So uh

My apex logi suit has a base value of 217 CPU and 47 PG

Which isn't bad until you apply level 5 skills, and now it has 196/285 CPU and 44/62 pg

Effectively making this a BPO adv suit now.

Briefly tested out my Republic Shaman before work (the one bright side about working at 6 am...)

I can put a Mass Driver on it, yay!!!

To switch the layout of my equipment, I have to use ISK variants? Boo!!!

I now have roughly 100 more HP, an advanced weapon, and better equipment. Total ISK cost? 17,000.
I could make this fit even better if I ditch the EXO-5 MD for the less CPU/PG intensive CR. I won't though, cause you know, MD for life and all.

Hope to test out Suicide LAV with packed remotes when I get home.

Ratatti, what about making a separate myofib that only affects the melee damage?

In game militia armour hardeners are still listed as 25%.

Also, basic shield hardeners have been buffed to 60s cooldown like the spreadsheet says, but advanced and proto haven't, so proto hardeners are now the same as basic (60s cooldown) and adv has an 80s cooldown. This is just going by the stats in the market, haven't tested on a tank yet.

(Not moaning, just trying to be helpful).

Even worse the the hardener is the dispersion mod. I flagged it as a big already but basically it's negatively effecting the small blasters.

Since they gain accuracy through inverted dispersion, and thus are effected by dispersion mechanics, a module that decreases the rate of dispersion would decrease the rate at which small blaster gain their accuracy.

Basically, the dispersion mod keeps small blasters from becoming more accurate.

Well, if you are running gunners, I would opt for double blaster damage mods anyhow over dispersion mod. Pretty easy to land shots with the large without it, and if you are carrying gunners they should be wrecking some havok. More so with damage mods! I'll be interested in seeing how these play out in practice!

This is good news.

The only request I have is letting us view SKINs in-game. That's the only thing that's stopping me from buying one.

Will you be releasing Gk.0 Medium skins sometime soon? It makes me sad that I can't buy one....because they don't exist :(

Some people have said that they look different to the pictures though, so I'm a little bit wary...

Either way, since you're trying to sell visuals, it's ridiculous that most people (non-forumites) won't be able to get a good look at them. The SKINs should be visible in-game, just like you can see the visuals of other BPOs like APEXs.

Can we get confirmation that this is something you intend to work on?

From the notes: Shield Hardener Recharge (seconds) decreased10060

In game, this is only applied to the basic hardener, resulting in the Basic Shield Hardener being superior to all other Shield Hardeners, since: it has the same uptime; same resistance; cheaper fitting costs; and cheaper ISK costs.

If this change was intended to bring Shield Hardeners into line with Armour Hardeners, with Shields having a faster cooldown, then the numbers should be:
Basic: 60s (45s max skills)
Advanced: 48s (36s max skills)
Complex: 36s (27s max skills)

This would have the effect that sHardeners are faster to end, but faster to regenerate. Is that the intention?

SoGǪ from what I understand, shields are supposed to be fast, hit-and-run, higher damage, lower defense (but high repair) while armor is the slower, tanker, for "siege" type engagements (long and drawn out).

But, at least for tanks, that seems to be the near opposite:

• Armor tanks are natively faster, which I guess is supposed to offset the penalty for plates, except that penalty gets nearly removed thanks to the armor comp. skill.


• Armor tanks aren't even fitting plates and instead are fitting mainly repairers, followed by hardeners, and nitros. This not only goes back to the above problem, but makes armor tanks repair far more quickly than shields ever could (even before the nerf), as well as being able to repair +200hp/s with no delay through damage. Armor has become the burst tankers and shields the buffer.

I think a fitting increase to heavy repairers in order, as well as an increase in cycle time (from 1s to 3s probably; proto would go from 120r/s to 360r/3s). Perhaps even an increase in rep rate to offset the nerfs a little.

@ Rattati, are packed remotes really working? or did you just remove killing tanks with remotes?

Oh yeah.. pics or didn't happen ;)

My APEX Hawk suit really appreciated being able to deploy drop uplinks. The scanner was rarely used.

That said: whats happening with Krins LEX damage modifier BPO? Is it only supposed to effect Sidearms or, as the description implies, will it effect all handheld weapons - light included? Or is the stat window bugged with regards to it?

Yo, Rattati! Not relevant to the hotfix, but can we get green map icons for our personally deployed equipment?

As I'm sure you already know, a big problem we have is with trolls and saboteurs finding their way through the graphics and into buildings and dropping up-links everywhere, causing people to spawn into box traps they can only escape by suicide or leaving the match. If you've got someone on your team putting spawn points in positions like that you don't know where is safe to spawn in the general area and it's either use a default spawn or CRU every single time, forcing you further away from a tactical position or from helping your teammates in a tight spot, or risk ending up in the same situation and losing another suit. All while the enemy completely overruns the objective. And if you've got your own teammates actively working against you, why would you even want to stay in the battle? Allowing us to tell our own, or maybe even also our squadmate's, equipment apart from the other randoms may not fix the problem, but it'll definitely go a long way to smoothing things over.

On a more personal note, another reason I want to be able to tell my equipment apart from others is that, since I use low-tier Scouts fairly often for placing REs or up-links, I like to know if that equipment is mine, or if my previous deployment got used up/destroyed and it's safe for me to place another without breaking the previous up-link or double-covering an objective with my own REs.

I made a thread about this, but since you seem to be active in here I figured I'd give it a shot.