"The Heavy dropsuit is designed to withstand concentrated small arms fire and protect the wearer from low-grade explosives. Its power-assisted exoskeleton lets the wearer use the heaviest weapons available.

What heavy dropsuits lack in mobility they make up for with incomparable defenses. Mercenaries wearing such armor have been known to survive going toe-to-toe with enemy vehicles."

Sentinels are the only with resistance bonuse to weapon types and explosives.

IMHO sentinels need some love.

How about giving them an extra sidearms damage reduction bonus?

As for the toe to toe against vehicles......... Yes lavs, yes dropships, but not havs at least the blaster.

Maybe let the damage type resistance apply to vehicle turrets too? (That is if they don't. I don't know)

Edit- "light weapons" fall under small arms so no sidearm damage reduction bonus.

Allow heavies to carry a nanohive.

This bandwidth bs is for the burds.

Ah yes, because we should totally make Logistics less valuable.

Well how else am I suppose to run solo and get up high and camp with my alldins. Tired of committing suicide because I ran out of ammo

I'm fine with the Sentinels receiving an eHP buff, other than that I think they're fine where they are.

There were no serious requests for Sentinel buffs until the last round or two of Assault buffs. Sentinels aren't the problem here. Sentinel buffs won't solve the problem. If the past is any indication, moar power creep will introduce as many (if not more) problems than it solves.

If you want to fix Sentinels without creating new imbalance, nerf Assaults.

Reduce Assault slot count by one and see how Sentinels, Scouts and Commandos all become better balanced. Alternatively, take a whack at the root of the issue: Assault staying power. Start by rolling back a portion of the previous base HP increase. Should Assaults remain OP, introduce meaningful drawbacks to stacking ferro/reactive plates. Finally, should the need arise, find a smart way to discourage dual tanking.

TL;DR: The problem is not that Sentinels are too squishy but rather that Assaults are too beefy.

Funny thing is, if memory serves, in the earliest builds of the game the Sentinel had 1000 HP base armor before modules. They were nearly unkillable by infantry to a point where the beat way to deal with them was a swarm launcher

"The Heavy dropsuit is designed to withstand concentrated small arms fire and protect the wearer from low-grade explosives. Its power-assisted exoskeleton lets the wearer use the heaviest weapons available.

What heavy dropsuits lack in mobility they make up for with incomparable defenses. Mercenaries wearing such armor have been known to survive going toe-to-toe with enemy vehicles."

Sentinels are the only with resistance bonuse to weapon types and explosives.

IMHO sentinels need some love.

Edit- "light weapons" fall under small arms so no sidearm damage reduction bonus.

As for the toe to toe against vehicles......... Yes lavs, yes dropships, but not havs at least the blaster.

Maybe let the damage type resistance apply to vehicle turrets too? (That is if they don't. I don't know)

You do realize that those descriptions are written "in character", meaning this is meant to be the description that the "manuafacturer" writes to sell it to the fictional characters we play, and that marketing trumps everything thing up, right? Just look at the how much Fox touted the new Fantastic Four movie last year and you'll see how good the marketing teams can really be...

There were no serious requests for Sentinel buffs until the last round or two of Assault buffs.

Correction: There were no serious requests for sentinel buffs until the HMG was nerfed too hard.

the assault buffs had not one goddamn thing to do with this.

Correct.

Assaults are fine imo.

So are scouts and logis and commandos.

But then come the sentinels......

Correction: There were no serious requests for sentinel buffs until the HMG was nerfed too hard.

the assault buffs had not one goddamn thing to do with this.

Ah yes, because we should totally make Logistics less valuable.

That's preposterous, Breakin. Can't buff Assaults and not affect Sentinels.

Just in case you've been too busy to play the current build, a merc can't get far these days without bumping into an Assault or three. They're wildly popular for good reason. And buffing GA Assault DPS? The most widely used CQC unit in the game? Yeah, I'm not a game designer by training, but I imagine that might take a toll on the performance of other CQC units.

Grab a respec and test it out for yourself like I did. See how easy it is for a GA or even CA Assault to go toe-to-toe with a Sentinel and come out on top. It's disgusting, and it wasn't the case until after HF Foxfour. The question is not if the latest round of Assault buffs affected Sentinels but how much. If you think I'm pulling your chain, ask your buddies behind the curtain whether Sentinel kill-spawn efficiency has increased or decreased following Foxfour.


PS: The HMG nerfs you're looking to blame were dated March of last year (HF Echo).

Who's the say the HMG nerfs weren't the start of the Sentinel's issues, with the Assault buffs just compounding them/making them that much more obvious.

A big part of the issue of using a Sentinel is the hit detection issues with the HMG causing it to lose a huge chunk of its DPS.

This is very true

Who's the say the HMG nerfs weren't the start of the Sentinel's issues, with the Assault buffs just compounding them/making them that much more obvious.

A big part of the issue of using a Sentinel is the hit detection issues with the HMG causing it to lose a huge chunk of its DPS.

Well how else am I suppose to run solo and get up high and camp with my alldins. Tired of committing suicide because I ran out of ammo

... what should be done ... ?

Same goes for Scouts; the root of their problems began with EWAR changes in Dec of '14 and have since been compounded. But the point remains. Assuming that some degree of interplay exists, buffing one side of the equation will always affect the other side. Buffing Sentinel DPS may very well bring them up-to-speed with Assaults, but there are other interplay considerations to weigh.

If Assaults are OP -- and they certainly look that way from the vantage of Commandos, Sentinels and Scouts -- then the quickest and cleanest fix is to nerf Assaults.