I think either significantly more keys or much higher grade of loot from the chests. Either way they need to adjust something.

299 boxes and about 5 keys.

Imagine if they had gotten the dispersion correct from jump street. It has pretty much the same ROF as the RR and I think more dmg per shot than the original version that has been nerved I think 3 times in a row now. OP...maybe not but it will be likely more effective than the breach AR and RR (not that that is a bad thing).

I have a lot of issues with how the HMGs have been working; mostly, the ridiculously short range and aiming mechanics.

Off the top of my head i would honestly like to explore the following COA:
1. Take away ADS capability. Use hip fire only like the forge.
2. Sharpen the accuracy and recoil adjustment to where shooting while moving is extremely difficult. Retain the slight advantage of firing while kneeling.
3. Do away with the reticule shrinking (i.e. getting MORE accurate) as you fire. This is utter ridiculousness and absolutely illogical. I would propose starting with a smaller reticule server and going back to the more pinpoint version we had several months ago. The stream of projective don't need to fill the entire shot gun like reticule.
4. Increase range to roughly that of the CR.
5. Increase the reload...say by 2 seconds.
6. Tweak and retain the AHMG version that we are looking for.
7. lower the heat buildup a bit. This is offset by the slight reload time increase. Modern 7.62 mini-guns can easily burn through a basic load of ammo with no overheat but the reload is a ***** (i'm using the examples in helo door guns and the few we had on the back of Strykers as my primary experience on this).

As for Nemesis, that was 3 guys working in their free time, so it would not have taken any time away from DUST/Legion. Although, if it actually becomes a "thing" and CCP decides to support further development, it could take some actual Dev time in the future. (But I am sure Soraya will tell him that when I hit "Play" again...)

The logical leap that seems beyond BAMM's comprehension is that DUST has a budget. Nemesis development is not consuming that budget, so no, it's not taking any resources from DUST. Nemesis is an R&D thing, so any expense for it would come from the R&D budget. CCP is a business that has to ensure a long-term future for itself (and notably, a profitable one), and the idea that CCP as a company should throw all of their resources at DUST (or EVE) as the players of either game demand is simply daft.

I'm not opposed to normalizing by variant but there are some tough individual instances to figure out. Example...how well do you think Burst Rail Rifle would work? The other factor of that concerns me is that the variations (particularly in range vs DPS) is so wide it convolutes any attempt make a healthy set of all weapons; right now there is pretty much always a small group of weapons out in the cold.

One of my longer term concerns is having strongly defined weapon categories (rifle, specialty LW, SMG, pistol, etc) and at the moment my subjective assessment is that simplifying things a little will help.

To your point about individual feel and personality for weapons - 100% on board with you. My opinion is that we can still achieve that by focusing on aesthetics, smaller impact trade offs, damage profiles, and weapon mechanics and feel in combat and at the same time making all basic infantry weapons more viable in a general sense.

Burst rifles operate on the principal of delivering several bursts in quick succession to put down a target. Spool time pretty much kills that.

As an experiment try using a burst AR or CR by NOT trigger spamming. Just hold the trigger back and let the burst cycle naturally. run couple matches that way - no cheating and trigger spamming. Now imagine that same experience but much less responsive and that would give you a burst RR experience.


As an aside - dispersion is a stat that should pretty much go away for the vast majority of weapons.

I actually like Dommination, and I have flipped domination matches after my MCC was into armor on many occasions.

How about reset Squad size in PUB Skirmish to 4 members, and allow you to run larger squads in FW? That might encourage more people to do FW.

The problem is that Ambush is terrible and we don't know how good Acquisition will play out. So while you say you want a "great experience" with fewer options, it might be a "terrible experience" with fewer options. Right now, Skirmish is the only good game mode. I hope Acquisition will be #2.

Heavy Laser:

I like the idea of a Heavy Laser. Give it a bit more damage than the Laser Rifle, and 100% damage against vehicles.

Many have suggested a Heavy Laser weapon based on the Scrambler (pulse laser) model, but I have always preferred the idea of a Heavy Laser (Beam Laser).

How about a larger version of the Laser Rifle with two focal lengths? Have the actually optimal and effective range change when you switch from hip fire to ADS. As balance, have the near distance damage drop-off shift out as well. So damage builds up as you get closer to the focal length, stays steady within the optimal, and then drops off again as the beam gets out of focus with range. It could be a powerful short range weapon when hip firing, and a powerful long range weapon when ADS, but have it mediocre at mid range in both modes. (Basically pushing L2 switches the focus crystal from a short focal length crystal to a long focal length crystal.)

So have Optimal be 10m to 20m in hip fire, and 60m to 100m in ADS, but have 40m be beyond the effective range for hip fire but still short of the focal range for ADS. This way the dps would drop off steadily between 20m and 35m, be very low between 35m and 45m, and then build again between 45m and 60m. That would provide a weakness that could be exploited by rifle users, while making the weapon both effective against infantry in CQC and against vehicles at a distance. Don't give it any Zoom on ADS mode so the distance setting is better for larger targets (AV) than infantry.

Excellent point, Vell0cet. I might just have to quote that next week.

We need some more material to talk about.