About your first point, this may be true of a Gallente trained mercenary, but that does not mean he is Gallente. For instance, Kameiras are of the Minmatar race but trained since they are young by the Amarrian Empire.

About your first point, this may be true of a Gallente trained mercenary, but that does not mean he is Gallente. For instance, Kameiras are of the Minmatar race but trained since they are young by the Amarrian Empire.

I will figure out (or try to) what amongst this post are going to be useful to Not-DUST and ask the devs to consider those points.

Thanks for the contribution.

He's talking about dropsuit functionality rather than the differences between a gallentean character and an amarrian.

Each race's doctrine should show in the performance profiles of that race's dropsuits, so when you go from a gallente assault to an amarr assault there should be a sharp difference in feel between how the suits are built to perform.

I.E. gallente suits snap-accelerate and decelerate to attack in close like demons on the attack, but minmatar are better at firing accurately while in motion, and work better when in constant, sustained motion. Amarr should feel like "tanks" and caldari should feel like angry gods at range, but get slapped up like misbehaving children (in comparison to their ranged efficiency) when a gallente appears in close.

It's a "look/feel" mindset for how the dropsuits perform, I agree wholeheartedly with a massive chunk of the OP's post without reservation.

I will figure out (or try to) what amongst this post are going to be useful to Not-DUST and ask the devs to consider those points.

Thanks for the contribution.

Vehicles need a mission distinct from infantry. Decide on the mission and fashion the vehicle to fulfill that mission.

DUST just created a bunch of vehicles but didn't give them anything to do so they defaulted to the slayer role. Yes, dropships could transport a squad, but drop uplinks and small maps rendered them redundant. HAVs didn't have anything to shoot at other than infantry or the occasional vehicle, a role easily filled by dropsuits. Hence vehicles became flying dropsuits or dropsuits with treads. That's how we got the ADS. CCP admitted defeat and slapped a gun on it rather than give it something unique to do.

stopped reading at assault forge gun having a hard time. scrub

I did main FGs as an anti-infantry weapon for two months. I know what I'm talking about here.

(protip: FG + precision enhancer = solo CQC HMG Sentinel counter ... and lots of lols)

@ Vehicle roles:
It's ok to have vehicles be able to perform infantry slaying as one role. When you want to win a battle killing lots of enemies is one way of achieving that. But then that advantage needs to be counterbalanced with a downside. The system breaks down when calling in an HAV is the optimal way of winning a battle under any circumstance.

Except competitively it has never been the optimal way of winning a battle. HAV and vehicle for the most part a largely irrelevant in objective based game modes because they cannot access the objectives to be able to defend them meaningfully.

vehicles could easily have been used has support roles.

they should have been better suited towards breaking enemy defenses and fortify certain areas . lets say u got enemies dug deep inside a room with lots of uplink and various enemies.

vehicles should be able to reach in there bombard them or essential break those powerful defenses.

i never wanted them to be used as a shark circling around looking for easy kills.

id prefer it if they were basically in the fray with infantry soaking up fire attempting to reduce friendly casualties.