Since I started playing Dust, in open beta, one major problem has ruined 90% of my games: Roof camping.

So a fix to roof camping, that I think ruins the game for everyone is the WHAT.

WHEN is asap or better as soon as you feel ready to deploy the next hotfix. ( better wait more for a better hotfix)

HOW: someone smarter than me suggested to change uplinks. Not letting uplinks survive on high roofs (because of atmosphere or stuff) could fix the problem.

Thank you.

Cal-ass bonus

CalAss bonus is great!

To what would you change it?

according to Ratman's trello, its going to be recoil reduction

If it hasn't been said yet the removal of K/D R would be nice. Or at least a replacement with another stat.

If it hasn't been said yet the removal of K/D R would be nice. Or at least a replacement with another stat.

A lot of requests for cap reduction of extenders. I think that will benefit armor as well. I think removing stacking penalties and/or reducing the cap cost of the opposite choices would help.

Regulator buff and/or Dmg Mod or biotics through cap reduction.

if you have a problem with something, counter it. I had a problem with sentinel's back when the HMG had the range of an assault HMG, so I pulled out knives.

If you have a problem with rooftop camping, skill into ADS and start learning it. 2 hardeners and a light shield booster will be suffice for you to clear a rooftop while under AV fire.

CalAss bonus is great!

To what would you change it?

What: https://trello.com/c/hXCkMe0b/532-shield-tanking-buff-armor-nerf
When: preferably prior to tuning Rifles
How: by increasing fitting req'ts for plates (all types and tiers).

K...if so then. buff cpu/of on sentinels.... only fair...no joke.

Or give them a class-wide fitting reducing to vanilla plates. Fine by me. It is absolutely not a goal of mine to see sentinels nerfed in pursuit of better armor-v-shield interplay.

you can slightly nerf my heavys ehp only if you allow me to run at 10m/s

Normalize reload speed, increase dispersion, make dispersion reduction assault bonus.

Dispersion on rail weaponry doesn't make much sense, physically. I know, it's a game, but rail weaponry is known to have good accuracy. Take for example the Sniper Rifle: it's a rail-based weapon, and it's very accurate. IRL, we'll probably use rails for long distance combat in the future. I like how CCP designed rail weaponry in this game. The rifle, pistol and SMG have the best accuracy in their category.

Imo both Caldari and Gallente bonuses are fine because they aren't very game changing, but aren't necessarily bad bonuses. You can get a slight advantage if you use the corresponding faction weapon. If you change them to something related to shields or armor, they'll start to feel unbalanced vs other suits.

Aim assist balance. Prioritize lowest range for strongest aim assist, furthest range= you have to aim yourself. Do this by weapon category as well (heavy, light, side).

This would allow the combat rifle and plasma rifle to tear up those in close quarters, while allowing the scrambler and rail rifle to own long rang combat. It would give a clear defined reason to pick one weapon over another instead of raw dps flavor of the month fit op.

As for sidearm aim assist balancing, remember even though all weapons are deadly, the side arm in the video game world are designed as a finishing off item. Keeping that in mind, the sub and magsec (pray and spray) should have the strongest aim assist, but still sub par to main hand weapons. Pistols in all forms are and should be skill based and should have closer to the minimal aim assist allowed.

As for the Heavy weapons, the forge would be boosted for anti-infantry with aim assist I do agree. The side effect would be it would be worse for vehicle engagement as it is better to lead a target. The hmg, is fine were it is at, but thats just my opinion as I don't ever use them enough to input any real information on them.

Closing note: Since aim assist helps along the line of overall DPS (server correction and bullet magnetism), I do believe all weapons should receive aim assist. Most of the weapons that don't have it should still be so minimal that there is no pull or noticeable difference. The only noticeable difference would be better fluid weapon performance. Mass drivers right on target might actually apply damage (even direct hits), sniper rifles and forgers shots wouldn't pass straight through targets, and so on.

Oh and I am not done yet....

Most of the problems that plaque most weapons could easily be adjusted after this fix. For example but not limited to:

1. Scrambler rifle. Well this would balance it for real. It performs too well at all ranges currently. after this fix, it would suffer from the old HMG dilemma. It would be too accurate to use close up.

2. Fix the rail rifle kick and dispersion. Tune it close but worse than the current scrambler rifle kick and dispersion. This would make it what it was intended to do. Be good when far but far from good.

3. Bolt pistol wouldn't be any easy hip fire one hit kill strafe weapon.

4. You might see a more balanced weapon kill feed. Many maps allow the player to choose their engagement range but only reward those using a few of the weapons. Sure many weapons due pop up on the kill feed due to this, but I believe my purposed fix would see the ranges actually matter from which you choose to shoot from. This fix would also bring lore and tank into accountability for what you choose.

K/D/A?
Isk Efficiency?