To make it clear: i want that HAV vs HAV fights are getting sorted. I dont want 60% shield hardeners which would turn gunnlogis into invincible rolling fortress of doom.

Currently we see the returning era of madrugars rampaging the battlefield like no tomorrow. main reasons for that is not just solely the buff to armor hardeners going from 25% to 40% resistance but rather a combination of hardener buff and the drastic nerf towards anti armor turrets.

-Large missiles:
absolutely useless vs anything in the game now. They fire too slow, lack damage and its near impossible to kill infantry with it. A single armor hardener will usually save you from a full missile barrage and then you are dead cause you spend alot of time reloading while the madrugar chews trough you with a blaster.

-Large railguns:
if you want to surely kill a tank then avoid this thing. 3 shots and it overheats which means your main offensive weapon is offline. You get 5 with a complex heat sink but on the other hand a double hardened madrugar will negate the damage, drive stright at you with a fuel injector and shot more holes into your tank then you can count.

What we have now is that fitting variety basically got eliminated. Yes Shield tanks work very good vs infantry but thats about it. Once a armor tank gets fielded its game over. There is just no decent anti armor plattform and the lack of DPS enhancing modules for low slots make this even worse. Something like a clip extension or rate of fire enhancer would be usefull to have.

Most of the time when a shield tank with a large missile tries to take on a madrugar head on he will die before he actually could fire all of his shots. In my opinion shield hardeners should have the same run time and cooldown like armor hardeners. And then buff Large missiles to a state where you are not beeing looked at like a suicidal moron when using them.

To make it clear: i want that HAV vs HAV fights are getting sorted. I dont want 60% shield hardeners which would turn gunnlogis into invincible rolling fortress of doom.

Thank you for understanding that.

As for shield tank balance...


Large Missiles:
I'd like to get your feedback on a thread that's been ongoing for a bit now. It has some various variations from a number of different people in an attempt to make the Missile Turret viable again without returning it to instagank status.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2678873

Large Railgun:
I feel the nerf to 3 shots was unwarrented. It's extremely difficult to do much with 3 shots base, I think returning to 4 would be reasonable with perhaps

General Shield Balance:
I think dropping Armor to 35% resistance or increasing shield hardeners to have the same cooldown/duration is a no brainer. Armor Hardeners are clearly superior or equal in every way, there should be a tradeoff between the two.

Additionally, what are you thoughts on giving shields boosters more reasonable fitting cost but a higher HP per minute than armor repairers? Something along the lines of being able to boost every 15-20 seconds or so?

Two hardeners OP, need mechanics aka Fuel injector.

1: No it's not, passive reps are.

2: speak proper English.