imho, Fozzie, Rise and Ytterbium should totally take over the weapons balancing in dust (or at least teach wolfman and remnant how to do it)

these guys know how to balance stuff and how to interact with the community in that regard. For dust, the whole weapon balancing has been a complete and utter failure.

Don't worry another guy is taking over and you wont be too upset with him when he starts pushing blogs out.

Don't worry another guy is taking over and you wont be too upset with him when he starts pushing blogs out.

I personally feel as if balance throughout the last year (Give or take a month or two) has been nothing more than band-aid 'fixes' that never really solved the underlying issues.

In uprising, that small cut that only needed a bandaid.... it turned into a festering, open gash.

The disruption of the skill tree coupled with the near complete revamp of the suits with almost no logical variation between them was boggling at best. Several weapons were adjusted, but again, these were more band-aid fixes than actual solutions to our balance woes.


The new suits increased the general survivability of players, and new suits with strange slot layouts or certain bonuses made some vastly superior to other suits of similar type and tier...


But I digress :

Under the old base line of 'power' I would've considered nearly all of the weapons OP, yet mostly redundant in their roles.

The flaylock is basically a mini mass driver that overshadows it in every aspect except splash range.

The plasma cannon is an unholy offpsring of a forge gun and a mass driver, less effective than either in most cases.

The scrambler rifle is probably the only 'decent' weapon of the three that I wouldn't consider OP. Aside from some minor range differences, it's basically a clone of the assault rifle with similar damage, with an overheat. Which is fine, because it stands to reason that every race would have some sort of 'AR' as their go-to weapon for infantry. I haven't touched it on the live build, but my experience with the scrambler is that it needs to overheat -slightly- slower, and that's all I would change on it for the most part.

Is this something the CPM plans to touch up on in the future? Perhaps by persuading CCP in the right direction to properly add variation, balance and practicality?

Don't worry another guy is taking over and you wont be too upset with him when he starts pushing blogs out.

That's the CPM's job. Trying to bring the consensus of the playerbase (or rather, the forumbase) to CCP's attention. Whether or not CCP chooses to listen and/or act upon what we want is a different stoy entirely. CPM gets all the workload of sorting the garbage and get saddled with the consequences that should be CCP's when they choose not to do what we want (or do it wrong).

imho, Fozzie should totally take over the weapons balancing in dust

Correction : There's a new lead game designer who intends to put balance high on the planning list.

They still don't have their fozzie yet.

Oh dear God no... Not Fozzie... he gives no fucks about racial variation and lore.