Two critiques:

Assault HMG: let's just bite the bullet and make it 100% AV. take away the aim down sight and aim assist so it can be balanced to fight vehicles without becoming an infantry devouring god-monster. As I have said elsewhere I have a proposal for autocannon firing mechanics and stats if you are interested.

Plasma cannon: there is no problem the PLC has that can't be fixed by sharply reducing the reload and charge speeds. That alone will cure most ills.

Details in my sig.

The new starter loadouts sound really cool and interesting, showcasing some of Dusts unique weapons. I'd appreciate it you could release a spreadsheet of the planned fits for community critique.

I'm glad the small blaster is getting looked at, I think this will really help it out. I am worried that the large blaster with decreased RoF, increased damage, and the dispersion mod will become more anti-infantry focused. Sniping one or two shots in bursts is already pretty effective against infantry.

Bout damn time \o/
Edit: hey so since you added a new module to vehicles do you think you can use that same idea to create resistance mods and heat sinks for infantry?

Simple Changes
Backpedal speed only makes sense, people never moves quickly backwards as they do forwards. This will be a nice buff to Nova Knifers

Jump Height increase seems fun, though I still think some base increase to jump height, even without a Mirofib, is much needed. A heavy shouldn't have to put on a module just to transverse basic terrain. Even a very small increase would help stop the Uplink Heavy Deathtraps we often see.

13% increase to Plasma Cannon alpha damage? WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?! BWAHAHAHAHA

HMG changes look....interesting. We'll see how it all plays out.

Cloak changes seem totally reasonable. When the role bonus of the Scout is the cloak, but you can't even use it until level 3 or 4 while still maintaining a viable fit....that's a problem. Hopefully this will ease that restriction up a bit.

LAVs
This seems like a reasonable stopgap to cut down on the excessively tanky, unfit LAVs. I do however think we need to have a full LAV pass at a later date to truly address them. (I know you're thinking, "Oh god, I'm never doing a vehicle rebalance again!" but honestly I think you'll find the LAV crowd far less.....feisty than the HAV crowd. As for dropships well....hahahaha....good luck with that one.

Turrets
General buff to Blasters looks pretty decent, massive decrease in magazine size is interesting to say the least. I might have to put a few more points into that reload speed now. We'll see how that plays out.

Large Rails....looks like more shots per magazine....meh fine, I dont think it was needed but I can't think of a valid downside. Increase to heat buildup though....will that reduce the number of shots before overheat from 4 to 3 without a heat sink now?

Large Missiles....well then, I knew they needed to be toned down a bit but I think you might have gone too far with that reload. We'll see how much it affects their performance but I'd keep an eye on that one.

Vehicle Modules
So shield hardeners will be harder to fit and armor hardeners will resist the same amount of damage now. This will probably discourage excessive stacking of shield hardeners, though I have to ask....shield hardeners do have a much shorter duration and a longer cooldown than an armor hardener. Given that Armor Hardeners will resist the same amount now, will you be looking at modifying the duration/cooldown of shield hardeners to bring it closer to armor hardeners?

Shield Regulators look awesome. 2 Complex Regulators will reduce a 4 second delay down to ~1.8s which will be beastly against infantry AV (recharge delay will be shorter than AV weapon refire rate)

Active Heat Sinks are awesome, I've missed them so.

Dispersion Reduction modules look nice too, will be nice to give them a try.

HAVs
I noticed you decreased the resources for both HAVs (at least at the Proto level I checked), what is your reasoning behind this?

The increase to skill multiplier is interesting to say the least. Do you have plans to add a bonus/level to this skill in the future?

Interesting idea to make the LAVs less protected, have you considered adding another slot as well? Or adding ADV/PRO LAVs?

Currently the slots are 1/2 and 2/1 methana-saga respectively, with the decrease in health I'm concerned with the LAVs becoming nothing more than scanning platforms and not actual attack vehicles. Especially considering how little hp the modules actually give.

Not to mention that it's very unlikely that a saga could be anywhere near as effective with one of two valuable slots taken by a scanner.

Just my thought, but take a look if you may.

AScR buff is too much. It is not as bad of a weapon as people say it is. Sure, it has issues with armor tankers, naturally, but apart from that it is quite decent already.

With this buff though it will have the highest DPS of all rifle assault variants AND the second highest range. Also, I found the heat built-up to not be a problem at all, not even if using a non-AM-Assault suit.

AScR will be Bolt Pistol 2.0. But I trust in Rattati to hotfix the hotfix in a timely manner if my predictions become reality.

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Myofibs only giving 25% jump height at PRO? Hm, I expected more. What about also reducing the CPU requirements a bit? Currently it requires 51 CPU, which is a lot for a module with such limited usefulness.

I forgot to ask if the removal/reduction of the ridiculous scan range penalty of the cloak was still on the table? Scout bonus encourages you to fit a cloak while you're better when running around without it, there is something not right here. Ask any good scouts, they use it only to climb ladders and sometimes to cross wide open areas or to hack an installation (only if it's in the open, otherwise it's better to hack uncloaked).

I will monitor the ASCR.

The Myofibs need to be scaled at triple stacking. Otherwise we will be seeing players jumping "silly" and I don't want that, I want ninjas, not Hancock

Lot of games actually nerf your ability to sense well while cloaked. They too concluding that having full access to extrasensory mechanics while cloaked proved too powerful.

I forgot to ask if the removal/reduction of the ridiculous scan range penalty of the cloak was still on the table? Scout bonus encourages you to fit a cloak while you're better when running around without it, there is something not right here. Ask any good scouts, they use it only to climb ladders and sometimes to cross wide open areas or to hack an installation (only if it's in the open, otherwise it's better to hack uncloaked).

Lot of games actually nerf your ability to sense well while cloaked. They too concluding that having full access to extrasensory mechanics while cloaked proved too powerful.

We do not want risk-free gameplay, neither picking your targets while invisible for a shot in the back, nor hacking with perfect awareness of your surroundings, while invisible.

We do not want risk-free gameplay, neither picking your targets while invisible for a shot in the back, nor hacking with perfect awareness of your surroundings, while invisible.

I understand you want the cloak ot be more of defensive tool. I use it for climbing laders, hacking non objectives, hiding in corners to heal/camp, and cross open areas. Even though I think it does this well I think the shimmer could use a little work so we don't look like blue glowing dead jedi running around in dark maps. Would shimmer reduction or rework be a possibility?

There aren't enough controls to do this. The only option would be slightly up (remember the turret is on the bottom of the ADS) or down wth the right stick, though I personally don't recommend this.

Honestly I don't see why anyone wants this. The ADS always shoots slightly forward unless you're nose up. The passive/LoS scans always allow a chevron of an enemy blocked by your hull. Not to mention the huge inconvenience first person is or how a moving camera will mess up air-to-air fights.

Oh how I hate the shimmer, most of the time I'm glowing so the cloak is absolutely useless.

We do not want risk-free gameplay, neither picking your targets while invisible for a shot in the back, nor hacking with perfect awareness of your surroundings, while invisible.

reload will affect infantry effectiveness where as more damage won't, as it already OHK almost everyone

Dear players,
We are removing all vehicles from the OMS gamemode. Ambush and OMS will from now on be infantry only, a traditional Team Death Match mode.

Thanks for yet another passive buff to nk's and shotties, that's just what this game really needed. Last I checked, balance trumped realism. But I guess balance dropped a rung recently. Thanks for the backpedaling changes -_-