Tell me again why melee fits, who are usually faster than most drop suit fits, need a speed advantage against people who have CAUGHT THEM trying to melee?

I would like to know if you could finally fix the mobile CRU bug. Cause that was supposed to be fixed since the last patch.

Tell me again why melee fits, who are usually faster than most drop suit fits, need a speed advantage against people who have CAUGHT THEM trying to melee?

That's... a very high AV DPS on the AHMG.

That's going to outDPS all other AV weapons, actually. Is that intentional? Of all the AV weapons, the AHMG is the one that can be best used against infantry in addition to its AV role.

I don't think so, can you demonstrate with numbers please :), to err is to be human so anything is possible.

Galmando PLC with Echo buff
Minmando Swarm
Top AHMG sentinel

all at max skills.

Righto, I haven't actually run the numbers yet and that was off the top of my head, so let's go.
Will disregard proficiency for all weapons because it only applies to certain damage types. Let's look at raw damage.

Summary at the bottom.



Galmando with Allotek does 1870 damage per shot (glorious).
Reload time with Galmando is 3.5*.75 = 2.25. Charge time with maxed skill is 0.45s. Therefore max fire rate without lag and with perfect timing is one shot per 2.7 seconds.

1870/2.7 = 692 DPS

Minmando with Wiyrkomis does 1373 damage per volley. Lock on time is 1.05s with max skills.

I'm not entirely sure how to calculate swarm DPS, honestly. I know there's a forced delay between lock ons and the SDE suggests that's 1 second, but I might be reading the wrong thing. Let's go with the 1 second number for now.

1373 damage per 2.05 seconds means 669 DPS.

Top AHMG sentinel:

The best case scenario for an AHMG is on the Galsent because it can fit 2x damage mods. 2x HDMs gives about a 9% damage increase.

The proto AHMG does 616 DPS under the current proposal. 616*1.09 = 671 DPS

Let's add the forge gun to this list.

Your normal proto forge gun hits for 1440 damage every 3 seconds. With the same circumstances as the AHMG, this leads to 523 DPS. An IAFG will do substantially more at 726 DPS.




Summary:

So under optimal circumstances:
PLCs do 692 DPS.
Swarms do 669 DPS (?)
AHMGs do 671 DPS
FGs do 523 DPS
IAFGs do 726 DPS


Hm. They're all very close, really. AHMG does very similar damage to swarms and marginally less than the Galmando PLC. Bearing in mind that the Galmando does wonderful, wonderful things to the placon I will point out that a double damage modded non-commando allotek placon without the bonus does 481 DPS. The placon is comparatively only viable on the Galmando, then.


Anyhow, looks like I was wrong about it outDPSing -all- other AV weapons. However, it's very similar in terms of DPS to all the others! IAFGs are the only ones that noticeably outDPS it, at 50 DPS more, and that's a difference of less than 10%.


My concern is that it can very viably compete with all other AV options on raw DPS (and indeed, if those other AV options aren't in optimal circumstances it will noticeably outDPS a good few of them) while being much easier to use than the other options and also being by far the most effective against infantry.

No other AV weapon offers anywhere near as much anti-infantry capability as the AHMG, but the AHMG is right up there with the best of the AV options at the same time. It offers, quite literally, the best of both worlds.

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Good, thanks, I had done the same but the work was at the office. Now, only the swarm, the highest dps AV weapon, is the only weapon with no AI capability, as it should. The other ones do both have solid OHK AI capabilities, so the AHMG isn't alone there. However, it does have heat so should be balanced by that. Other than that, I am happy to welcome the Minmatar AV weapon to the game and now we are only missing a heavy laser of some sort.

Heavy's DO NOT need a further nerf. They already can be destroyed easily by a shotgun scout or assault, or any player that is slightly intelligent and kites them. The last heat nerf to them HMG was too much, is your goal to make the heavy completely useless?

Tanks still sound useless against infantry. Making the only point of tanks to fight other tanks makes tanks pointless on the battlefield.

LAV nerf is completely unnecessary. They were not even slightly OP. There only use now will be as taxi's to get from point A to point B.

If this is the vehicle update, how can you not fix the ADS mechanics?

