Racro 01 Arifistan
501st Knights of Leanbox
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Posted - 2014.11.18 12:29:00 -
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i have used the gall assault suit since it was first released and had the usless shield recharge bonus and the decent weapon reduction fitting. now it has what i believe to be the better assault suit bonus's. the reduction to kick/dispersion is quite helpful to the AR as well as the ion pistol.
recently i have experimented with the shotgun and it is quite fun. not only does the gall assault bonus apply to just the rifle/pistol. but the shotgun and plasma cannon. these are still hybrid-plasma weapons.
so we have a bonused rifle, pistol. the AR and ion pisitol are deavasting cqc-mid range weapons
now with the shotgun, the reduced dispersion allows more pellets to land on the targets, the reduced kick makes follow up shots easier to maintain and more overall damge is applied to the target and is quicker at killing than the SG being on a scout. ( i have a cloaked assault suit with creo shotty and surprised a proto amarr logi with full shield/armour and slagged him in 1 shot. he wasn't too happy after that 
then we have the PLC. boy is this fun. this is really only good on the assault suit. yes it can work with mandos, particually the gal mando for even more damge. but the sheer cpu cost of the plc isn't really worth using on the gall mando. the scout with plc runs the risk of killing himself with splash damage( experience even with brick tank) and it draws so much cpu form the scout its still painful to fit. on the sentinel its pointless, again cpu draw. ON the assault however its just right as an av weapon. the reduction to weapony makes it viable and the assault bonus reduces its kick allowing for better arc's towards targets and better cqc usability.
so here we have 4 weapons all that benifit from the current gall assault bonus. now we could change the gall assault to a damage bonus. BUT then we'd have ridiculously strong AR's, shotguns, plc, ion pistol but wait.....the commando already has a damge bonus so that's out of the equation. we could change the bonus to rate of fire increase. again we'd have stupidly fast firing breach AR's, shotguns and ion pistols. we don't want that. the gall assault would become to powerful. this would also hurt the PLC as it only gets 1 shot. any increase to range would make all the weapons far to strong. do you want to be killed by shotgunning gall assaults from say 20-30m? no. ion pistol charged shots at 40-50m? no. all ar varients would be too stong. the PLC would be able to hit vehciles on RDV's from the other end of the map (if you can angle it right). the only way to keep the gall assault balanced is for it to retain its current bonus's. not only that. but why should assault suit bonus's ONLY favour the rifles? cant its bonus AFFECT ALL OF THAT RACES WEAPONS?. not only the rifle. this allows the assault suit to be versatile and effective with any of the respective weapons from that race. so.
if the gall assault bonus was usless then why does it affect all 4 of the gallentes weapons?
the swarm launcher is caldarian so why isint it affected by the re-load bonus? because its not a hybrid-rail weapon its a missile weapon sowhy not add a swarm luancher bonus to the caldari assault?
also. why isn't the mass driver/flaylock pistol not affected by the minmattar assault bonus of larger clip's?
the amarr assault is in a good spot. increasing the fire time of laser/scrambler rifles. but nothing for the scrambler pistol. maybe if this had a heat mechanic? (looking at you breach scrambler pistol)
so heres a question? why should assault suit bonus's only favour rifles? it'd be better/give players an incentive to use them more if that races assault improves the effectiveness of their weapons. the other non-rifle weapons should have incentives to be used.
anyway. i say leave the gall assault bonus as is. it improves all 4 of the gallentes weapons. this gives reason to use all of them for their situations. be warned. changing the gall assault bonus will either make it too strong or broken/op with its weapon of choice.
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