Once Hotfix Alpha is released, weGÇÿll be holding off further tweaks to anything in it for a little while to see the impact in gameplay. Based on the trend analysis from 1.8 it takes a few weeks to stabilize, and taking into account that 1.8 had a limited respec, changes in some cases were instantaneous. With some of these tweaks, players will have to collect SP first, and then spec into different playstyles, so it may take a little longer to stabilize.

Once Crappatch AMOG is released, we won't do sh!t for months. Based on a bunch of crap we made up and taking into account some other irrelevant crap, some changes were instantaneous. What changes? Who cares--don't mind that I don't discuss them previously in this post--you should already know what I'm talking about. Some of the things we've done would greatly benefit from AURUM purchases, so we'll hold off on more updates until we've reached our funding goal. And yes, we have a thermometer drawn on a whiteboard that we use to keep track of said goal.

I'm still waiting for a normalization of the rail rifle. It's way too OP compared to other weapons, too high DPS, rate of fire, and not enough spread when on continuous fire.

Rail rifle is OP... I am shocked that this still continues. Range is ridiculous, damage is ridiculous, accuracy is ridiculous. Combat rifle is getting a second nerf yet the rail remains untouched....hmmm I guess I know which weapon is favored by DEVS.
I can use a proto combat rifle with damage mods and full proficiency and have a hard time outgunning a basic rail rifle. I do not understand the thought process here.
The best way to NOT engage in a battle is to sit at range and rail your enemies to death..... Sentinals cannot even stand up to Scouts with RR's....

I am happy the AR is getting some love.
I am fully proficient in AR, had to leave it behind to compete w RR by skilling into Combat Rifle (I hate the way the RR fires and feels, just a personal quirk)...the 1st Nerf to CR has now left me stuck in the middle with two half-ass weapons that cannot compete with the RR. Now that the CR will get a 2nd Nerf, I can only hope the AR becomes slightly more effective so I might have a chance in a fairly matched battle against a RR. I hate feeling like I "have to" skill into a weapon I do not favor to increase my survival rate.

Swarm Missiles are the most "dumb" weapon I have seen. The lock on is useless, runs into boxes, small terrestrial variations confuse them, etc...
We have missiles now that can fly through a window from a mile away....

Sniper rifles are also terrible. Almost not worth skilling into anymore. Zoom has no variation at skill levels or for higher class weapons. When zooming a sniper should be able to slow down time slightly when fully proficient. The human brain works this way.

Gallente Sentinal should have one additional high slot. PG/CPU is grossly mis-calculated. I have too much PG/CPU left over on this suit and that is with all proto fittings. I can actually fit all proto gear on my ADV Gal Sent and still have CPU/PG left over.

Oh yeah and the Rail Rifle is TOO OP!!!

I believe Assault Dropship's basic price should be reduced to 150K ISK. It's stupid how a proto ADS that costs 500K ISK can be taken out by a Militia Railgun Tank with no skills and that only costs 82K ISK with only two-three shots.

Swarm Missiles are the most "dumb" weapon I have seen. The lock on is useless, runs into boxes, small terrestrial variations confuse them, etc...
We have missiles now that can fly through a window from a mile away....

Sniper rifles are also terrible. Almost not worth skilling into anymore. Zoom has no variation at skill levels or for higher class weapons. When zooming a sniper should be able to slow down time slightly when fully proficient. The human brain works this way.

Rail rifle is OP... I am shocked that this still continues. Range is ridiculous, damage is ridiculous, accuracy is ridiculous. Combat rifle is getting a second nerf yet the rail remains untouched....

When you break free of your drug addiction, I recommend you play a game on PS3 called Dust 514...

Anyway, RR OP? You must be trolling, I nearly died at the part you said accuracy is ridiculous because yea it is, shooting down ADS you maybe get 2-3 shots on target at intended range. Damage is lackluster against most armor tanks and the range is probably the only good thing about it compared to the other rifles.

Where as combat rifle still has insane dps, great range (considering its cqc weapon) perfect accuracy and stability.

Oh yea at same meta, it has barely any fitting requirements compared to RR, guess some of you mooks forgot that.

RR got another spool up nerf as well

To balance the CR, CCP should have kept the DPS the same but half its effective range and increased its powergrid requirements, the changes they are doing is bizarre.

Also increasing flat PR dmg? Really? They already wreck shields they should get an armor dmg buff inline with their current shield prof buff to even them out.

Woah! Rattati, you have proven now that you actually know what you're doing with the future of this game. However, maybe the Minmitar Commando speed reduction is a bit unnecessary. I don't use it personally, but it seems like the speed is actually rather fair. Small blasters and railguns will actually be useful now, rather than it being all about the missiles. I honestly think that the increase in the amount repaired from armor repairers is nice, as well as the fact that it will now be feasible to use the variants of the armor plates. Even though this is just a hotfix, it's looking like it will be one of the greatest leaps forward this game has ever taken. Well done, CCP.

The only way a militia rail tank can take out an ADS, is if the pilot is either an idiot, or not paying attention. The ADS accelerates so fast that it can easily be out of harms way so fast that even the second hit is going to be a lucky shot on the tank drivers behalf, and there won't be a third.
I've seen this so often that it can't be a coincidence.

I believe Assault Dropship's basic price should be reduced to 150K ISK. It's stupid how a proto ADS that costs 500K ISK can be taken out by a Militia Railgun Tank with no skills and that only costs 82K ISK with only two-three shots.

It's possible to down a python with 2 large rail turret slugs and active damage mods.

The delay between firing a large rail turret is so small, most people can't react to doge the second shot. So long as the tank operator has good aim, they're pretty much guaranteed to hit an unaware ADS twice.

Redline rail tanks are especially annoying on maps were the redline is way too close to the objectives, which is most maps.

Not saying ADS shouldn't be destroyed by mlt gear. I just don't completely agree with your experience on the matter of ADS versus rail tank.

So your going to give op drop ships more fire power with small rail guns to blow up defenseless 500k tanks nice. Rail tanks should be able to fire accross the map "its a rail gun" at 300 yrds a drop ship is overhead and out of shot. Just make the game more realistic, if you nerf this game any more
we will end up throwing toilet rolls at each other

How about reducing the damage and range of shotguns? Also, thanks a lot for reducing the damage of the Combat riffle my only defense against these invisible camping shotgunning scouts.

Excuse me but the shotgun has a optimal range of like 5~8 meters anything further takes allmost no damage at all. Range and damage are fine cause you have to get extremely close to actually deal damage.