For the remotes (it was about time), can't you make them sticky like for AV grenades ? When you throw an AV, there is an area when it can still hit the tank. Apply the same thing. For the short time a remote is -½-áin the air-á-+, make it be attracted by a vehicle in a specified range. If the remote touch the ground, then it stays on the ground.
But of course delete the distance when you can throw equipment. When I want to put an uplink (or any equipment) on the ground, I don't really wan't to play freesbee with red guys in PC...

As for vehicles, well IGÇÖve been asking and posting for a so long time that I think my eyes are fooling me .

1 Armor HP < 1 Shield HP

Ours doesn't regenerate nearly as fast buddy, and it doesn't get 1100 DPS from HMG's.
Your regen is free and powerful, you can supplement it with one energizer and one regulator and you're already far beyond anything an armor tanker can dream of, with only a small delay.

New Packed Remote Explosive
STD/ADV/PRO:
Current Damage: 1250/1500/1750
DMG +30%
Activation Time: 3/3/3
Radius 0.1
Same PG/CPU

Dunno what you mean by this.

Current Remote Explosives
STD/ADV/PRO:
Activation 5/5/5

See above

Armor Plates
STD/ADV/PRO from 85/110/135 to 60/80/100
Strafe speed penalty of regular plates doubled on scouts

Weren't armor plates buffed because armor tanking wasn't good enough?

Rifles

Assault Rifle
Clip to 70 from 60, same clip to ammo ratio

Is this going to affect the officer rifles?

Various
Increased Warbarge time to X from Y minutes for squadbuilding

Is this in pubs? We used to have 30 seconds or so, but then that got taken away in favor of immediate deployment.

Adding all racial frames and tiers to Loyalty Store

No offense, should've been done a while ago, man.

Vehicles
Reduced Small Blaster Dispersion
Transport WP for LAV's
Larger Supply Depot Radius
Vehicle plate speed penalty discrepancy

Vehicle plate speed penalty discrepancy? What?

Community proposed stats requested:
GA LLAV
CA LLAV
Anti Infantry Small Missiles
Anti Vehicle Small Missiles
Sagaris
Surya
Modules

Well, with all of this... This will likely take some time. Like with what IWS is working on, will all this in Echo be in conjunction with what he's working on? If so, that needs to be fully fleshed out before working on the rest of the stuff.

Since you didn't mention the Logi DS, I'm guessing it will come later on.

AI small missiles - decrease the damage 50% - 60%, increase the fire rate by 40% - 50%, increase the splash zone by .5 to 1 meter.

AV small missiles - we already have them. There's no change necessary. Sir Snugglz can already wreck any tank I bring out, because he gets directly over it and hammers away.

Sagaris/Surya - as I've said before, when I think of the word 'marauder', I think of pirates. Pirates didn't hold back and defend anything, they went out, took what they wanted, didn't care who they killed, then left for other treasures. The Marauders in here should be the offensive tanks, not the defensive ones.

I'm a proponent of increasing the slot layout of the STD tanks, and these would obviously have one more hi and lo slot than their STD counterparts for shield and armor. Gunnlogi/Madrugar should be 4/2 and 2/4, while the Marauders should be 5/3 and 3/5. Keeping with infantry, base HP will remain the same, whereas CPU and PG need to be increased quite a bit.

Siege modules should actively increase turret damage. This shouldn't be on top of the current active damage mods. In fact, if my proposed siege module should be used, the active damage mods shouldn't stack on top. That's absolutely insane damage to dish out from just one railgun shot. The siege module could be at least 3% per level, though since it's an ADV tank, the module should increase damage output by 5% per level. Obviously, racial Marauder Operation would go towards the siege module. Maybe increase rate of fire for the racial turrets? The blaster would need a not-so-small bonus to rate of fire to make up for it being close quarters, vs 250m for the large missile and 300m for the railgun. This SHOULD NOT increase heat buildup. If that were to happen, the module would be counterproductive, and nobody would actually use it. I'd only be able to fire one rail round before it would overheat, and that one rail round would make it overheat.

Armor needs some passive resistance, as literally the only AV weapon/turret geared towards shield is the plasma cannon. Or is it also blaster? I don't play EVE, so I'm not up and up on all of the lore. But still, there's the forge, swarm and AV grenade that get great bonus damage against armor, so I don't think 2% per level passive resistance is an unfair thing to ask for.

