I like the idea but I think that 5%, 10%, 15%, 25%, and 35% would be more reasonable just because 50% is an insane amount of resistance.

AR people don't even want the Adv / Proto suits buffed by giving them more slots, and lowering the price on the Proto suits... you REALLY think they not gonna cry about a buff like this?

...Really? Damage reduction is the best way to go? Even though a heavy has the highest amount of EHP in the game? Heavy =/= auto win button.

I can agree that heavies scale badly, but at the same time, introducing damage resistance isn't the way to go. There are other, much better ways to balance heavies.

well the buffs do sounds promising since at the moment going for proto heavy is pointless and they die too fast for a proto suit

Play Scout than tell me Heavies die fast for a scout.

Play Scout than tell me Heavies die fast for a scout.

You mean the weakest class in the game with almost no armor and very small shields can't take out a class thats meant to be a walking anti-infantry suit? Damn, heavies sure are OP.

They strafe faster than heavies can turn, that ALONE is unfair.

Turning buff, slight speed buff, smaller hitbox, a buff to the armor plating modules, a buff to armor at the higher tiers... Anything but a damage reduction. Too much room for abuse.

...Really? Damage reduction is the best way to go? Even though a heavy has the highest amount of EHP in the game? Heavy =/= auto win button.

I can agree that heavies scale badly, but at the same time, introducing damage resistance isn't the way to go. There are other, much better ways to balance heavies.

Edit: There are already armor and shield resists - each weapon does a different amount of damage to shield than to armor. The proposal means a blanket x% decrease of damage to the heavy across the board. It doesn't fit in lore-wise, and it would wreck the balance of the game. It would mean a return of the game to the era when heavies with ARs dominated the game.

Just saying all you guys whine how you die so fast in a gun fight. You have noooo idea what those words even mean.

I play as both Scout and Heavy and I feel like the scout plays roll so much better then the heavy. When I play as Scout I die quickly in pretty much any fight where I don't get the first shot in. Thats how it should be, thats why the scout has a small profile and high speed. However, the Heavy currently isn't strong enough to play its roll as a slow moving death machine from mid to close quarters. As a heavy I shouldn't have to play cautiously as a scout in order to get kills.

Doesn't the uprising thing mention that dropsuit levels will give bonus's as well as unlocking the next tier so maybe they are implementing something like this. And if heavy's had added damage resistance the could become abusable if a logi +triage tool follows them, if the dam res is too high the repair tool might keep them at full armour or atleast make armour drop extremely slowly which would lead to complaints but then again what wont?

I honestly think the system is like most MMOs Rock paper Scissor kinda game play. Assaults lose to Logi, Heavies lose to Assault, Logi loses to Scout, Scout loses to Heavy. That's the way I feel about it. Although all roles can overcome each other.

But that isn't how it should be. Each roll should be able to beat every other roll if the player is using that roll well. A heavy should be able to kill everything as long as its well supported and well covered, an assault roll should be able to kill anything by working together/smart use of equipment/ surprise, A scout should be able to kill anything by using speed and stealth, and a logi should be able to kill anything through teamwork/smart equipment usage.

Everything can kill everything. I seen Heavies kill Assaults all the time.

Numbers: Heavy vk.0 has 650 armor and 100 shield. That gives it a total of 750 hp. I'm not going to go into EHP here, since ARs do more damage to shield than armor, etc.

A damage reduction of 35%.. Actually, let's do 20%. That would give a proto heavy a BASE hp of 900. Let's add armor plates on top of that. Complex armor plates, let's fit two of those. 115hp each, which gives 230hp. Take 20% damage reduction, that comes to a total of 276hp added on TOP of the 900, giving a total hp of 1176hp.

A Duvolle can dish out 47.45 damage per shot with AR Prof V, weap V and a complex damage mod. That would cause resultant heavy to die in just under 2 seconds, not including inherent damage effectiveness against shield/armor. It would be higher, as ARs do 90% to armor.

A heavy with a single complex damage mod would do, with a Boundless HMG, would kill (assuming the assault had about 700hp, complete overestimation) the assault in 0.86 seconds, not including the damage effectiveness. Assuming all bullets hit. Even if just 50% hit, you still kill a proto AR user in less time that it takes for him to kill you.

Your right, A heavy having the advantage one vs one is totally unfair

Your right, A heavy having the advantage one vs one is totally unfair

Even without the damage reduction, you still kill the assault in less time than he takes to kill you. 2 / 1.35 = 1.48 seconds. You still kill the assault 1.7 times faster than he takes to kill you.

Ok so in your whacky world teams should need a squad to battle a heavy? Get real.