DUST Search - Snowball Driver from hell is best weapon

TYCHUS MAXWELL wrote:

Ghosts Chance wrote:

TYCHUS MAXWELL wrote:

Ghosts Chance wrote:

hes a troll guys... his corp name is literally "the fun police"

this probably took someone 10 minuites to do

step one, take AUR proto mass driver skin
step two, take shader for effect color that you just spent 2 months working on and remove all color fromm the projectile
step three, savee to spreadsheet and watch as someone accuses you of wasting precious dev time on the forums.

the reality is that he was probably at work after hours screwing around when he made it so dont fret, no (billed) dev hours were wasted and it cost CCP no money to implement.

If it is literally that easy to implement new weapons then that's embarrassing that we are still missing most of the variants of weapons. I'll defer to the launchers popularity in the actual game as to whether or not many people actually care. It's the CPM elections all over again. 6 people on the forum in a population of 3000 does not a majority make.

its that easy to implement a new weapon whos fitting, damage, splash, radius, rarity, and every other factor except for color do not matter to game balance.

Wouldn't be hard if math was relied upon. People can knock it as much as they want about making fun of "Things on paper" but it wouldn't take long to establish mathematical balance. They just don't apply any rule set to how things function (IE. scrambler rifles and the TAR do not have remotely comparative stats and there's no good reason why they don't) that just being one example. This game has been a nightmare of kneejerk buff/nerf cycles with no real attempt to just balance by design instead of by Meta.

I'd rather the Devs not implement anything right before the holidays (Knowing full well it will probably be buggy) and just go get drunk. I don't want a repeat of 1.7 last year where the devs dropped the vehicle rebalance then went on holiday. We had peaked up to around 4500 active then and nose dived to 1800 and now we still are below that time last year at 3000.

Given that they decided to drop more rebalancing like buffing the AR even more I'd rather them focus on making sure it's all hunky dorey and not on a reskin of a weapon not everyone can use anyways.


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Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 10520	Posted - 2014.12.18 16:25:00 - [1] - Quote TYCHUS MAXWELL wrote: Holiday updates are all well and good but we don't even have all racial weapons and at the least racial types. I mean a breach RR ScR and CR are all just edits just like a snowball launcher. Likewise Tactical RR and CR as well as the Burst RR and ScR would be the same... not to be a Scrooge here, but there are so many useful edits that a gimmicky edit seems like a waste of their apparent limited resources. They do it all the ******* time in Eve Online. We have Festival Launchers that fire not only snowballs that hone in a targeted ship but it also fires fireworks of various colors and effects. If Eve players can enjoy that, so should we. Screw the events. I want a snowball mass driver, an Amarr Sentinal Santa suit, a Minmatar Scout Elf suit, and an LAV with reindeer antlers on it! I'll be damned if I let some Scrooge like you take away all the fun. On Twitter: @HilmarVeigar #greenlightlegion #dust514 players are waiting.
Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 10520	Posted - 2014.12.18 16:26:00 - [2] - Quote http://www.themittani.com/media/highsec-christmas-carol-audio On Twitter: @HilmarVeigar #greenlightlegion #dust514 players are waiting.
Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 10530	Posted - 2014.12.18 19:15:00 - [3] - Quote Mad Syringe wrote: Jepp, it's called the X-MS15 Snowwball Launcher, you can have it for 47,220 ISK and it needs MD OP LV III, which is the only critique I'd have, it should be not more than LV1 necessary for it, and it could be cheaper as well. The thing itself just has a different Projectile colour the weapon has a winter camo skin and no damage can be achieved with it. I would have liked at least 10hp damage, that you would have been able to finish people with it, just for the lolz. If you ever do this again, please give us a little snowsplash on implact. Also I'm not happy with the new effects of the MD since the last update, the firetrail is gone, please give it back! Snowball launchers aren't suppose to cause damage anyways. They's there for fun. I don't think St. Nick would appreciate CCP making his toys actually hurt people. On Twitter: @HilmarVeigar #greenlightlegion #dust514 players are waiting.
Maken Tosch DUST University Ivy League 10531	Posted - 2014.12.18 20:20:00 - [4] - Quote TYCHUS MAXWELL wrote: Ghosts Chance wrote: TYCHUS MAXWELL wrote: Ghosts Chance wrote: hes a troll guys... his corp name is literally "the fun police" this probably took someone 10 minuites to do step one, take AUR proto mass driver skin step two, take shader for effect color that you just spent 2 months working on and remove all color fromm the projectile step three, savee to spreadsheet and watch as someone accuses you of wasting precious dev time on the forums. the reality is that he was probably at work after hours screwing around when he made it so dont fret, no (billed) dev hours were wasted and it cost CCP no money to implement. If it is literally that easy to implement new weapons then that's embarrassing that we are still missing most of the variants of weapons. I'll defer to the launchers popularity in the actual game as to whether or not many people actually care. It's the CPM elections all over again. 6 people on the forum in a population of 3000 does not a majority make. its that easy to implement a new weapon whos fitting, damage, splash, radius, rarity, and every other factor except for color do not matter to game balance. Wouldn't be hard if math was relied upon. People can knock it as much as they want about making fun of "Things on paper" but it wouldn't take long to establish mathematical balance. They just don't apply any rule set to how things function (IE. scrambler rifles and the TAR do not have remotely comparative stats and there's no good reason why they don't) that just being one example. This game has been a nightmare of kneejerk buff/nerf cycles with no real attempt to just balance by design instead of by Meta. I'd rather the Devs not implement anything right before the holidays (Knowing full well it will probably be buggy) and just go get drunk. I don't want a repeat of 1.7 last year where the devs dropped the vehicle rebalance then went on holiday. We had peaked up to around 4500 active then and nose dived to 1800 and now we still are below that time last year at 3000. Given that they decided to drop more rebalancing like buffing the AR even more I'd rather them focus on making sure it's all hunky dorey and not on a reskin of a weapon not everyone can use anyways. Goodness gracious, sir. Give it up already. A snowball launcher never requires any community feedback and extensive play testing over an entire week to get it right like a traditional mass driver does. Also, because you need community feedback and extensive play testing, relying on math alone is not going to be a guarantee that it will be balanced. Besides, snowball launchers were never meant to be balanced in the first place. IT'S A SNOWBALL LAUNCHER FOR CHRIST SAKE! On Twitter: @HilmarVeigar #greenlightlegion #dust514 players are waiting.