Probably has to do with the PC weapon usage data dump. Missles were pretty high on that list.

Nobody, uses missiles in PC and I am a PC tanker. It's always railguns.

ADS.

AR fits =/= Giggle fits.

If we're going to assign a "stamina cost reduction" property to a biotic module, why would we pick any biotic module other than the CardReg? The Myofib's jumps will likely prove sufficient to warrant its utilization. Good for build variety. If Myofib jumps prove to be fun and/or effective, then maybe we'll see an increase in demand for the under-utilized CardReg as well. Even better for build variety.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that making melee suits competitive is the focus of this Myofib change. If making melee suits competitive is the priority, it seems to me there would've been better and more direct ways to go about doing it.

How are you losing dmg? It does not say melee dmg is being replaced with jump height it is ADDED to them. myo's will be for melee dmg and jump.

Shield tanks being nerfed to a point where they are equal to todays armor tanks. Armor tanks being buffed to hell. God, with every little stupid hotfix by rattati, I regert speccing into what every he tries to balance.

OMG, you halfed the ROF of the Missile Turret!! WTH??? You reduced it's ammo. What is the reasoning behind this? Not only do I rarely see missile launchers, now you nerfed the living crap out of it? You do realize that repping armor tanks will just rep through our flipping missiles not to mention the stupid reload time is 1.5x what it was before?

YOU MONSTER! Every patch update there is good stuff and there is this sort of bad stuff. At least give missiles 300 RoF, and why reduce ammo?

Spamming missiles in one direction was the only way I could infantry and now I wouldn't be able to do that. Every patch, everything I use get's nerfed. I'm sick and tired of this flipping game.

Yes, i'm mad.


Wowwwwwww..... I just noticed missiles and railguns will now have the same ammo. This better mean one of my flipping missiles is doing 1700 damage dust like a shot from a railgun. Oh, it doesn't? Then why take away my god dam ammo? What reason will I have to use a Large missile launcher over a a railgun? WHAT REASON WILL I FLIIPPING HAVEE???

THANKS FOR THE EFFING WASTE OF SP AGAIN. FIRST MY SP GOT WASTED WHEN YOU NERFED THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF ADS AND NOW MY FLIPPING MISSILES WHICH REQUIRE TURRET OPERATION TO LEVEL 5 ISNTEAD OF 1. THE WAY IT'S LOOKING RIGHT NOW, THE LARGE MISSILE WILL BARLEY BE ANY BETTER THAN THE SMALL. THANK YOU CCP. YES IM SUPER MAD.

Shield tanks being nerfed to a point where they are equal to todays armor tanks. Armor tanks being buffed to hell. God, with every little stupid hotfix by rattati, I regert speccing into what every he tries to balance.

Why are you going for what seems like the new FOTM, and instead going for, you know, what you like?

lol. This is why you don't go full apeshit kids, you make zero sense.

sir, Let me explain to you why this was done. A Rocket fitted HAV could very easily **** a ton of damage and take out any Madrugar or Soma. Even against a Gunnlogi or Sica, fitting a damage mod would greatly help in killing them. This made it to where it was widely used in PC, along side the rail.

The ammo thing I'm not sure of, it seems like a odd thing. Maybe he wants Rocket fitted HAV's not to stay on the field as long?

Prove it, that sounds like a bunch of bullshit (assuming damage isn't changed, it's still pushing 1800DPS, give or take).

The reload time was short, extremely short with the reload skill. It's fine being nerfed.

PAUSE. Why are you trying to build a HAV specifically for farming infantry?

Rails are still slightly pushing OP still, well, not really, seeing as the heat changes will cut the amount of shots off a little, so sustained DPS will go down for it. Regardless, it won't be good in CQ anymore, and Rockets less so, although still quite decent at it. It just won't be so good at it anymore. I would say that it needs more range though.

Are you ok? I am specifically talking about large missiles. Go learn to read.

Why are large missiles so hated?
they are one of the least used turrets and yet its getting nerfed

Slower shooting, slower rof, slower reloading, less max ammo and lower burst interval And to add to insult we miss out on a new module Which Blaster and Railgun can utilize.

I would rather keep havs as they are then to further cripple the large missile turrets.

Shame on u.

