As if sniping wasn't a niche role already.

Off the top of my head..

Scale increased damage percentage to reduced range percentage.

(i.e. reduce the range to 450m 25% reduction, for an increased 25% damage)

This might be okay, if you INSIST on nerfing the range.

Getting a bit carried away there, sorry. I'll talk to some people and submit something.

*sigh*

I really liked my "Rusty Spear" and now you're trying to give me a "Sharp Shortsword" whilst labeling it a "Spear"

As if sniping wasn't a niche role already.

Off the top of my head..

Scale increased damage percentage to reduced range percentage.

(i.e. reduce the range to 450m 25% reduction, for an increased 25% damage)

This might be okay, if you INSIST on nerfing the range.

Reduce it to 300m. That way the weapon is within reach of other infantry weapons. Increase base damage. But it doesnt need to be an iwin butan that always does 1200 damage per headshot.

Being able to drop 800 (at proto)damage on a headshot would be incredibly good without being a guaranteed OHK alpha shot

Dear players

we are ready to share our narrative for Hotfix Delta. As usual, some, all or none of these changes may end up being deployed when the Hotfix is ready. I also want to share that we are very happy with the new CPM and that we are starting to gel as a team that wants only the best for DUST 514. Lots of positive interaction and discussions in the last few weeks.

These are the high level gameplay features we want to look at for Delta.

Weapons
Sidearms - rebalance in a similar way as rifles were, ranges, requirements and damage, mainly through buffing and tuning existing weapon behaviour (reducing ion seize, ROF on scrambler, flaylock power and blast radius, to name a few ideas)

Add all Miltia Sidearms and Miltia HMG to Market

Snipers - We simply cannot have snipers so far away in the redzone they cannot be touched, while also being immune to countersniping. However, we also want to improve the Improved headshot damage, decreased range, improved damage. We have been studying Domination maps, and some of the farthest redline sniper spots that can camp the Objective to get a good gauge of the situation. There cannot be a risk free way of playing the game, for each role there must be a counter.

Plasma Cannon - increased projectile speed

Swarms - efficiency against assault dropships needs to be improved fairly, there are a few ways (increased speed, nerf afterburners, increased lock on timers, probably not lock on range nor damage). We will buff normal dropship ehp to make up for their shortcomings.

Rifles - tweaks to Scrambler, Assault Scrambler and Assault Rifles (plasma)

Assault HMG buffed, burst HMG needs a slight tune down

Dropsuits
Minmatar dropsuits - small ehp buff across the board

Standard and Breach Forgegun and Railgun Turret splash radius reduced or removed. Blast stays on Assault Forge Guns. Holding a charge with a splash makes sniping in many cases redundant, and the Forge is primarily AV.

Turrets
Small Rail ROF reduced

Large Blaster splash reduced

Small Blaster splash increased, maybe range increase

Vehicles
HAV inertia increased so switching from forward to backward movement is more realistic, and reduce fuel injector boost to speed.

Shield based HAV and DS buffed ehp, Gunnlogi and Myron

Other
Damage profiles - Projectiles (Combat Rifles, etc) to -15%, 15%, or -20/+20 from -5%, +10%, plus fixing turret damage profiles to match intended design

NPE - all Frontline starter suits will have racial pistols, snipers smg's, and others magsecs, academy length increased, all new players injected with dropsuit upgrades skills (shield armor and core). Granting these skills coupled with militia sidearms and hmg allows us to reduce starting ISK to 25K

Shield Modules - 15% or so CPU reduction of Energizers, Regulators and Rechargers

Nanite Injectors - heal same amount of shields as armor, yes quite a buff

Nova Knife optimization skill added

Add new Officer Light Weapons as well as key missing FW items to the LP Store


Most of these issues have been mentioned and discussed on the forums, discovered through data or raised by the CPM.

Let's have a courteous and constructive dialogue and detailed threads will be hitting shortly.

CCP Rattati..you can't buff swarms so that they can be effective vs ADS AND buff ADS as at the same time.

You have to take in account how difficult it is to destroy an ADS and how easy it is for them to stay alive. Couple that with being practical when thinking of trying to win matches.

They destroy you before you could lock on your swarms. You bring out a tank and they fly over your back and destroy you. There is no counter. You have to wait and hope for them to be careless and you have to hit hem twice. Because one hit and they activate their burners and they are out of there.

Reduce it to 300m.

Make the breach flaylock pistol have 50% efficacy against infantry and 200% efficacy against vehicles.

