Today CCP Wolfman and CCP CmndWang hot dropped into IRC and left us a few lines and answered a few questions. These are just generalized summaries and don't hold ccp to anything and this is not specific wording as I dont have the character limit to post all of it also understand that devlopment on the white board is subject to horribel erasing cancellations and sometimes newer shineier toys so you might as well take all of this as fuel for speculation and your magic crystal ball.

Also becuase copy/paste dont work on my cleint ><

Reasoning behind HP nerf
'We wanted to emphasize modules and skill training support skills on suits and not have HP as the advantage, There is discussion about reducing prices of higher end suits becuase of the recent changes.'

Immortal Tanks
'We are well aware of the issue and will be addressing it soon.'

Swarm Launcher Wonkiness
'*Looks into it 'its hard to tell because the numbers are looking right, warrents further investigation'

Tank Top Turret
'360 rotation fixed'

Hit Detection
'We have this new system that auto adjusts hit detection based on lag and it will be in the next patch/build we pretty happy about this system.'

LAV Turret Tracking While moving
'Nothing worked on but its planned to be fixed'

Skills
'Next build you should see a larger number of skills providing bonsues.'

Who boosts what in a Vehicle?
'The driver only atm, I'll get back to you on the passenger effective turret effectiveness since dev who works on that isnt here.'

Forge guns and AV
'We're going to increase forge gun range we are also looking at the numbers being generated during the 'nerfed' session before moving foward with buffs and/or ajdustments.'

Dropship Landing
'We're getting better landing gear for them'

Tank Culture
This was the longest discussion between multiple developers. IRCers expressed that most anti tank options currently are insufficent counters at similar cost ratios in both resources, options, isk and SP. Issues included tactics, remote repair, why HAV vs HAV doesnt happen and many more topics. CCP feels that additional options of next patch/build will address most concerns such as an AV statis webifier mine that would slow down a tank enough to OB to its death.

Newer Orbital Strikes
'These should severly damage/destroy even the best of tanks'

Lack of Communication over the (reason) of the AV nerf
"We posted the hotfix patches and we just tested how much further we can make live changes. Remember this is temporary."

Anti-Material Rifle
'Sniper Rifle but for headshotting Tanks is currently heavily bugged no plans in the short time.

Flux Grenades
'Shouldnt be able to kill butterflies its currently a bug infantry are dying to it...'


Multiple Grenade Slots
'We're working on it so hopefully more 'options' will open up by having more than one kind'

Contact Grenades
'Isk variants and others are being discussed now'

New Build
'later this month'

Corporate Battles
'There will be a winner, We are tracking victories for this event to the corp that won the most battles.'

Females
'Soon(without the tm)'

*CCP Staff breaks for Lunch
CCP Wolfman suggests he may be back to answer more post lunch.

Resumption after lunch.

Ladders
'We adding more! and fixing bugs associated with them.'

Racial Dropsuit Symetry
'On the roadmap in other words Soon(tm)'

Bugs
'We're fixing them.'

Moving/Operative Doors and Gates
'No plans atm'

Multiple Stage Maps/Game Modes
'Yes they're comming back but not skirmish mode the skirmish fell apart with the overly favoring the defenders.'

Weakspots on Buildings
'We wherent aware of it... we're going to look into it'

Heavy Machine Guns
'Have been retweaked to work albit differently, may require a nerf based on internal testing'

Mass Drivers
'also getting a tweak to increase damage radius slighlty.'

Swarm Launchers
'we're currently testing dumbfireless launchers thus lock ons required'

Fact is, the vast majority of PS3 players won't go near that channel b/c the fact you even have to memorize commands to log in is a wall no one wants to deal with.[/quote

This is ridiculous. Oh poor childeren, is IRC too hard? Are words like "join" and "leave" too difficult to comprehend? The only thing barring you from the IRC channel is your own laziness or stupidity.

Laziness is why most people buy a PS3 over going into pc gaming, the IRC is one extra thing they have to go get and the casual gamer isnt going to sit with a laptop right next to him while playing PS3. It doesnt make sense to some people due to the fact they arent used to having to look up fits/gear/patch notes. Some of us think its second nature to always have access to the internet while playing video games but even in this digital age most casual gamers have their PS3 and computers in different rooms; the PS3 is generally thought of as an entertainment tool while the PC is an important information collection/storage device.

I used to check on the IRC too but honestly I dont have the time to dedicate to squad up, deal with crash/bugs on multiple machines, or just hang out on a forum.

It should be Forums > IRC

There should be polls, we shouldn't have to run and dig for info, we shouldn't get it secondhand.

If these forums have a point at all, then make them the focus.

We need more communication from CCP directly.

I don't have time to sit in IRC all day, my computers in another room.

Honestly I could care less about IRC and I guarentee thr same for most other testers. Half probably don't rven come on these forums.

Anyone saying otherwise is making excuses or just really wants it to be the way they want it to br, not the most logical or easy to use way.

/discussion

Also Templar Two I agree on all of your points. +1

The problem with most FPSers is they dont really dont complain about any of those things outside the weapon attachments which have been currently stated as 'not being planned for... yet' I mean seriosly the questions I ask would be the same kinds you ask just right now I have a short amount of time (these sessions are like 20 minutes or less when they happen) just right now some things are majorly more annoying than others. I sweep the fourums daily and the questions asked mostly reflected pages 1-3 of GD and Feedback (not involving entirely new ideas)

You can see that the first questions getting asked where about the hot fixes today.

You can tell there was a crud tonn of questions about the tanks. Which alot of IRCers are beginning to feel that this game is going to turn into tanks online in which if tanks become to prevalant (which they are atm) how else are you going to test for bad weapons?

Aim assist was asked about too, alot of the IRCers feel that tweaking weapons before fixing hit detection can be a bad thing as it leads to some weapons being much more powerful than first intended such as last builds breach AR, and this builds Milita Shotgun

Dropship handeling was discussed a bit.

I mean seriously when was the last thread you saw about AR spread being bad? SMG recoil complaints died 2 builds ago, only one guy ever complained about reloading needing something more.

There are hundreds and hundresds of issues dedicated forum community guys have been trying to compile all of your complaints and so far not one mention that SMG turn rate while ADS, or Where is our Laser Rifle (SOONtm)? Or Gauss Rifle?

CCP cant do everything neither can we, I mean I cant read your thoughts right now.

Please please oh please tell me what FPS mechanics are broken. Becuase as a casual shooter I have no kitten idea what is wrong with some guns and not. I cant read your mind and keeping these damn things to yourself is the other half of the effing problem.