2) buff ehp on light scouts to make them a bit easier to get into

Is this all it is going to be? Where's the meat and potatoes? Just a few number changes? Please tell me there is more.

Lemme guess, for a limited time there will be increased rate drop of skinz and you have more aurum versions on the market.

Heavy weapons? Full trading? Pc 2.0? Rifle balancing? Some dropship love?

When? When? When?

When are we getting that ps4 port? I must have missed it

Check the dev blog in GD

Dear players,

Shield Recharge
Currently if you are running for cover and small arms fire keeps "plinking" away your health, you can't regenerate shields.

We will be adding a shield interruption threshold, much like vehicles have, to all Dropsuits. Damage less than that number will not interrupt shield recharge. This should be a big buff for shield users, and something that has been commonly requested in the past
so I am happy to see it in-game.

The number is low to begin with, because this is a very dangerous variable, too high and shields become invincible, so we went with 6. We will monitor this change very carefully over the next weeks.

It just arrived 2 mins after I posted this. I swear.

Still leaves unanswered questions. Trading? Heavy weapons? Rifle balancing?

It just arrived 2 mins after I posted this. I swear.

Still leaves unanswered questions. Trading? Heavy weapons? Rifle balancing?

Trading is hotfixable I believe and so is not included in this DevBlog. Rat has been very busy as of late, trading is no doubt slightly distant compared to everything. Heavy weapons same thing. New assets are hard to generate so he was thinking of changing the damage and such variables for certain weapons. Rifle Balancing...are they not balanced? Ps4 Port- Further down the line if at all.

And you're certainly not alone. Many vets don't like it, and newbros can't fit it. But we'd be in conflict with the design of other Basic Frames if Basic Lights were given racial bonuses. Perhaps base stats other than HP would need to be tweaked. What do you think?

Edit: Might be over-thinking this. Could just put basic lights somewhere else along the speed/hp curve, perhaps between Scouts and Logis, or perhaps even above Scouts. Then see what happens :-)

Spitballing: Could position Basic Lights above Scouts on the speed/hp curve (less HP, more speed) and give them a native reduction to scan profile (thinking -5dB).

Less complex, less bulky. Built for speed.

Dear players,

Shield Recharge
Currently if you are running for cover and small arms fire keeps "plinking" away your health, you can't regenerate shields.

We will be adding a shield interruption threshold, much like vehicles have, to all Dropsuits. Damage less than that number will not interrupt shield recharge. This should be a big buff for shield users, and something that has been commonly requested in the past
so I am happy to see it in-game.

The number is low to begin with, because this is a very dangerous variable, too high and shields become invincible, so we went with 6. We will monitor this change very carefully over the next weeks.


Mobility
After lengthy discussions about mobility (speed, strafe, sprint and stamina), here are updated numbers that will be deployed tomorrow.

Hotfix Warlords 1.1.3

We used the opportunity to fix authoring hierarchy so tweaks will be much easier in the future.

Speed Changes
Meant to align and rebalance based on a speed vs health curve, while reigning in assault speeds, MI in particular. We have made the changes much smaller than originally proposed.

Big buff: Commandos and Logistics,
Small buff: Basic-H
Small nerf: Assault and Basic-L. Plan is to add more HP to Basic-L later.

Strafe Changes
Overall reduction of strafe speeds, as calculated with a modifier to speed. Walk strafe reduced by 0.1, Sprint strafe by 0.1 and Run strafe by 0.2. Crouch Strafe aligned to 1 for all roles.

Stamina Changes
Aligned to make Amarr and Minmatar have the same "mobility", i.e travel the same distance in a similar timeframe. Average speed remains highest for MI and lowest for AM.

Stamina Recovery reduced for all MI roles as they were, due to a calculation error, double counting a bonus, making them outrun Amarr more than intended.

Buff: Commandos
Alignment benefits AM the most but not for all roles, CA/GA overall unchanged, MI overall reduced



Now that we have a much better framework (i.e. calculations that are simple and intuitive, we can tweak based on feedback.

this is gonna go one of two ways.

i will love it: m1 assaults are finally slower than amarr scouts, or amarr scouts are given small speed boost.
i will hate it: "small nerf to basic L" i hope that doesn't mean scouts, because im already slow enough as a amarr scout.

Scout speeds are not changing, assault and logi suits are (among a couple others). Min assault base speed will be lower than amarr scout.

I think the "basic L" is the light suit...that is taking a speed nerf.

It's all in the linked doc...actual figures.

Are these suits presently not viable?

For all our sakes Rattati I'm asking you please do something tomorrow about the scrambler rifle that's currently ripping armor to shreds, also is this all there is to the update, I'm just a wee bit surprised so little has been done the last couple of month?

Yeah, there are three areas I would want to focus on, which are min and am scouts, light dropsuits and ga/ca assault. To me they are the weakest from a design perspective.

1) we can increase fitting on min scout and buff amplifiers for am scouts
2) buff ehp on light scouts to make them a bit easier to get into
3) fix the AR situation + make the ga bonus better, and change ca bonus to recoil.

With limited tiericide (no slot progression, only PG/CPU), there will be so many new options and chaos, that I think that needs to happen first though.

For the love of god do not change my caldari reload bonus.

It's quite a nerf to AR, but ok, let's see.

I didn't see any ar nerfs or assault buffs guys...

inb4 invisa buff's and nerf's

Inb4 nothing works.

Inb4 illuminatee

Inb4 nothing works.

Inb4 illuminatee