can handle almost any tank in the game right now.

What is a problem is when foot soldiers follow the tank or the tanker gets out of the tank to gun you down. More importantly the absolute problem with tanks is when more than 3 get into play and a rail gun tank locks the other side down from bringing in tanks.

Right now no changes need to be done to tanks.

TTK is the real big plus in my book, also vehicle WP damage means that tankers will not hog all the WP anymore. No matter how many kills they get, I just need to do a lot more damage and Orbital strike them haha, If only I get use Orbital strikes for once lol

If the tanker has ANY skill they just drive strait out of the OB. The best way to OB a tank is to go RDV hunting. Save your OB until the last third of the match. Then the guy who sucks at infantry and is pissed that his team is losing will call in his OP tank cause he thinks there wont be enough time for it to get destroyed before the end of the match. Zoom in the OB and watch your killfeed light up. LOL

Why is there no mention of what was done to the scrambler pistol? The rate of fire decrease huge, and game changing, and instantly apparent to anyone who uses this weapon.

Cloaks...all I need to say in regards to vehicles. RE and Superhack speeds will become vehicle opperators' nightmares.

So tanks still going to be able to drive 70,000mph? Seriously?

Was the standard button for chat channel windows changed from T to J? Why isn't this in the patchnotes?