Or at all. It helped sheild tankers and commandos

1.2 was pretty awful. We first saw the numbers in an E3 video. We knew they wouldn't work and created this thread to say so. That's right, this 32 page post is only a month old and was created to balance those new modules before they came out. As you can tell it was an abject failure.

Worst yet there are so many issues on CCP's plate that it's like we just got a drink by a busy bartender, it's wrong but we'll never get a chance to order again.

After reading the CPM AMA transcript, I'm confident that we're going to see a change in the balance work coming out of CCP.

I will agree though, that having been given the numbers accidentally via the Market scroll in that trailer, and suggesting that they were non-optimal, we still ended up with them released the way we had feared.

Actually, there was even a Dev post in one of the threads on the topic "reminding people that all values are subject to change before deployment".

Welp.

Bonuses?

CCP Remnant has expressed he wanted to get the bonus system up to part in current design. While this would see like a short sight in design this is probably largely attributed to 'deadline design.' But with the new bonus system things can get far more interesting on the current suits in buffing or niching every class into its own corner much better giving even the base suits a reason for their use that would make those familiar with eve instantly recognizable in the Tech 1 to Tech 2 progression strengths and weaknesses of every role. So interesting bonuses such as Amarr and Gallente relationship with armor tanking with one focusing on hp the later on speed.

still no dev response...

I'm back.
Still no dev response though.

Their constant lack of attention to this thread is incredibly worrying....

Confirming that CCP Wolfman spoke to the kitty. Unfortunately he wouldn't give us any armour numbers quite yet as they were still debating with CCP Remnant about specifics. So we still have to wait a while but at least it's being worked on which is great!

Was playing academy yesterday and I noticed most new players are Gallente. I really hope they fix the suits soon because that might be part of the bad NPE.

Was playing academy yesterday and I noticed most new players are Gallente. I really hope they fix the suits soon because that might be part of the bad NPE.

It might also effect the level of saturation within the meta of explosive damage. If the easy, and most frequent, kills are to be had against armor then a trend towards use of weapons which punish armor would make sense. Why kill one shield tanker when you can take out 3 armor tankers instead? (hence the vital need for diverse tanking methods which maintain parity, because without it the whole context of the game could slowly become distorted).

It might even go as far as to where new players are told specifically not to level up Gallente and Amarr suits by other, experienced, players leading to a greater division between armor and shield tanking by player count alone. And then of course comes the part where the player base becomes comfortable with the majority being shield tankers that when armor tanking becomes useful players will cry OP and thus we will be nerfed So the sooner the fixes come the better.

EDIT: I feel I am threading close to the tinfoil debacle.

Mass drivers are the new FOTM. Ever noticed how this has 30+ pages and no blue posts?

They do seem to be very common right now.
I'm reserving judgement on them until explosive damage is tweaked so they don't instagib me.

Is there confirmation of explosive tweaking?