I'm starting to laugh at all the cal scouts that die when they run into me now.

Someone complained to me today about not having the precision bonus anymore...when I explained that it was because caldari scouts don't need to use anything in their high slots aside from extenders they said:

"That's stupid. I like having my caldari scout with 400 shields."
"Well you can still do that if you want to fight against heavies and other suits that you can already see. But if you want to have a chance against dampened scouts and assaults you now have to sacrifice tank to do so"

My burst HMG is also super effective against caldari scouts.

I'm starting to laugh at all the cal scouts that die when they run into me now.

Someone complained to me today about not having the precision bonus anymore...when I explained that it was because caldari scouts don't need to use anything in their high slots aside from extenders they said:

"That's stupid. I like having my caldari scout with 400 shields."
"Well you can still do that if you want to fight against heavies and other suits that you can already see. But if you want to have a chance against dampened scouts and assaults you now have to sacrifice tank to do so"

My burst HMG is also super effective against caldari scouts.

What ccp has done to cal sent is ridiculous. I have maxed pg cpu and even maxed core upgrade to get as much as i can out of every suit.
My fitting choices are very very limited on a c1 dropsuit now. I can imagine it scales up from standard to proto. However on my c1 suit i cant use my blueprints. There just is not enough cpu / pg on the suit to even entertain the idea of using a bp.
If i want to use 3 shield extenders i use 3 standard shield reg. I cant fit anything better than standard. I can fit snandard everything on the suit and thats it not advanced not militia.
I also cant fit a forgegun on said suit. To do that i need to either get rid of sidearm and grenafde LOL or fit the hi slots will all regulators or leave empty.

So yea the cal sentinals have been boned pretty good on this one. Also simply on a numbers standpoint it is now the lowest of ALL dropsuits in pg / cpu. Even my lousy dragonfly scout bpo has better cpu and pg.

Maybe the entire community is as naive as you.

You don't have max fitting skills if you dont have heavy/light weapon operations at level 5 since it lowers cpu cost of heavy/light weapons and if you don't have the weapon fitting opti skills to lower pg costs of weapons.

When you get those then you can cry that cpu/pg is to low, but then again CCP DOES NOT want people to be able fit proto everything on your suit. They want you to have to sacrifice some thing to get the proto stuff you want.

No SIR my decision was made in one day, i woke up early that morning excited for 1.8, and started my research and finshed about 4 hrs later.

MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE TIRED OF CCPS INEPT BALANCING THAT CREATES FOTM IN THE FIRST PLACE INSTEAD??????

You obviously did not read what i wrote. Please come back and try again.
Also HMG fitting optimization is % based and a very low number. for a standard gear HMG it reduces 1 whole pg.

And in that 4 hours Cal Scout was already FoTM because everyone who is awake for when servers come back up after down times already had their Cal Scouts. So like i said you just followed behind everyone else.

It's not inept balancing, it's balancing for two different scenarios. You've got pubs where vehicles will never be balanced and you've got PC where even the most OP vehicles were countered.

I'm not aware of another FPS with so many different weapons and suits along with the array of fitting options. That isn't an easy balancing task. CCP should have given solo players ambush and the rest of the game should have been squad/team based. Balancing for team play would have been easier.

But I also think respecs should come more often. With quick hot fixes they can keep "FOTM" from being too strong.

But what is FOTM right now? Assaults, CR, Gal Scout, NK, Amarr Heavy, Burst HMG, ADS, or what?

In 2 years of playing you are at a point where the balancing doesn't affect you all that much. But I'd like to keep the newer players that are actually participating in matches around. If they drastically change a bunch of stuff give the trees of those suits/weapons/mods back and let propel skill back into it or something else.

hmm?.....so i'm condemned for making an informed decision on what suit to choose that suits my playstyle.

At the start of 1.8 i chose cal scout because I knew cloaking/dampening would be a pain in the arse due to the active scanner "fixes" and to ensure I was making the right choice I took the time to read the description, compare slot layouts/bonus to other scouts, make many experimental fits on protofits, ask my corpmates their opinion, invest it to lvl 1 to run the experimental fits^(that i made on protofits) and then liking how it felt skilled to lvl 5.

and you have the audacity to call me fotm chaser!!!!!

I'M ONE OF THE ONES THAT MADE IT BECOME FOTM, IT'S ALL YOU DAMN SCRUBS THAT CAME RUNNING FROM THE GALLENTE SCOUT NERF THAT ARE THE FOTM CHASERS!!!!

so mad i about shlt my dropsuit

Didn't you people learn by now that if something seems to good to be true that it will get changed as soon as posible?

