Only Commando dropsuits let you equip two light weapons such as shotguns and SMGs, offering extreme versatility at the cost of some punch.

What are 'shield energizers' and how would they work?

SMGs are sidearms.

Also, not sure if that "Patch notes" link at the bottom of the post is meant to link to: "http://patch.notes.forum.post/", which isn't a valid address.

Will the new weapon ranges be available in-game and hopefully as a data dump?

In game weapon ranges? I like it.

Commando dropsuits let you equip two light weapons such as shotguns and ARs, offering extreme versatility at the cost of some punch.

To make the whole shooting experience more dynamic and fun, weGÇÖre introducing Optimal, Effective, and Absolute range on all handheld weapons, which will modify damage depending on your weapon and how close you are to the target. This should address the feedback you gave us regarding weapons that deal damage well over their maximum range, and will directly result in a better core shooter mechanics.

This is extremely vague.

Can you shed any more light on the Commando?

This is extremely vague.

Can you shed any more light on the Commando?

The Uprising 1.2 expansion?

Um ... did u mean patch?

Also if you release this patch with no numbers ahead of time for us to feedback on , I'm gone. Back to eve forever where I get treated like a real customer.

We're aiming to provide numbers on the Commando dropsuit, weapon ranges, and new mods in the near future. The Commando Dropsuit blog is mostly finished, but the other two are still being worked on so I can't give an exact timeframe for them.

Yes, they'll be in-game. Not sure about a data dump, I'll look into it for you.

Nothing about the missing Racial Variants for existing classes and roles?

We'll hopefully have a dev blog out soon that will discuss the new modules and how they work.

Nothing about the missing Racial Variants for existing classes and roles?

For the most part, we want to focus on getting things like aiming and movement right and fun before we turn back to filling out these roles. Getting those nailed down has been one of the major pieces of feedback we've heard from players and reviews of the game following the Uprising deployment.

This would only make me feel better if I didn't know you were adding new Roles and new Modules. The only reason this issue hasn't received more attention than it has is because the Medium Classes and Roles have all variants.

If the shoe were on the other foot and the Light Class/Scout/Pilot and Heavy Class/Sentinel/Commando had all Racial Variants while the Medium Class/Assault had only Caldari and the Medium Class/Logistics had only Minmatar and Gallente you can bet the farm these forums would be on fire with nearly every single player in the game complaining about not having all dropsuit choices available to them upon release and demanding that this be rectified immediately.

For the most part, we want to focus on getting things like aiming and movement right and fun before we turn back to filling out these roles. Getting those nailed down has been one of the major pieces of feedback we've heard from players and reviews of the game following the Uprising deployment.

For the most part, we want to focus on getting things like aiming and movement right and fun before we turn back to filling out these roles. Getting those nailed down has been one of the major pieces of feedback we've heard from players and reviews of the game following the Uprising deployment.

There will be teams that are still working on the other dropsuits, don't worry. However, they aren't coming out in the immediate point releases that the dev blog is talking about.

For the most part, we want to focus on getting things like aiming and movement right and fun before we turn back to filling out these roles. Getting those nailed down has been one of the major pieces of feedback we've heard from players and reviews of the game following the Uprising deployment.

I wants my KBM aiming back...

/c

Would it be feasible for CCP to involve the community more in the planning process? I look at what Sony did with the Planetside 2 roadmap and I feel something like that would help the Dust community to feel more involved and connected to this game.

Also, We need a SDE with Catma data. You have several 3rd party Eve developers who are playing Dust and are ready, willing, and able to develop 3rd party applications for Dust. We desperately need an official Dust SDE to get our projects off the ground. We also want API data ASAP.

