Dear players,

the final numbers have gone into QA testing and eventual deployment. As per usual, a Devblog will be posted after the hotfix has been successfully deployed.

You can find them here: Hotfix Charlie - Final Numbers
For those that have been following the Hotfix Charlie discussions and thread, there should be no surprises.

Thanks everyone for your feedback and your enthusiasm

Feel free to discuss Hotfix Charlie here, in a constructive and polite manner

Just Assault and Sentinels. Not even saying "for now", because that implies that the rest will happen. Maybe, if we think it's the right way to go, but that's a discussion for another time.

Explain...

Yep. That explains it. But why does the overheat go down by advancing tiers? Just a question

The 2 low slots will come in handy when im gonna put 2 complex regulators on. Puts the regular recharge delay from 4 secs down to something like 1.5 secs. And the depleted delay will be 0.5

So you're still buffing Pythons and simultaneously nerfing swarms? This a bad idea, Rattati. Very bad.

And you aren't actually changing the Logi slots? Such a shame. I was really looking forward to that extra low slot.

Doing some of it now, though I won't be able to update ALL item variants till we get a new SDE.

Of all the weapons to tweak, you chose the assault scrambler?? Arguably the most balanced rifle in the game and you nerf it?


Ok.........seems to me people need to get their priorities straight...(yes, I'm pointing to you combat rifle...) >.>

With one and two low slots at basic and advanced , you will be happy and thankful about the armor buff and the shield changes , more shields add them .

Have you tried shooting an armor heavy? It's not op......it does 80% to armor.....over half the people I fight wear armor based suits. And I have overheated in my commando so don't know where you got your info from

Does it need to overheat? It gets outclassed by many rifles.

Better hip fire huh? Dispersion says otherwise....I've used an AR and AR has better hipfire

I am pretty pessimistic about this update. Alpha and Bravo were marked by bringing very conservative changes to things that were obviously imbalanced. Charlie is making very aggressive changes to things that are not clearly imbalanced but in need of tweaking. Page by page.

Assaults Dropsuit changes-needed and seems to be in line with what is needed.

Sentinel Dropsuit-WTF? dropping CPU and PG by 40 or 50% is drastic. Yes, they needed to be nerfed in fitting ability but only a 15% change or so was called for.

Scout suits- IDK, the subtleties of ewar I will leave to others, what is clear is that the suit most in need of change, the Min suit, with the easiest change to make, adding PG, was left out in the cold, establishing it clearly as the worst scout suit in the game.

Various-Seems OK to me.

Vehicles-Increasing shields by 500? Why? Bad idea that will haunt us all. Increased recall time is a small improvement. Entry/exit time is more important but we have gone over that as not being fixable.

Slot layout- IDK

Dropsuit eHP-Looks fine to me

Weapons-Like the changes to 4 missiles and leveling of the tiers but the nerf to proto was completely unnecessary, it makes proto pretty much pointless. HMG changes, well, we'll see. I like the approach.

Turrets-Seems Ok.

Modules-I think the greater difference in tier for damage mods was needed. Why not Heavy Damage Mods though?

Turrets-Yes, and something I have long advocated. HP on installations seems excessive to me though, but after clamoring for this change since I started the game I don't feel I can criticize it.

My personal opinion on this is that you seem to have a grudge against me personally this update. I am pretty close to a dedicated AV guy. My forge suit will be much harder to fit now and I don't know if I can make it both effective and survivable. My nemesis, the Python, will be made 500 shield points harder to kill, while I find them near impossible to kill already. My swarm suit will be getting a significant nerf as well. While I have spent a lot of time and SP investing on going AV, anyone willing to go to ADV swarms will now essentially be as effective as I am. While I approve of the turrets, they will now also be competing with me for AV points, so there will be much less incentive for me to run AV and be killable by everyone else on the field. In short, this update seems poised to hurt the only playstyle I truly enjoy.

Count again. 5 slots each on sentismell as always. They swapped amarr and gallente layouts and matched caldari with minmatar at 3/2 at prototype.

Its dumb. The caldari should keep 4/1

Wow

I never thought I'd see the day that my poor Min Scout that has been largely poked at and made fun of will suddenly be a fit everyone wants to try. Even if its only to knife a tank to death.

Not sure how I feel about that...

We want to see how Ambush OMS works with new installations, it should be quite different and hopefully more fun. We will poll the community a few weeks into Charlie and see what you guys think

Why increase militia items and decrease prototype items ...? And not lower SP cost ?

Looks at Swarm Launchers and HMGs.

OK

I'm waiting Charlie.

friday? or tuesday?

JUST waiting Charlie.

come on Charlie.

http://www.chara-net.com/images-item-big/page-8342.jpg

What you are not going to change it to a 3-2 layout on proto? God damnit and there i was saving SP for regulators and hoping for a quick recharging shield heavy. I really wanted that 1.6 recharge delay and 0.5 depleted. Ah well there goes my hope and im not gonna us a regulator on my caldari sentinel.

With Charlie HF, CalSent will be PG and cpu poor.

sorry

I know Logibro is very excited about Nova Knife fitting optimizations

this is a pretty good idea actually. It's now on the list.