Base tank hp got nerfed too, as it was LAV's had higher base HP than the new tanks so something had to give..

Righto, I haven't actually run the numbers yet and that was off the top of my head, so let's go.
Will disregard proficiency for all weapons because it only applies to certain damage types. Let's look at raw damage.

Summary at the bottom.



Galmando with Allotek does 1870 damage per shot (glorious).
Reload time with Galmando is 3.5*.75 = 2.25. Charge time with maxed skill is 0.45s. Therefore max fire rate without lag and with perfect timing is one shot per 2.7 seconds.

1870/2.7 = 692 DPS

Minmando with Wiyrkomis does 1373 damage per volley. Lock on time is 1.05s with max skills.

I'm not entirely sure how to calculate swarm DPS, honestly. I know there's a forced delay between lock ons and the SDE suggests that's 1 second, but I might be reading the wrong thing. Let's go with the 1 second number for now.

1373 damage per 2.05 seconds means 669 DPS.

Top AHMG sentinel:

The best case scenario for an AHMG is on the Galsent because it can fit 2x damage mods. 2x HDMs gives about a 9% damage increase.

The proto AHMG does 616 DPS under the current proposal. 616*1.09 = 671 DPS

Let's add the forge gun to this list.

Your normal proto forge gun hits for 1440 damage every 3 seconds. With the same circumstances as the AHMG, this leads to 523 DPS. An IAFG will do substantially more at 726 DPS.




Summary:

So under optimal circumstances:
PLCs do 692 DPS.
Swarms do 669 DPS (?)
AHMGs do 671 DPS
FGs do 523 DPS
IAFGs do 726 DPS


Hm. They're all very close, really. AHMG does very similar damage to swarms and marginally less than the Galmando PLC. Bearing in mind that the Galmando does wonderful, wonderful things to the placon I will point out that a double damage modded non-commando allotek placon without the bonus does 481 DPS. The placon is comparatively only viable on the Galmando, then.


Anyhow, looks like I was wrong about it outDPSing -all- other AV weapons. However, it's very similar in terms of DPS to all the others! IAFGs are the only ones that noticeably outDPS it, at 50 DPS more, and that's a difference of less than 10%.


My concern is that it can very viably compete with all other AV options on raw DPS (and indeed, if those other AV options aren't in optimal circumstances it will noticeably outDPS a good few of them) while being much easier to use than the other options and also being by far the most effective against infantry.

No other AV weapon offers anywhere near as much anti-infantry capability as the AHMG, but the AHMG is right up there with the best of the AV options at the same time. It offers, quite literally, the best of both worlds.


EDIT: I am also concerned that the Galmando is practically required to have viable placon DPS. I know the bonuses fit the commando type, but they just do so much good for the placon that you pretty much need to have them to use the placon viably.

Good, thanks, I had done the same but the work was at the office. Now, only the swarm, the highest dps AV weapon, is the only weapon with no AI capability, as it should. The other ones do both have solid OHK AI capabilities, so the AHMG isn't alone there. However, it does have heat so should be balanced by that. Other than that, I am happy to welcome the Minmatar AV weapon to the game and now we are only missing a heavy laser of some sort.

Good, thanks, I had done the same but the work was at the office. Now, only the swarm, the highest dps AV weapon, is the only weapon with no AI capability, as it should. The other ones do both have solid OHK AI capabilities, so the AHMG isn't alone there. However, it does have heat so should be balanced by that. Other than that, I am happy to welcome the Minmatar AV weapon to the game and now we are only missing a heavy laser of some sort.

Pleeeeease can it be a heavy beam laser?
I've been wanting that for years now.

By a fight with a Gallente Sentinel against an Amarr Sentinel, the Amarr Sentinel winns nearly every time because he have 15% ressistance and 205eHP more, but the Gallente Sentinel only can hit him 4,5% more damage and so he becomes 0,5% lower damage and have more HP!
I want 3/5 slots by Gallente and 1 or 2/4 by Amarr Sentinel, please also give them 2% per skill level more cpu and 0,5% more pg or an bonus at reduction from cpu/pg cost from amorr plates by ~10%