I am very pleased to say that Hotfix Charlie has finally brought the assaults back to a competitive level. The ehp is now high enough that even standard assault suits can still have a great advantage over scouts and logistics.

I am currently skilled into 3 assault suits...Amarr, Minmatar, and Caldari

Of the 3, I feel that none of them have a huge advantage over the other, with each suit having its own specialty and playstyle. With the higher slot counts I went for more diversity rather than raw HP.

For instance, my Amarr uses a complex precision enhancer and a complex profile dampener, while still maintaining 800 armor and 10 armor repair. On my Minmatar I use a damage mod and an energizer, while saving one of the lows for a sprint mod.

That said, diversity is everything. Before Charlie I only had one assault fitting per suit that was "the best", and now I have different strategies based on the types of enemies I'm facing. There's just so many ways to fit an assault now that I end up trying out a new way to play the suit every time I log in...this last one was a minmatar assault hack fit: 3 extenders, 2 codebreakers, and a reactive plate with uplinks (considering swapping the reactive for a profile damp).
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I will be making a quick fitting update video again for Charlie, but I'm still not even close to being finished trying out the new possibilities for suits.

I was never really much of an assault player, but these suits are finally much more enjoyable to use.

I feel like quite the oddball... I have 30 armor/s and 438 armor on my advanced Amarr assault. Nevertheless, I love it, because I've been able to engage multiple opponents in quick succession. At other times, I can rep up enough armor to take out a heavy, if I have something to dance around (NULL cannon or a supply depot).

Though once I get electronics to 5 (only 14 mil SP on my alt), I might change it to 28 armor/s, 515 armor, and a slightly higher movement penalty.

I feel like quite the oddball... I have 30 armor/s and 438 armor on my advanced Amarr assault. Nevertheless, I love it, because I've been able to engage multiple opponents in quick succession. At other times, I can rep up enough armor to take out a heavy, if I have something to dance around (NULL cannon or a supply depot).

Though once I get electronics to 5 (only 14 mil SP on my alt), I might change it to 28 armor/s, 515 armor, and a slightly higher movement penalty.

just beware of the BURST heavys.. theyll burst hot lead all over your chest and drop you like a sack of potatos

I am loving my ultrareppy, dmg modded Gal Assault now, getting used to the short range on the Plasma Assault Rifle has been a little difficult. I haven't even touched my sentinel fits again after being able to play my Assault again.

it's even worse when you realize even if you play in your weapons ideal range other weapons with much longer ranges can do your job about the same and more.

Nevertheless, I do love my Duvolle.

Actually, I run a couple of versions, one laser rifle fit for those entrenched defender situations, and an acr fit as well. For up close and personal, I always go with the duvolle, the hipfire is lethal.

I think the number of modded SCR's is probably being overstated a tad, I haven't really noticed being killed extravagantly nor unfairly by SCR's. I get more killed by CR's and Rails, Nova Knifes and Shotguns.

Fair enough. I play a lot on the asia server, so I probably see a few more than you, since modded controllers are easier to get over there. Perhaps one day, the Dust community could get together and talk about modded controllers and ways to alleviate the problems they cause; regardless of their popularity now, they will continue to proliferate over time as players seek easy advantage over others.

I actually asked CCP Time Runner today to "acquire" a modded controller somewhere on the Shanghai black market , for testing mind you.

Ya know all weapons have a heat build per sec not per bullet. That means scrambler rifles can get more shots off before overheating as if you would just use normal tapping. I highly recommend to change the heat build up on single shot scramblers to heat build per bullet.

Doesn't fix the same issue with CR's

Doesn't fix the same issue with CR's

Surely it'd be simple enough to write a function that detects evenness in the input intervals from a typical modded controller? No human input at any speed is ever perfectly consistent.

FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT

I hate seeing "all you have to do is reduce the rate of fire on the scrambler"

No. Even if the fastest speed someone can press a button is something like 450-500/m, the time between my trigger presses can sometimes be much shorter or longer than that...which would make trying to fire the scrambler less fluid and more clunky (unless you do something like what Destiny does which just fires the weapon at max RPM no matter how fast you press the button)

Doesn't fix the same issue with CR's

I actually asked CCP Time Runner today to "acquire" a modded controller somewhere on the Shanghai black market , for testing mind you.

There should be obvious ways to detect modded controllers in the code. They exceed the button-pressing speed that humans are capable of, and their firing intervals should be perfectly spaced apart. When the code detects this pattern, it should suicide the player and boot them from the match. Easy fix and it'd silence a lot of the QQ.

what about reducing clip size?

you guys are talking about the weapon firing more shots than its supposed to because of the way the heat mechanics were implemented ( completely illogical btw)

if the issue is about the modded controller firing off too many shots and ccp doesnt want to change the heat mechanics (or cant) then why not just reduce clip size and the reduce reload time slightly?

the scrambler rifle reminds me of a M1 Garand anyways so why not just give it a 8 round clip, and possibly increase damage per shot slightly?

then you can keep the rof the same and modded controllers wont give so much of an advantage.

I am loving my ultrareppy, dmg modded Gal Assault now, getting used to the short range on the Plasma Assault Rifle has been a little difficult. I haven't even touched my sentinel fits again after being able to play my Assault again.

Actually, I run a couple of versions, one laser rifle fit for those entrenched defender situations, and an acr fit as well. For up close and personal, I always go with the duvolle, the hipfire is lethal.

I am loving my ultrareppy, dmg modded Gal Assault now, getting used to the short range on the Plasma Assault Rifle has been a little difficult. I haven't even touched my sentinel fits again after being able to play my Assault again.

I actually asked CCP Time Runner today to "acquire" a modded controller somewhere on the Shanghai black market , for testing mind you.

Doesn't fix the same issue with CR's

and yet, a modded CR or SR user would still pancake you because they can kill you without needing to strafe.