I agree with all of this. One thing to add is the sentinel is designed to be a slow moving tank, much like the previous vk0 or type A etc. the 2 biggest issues with this is all suits base HP are that of the shield variant, which previously had greater movement speed.

now ALL suits have the slower movement speed, thus removing the option for heavies to be more aggressive on the battlefield. hit detection/aim has been affected in this build as well, which has been commented on several occasions.

and people can agree or disagree about the range, here is a nice example showing how sad it has become. I'm on 1 side of the tabletop, up top, and cannot damage the guy that just climbed up on the ladder on the other side. worse yet I can barely put a dent in the shields of the guy directly below me.

I'm FORCED to stack dmg mods just to not be rendered completely useless on the battlefield, and while I am finding ways to make it work, I cannot cross a road without getting destroyed from somewhere, even when I see them shooting at me cause I shoot at them and do zero damage, while they sit there, squat down, and slowly murder my 1100+ total HP before I can cross a road.

Yeah... right now only the Amarr heavy frame model is complete. In Uprising we've started pushing all the suits more into specific race profiles, but of course when you're missing 75% of the other frame options you're bound to have some balance holes. The Caldari, Minmatar and Gallente heavy frames are coming, but not as soon as we'd all like.

To that point though, how would you guys like us to approach that? Would you want Type-IIs and more sidegrade variants to tide you over until the other suits come online? (Even knowing that we'll probably retire them once the others arrive?)

Has anyone tried the heavy suit with a laser. Im just curious about that and trying to find a way to continue to play dust. Cause I'm not even turning my ps3 on to play under the current conditions.