Why do people +1? That's why there's a like button...

Just saying...

I dunno why everybody's so butthurt we got knives. We didn't get a shot gun, like the Gallente, or a second rifle, like the Amarr

*Ahem* Sniper Rifle.

Although being angry about knives is a bullsh!t reason to be angry at the Caldari.

Each race (supposedly) had Knife designs, MCC designs, HAV, and LAV designs. Why they were not implemented could be due to money issues, changing of Dev team, or something else.

Want something to replace the knives in your heart? Well... no we have less varients than the Gallente. Perhaps... no weapons are far weaker. Well I know! Installations. (Although you may wish to leave out the fact that Blasters belong to the Gallente.)

You just can not hate the Caldari due to racial parity issues and not hate the Gallente for the same reasons.

I can and do you lucky fellows.

I can and do you lucky fellows.

The problem right now, is the rise of the AScR, it has been buffed quite a bit, and that hurts Caldaris and to a certain extend Minmatars the most.

I think, that the Scrambler rifles and pistol should have a different dmg profile than the Lazor. To mimick the dmg profile of the opposing Minmatar weapons (projectile) All scrambler weapons, should have +15% dmg against shields and -15% against armour.

This would help with the complete OPness against shield, but also help the weapon against armour, which was the reason for buffin it in the first place. Since finishing an armour suit with -20% dmg (as is now) is obviously a problem, if somebody with a projectile weapon is shooting at the same target at the same time.

With that new profile, it would be reasonable to tone down the dps of all scrambler weapons again, without making them unusable against armour.

And I don't know why you're so upset. I was in favor of you guys keeping your racial benefit for your ScR. Not so interested when the shoe is on the other foot?

Rattati is an armor player, thus all the shield nerfs and claims of ' shield and armor balance '.

Armor suits can do everything shield suits can do but better.

shields- hiding, Kiting

armor - hiding, Kiting, CQC, damage mods, triage hive benefit, repair tools benefit, WP goldmine for logis, vocal community on forums.

more likely to see more armor buffs before shield buffs, just look at the state of gunlogis vs madrugars.

I'll admit that it sounded rediculous, when I said that. Of course we have to change and adapt. However the Cal suits have come close to unusable, and I want that changed. I do respect your opinion and just want a fair game, just like you've fought for your race

People always talk about fighting at range with the cal...

Cal's role is expected to never go near objectives, huh? Plus, name a better and more damaging (to shields) rifle than the SCR @ range.

I just want my tank and I am throwing another tantrum!

Every time I come back, shields seem to less and less effective. What the kitten CCP? For Caldari this is how we survive. It seems every kind of weapon tears down my shields nowadays. Is anybody else seeing this matter the same?

Shield tanking is going to be crap until:
Damage threshold to stop regen is implemented.

Energizers and Rechargers become more balanced in terms of cost (they cost way too much cpu and suits that could use them dont have significantly more cpu to make up for it).

Cal Commando and Cal Logi need to be improved at a fundamental level, they are the worst dropsuits in the game by far.

Scramblers get nerfed a little bit (tactical scrambler definately, not sure about post buff ascr yet).

Tactical Anti-Armor rifles (tac CR and tac RR) get implemented into the game.

Breach Rail Rifles get fixed so they dont suck butt (since these are the only thing that outrange the tac scr, they are the only thing that allows shield suits to actually do the long range skirmishing they are supposed to accel at, but right now the tac scr absolutely dominates rail rifles at any range where the RR still has any chance of killing anything).

Some sort of shield support equipment gets implemented in the game to counteract the fact that a single logi with a rep tool and/or triage hives completely negates the ONLY advantage shield suits have, which is supposed to be superior regen speed.

More open hack points to improve long range skirmish meta (this is complicated by the fact that opening up areas to skirmish meta ALSO opens up areas to domination by snipers and vehicles, how do you make an open area point that favors skirmishing without favoring vehicles/snipers even more? The hack point under the rings in the ring city socket is a good example of something that favors skirmishing, but since the area is entirely enclosed, long range skirmishing is still a bad option because there is no where to withdraw to, which is a fundamental necessity to effective skirmish play).

Breach RR?? Are you playing a different game to me?

PS. Scr = Bar, RR = Tar and CR = Burst ar - assault variants = STD ar

If someone starts firing at you. Run away.

I don't know if this was already said but, anti-shield weapons need to stop getting buffed for this armor meta... That's the first step that needs to be taken.

That's supposed to be looked into now. It makes sense that anti shield weapons would hurt any amount of shields we do have. However at the moment it seems that shields are just useless and any weapon can take us down quickly

only proto shields are good

Thats why I run a proto cal assault with ALL proto shield mods to get the best out of my shields

Shields are really only good in the academy, everywhere else they burn too quickly. My freedom heavy ass tears through shields like it was butter.

. If I start getting shot in the back, the fights already over.

Well Duh, My brick tank Gallente starts getting shot in the back and I'm dead too

I don't know how much I agree with that, honestly not being argumentative, just don't agree with it. Also this game didn't used to be a get shot in the back game. We all loved that part of DUST. What happened?

AR.

AR.

If someone starts firing at you. Run away.