Starter Loadouts
As part of our never-ending quest to keep our new players happy and playing, we completely revamped the Starter Fits. They have all been given 3 slots, 2/1 or 1/2 arrangements, and faction themed modules and weapons. By playing regularly in the Academy, we have specifically noticed the alarming lack of uplinks, and have therefore added them to Frontline loadouts. We have also added a repair tool to the Medic loadout as the primary equipment.
We also want new players to have counters to all threats, so have added the Shield AV fit with a plasma cannon (versus Armor AV using the swarm launcher), while both Anti-Vehicle starter fits have been given AV grenades, that by the way have been increased to 3 carried instead of 2, and nano-hives to replenish those weapons.
Finally, in a sweeping change, we are removing the Sniper loadout, and replacing it with the Recon loadout. The Sniper has proven to be far too passive as a role for new players, and we want to encourage them to get into the thick of it. The Recon loadout is focused on getting quickly and silently into position, hacking and establishing a frontal base of operations.
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Movement
We are going to reduce backpedal speed, to 85% of forward speed. There are three main reasons, 1) itGÇÖs silly to walk as fast backwards as forward, and not the case in common fpsGÇÖs, 2) itGÇÖs too easy to kite an opponent at range, f.ex. tilting the favor to range over dps on rifles, 3) melee attacks are difficult to master, especially if you canGÇÖt catch up after your first swing.
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Assault Scrambler Rifles
Increased damage quite massively, itGÇÖs simply a weapon that is not performing adequately, anywhere. The reasoning for GÇ£breakingGÇ¥ the range vs dps curve, is the heat factor, which is a downside shared with the scrambler rifle, and likewise, with a downside, we warrant the upside in damage. LetGÇÖs see how it performs now.
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Equipment
Deployables
Simple, we have increased the carried amount of all deployable equipment by 3, since bandwidth has reduced individual spam of equipment, allowing simpler redistribution, sort of a chain of uplinks or hives from the start of the battle. We have, however, also a need to reduce the efficiency of drop uplinks, and are reducing the spawns per uplink by 50%. We have also reduced bandwidth of Proximity Explosives from 2 to 1.

Cloak Fields
Community raised the issue of cloak fields being very hard to fit on standard and advanced dropsuits so we decreased fitting costs on the STD and ADV versions.

Dropsuit Modules
Myofibril Stimulants simply increase strength and thereby melee damage. All right, said the community, why wouldnGÇÖt it make your legs stronger as well? So we just added that functionality to them and now you can jump higher by adding them to your loadouts, opening up a whole new tactical gameplay plus allowing sentinels to jump a few of those hamster height curbs they canGÇÖt cross now.

When is this happening?

Missiles are getting hit with several nerfs at the same time.... Half ROF( this was warranted) plus slower reload speed, AND less ammo? Why? And why are rails getting a ammo BUFF when they already have TONS more damage per mag and total damage than large missiles? Then we have the fact that Large Missiles are the most fitting intensive turret in the game, costing more CPU AND PG the the rail, which brings me to the conclusion that Missiles will be by far the worst turret for tanks.

The only thing I would change is the ROF. It is a little excessive, but everything else is fine. In fact, a reload speed BUFF is more appropriate than a nerf, seeing as how both the Blaster and Rail rely moreso on overheat, which is much faster than Large missile reload

Pre-release assessment: Heavy Machinegun
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This is going to make the Sentinels cluster even tighter into the CQC maps and roam a lot less. Given the nature of the maps they're going to cluster up in, even with the 11% base DPS nerf I'm going to say this isn't going to do the job of dislodging the heavy meta.

I concur. Earlier I said you can't get Sentinels out of CQC by reducing range and I still believe it's valid.

Really bottom level game design question:
When a HMG Sentinel and an AR Assault duke it out in a typical outpost at 0-30 m range, who should win at which probability?

If the HMG Sentinel is supposed to win ~90% of the time, we don't have a problem. If the HMG Sentinel is only supposed to win less than 60% of the time, why have an HMG Sentinel?

I'm not proposing a solution, I'm asking the question. Once we know how that situation is supposed to play out we can change the game to be like that.

This is why I want heavies out of CQC.

The primary resistance isn't because it's a bad idea. it's because people like winning 90% of the time. Making sentinels the open ground powerhouses would threaten that because they'd be exposed to the stuff that'll tear them to ribbons.

in close it's just shotguns, REs, NK and other fatties with maybe occasionally being shot in the face with a PLC.

in the open it's HAVs, ADS, charge sniper, tac sniper, forge guns, rail rifles, ACR, LAVs with decent turrets, also fast movers with the traditional assassination methods because you have to fall back to cover to regen/resupply sooner or later.

For shield sents you have the additional threat of scrams, and the laser rifle.

in close the HMG more or less outclasses everything. in the open, even if you outrange them with an HMG they still have a fighting chance to kill you.

We are also removing, based on popular demand, consistency, and balance issues, all vehicles from Ambush OMS. Ambush will from now on be infantry only, a traditional Team Death Match mode.

I've not yet come to understand why Sentinels don't wish to actually be juggernauts with large calibre weapons that can lock down infantry and vehicles from a range while being able to put down suppressive fire on tough to crack emplacements.

Think mid way between Alex's HMG and a Mass Driver. Slower firing, much more powerful auto-cannon rounds, get in position and you are like a Mini Turret but up close you are subject to faster moving dropsuits like scouts and assaults.