If that was the case every dropship would be shot down when they are seen the first time. The best fitting with shield extenders of a python is 1 heavy complex shield extender, 1 light complex shield extender, and an afterburner on the high slots. Python players use heavy shields to be able to take damage and engage vehicles and ground forces. If you are pulling off this fit you have roughly 3100 shield extenders, and something around 900 armor. This still goes back that arial vehicles need their own modules, turrets, and rework on the PG/CPU numbers spent. I would like to also remind you that HAV's have more slot fitting available compared to a dropship, so they can fit hardeners, repairers, and shield boosters. CCP should just set dropships aside for another hotfix, if dust even makes it that far, but Legion will need these fixes for sure. There will always be issues with dropships and any other arial vehicle in dust if these type of vehicles are not given the same type of customization as HAV's have with Large Turrets, and the modules they can only fit.

One question CCP on sniper rifles, how will you balance the risk v. Reward of sniper rifles I.e isk risked vs isk destroyed. For example an prototype ewar scout, which can cost over 150k and have less than 400 hp getting one shotted vs a militia sniper suit. This should be taken into account.

Depending on how you buff sniper rifles you might also increase the prevelance of brick tanks and dual tanks.

Why the hell are you projectile bandwagoners insistent that the projectile should not be dropped back vs. Shields?

Is it because you object to using any other rifles and you just want omni-efficiency?

Seriously. -15/+15 or -20/+20 puts a weapon profile that can efficiently chop up the armor tank hp buffer.

Because so many people utilize the CR over any other weapons shields have no advantage over any damage profile. Period.

Its not a nerf. Its not a buff. Its a neutral change.

Dear players

we are ready to share our narrative for Hotfix Delta. As usual, some, all or none of these changes may end up being deployed when the Hotfix is ready. I also want to share that we are very happy with the new CPM and that we are starting to gel as a team that wants only the best for DUST 514. Lots of positive interaction and discussions in the last few weeks.

These are the high level gameplay features we want to look at for Delta.

Weapons
Sidearms - rebalance in a similar way as rifles were, ranges, requirements and damage, mainly through buffing and tuning existing weapon behaviour (reducing ion seize, ROF on scrambler, flaylock power and blast radius, to name a few ideas)

Add all Miltia Sidearms and Miltia HMG to Market

Snipers - We simply cannot have snipers so far away in the redzone they cannot be touched, while also being immune to countersniping. However, we also want to improve the Improved headshot damage, decreased range, improved damage. We have been studying Domination maps, and some of the farthest redline sniper spots that can camp the Objective to get a good gauge of the situation. There cannot be a risk free way of playing the game, for each role there must be a counter.

Plasma Cannon - increased projectile speed

Swarms - efficiency against assault dropships needs to be improved fairly, there are a few ways (increased speed, nerf afterburners, increased lock on timers, probably not lock on range nor damage). We will buff normal dropship ehp to make up for their shortcomings.

Rifles - tweaks to Scrambler, Assault Scrambler and Assault Rifles (plasma)

Assault HMG buffed, burst HMG needs a slight tune down

Dropsuits
Minmatar dropsuits - small ehp buff across the board

Standard and Breach Forgegun and Railgun Turret splash radius reduced or removed. Blast stays on Assault Forge Guns. Holding a charge with a splash makes sniping in many cases redundant, and the Forge is primarily AV.

Turrets
Small Rail ROF reduced

Large Blaster splash reduced

Small Blaster splash increased, maybe range increase

Vehicles
HAV inertia increased so switching from forward to backward movement is more realistic, and reduce fuel injector boost to speed.

Shield based HAV and DS buffed ehp, Gunnlogi and Myron

Other
Damage profiles - Projectiles (Combat Rifles, etc) to -15%, 15%, or -20/+20 from -5%, +10%, plus fixing turret damage profiles to match intended design

NPE - all Frontline starter suits will have racial pistols, snipers smg's, and others magsecs, academy length increased, all new players injected with dropsuit upgrades skills (shield armor and core). Granting these skills coupled with militia sidearms and hmg allows us to reduce starting ISK to 25K

Shield Modules - 15% or so CPU reduction of Energizers, Regulators and Rechargers

Nanite Injectors - heal same amount of shields as armor, yes quite a buff

Nova Knife optimization skill added

Add new Officer Light Weapons as well as key missing FW items to the LP Store


Most of these issues have been mentioned and discussed on the forums, discovered through data or raised by the CPM.

Let's have a courteous and constructive dialogue and detailed threads will be hitting shortly.

Please be careful with the scr as i have tried it at std and without damage mods and its not that great vs armour but with damage mods and proto, its a beast.

Please be careful as proto scr and damage mods are blurring lines i believe.

Use any weapon in the game with 3 complex damage mods and prof 3+, it will own even vs its efficacy weakness.

Everything here looks great :-)

Two quick questions ...

1) In light of shotgun overperformance statistics, if we came up with an "easy" fix for the fire-from-cloak problem, might we be able to squeeze it into Delta?

2) If the V/AV changes outlined above are implemented, might we hold off on yanking vehicles from OMS until we've had opportunity to reevaluate?

@ CPM1 :: High Five ::

can you kill multiple targets in one shot with a sniper?

CCP Rattati . . .