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Ahkhomi Cypher
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Posted - 2014.10.31 21:56:00 -
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I love everything here except HMGs with equipment. Active Scanners with a HMG or even Rep Hives with a HMG will greatly effect the Heavy vs Med balancing. Heavy vs Light will still be situational but with HMGs needling other HMGs things are gonna get crazy.
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Ahkhomi Cypher
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Posted - 2014.10.31 23:05:00 -
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Pokey Dravon wrote:
That's a fair point, I'm not entirely set on the whole Heavy + Equipment concept, though I do have to insist on the 2 equipment for Mediums.
Yeah i actually like Med frames with 2 equipment slots. This change will give players the chance to do light logi work as you said.
One thing I'd like to ask you is do you intend for Basic Frames to be a stepping stone to the specialized suits OR are they gonna be on equal ground as the specialized suits just not geared towards a certain task. If that makes any sense. The way it is now the med frames are split between assaults and logis and the basic frames are garbage. With a Basic frame buff they can actually be viewed as separate viable suits which would kinda fit in with how Dust treats weapons already.
Lets pretend the AR and its variants are all balanced and stuff.
The AR (basic frame) is good but sometimes a breach (assault suit) would be better for what your trying to do. Sometimes a Tac AR (logi) is better for your current situation but all three guns are "good".
Or is the basic frame really meant to be a learning suit that is eventually abandoned for a specialized suit.
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Ahkhomi Cypher
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Posted - 2014.11.01 22:46:00 -
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Pokey Dravon wrote:Skullmiser Vulcansu wrote:Don't Caldari and Amarr Logistics suits both have only two equipment slots at the basic level? So specializing in this case will cause a decrease in health and speed, and possibly fitting capabilities(Amarr and Caldari Logistics have reduced PG and CPU respectively). The only thing Logistics suits would have that is better is scanning precision, and in that case you might as well use Light frames. The point is more so that you can't really try out the Logistics role properly with a single equipment. New players need at least 2 so they can get a taste for that role. And besides, All Proto Logistics have 3-4 equipment slots anyways, so it's still more than the frames.
One fix I'd suggest for your proposal Pokey would be to not give basic frames a equipment reduction bonus but still give them a second equipment slot. That way new players can experiment with being a logi but without a fitting reduction they cant really run the good stuff. They'll NEED to skill logi to be able to do that. It also fixes (kinda) the problem of basic frames having the same amount of equipment slots as Amarr/Caldari logis because logis get a fitting reduction and equipment bonuses, basic frames wont. It'll also tone down a couple "slayer logi" fits that WILL be made.
Just as a fyi tho.
Proto Minmatar would have
5 highs 2 lows 2 WEAPONS 1 grenade 2 equipment and innate reps again.
I think that suit with any meaningful fitting reduction is gonna be disgusting as will the other racial basic frames.
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