Cheer up Buttercup! We want KBM aiming back, too! (controllers are good.... too... :P )

We're aiming to provide numbers on the Commando dropsuit, weapon ranges, and new mods in the near future. The Commando Dropsuit blog is mostly finished, but the other two are still being worked on so I can't give an exact timeframe for them.

and improvements to battleground navigation

I wouldn't mind a tablet app with hooks to access a player market. I think we'll probably hear back from CCP Merovingian about his Neocom Vita app before we see anything like API access. To the extent that a Vita app is "special", other people having competing/better apps before it's even released would be unseemly. I'm not sure to what extent the API is developed (well, the public release part of it), but my gut tells me they might want to either have it coincide with the Vita app launch or stagger it after that.

Sony is their partner after all, and they want that theoretical bragging right of a F2P game on their console with a companion app on their under-selling handheld (which is a wonderful piece of tech, don't get me wrong).

Yes, they'll be in-game. Not sure about a data dump, I'll look into it for you.

Edit: Or just not getting stuck on invisible objects?? Cause that actually makes me happy too.....yup id be okay with that.

Title says uprising 2... We skipping 1.2-1.9?

For the most part, we want to focus on getting things like aiming and movement right and fun before we turn back to filling out these roles. Getting those nailed down has been one of the major pieces of feedback we've heard from players and reviews of the game following the Uprising deployment.

For the most part, we want to focus on getting things like aiming and movement right and fun before we turn back to filling out these roles. Getting those nailed down has been one of the major pieces of feedback we've heard from players and reviews of the game following the Uprising deployment.

AV grenades need a vehicle seeking flux version thst also disrupts their drive for a short time. LLAV problem solved.

Well, we already know about the armor plates, and given the values we pulled from the video, we know that they will be more beneficial to shield tankers than armor tankers.

Adding yet another module for shields, which from the sounds of it would be a resistance mod is crazy. It absolutely kills diversity in the game.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you very much for this. shiny new apples are great but if the core is rotten you notice after the first bite. dont get me wrong not trying to say the core is quite rotten right now but definitely it needs some help.

i have been playing dust since about 2 weeks after the closed beta started so its been quite a while (and i have spent quite a lot of real money in that time). dust has been the ONLY game i have played since joining the closed beta until the last couple weeks where i have gone back to bf3. i love dust but it has recently gotten very hard to be as dedicated and excited about the game due to the work needed on the "core" as well as the decisions made that caused PC to only be for large dust/eve corps.

with this focus on getting the "core" shooter mechanics right i am hoping i will want to log in every day like i used to.

This is absolutely, utterly, completely ridiculous. Did any of you devs read Arkenai's 7000 word (WALL OF TEXT :P) analysis of why the new armor modules were insufficient? ( https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=87752 )

THEN YOU ADD A NEW SHIELD TANKING MODULE?!


REALLY CCP?

CCP Rise and company are doing such an excellent job with the ship rebalancing, why can't you even get basic armor vs shields rebalancing right in dust - when you had all the forewarning in New Eden of the issues with poorly balancing tanking from EVE. We have players recommending excellent fixes, and we get hlf measures that make things worse in the long run!

This is extremely vague.

Can you shed any more light on the Commando?

Well, we already know about the armor plates, and given the values we pulled from the video, we know that they will be more beneficial to shield tankers than armor tankers.

Adding yet another module for shields, which from the sounds of it would be a resistance mod is crazy. It absolutely kills diversity in the game.

It will essentially turn the Gallente suit into a non factor, and make the Amarr suit only viable to tote around a scrambler rifle.

Everyone else should spec Caldari, to enjoy the massive bias towards shields. Doing anything else is just giving yourself a disadvantage.

If CCP intends to have diversity, something major needs to be done to change this trend. Either that or just give everyone a respec, remove all the suits except shield tankers and let people get in on the fun.

Oh good, I'm glad to hear that you guys are mixing things up again! I was starting to get worried that this game was just going to die as-is!

I'm honestly breathing a sign of relief right now, and I bet many others are as well.

Rumor has it DS3 is really good once one knows how to use it, I never figured that out but felt I was semi-pro with the KBM before the aiming went weird on me lol Guess I'll have to train some more

Will the new weapon ranges be available in-game and hopefully as a data dump?

I better NOT see any respecs coming.

