You are the first to mention it, we are happy with not drastically change both at the same time, something we have been admonished for in the past.

The 2% buff/nerf is a GREAT change in dev philosophy! Changing a value by 2% now does not mean the AR cannot be changed by another 1-2% at a later time if its not good enough.

Iterate! No more knee jerk nerfs/buffs please.

2. Don't understand the reasoning about not buffing swarms because that would affect dropships. That would be a good thing! You do realize an ADS can basically ignore swarms at present? What is the point in having specialized roles that are so much worse at their 'speciality' than non-specialized roles are at it (e.g. tanks, which threaten infantry and vehicles alike)? Note, I have no axe to grind here, I don't have a single SP into swarms.

3. This is a minor issue, but why nerf AV nade restock at nanohive? Is this really a problem at present? If infantry have time to restock multiple grenades (which is the only time the change would make any difference) then the tanker has put themselves in an awfully vulnerable position, probably getting greedy for infantry kills rolling into a tight space where they don't belong.

In all fairness, we are discussing completely eliminating the restocking of all grenades by nanohives, this is the moderated proposal. (We would keep them for supply depots)

Kind of extreme but it'd give some reason to grenades being as powerful as they are. Spammability was always a problem but not because of the sheer amount, but because Core Locus Grenades did 600 damage. They're the only grenade that will actively -kill- infantry and they do so incredibly well. I've always figured that anti-infantry grenades worked more on the aspect of shrapnel rather than high-explosives, something that dropsuits would be able to shrug off more easily.

You're talking about something that does enough damage to kill most medium frames that aren't brick tanked over a radius of 7.2 meters. Just the other day I got -eight kills- with a single grenade being tossed into a building in an ambush match. That's a lot of power to have in something that is more easily fit than most light weaponry.

For the love of everything that's holy do not touch the Gallente dampening bonus.
It is the only ******* suit that can do anything about Caldari scouts.


All you need is one Caldari scout and yay, wall hack for the entire squad!

Passive scanning means that you can see a lot of enemies.
Dampening means that you hide just yourself.

Hence dampening should be stronger because it gives you less benefit.

With the proposed change a Caldari scout will detect a Gal scout if both don't have modules on.

Taking a lot of various feedback into account, we are pulling the GA repair rate change, and improving the AR by 3%, instead of 2%

Consider the numbers in the spreadsheet in green cells to be locked and loaded for Hotfix Alpha.