You left this game for Destiny. How did you win anything?

*tries to pretend he doesn't fervently hope this is a sign his old ADS buddy will be back for more awesome adventures*

RE?

it wasnt neutered it had its Godmode ultimate-slayer-killer of anything moveing.. Title revoked.

This is the first time in the game's history we've legitimately had any attempt at AV vs. Vehicle balance.

But thats not true. He has used high usage percentage as a starting point for investigating possible overpoweredness, but I'd like you to prove that hes using people using **** alot and just saying WELP LETS NERF IT.

Saying "Oh thats funny, the rail rifle is being used like 30% of the time which is way more than any other rifle, lets look at the kill rate of the weapon compared to other rifles and other data and see if its outperforming everything else" is way different to just saying "Oh thats funny, the rail rifle is being used like 30% of the time, lets nerf it now without even investigating".

I think Bright Cloud is exaggerating at the scale at which people will get respec's but Cloud is still correct in that a substantial amount of people are likely to switch their skill points into the best rated gear for the moment.

Yes, you won. But they went with my idea :)

True balance is able to be achieved through constant monitoring of data and tweaking the game as needed. It's going to upset players who get comfortable with certain play styles (ADS, RR) then have that play style changed. If they are adults they will accept it as a necessary part of keeping the game healthy; they will either adapt to the balance or switch to a different fitting.

Judge makes posts about the ADS because he got all warm and cozy in his 50 K/D genocide chariot, CCP discovered the overperformance of the ADS, and nerfed it accordingly. His play style has been disrupted. People don't like change. That has nothing to do with balance. It's just human nature.

Important note: no, Dust being healthy isn't an opinion. CCP Rouge, "WeGÇÿre very happy to see that our player base remains both stable and active. In fact, we are currently seeing the highest engagement numbers in over a year, averaging around 300.000 Monthly Active (unique) Users over the last few months" Quoted from this devblog. Anecdotally, I squad with new mercs more often now and members of my own corporation are returning to Dust after all of the hotfixes. Someone I thought would NEVER return to Dust, if coming back after hearing about 1.9.

Hell, even the forum feels a bit more active since the hotfixes.

It's role it armed troop transport and mCRU mule. 1.9 is finally providing WP for mCRU spawns. That is the ADS role, not being able to destroy a third of the opposing team with impunity...

I don't see the point of respecs, I feel money would be more well spent on boosters.

Being able to earn close to 1mil sp a week unboosted means that it would take just over two weeks to get a suit from zero to proto. Give it a month and you can have a completely new prototype fit. This is before you factor in boosters, which can bring that sp per week up by 375k to 2.25mil. (One normal booster to three stacked omegas)

But if you want to throw your money at CCP go right ahead, that just means we have a higher change of getting more content filled updates.

Fair enough, but I feel like your sp is never truly wasted, as at one point or another you will pull out the things you thought you would never use.

But if you are not really playing the game, then I understand if you don't feel like grinding out the sp when you can just make a transaction and have millions of sp freed up.

They have won the right to endlessly respec in their dirt empire that is called Dust 514...however do not expect that to happen in Legion.