if i may?

reducing the damage on breach ARs is perhaps not the right way to balance them. they already lose DPS over standard variants as is. a low DPS, low recoil, automatic weapon is a pretty standard piece of an fps. perhaps INSTEAD of further reducing the dps, they should have the hipfire acc returned to normal. i would say THAT is what makes them break the mold. they are better at range and due to hipfire ARGUABLY better up close. they "should" be better at range and worse up close?


also, i hate vehicle spam as much as the next guy, especially dropships. but flaming vehicles doesn't seem quite right if you intend for there to be 2 independent schools of tanking and repair? what is a shield tanker to do if he catches fire? don't get me wrong i feel that shield tanking has had the upside til now what with the fact that they recharge, and that a shield vehicle can get speed or damage out of his low slots, whereas an armor vehicle gets... a spawn? out of his highs. so if this is how you plan to balance them then... ok i guess, but it seems off.


i like the rest, or am at least curious to try. i'll miss being able to self rep with a repair kit but oh well.

Maybe I missed it but I saw nothing about REs being timed delayed instead of insta boom.

- Added the cortex screen to the remote explosive
- Cooldown between remote explosive throws has been extended

Yeah, because Forge Guns need an even more powerful variant.
Well, you wanted tank free battles, here they come.

I'm excited to see how these Swarm Launcher and Nanohive changes shake out. Keeping them on the field after the user's death and giving them finite capacity makes sense, but I really hope I can get 4-5 full Swarm reloads out of one. (That or the Proto Launcher should get a damage boost, because it can take a heck of a lot of salvos to take down a well fit tank.)

I didn't see a single thing in there about fixing hit detection or reducing RBS.

I'm hopeful that the nano hives running out of nanites will make people think twice about destroying the resupply points. Otherwise it's going to be really tough to be AV against a DR specced tank with 16k+ ehp. Overall though, if things work out the way I'm reading this, I think we'll see much more balanced matches and a LOT more Logi suits.

Cortex screen ? Da fuq ? AFAIK cortex is usually inside your skull, so CCP you mind if we have this in english ?

To be truly and completely honest....handheld weapons should not be stronger than HAV weapons. The basic forge gun is practically as strong as the the strongest railgun AND CCP is only making forge guns stronger? I'm sorry, but the way updates are going having a vehicle will only "be there for looks". Why dont you try making vehicles actually worth the multiple million skill points and isk to acquire instead of just making new versions that will still not be effective? They all are still getting 1-3 shotted by anyone who looks at it funny.

This comes from a Sagaris user. I have every skill maxed that effects tanks and tank modules. I have the most effective possible build I could come up with for a defense based shield tank with about 50% damage reduction, somewhere around 6000 shields, a thoroughly needed shield booster, and the strongest railgun. This tank takes about 4 forge gun rounds on a good day.

I have stopped playing this game due to the saddening vehicles and I'm sure I'm not the first or the last. CCP, quit wasting your players' time and fix some real balance problems instead of adding aim assist and homing grenades.

will be a wipe ?

And one more thing, what about using weapons/equips inside the dropship? When a ship's on fire, and someone inside the ship has a tool, shouldn't they be able to use it? I'd say the same with heavies, but then I pictured a dropship with 4 forge guns....which the only thing I can think of to compensate for that is to have the weight affect mobility....

I hope we can change our faction after the whipe. I want to go to Gallante from Amarr. My friend is there and my son is there on Eve.