There will be teams that are still working on the other dropsuits, don't worry. However, they aren't coming out in the immediate point releases that the dev blog is talking about.

Got a couple comments in here about a respec. Add me to the list of people that want that. I put a couple million into dropsuits and weapons that I wanted. But that was BEFORE the new modules and whatnot. I was forced to go Shield Tanking on a Gallente Logistics because Armor isn't completely valid for tanking. I'm hoping the new types of plates will actually help with that, so I can get my eHP optimized, instead of trying to dual-tank. You know with a Complex Shield Extender, you get the same amount of HP as 1 Armor Plate? I just needed the speed, instead of having a 50% decrease in speed with 5 Complex Armor Plates (To maximize HP)...

But....I'm still waiting for mine

...plus tweaks to the GÇ£call-for-helpGÇ¥ and nanite-injector revival mechanics.

Shield energizer = active shield tanking???

touch on Uprising 1.2, but also walk you through the content weGÇÖll be focusing on over the next 6 months GÇô including the brand-new Commando dropsuit class.

g weGÇÖre adding in Uprising 1.2 is a brand new dropsuit role: the Commando.

the ability to scroll through your 1500 latest in-game mails

additions to the new spawn screen introduced in Uprising 1.0.

And that's why we're getting a brand new commando suit next. (but I'm guessing not for all races either, right?)

Active Scanners should reveal deployed equipment

... namely for remote explosives and proximity mines for both dropsuit and vehicle active scanners. equipment should have built in resistances to such modules so that advance equipment would need advanced scanners and prototype equipment would need prototype scanners. clearly you would also need to add prototype vehicle scanners.

Commando is heavy frame, so we will only get amarr commando unless we get the missing heavy and sentinel suits for other races too.

Patch notes can be found here: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=980095#post980095
Deployment of Uprising 1.2 is schedule for July 2nd 2013.

If I shoot you with a pistol from five feet away it's going to have the same impact as if I shot you from 100 feet away. The only difference is that from 100 feet away I am less likely to hit you due to it being a more difficult shot to make.

Diminished damage based on range is a stupid idea and makes no sense whatsoever. That's what you have accuracy for.

CCP, please learn how to FPS. Seriously.

All you're doing is introducing yet another ass backwards mechanic to your game that no other FPS does, and it's gonna feel just as disjointed and ass backwards as every other mechanic you've tried to force down our throats. People are going to complain and it's going to take you upwards of two years to finally admit it was a terrible idea and put in something better.

Just do everybody a favor and listen to me now so you don't waste all our time on something destined to fail miserably.

Patch notes can be found here: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=980095#post980095
Deployment of Uprising 1.2 is schedule for July 2nd 2013.

Weapons
...* Improvements to location of fallen character for revive...

Modules/Equipment
...* Increased radius for nanite injector revival...

Audio
* New material types for ladders and snow

Updated third person female walk animations

Lot of good stuff in the patch notes there. Are they the 2nd of the weeks dev blog trilogy or are we're getting another later?

I take it that the commando role is going to Ammar heavy only at the moment? Think I'll wait till I can keep it Gallente.

Will the framerate/memory leak issue in PC be fixed in this update?

So this was asked on page 5, and there have been 2 dev responses since then with not even a nod towards this problem. And there doesn't seem to be a bullet in the patch notes to address it. So bumping to ask again:

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Will the memory leak be fixed with this update?

(...)Additionally, there is a bug fix currently being tested that should hopefully resolve the framerate issues (I've heard the bug is causing halving of framerates in places). We don't think it'll get into Uprising 1.2 but should come shortly after.

I'm afraid I can't say if it's a bug fix that'll make it right after 1.2 or if it'll have to wait for 1.3. That seriously depends on how the fix does in QA testing.

Neo Dropsuits? I've heard of the Commando suits. What do the Neo suits do?

because now you can be sitting on a ridge not appear on radar but they can clearly see you, then they will pull out there own sniper and pop a round in your head without he radar even seeing you.

