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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.

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

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

plan is to deploy tomorrow

I just connect and no hotfix

Was really hoping for an end to DDR514 today.

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.

i havent seen a hotfix deploy yet


Oh well, I still shred everything with anything. Even those minmatar assaults cant win all the time.

I dont think changing the stamina capacity and regen stats of minmatar sentinels and commandos was necessary. they are not problematic and thus dont need a change.

It is correct

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
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1. I haven't been staring at metrics like you have, but the Min Scout seems like a very good suit as is to me. Given that it's both the best ninja-hacking suit and nova-knifing suit, a buff seems odd.

2. I will say though that the Am Scout super needs some love.

3. The idea that was tossed around a while back of trying to make it the ideal Scout Hunter suit still seems viable to me.

4. No suit easily fills this role right now.

5. How about giving it a massive bonus to Scan Precision and Range, but limit it's ability to share it's TACNET with the Squad.

6. So it can see and hunt very well, but it's not the hyper broken "sit in a corner and AFK scan for the team" we had before.

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

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.

1. Agreed.
2. Agreed.

3. The idea wasn't just tossed around; it was implemented with HF Charlie. CalScouts specialized in long-range, low-intensity scans. AM Scouts specialized in short-range, high-intensity scans. This was before the falloff mechanics were introduced last December; today, passive scans at range are weaker, and these specializations are less competitive. All suits now have similarly intense inner rings. Outer rings (even when enhanced by EWAR modules) are easily outperformed by active scanners. The only area where an AM Scout might theoretically compete scan-wise would be in middle ring scans; even then, AM Scout passives wouldn't stand out when compared against similarly fit Logi or CalScout. In my estimation, falloff mechanics would have to be overhauled for any recon scout to again function in a meaningful, competitive manner.

4. If you go by kill/spawn efficiency, all suits appear to be scout hunters :-). If you need to scan heavily dampened Scouts, at 15dB a GalLogi + multiple Focused Scanners is your best bet.

5. The passive scans of every unit are shared squad-wide. Last we heard from Rattati, disabling shared squad sight isn't presently tenable. As for a massive buff to precision and range to return a competitive passive recon unit, the buff would indeed have to be massive. We'd effectively be throwing very large percentage bonuses at mechanical limitations (one might argue that'd it'd make more sense to address the mechanical limitations). We should also keep in mind role parity and the potential for overlap; the CalScout's "role" is still theoretically set to long-range, low-intensity scans.

6. An uncloaked and undampened 300HP unit which shares 18dB / 80m scans with squad while trying not to die -- that unit is "hyper broken". But a combat-worthy, 600+HP GalLogi which rapid-fires literally always-on 200m, 90 degree, 21dB scans shared teamwide is not broken -- that unit actually needs a buff.

PS on 6: Only pointing out here what I perceive to be a ridiculous double standard. I'm actually in favor of the proposed GalLogi movement buff as well as adding WP for team-shared scans to bring its earning capacity into line with the other units in his class. That said, if Recon Scout passive scans were truly overpowered prior to Falloff, then today's low-risk GalLogi scans are in need of serious reevaluation.

I haven't been staring at metrics like you have, but the Min Scout seems like a very good suit as is to me. Given that it's both the best ninja-hacking suit and nova-knifing suit, a buff seems odd.

Do you use it? on paper those may be the best bonuses for those things, but that doesn't make it a good suit. whilst i may not have as much fun, i am more effective in gal, cal scout or gal, min assault.

the knives are hyper situational...but it's also why i love it.

Adding a recoil bonus when that was increased to balance the weapons (RR) in the first place?? No.

That could very well change if/when wiggling becomes less effective. Can't tell you how many hundreds of times my knives have missed due to a target gyrating in and out of frame. I personally suspect that NK efficiency will increase on account of this change and the changes to assault speeds. Fingers crossed.

Please don't crucify me for asking this. I thought "strafe" meant moving while firing? However, you mention a "crouch" strafe adjustment to 1. Therefore, since crouching is not moving, I misunderstand what "strafe" is.

Please inform me what "strafe" speed is?

Please don't crucify me for asking this. I thought "strafe" meant moving while firing? However, you mention a "crouch" strafe adjustment to 1. Therefore, since crouching is not moving, I misunderstand what "strafe" is.

Please inform me what "strafe" speed is?

plan is to deploy tomorrow