5. no,AR, it's a normal medic weapon
6. pretty good idea actually, one for another Hotfix.

The decision was mine and mine alone, a 50% increase in DPS is unprecedented progression of damage in the game, and makes it impossible to balance.

I decided to rip the band aid off and we don't need a full named hotfix to inject one or two remedies afterwards.

And just to iterate, based on all data and experience, the ADS is far too powerful. It is a huge force multiplier and it does everything well, it transports infantry and uplinks. decimates infantry and vehicles, intercepts RDVs and vehicle delivery, avoids swarms with ease. The only counter is a mass team shift to AV, and forges, and by then the rest of the ADS team has gone full anti-infantry. Even if you, by some off chance, take it down, the pilot ejects, runs behind a hill and calls in another one.

I see that the discussion has swayed from, "it's not OP", to "we all knew and admitted it was OP but this is too much".

We will monitor the situation, and if ADS performance stats plummet below an acceptable threshold, our response will be immediate, not based on a hotfix schedule. For now, let's see what happens. Don't forget that Turret damage profiles have also changed in Delta.

I am going to quickly just say that, ABs having 35-45sec recharge actually makes sense considering that they have had a 10 second delay while the fuel injector has almost always had a 30second delay. So, seeing the AB is the aerial Version the of Fuel injector. It makes sense to have them be similar in delay.
Also The drop in the rate of fire on ADS is not going to kill it, You still will be firing fast, and your after burner will let you fly away like a coward instead of just evading my swarms (seeing they wont be able to turn as sharp after delta). You are just going to have to hide out and sit all the way in your red line for awhile because you aren't a good enough pilot to just dodge the swarms and rather just wait for your AB's to recharge.

Read the notes for Hot fix delta, They are reducing the turn speed on swarms, meaning you can actually dodge them now

A few questions and comments from me:

-Plasma Cannon
As an avid user of it (proficiency 5 fitting optimization 5), I'm cautiously optimistic, though I'm not sure how it'll perform now. I feel like I'll have to relearn how to use it.