Commando is heavy frame, so we will only get amarr commando unless we get the missing heavy and sentinel suits for other races too.

Patch notes can be found here: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=980095#post980095
Deployment of Uprising 1.2 is schedule for July 2nd 2013.

Anyone who thinks carrying two swarm launchers on a gimped heavy is going to make any difference either has never played a heavy, or never used a swarm launcher

A dev blog on the dropsuit is coming on Thursday (unless any issues crop up with it at the last minute).

Yeah issues, i.e equipping two swarm launchers and unleashing Armageddon upon vehicles with out having to reload. I hope that their is explanation into the rationalization of how this is really about to come to be.

Can anyone confirm or deny the pilot dropsuit for the 1.2 update? I've seen the blogs but i would like CCP to directly confirm of deny it-

* Ground speed limit being ignored has been fixed

I hope they add 48 players.

Personally, I'd rather they just concentrated getting 16 v 16 matches that are lag/framerate free before increasing the amount of players.

For the most part, we want to focus on getting things like aiming and movement right and fun before we turn back to filling out these roles. Getting those nailed down has been one of the major pieces of feedback we've heard from players and reviews of the game following the Uprising deployment.

..Uprising 1.2 : nice stuff, but what about vehicle owners proximity lock and eject button Important things for us pilots.

2nd July? Excellent. I had the 9th in the Director pool so happy to lose that bet.

Lot of good stuff in the patch notes there. Are they the 2nd of the weeks dev blog trilogy or are we're getting another later?

The addition of the 1500 mails is good rather than waiting for 50 at a time. But is there still no delete all or mark as read option? Missed a trick there I feel.

I take it that the commando role is going to Ammar heavy only at the moment? Think I'll wait till I can keep it Gallente.

Thank you for the information Mr. Mintchip! :3

First off it is not Mr. and second its Buttercup.

Well, we already know about the armor plates, and given the values we pulled from the video, we know that they will be more beneficial to shield tankers than armor tankers.

Adding yet another module for shields, which from the sounds of it would be a resistance mod is crazy. It absolutely kills diversity in the game.

It will essentially turn the Gallente suit into a non factor, and make the Amarr suit only viable to tote around a scrambler rifle.

Everyone else should spec Caldari, to enjoy the massive bias towards shields. Doing anything else is just giving yourself a disadvantage.

If CCP intends to have diversity, something major needs to be done to change this trend. Either that or just give everyone a respec, remove all the suits except shield tankers and let people get in on the fun.

Forget a new Roles of Commandos. Why not add some new heavys? Un-nerfed would be nice.

For the most part, we want to focus on getting things like aiming and movement right and fun before we turn back to filling out these roles. Getting those nailed down has been one of the major pieces of feedback we've heard from players and reviews of the game following the Uprising deployment.

Shield tankers are indeed very overpowered,they require you to equip a flux grenade.It might seem easy,but you actually have to go to the market place and like buy them.Then its not over,you have to go to fitting and all that crazy stuff to get to equip it.I gave up half way but if you can do it,i heard you just trow the thing at a shield tank and his shield disapear?

I hope they fix the issues from swarm launchers on the next update. It's annoying when they glitch through props and terrain and let's not forget the majority of the time they are invisible to drivers of tanks causing to get blown up, unable to pinpoint the launchers location due to the missiles being invisible. But I'm excited regardless of what they fix and add.

We'll hopefully have a dev blog out soon that will discuss the new modules and how they work.

Also if you release this patch with no numbers ahead of time for us to feedback on , I'm gone. Back to eve forever where I get treated like a real customer.

Thanks btw

I'm not saying nerf the LAV I'm saying make it more realistic.

I dont know if anyone else has this issue, but on top of the invisible swarms, i get absolutely invisible enemies, installations, and even allies when i am in both vehicle and installation turrets. It get's to the point that all i can see are blue chevrons and vehicles on my screen, and due to this, have lost probably close to 40,000,000 ISK in assets over the last few months. So tiresome.