Gallente suit will beat out a shied suit at ranges where it matters. If a cal suit is subject to camping at 80m from an objective, they will never cap it.

This isn't eve...where all that you have to do is kill another ship. So, sure....a caldari ship can stay out of range of a gallente ship and be successful because all that matters is ship destruction, right? In fps, you have to cap letters and defend them.

To put this into perspective

I have my Gallente Assault suit into level 4 and my Caldari Assault into level 1.

All armor skills for infantry in level 5 and all shield skills in infantry level 3.

Last week I got a 'Pyrus' ADV Cal suit. Since it is an Aurum suit I could use it even if I have level 1 in CalAssault.

I slapped in an ADV Rail Rifle toppled with 2 Enhanced Shield Extenders and 1 enhanced energizer and 1 enhanced recharger. On lows I put 2 enhanced regulators.

I went 20/1 with that suit sticking to it's supposed fighting style which is long range.

On my GalAssault I the most I can get in an average match is 15, on a good match is 20+ but also dying 5+ times

If you want to use a Caldari suit for close range combat then you will be at a disadvantage ofcourse.

Now, I will admit that Skirmish and Domination game modes are not good for the suit because if you want to win you gotta hack the objective. In Ambush these suits shine a little more since the only objective is too kill.

Now, I believe that when Skirmish 1.0 makes its long awaited return, Caldari suits would start to shine even better.

But for now also look at the kill feed. All you see is:
Combat Rifles
Rail Rifles
Assault Rail Rifles
HMGs
Breach ARs
Shotguns

Now, 4 of those are anti-armor weapons and absolutely wreak armor.
2 of them are Anti-Shield but one needs for you to get extremely close and the other well, it's not that OP.


Now, you should feel ashamed that I can use shield suits better than you, and I have been running all armor suits and Gallente suits 90% of the time ever since Uprising launched.

Strafing>armor

Caldari and Gallente suits have the same strafing speed, soo.....

Caldari and Gallente suits have the same strafing speed, soo.....

To OP.
Rattati prefers gallente. That's all.

Ps. But guess what suit is shown [theme] when you select Dust on your ps3. That's right. It's Caldari Scout.

The only acceptable argument I have encountered in my forum days: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2537950#post2537950

To OP.
Rattati prefers gallente. That's all.

Ps. But guess what suit is shown [theme] when you select Dust on your ps3. That's right. It's Caldari Scout.

It's the argument that shield tank QQers have been making all of this time. Maybe Piercing put it in a way that's more appealing but he's saying the same thing that everyone else is saying.

Plus, I don't understand how a 1v1 faceoff would be undetermined but a team of armor tankers would beat a team of shield tankers. ??

That doesn't mean anything.....maybe they think the Caldari scout looks the best. But why does he prefer gallente...ask yourself that?

You do know that Rattati's preffered race is Gallente right? He even said so when he was introduced as the new Dev responsible for Dust's management. So yeah, if there is going to be a suit dedicated to Rattati of course it should be Gallente

Because this isn't a CoDkiddy death match game where people run around 1v1ing.
Matches aren't determined by what team has the best 1v1ers on it. It only helps. In the end, the team that is working together better will usually win.
And Armor has better team synergy. It has reppers that allow the team to work together better. It has Nanohoves that allow teams to dig into a location and defend.

Armor Teamplay>Shield Teamplay
Armor 1v1 = Shield 1v1
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So, instead of trying to constantly nerf armor, or buff shields with over 9000 threads a day, Ask for a Shield Repairer. Ask for the means to obtain better performance and team synergy, rather than asking to have it handed to you.

In other words, shield or armor doesn't matter if you have multiple people shooting at you
but if you can haul ass out of there you'll live
Speed>armor

That is my point as well..of course it's the preferred race. He knows what the suit is capable of because he's behind the scenes. It's not his preferred suit because it looks better. But because it's more effective

The only acceptable argument I have encountered in my forum days: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2537950#post2537950

To OP.
Rattati prefers gallente. That's all.

Ps. But guess what suit is shown [theme] when you select Dust on your ps3. That's right. It's Caldari Scout.

It's the argument that shield tank QQers have been making all of this time. Maybe Piercing put it in a way that's more appealing but he's saying the same thing that everyone else is saying.

Plus, I don't understand how a 1v1 faceoff would be undetermined but a team of armor tankers would beat a team of shield tankers. ??