The CPM is wrapping up our priority list. In the spirit of CCP's Rattati's call for suggestions for Hotfix FoxFour, we're wanting to hear what you have to say to cover anything we might have missed.

Toss out a single suggestion for what should be looked at for the next Hotfix / Warlords 1.3. Keep it to a sentence or two and if necessary provide a link with more details. Please do not derail the thread.

Warlords 1.3 is slated to have:
UX GÇô Fitting and Trading
Achievements 1.0
Salvage Gameplay GÇô Simple Crafting
Daily Missions 2.0



Feel free to continue suggesting things. I've added reasonable proposals to the list. Some of these things have already been suggested by the CPM. To name a few off the top of my head that were already being looked into:

- Cloak fitting reduction on Scouts as a 75% flat rate instead of per level (to allow newer players to access this benefit sooner)
- Ion Pistol, HMG, Laser Rifle, etc wonkiness
- Gal/Cal Assault fine tuning
- Item trading

Hotfixes are just that; fixes.

Patches are for introducing shiny stuff, and beginning the refinement process on whatever CCP releases.

Improve EWAR by:

Normalise scout profiles but setting Min and Am profiles equal to Gal and Cal. See suggestions 2 or 3 in this spreadsheet:
Normalising scout profiles

Buff scan range amplifiers (also shown in spreadsheet).

Nerf focussed scanner range (to say 60-70m). This is to make up for the loss of the squad only drawback. A major drawback to using a focussed scanner was that it only shares information with squad members rather than the whole team. This was to offset the power to both provide general scanning and to effectively kill scouts and deny them from operating in large areas of the map. Scout suits fitted to hide from Gal logi focussed scanners are of limited usefulness. However, with the changes to squads the whole team in a PC is all one squad, and so focussed scan results are shared across the whole team, something that was not originally intended. Another drawback is needed to balance this change.
Shorter range, akin to the proximity scanner, would thematically make sense for a high powered focussed scanner.

Yes this is effectively three changes in one, sorry about that.

Focussed scanners should be nerfed because they were unintentionally buffed. So this is just to maintain balance. By all means change focussed scanners to share team-wide at the same time. They'd be more useful in pubs and for solo players. But they need the range nerf to balance this.

As for the scout changes, the suggestion is mainly just swapping a profile bonus for lower profile. Gal and Cal profiles would effectively remain the same. Am and Min profiles would equal Gal and Cal, and they would lose one of their bonuses in return.
Low profile is equally crucially important to all scouts and so they should all have equal access to it. The most stealthy scouts would be no more difficult to scan than they are now.

Scanning is not the counter to scouts. It is just a very effective one.

Also I suggested buffing scan range amps. This would be a buff to scanning and so improves people's ability to scan scouts, if they really want to.

Scouts don't run 60m straight at a Gal logi and kill them. Scouts sneak around dropping links, destroying links, hacking installations, trying to speed hack points and using the element to surprise to quickly take out lone targets our people already in a firefight. A 60-70m ranged scan would be perfectly capable of combatting scouts, who generally operate close to enemies. It would make it more difficult to use the scanner against assaults who tend to prefer ranged combat.

Shotguns aren't solely the weapon of a scout. If you want to shoot someone with a shotgun you are probably better off with an assault.

please don't tell me people think the cal assault is OP & getting a nerf...

Heavies need a better strafe speed, and the normal HMG needs a buff, more damage and little more range.
and make the heavy what it should be a slow tank, then what it is now weak and not worth skilling in to.

Do you think your suit should be rendered useless with out a logi?

Let me repeat: DO NOT DERAIL THIS THREAD.

This thread isn't to argue, debate, or hash out your balance concerns. Take it somewhere else.

Full trading & dancing Jara...at least put a smilenon her face.

Fix glitches and bugs. I'll be fine with that only.

Aeon stop with the troll and do your job

Play much Destiny?

My Two Cents on Class Parity

Scouts
EWAR (i.e. passive scans, active scans, range extenders) needs work, and we need to either rework/replace the currently lackluster passive scan bonuses or find a way to make them meaningful again (without being OP). I'd personally prefer seeing the CA Scout made into a decent passive scan platform and the AM Scout's bonuses replaced with either efficacy bonus to biotics or the scrambler pistol (either option would make it much more fun to play). Also, Scout scan profile normalization has been proposed by several different mercs (Varoth worked up a spreadsheet); I'm inclined to agree that this would be the best way to get Scouts other than Gallente back into competitive play. While profile normalization would disenfranchise the GalScout to a degree, it would make for a strong step toward restoring intra-class parity. Need be, we could later find a new edge to set the GalScout apart, but I don't think that this would prove necessary as the GalScout's base stats and slot layout alone make it a solid option. What is or isn't within the scope of hotfix here, I'm uncertain.

Assaults
Unpopular, I know, but we absolutely need to stop buffing Assaults or buffing things (like HP modules) which disproportionately benefit units with high slot counts (like Assaults); they're far enough ahead of the pack as is. Or so it seems to me.

Sentinels
If it is in fact happening on a large scale, Assaults winning toe-to-toe engagements against HMG Heavies is unacceptable. If reigning in slightly some of the more recent Assault buffs (i.e. slightly reduce Assault shield regen buffs, slightly reduce GA Assault RoF bonus) is for whatever reason is off the table, I don't see any option other than to buff heavies and deal with the pandora's box of power creep that follows.

Logis
See Spreadsheet below.

Commandos
No input at this time.

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My Two Cents on Everything Else

Google Doc

Includes hotfixable tweaks to the following:
Sniper Rifles
Swarm Launcher
Breach Shotgun
Assault Mass Driver
Nova Knives
Ion Pistol
Breach Flaylock
Sleek AV Grenade
Active Scanners
Cloak
Packed Remote Explosive
Proximity Mines
Small Blaster Turret
Range Extenders
Dropsuit Module Tier Progressions <--- somewhat poke Kevall; this one would improve NPE.

* and a couple other things beyond the reach of hotfix (namely, a CalLogi buff and some EWAR tweaks)