So I was really excited to come home from work today and try out all the new things that CCP had to offer. Unfortunately all they seemed to do was dissapoint and here is why.

The laser rifle was nerfed to the ground harder then a warrior in cataclysm (WoW reference). Less zoom which I was ok with. Less damage which I was also ok with. But combined with iron sights it made it unbearable. add in the feedback damage increase and the fact that it overheats faster (with max skills it overheats with 33 bullets remaining while it used to be down to 20) and you have an overall cruddy weapon. Also there were many times I was outranged by a duvoule AR which kinda defeats the purpose of a laser rifle. This is a futuristic game. Why does it need iron sights? With the amount of feedback damage you recieve from the extremely fast overheat I would have figured that the targeting system would at least be integrated to the suit?

The next item is the horrible terrible color of the logi suits. Yellow? Really? just scream to the enemy "Hey there im the logi on my team shoot me first!" Its not like we need a big object saying we are the healers. We dont get immunity like the red cross providing humanitarian aid. Even the proto is yellow. if this is another joke like it was with the golden retriever in Eve, then it needs to be fixed ASAP. Someone had a "Bright" idea.

The pure amount of skills required to get into suits is rediculous as well. CCP told us we would be able to get into the suits we had before but I couldnt afford everything I used to have (I have 9.3 million SP). I get to specialize in one weapon. I used to have Logi with a little bit of heavy on the side. Didnt have enough skill points to even get to proto logi with all the same gear I had before.

The last issue is the supply depots... you took out our ability to freely change suits at the depot but gave tankers the ability to recall their vehicles? Yeah we can still change suits but we lose the suit we just changed out of as if we had just died in it. This needs to be fixed. If tankers can save their tanks we should be able to save our suits. It feels like us ground troops are getting punished for making smart tactical decisions by changing our suit to one that suits the situations we get ourselves into. I ran a laser rifle. it sucked getting up close to someone with an AR or shotgun. Sometimes i could make it to the depot and change into my HMG and survive. Now i may as well just die cause im going to lose the suit either way.

Overall the game looks nice, the interface is better, and the load times got drastically reduced. But this has been a classic example of how CCP takes their nerfs too far (incursions).

well duh this is open beta build, this is why all the cosed beta testers said the last build shouldn't of been open beta... this game still needs one last major patch to flush out the races and bug and useless skill book levels that do nothing no joke.

The next item is the horrible terrible color of the logi suits. Yellow? Really? just scream to the enemy "Hey there im the logi on my team shoot me first!" Its not like we need a big object saying we are the healers. We dont get immunity like the red cross providing humanitarian aid. Even the proto is yellow. if this is another joke like it was with the golden retriever in Eve, then it needs to be fixed ASAP. Someone had a "Bright" idea.

Every single thing is not doing as much damage as you are used to ;) you have to skill up into things now. There is no more OP weapon anywhere until people start investing again into actual dropsuit and weapon combo specialization.

The pure amount of skills required to get into suits is rediculous as well. CCP told us we would be able to get into the suits we had before but I couldnt afford everything I used to have (I have 9.3 million SP). I get to specialize in one weapon. I used to have Logi with a little bit of heavy on the side. Didnt have enough skill points to even get to proto logi with all the same gear I had before.

The iron sites on the LR block the target. It is like trying to aim using a coin the size of a quarter to aim other than that I am on for now. I will play some more and let them tweak for a day or two.

Why did the LR get an M16 ironsight and AR gets the ironsight with a thin tip. IMO, I think these sights should be switched.

Agreed with everything OP said 100%. As an avid LR user, it just doesn't seem like a viable choice for a weapon anymore. I am ok with a nerf on damage (which is painfully onvious to those who used it regularly during Chromasome) and I can even stomach the range nerf, but those iron sights are so atrocious. I used to have a knack for aiming at an enemy's head and keeping the laser on it for quick max kill efficiency. Now, when I ADS, I can't tell what I am even aiming at. Tbh, I don't even ADS while I fire it now because at least I can see which body part I am making contact with. Almost every LR user will agree...give us back our old sights. Keep everything else, but for the love of everything good, give at least THAT back to us.

Ive posted a couple of times on this already, the LR ADS Iron's are abysmal, they make the weapon un-usable. the sights on the AR are fantastic and so easy to aim with, but the hood on the LR onscures everything and ruins your periphery vision.

The last issue is the supply depots... you took out our ability to freely change suits at the depot but gave tankers the ability to recall their vehicles? Yeah we can still change suits but we lose the suit we just changed out of as if we had just died in it.

Unable to change your suit from a depot without losing it?

This has to be a bug and must be fixed immediatly!!!

I makes some sense as you could use the supply depot to replenish your nanohives, droplinks etc. which I do not think is its intended purpose. I do not think this is a bug.

I makes some sense as you could use the supply depot to replenish your nanohives, droplinks etc. which I do not think is its intended purpose. I do not think this is a bug.