Sadly, a fire rate buff is needed to make the turrets viable again. Missile could use a nerf to base speed; attach one to a Sagaris and it'll be something to be feared.

Modules - we're missing so much that it's actually sad. Passive hardeners/shield resistance mods, damage control mods, torque mods, active coolant, passive coolant, passive damage mods, active reps , remote armor reps and shield boosters (will get to logi LAV next), carbon nanofiber chassis mods, and I'm sure I'm missing more.

The Logi LAV should armor rep and shield boost in a circular area of effect, rather than the next-to-impossible way it used to be done, of using the right analog stick, when the camera view defaulted to center. Passive skill could be to rep rate; it should be something good like 3% - 5% per level. The Logi DS, when they're introduced, should get the passive skill to range. Their area of effect should be a cone pointed towards the ground. Range should be at 5% per level. Its second passive could be something like 10% reduction in mCRU spawn time per level to make it worth a heavy investment in SP. It'll be great in PC. It'll make tanks quite a bit more important, to swat them out of the sky. Not sure what a second passive for the Logi LAV could be. The Logi LAVs need to be 2/3 and 3/2, with good fitting. They could come with the infantry passive mods built-in, with option for the vehicle reps. They'll need to have quite a lot of CPU and PG to fit the remote vehicle mods on. Or, could make the second passive skill 5% reduction in CPU/PG usage per level.

I said this in IWS' thread, and I'll say it again. If infantry didn't complain about everything related to vehicles, we wouldn't be in the position we are currently. Chrome was the ideal build - tanks wrecked each other, and at least 10mil ISK was lost combined from both sides.

I have no problem with a price increase if tanks are worth it.

"Nothing to write home about"
One energizer and you're at 52hp/s.
One regulator and the delay is 3.9 seconds.
That means full shield HP on a Cal Assault (Around 600HP) in 14 seconds.

Compare that to armor regen that in a best case scenario, in very rare suits, you will see 30hp/s.
When they're at 30hp/s, they either have half of your HP, or are moving like snails and have equal HP to you.


Armor cannot compete in the regen game, shields win at it big time.

Vehicles are balanced to work against proto AV.
They were also designed to have different roles, not a straight increase of power (tiercide).

This isn't a matter of STD vs PRO, it's a matter of no tiers vs PRO.

Glad to see LLAVs "hopefully" coming back.

Is there any plan for changing the function of remote repair/ shield booster mods? Are you open to suggestions?

What about the addition of new vehicle logistic mods?

Also, shamelessly promoting my vehicle equipment slot thread.

The usefulness of RE's against vehicles is strongly out weighed by the community's abuse of throwing them at infantry, grenade like. Could you adjust RE's and make them not able to be restocked through the use of nano hives. This would help tremendously with the RE spam that is happening.

As for Marauders (which I think those tanks were), they need to be focused on their respective weaponry (blasters for Gallente and Missiles for Caldari), but I think should be slightly weaker defensively than their STD counterparts (though the damage bonus should be enough to account for it).

Perhaps have slightly higher base hp stats, but lower slot count. Also a bit faster and more agile (or at least nerf the STD variants). Basically the ground version of an ADS.

If LLAVs are going to be slow,the vehicles shield must protect the driver and rep gunner.

can you please buff proximity explosives thanks..

Proto tanks?
Introduce proto ads

We are working on a hotfix as a followup to 1.10, both to fix any issues as well as set us up well for the holidays.

These are our thoughts, but we will not be able to do all of them, based on the following Community feedback:
* GÇ£Throwing Remote Explosives at InfantryGÇ¥ versus GÇ£Need to Throw Remote Explosive at VehiclesGÇ¥
* High Hit Point scouts/assaults strafe speeds
* Stacking Hit Point Modules
* Tweaks on Rifles based on Efficiency Data
* Missing Gear from Loyalty Store
* Vehicles

New Packed Remote Explosive
STD/ADV/PRO:
Current Damage: 1250/1500/1750
DMG +30%
Activation Time: 3/3/3
Radius 0.1
Same PG/CPU

Current Remote Explosives
STD/ADV/PRO:
Activation 5/5/5

Assault Scrambler Rifle
Feedback requested, there is nothing (that we see) that says this weapons is not comparable to other assault variants, except armor meta.

