That sentence needed an Oxford comma. I.e. the officer weapons will certainly not be in the LP store.

That sentence needed an Oxford comma. I.e. the officer weapons will certainly not be in the LP store.

I swear to ******* god, make my ads weaker, ccp and i will make alts and murder battle academy players for 30 days straight.

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.

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

Incorrect. When I run squads logis hack, repair, resupply and drop links. Fatties (me) do not hack anything unless everyone is dead. He is attached to the logi like a parasitic twin playing bodyguard.

Assaults are responsible for battle revives while the logi focuses on repairs, resupply, hacking and providing a pair of backup eyes.

Its not a WP derping thing. Its like every infantryman in the military is trained with just enough first aid to keep someone alive through nonlethal injury long enough for a medic to arrive once the battle lulls a bit.

Asaukts fight, when enemy falls, assaults revive comrades (often the logi) and the logi gets to topping everyone off. Assaults and heavy provide overwatch. One assault often carries a rep tool to repair the logi.

You can't be serious.

Number of ADS (with non-careless, competent pilot) lost to-date to less than 3 proto swarms or proto swarm + FG: 0

*slow clap

Not true

Just re-reading this tread and feel strongly that the nanite injector buff should belong only to logis - with bravo and charlie they're gradually having their role eroded. Also feel that any logi should use any piece of equipment better than any other suit, irrespective of race or skill levels.

I agree Vrain. When Logis and Commandos get fully looked at, I'd like for all Logis to have buffs to all equipment, and then a larger buff to their respective one.

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.

Faster swarms with worse turning.

Longer cooldown on after burners,but it works longer too.

Can't you read?

It's being designed this way to punish hovering and reward actual skill.

Oh yes, you land lubbers have strafing to avoid bullets. Guess what we have?
We call it the afterburner. Oh, wait...
Guess what? Reality check.
Turning speed is a horrible nerf.
The missiles have 0 inertia.
Missiles keep tracking you.
They're increasing damage
Increasing range.
Increasing speed.
NOT increasing price of swarms is the real crime here.
You want my head of my python? Good. Grow a pair and spend isk.

Acceleration,not range.

You'll still be able to snipe infantry from outside their firing range with small rails.
Fly bys will save your ADS,but arrogantly hovering like you own the world will get it destroyed.

Here's the deal:
If a guy can run up to the sniper and nova knife him, I have no problem with snipers.
That means they are reachable without using some excessive amounts of force, and that means all suits can retaliate.

Dear players

Blah blah blah....

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

If you hadn't ruined my burst HMG and made the Incubus completely and hilariously obsolete, this update wouldn't be such a bad thing.


Also, if you would have done something with the god forsaken shotguns, that would have been nice.

That would be nice. I don't understand why people feel the need to "troll" all the time. REs on the uplink? Hardy har har.

Looks good though. As far as SCR goes, heat per shot instead of per sec. I would like to see a hipfire nerf across the board too. This is the only game that punishes you for aiming down sight.