Ok and max pg/cpu and core passives are not max fitting skills, I see you didn't bother to read what i wrote either.

Have you ever read the light weapon operations or heavy weapon operations skills? It lowers cpu of all weapons in that skill sections, and weapon fitting opti skills lower pg of that weapon.

So having to repeat myself Ill say it again, WHEN YOU HAVE ALL FITTING SKILLS MAXED OUT AND YOU CAN'T FIR STUFF THEN CRY ABOUT CPU/PG NOT BEING ENOUGH. UNTIL THEN STOP CRYING THAT YOUR SUIT CAN'T FIT STUFF. You have 3 out of 5 fitting skills maxed out but your not done becaue you still need 2 out of 5 skills.

I'm quite amused that you assume people to recognize and not spec into 'to-good-to-be-true'-stuff, while it's OK for CCP to release an update with 'to-good-to-be-true'-stuff? HELL, this game could even be better of thanks to "FOTM-chasers" so this game could be balanced more quickly.

All real logic got thrown out of the window, just so the OP could cry and whine about "FOTM-users" whining and crying.

This thread is stupid as ****.

Clearly you have a reading comprehension issue with the skill tree.
the ONLY skill that reduced cpu and pg of a weapon are the ones that are specific to that weapon. Go ahaid look it up. Also its % based and here is a shocker. I found my math incorrect. HMG fitting opt at lvl 5 will give me a whopping 2 more pg. OPEN YOUR BLOODY EYES! I at least hope when ccp shoves a pipe up the cornhole of the fitting you use i will be there to squirt some lemon in the hole.
You act as though i am talking about using a proto hmg on a basic suit but had you have read my original statement you might have picked up that i am talking about not even being able to fit 3 shield extenders ( you know what caldari are actually supposed to be good at ) with really anything other than basic gear. I also cant fit a forge gun on said fitting.
The suit is so **** poor low on pg / cpu that i cant fit 3 shield extenders a sidearm a grenade and a forgegun. Not even with max forge gun fitting opt.
Take a look yourself at protofits.com if you dont believe me.

Maybe your the naive one if you think your correct and everyone else wrong. Maybe you should find your way out of Dust and leave it to the people that can wear their big boy pants.

Lately all i see on the forums is the FoTM chasers crying and whining about there suits.

"They ruined my cal scout so now i need a respec"
"I don't have max fitting skills and i can't fit all proto on my suit, it need a pg/cpu buff"
Etc, etc, etc............

Didn't you people learn by now that if something seems to good to be true that it will get changed as soon as posible?
If you did then why the hell are you still going into the new FoTM instead of learning to use what you got.

Do you people know how many times i hear FoTM chasers cry and whine that they can't fit stuff because they wasted sp on the FoTM and now can't upgrade any fiotting skills, so when the FoTM changes they are whine and cry and b!tch that they need or deserve a respec because the suit or weapon they are using got change and its not the way it was before, and they want to spec into the new FoTM.

All I really have to say is CCP stop caving to the scrubs and changing things and giving respecs so they can chase the next FoTM, you are the devs, not the players and you should decide what happens and what does not happen towards development in the game. You had a diamond of a game and by listening to the scrubs whine and cry you have turned into a lump of coal.

K/D(r) matchmaking fixes this.

This was old two months ago.

What ccp has done to cal sent is ridiculous. I have maxed pg cpu and even maxed core upgrade to get as much as i can out of every suit.
My fitting choices are very very limited on a c1 dropsuit now. I can imagine it scales up from standard to proto. However on my c1 suit i cant use my blueprints. There just is not enough cpu / pg on the suit to even entertain the idea of using a bp.
If i want to use 3 shield extenders i use 3 standard shield reg. I cant fit anything better than standard. I can fit snandard everything on the suit and thats it not advanced not militia.
I also cant fit a forgegun on said suit. To do that i need to either get rid of sidearm and grenafde LOL or fit the hi slots will all regulators or leave empty.

So yea the cal sentinals have been boned pretty good on this one. Also simply on a numbers standpoint it is now the lowest of ALL dropsuits in pg / cpu. Even my lousy dragonfly scout bpo has better cpu and pg.

Your meme isn't going to catch on, give it up already.

Lol, quality corp name.

This was old two months ago.

Lol, quality corp name.

Why think you. It was either that or 'Scrub Corp', I compromised and went with Eurotrash Pubstars with SKRBZ as the ticker

Maybe you mean you're. Maybe an entire community can be wrong(Mike Brown). Maybe if you had a **** you could pee standing up.