Overperformers (slight)
Scrambler Rifle
Clip to 40 from 45, same clip to ammo ratio
Breach Assault Rifle
Clip to 30 from 36, same clip to ammo ratio
Effective Range from 70 to 66 meters

Vehicles
Reduced Small Blaster Dispersion
Transport WP for LAV's
Larger Supply Depot Radius
Vehicle plate speed penalty discrepancy

Community proposed stats requested:
GA LLAV
CA LLAV
Anti Infantry Small Missiles
Anti Vehicle Small Missiles
Sagaris
Surya
Modules

Community proposed stats requested:
GA LLAV
CA LLAV
Anti Infantry Small Missiles
Anti Vehicle Small Missiles
Sagaris
Surya
Modules

RE's being used as death frisbees always seemed like a flaw, so I'm happy to see them get an increased activation time.

I actually forgot to write the HMG nerf, in the form of heat, again.

Removing headshot bonus is actually something we can look at too, but that eliminates skill in heavy vs heavy. So many times am I bested by someone that knows how to aim, don't want to mess with that.

Managing heat is the way to go to reward skill, you want to get that window of opportunity during the animation to get your kill.

Are you really not balancing sentinels yet? Wow.

Assault scrambler: I personally love this weapon, against shields. Which I almost never see, the new plate numbers may change that.

Sadly derry, there are not gonna be more shield tankers due to that, as armor plates stackers will just swap them with ferroscales and reactives.

Reducing the clip size on the scrambler isn't going to do crap. I usually overheat after like 20 or so on my Amarr assault.

Same scenario on the BAR, 30 clip size is still going to shred. Reducing ROF or damage a bit would help though.

Agreed, it should just get a slight damage nerf (4-5%), but instead of reducing RoF, putting into the weapon a whatever kind of recoil and kick, and increased dispersion.

AV was buffed to be an end-all solution against all vehicles. One set of Boundless proxies will take out any vehicle.

Vehicles should be balanced to take out other vehicles. Let us whack the hell out of each other, and you go take an objective. Leave us alone, we'll leave you alone. It's when you try to take me out with AV that I put an HMG in your face. Just leave us alone. We don't tell you how to do your role, you shouldn't tell us how our role should work.

You get 540 aHP by fitting two reps and three reactives (I.E. 30hp/s), that ain't half of our HP, nor you are moving like a snail, but even then moving slow is compensated by the nonexistent delay. Than if that's not enough you still have your triage hives (or a repper on you).

If we wanna put it on the weapons section, armor gets -20% from ScR and -10% from Breach AR. That makes worth being +15% to the HMG buddy.

1 Shield HP > 1 Armor HP for sure, but 1hp/s armor >>> 1hp/s shield

I agree, but the activation time should not be so great that you can't drop a RE as you round a corner to take out someone chasing you. What was the delay time on RE before? 5 seconds seems quite high.

The delay before an RE can be activated needs to be high enough so that if you see an RE thrown down you have time to get out of the blast radius before it can be activated, but short enough for a RE user to be able to catch someone chasing them, provided that the chaser is not right on their tail.

So, basically... I have 80 less armor than you have shields.
Clearly that's not a good reason to have 30hp/s.
And your shield regen is still 22hp/s higher.
Put on a reg and those delays become lol.
lel

Yeah, with ADV fluxes, std SMG and compact nanohive I would make a gallente assault god-mode fit too.

Honestly though I don't find the constant regen to be such a thing for the gal assault since it is more for speed than for HP, the assault I really struggle to kill because he keeps regenerating as I shoot him through his 650-700 armor is the amarr assault, and after having that 20-30hp/s with unexistent delay he can still triple mod his Viziam ScR and fit an allotek nanohive - while shield tanking makes it impossible to do. <--- these kind of situations are the first source of my crusade againts armor tanking, the only way to kill it is to either throw a core nade on his face (you won't have the time to do that, I mean, he has an ScR on his hands) or to put my gun game at MAX level

[...]
* Stacking Hit Point Modules
* Tweaks on Rifles based on Efficiency Data
[...]
Armor Plates
STD/ADV/PRO from 85/110/135 to 60/80/100
Strafe speed penalty of regular plates doubled on scouts
[...]

Seems to me like your problem is with amarr suits not gallente suits, yet your armor witch hunt would not only nerf them but also gallente suits which are between balanced and UP.

You do know you can't win this right?
The MAJORITY of weapons are anti armor.
HMG is just one of many, among them the Combat Rifle and Rail Rifle.


Also, that's why regs exist.
With two regs and one energizer, a Cal Assault can top off its own health in a matter of seconds.