I don't care if it's a plasma cannon in suit form or a plasma cannon in tank form, it's still going to die to my nks.

Adapt or die, it's the way of dust.

I'm not human. I am more the sentient embodiment of insanity and the key to the multiverse alongside John. I see all my parallels, and their parallels, and their parallels. I remember their life and mine. I look alongside them, as do they me. My hunger is insatiable. My hunger for conquest. My hunger for madness. My hunger for tacos. I am pure madness, cat. As is you. Except you get frisky when you smell catnip, where i get frisky when i see tacos.

Winning

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;a
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
*drops mike*

monk if your reading this in the future....
Your poem may end up as a tattoo. With a lil revision.
A lil gift for reading this far you sad bastard XD

The day you git gud I will consider replying scrub.

Seriously though, I've seen you in FW twice and you belong with the blueberries

Play any other game and realise that games are ment for fun or entertainment.

Play any other game and realise that games are ment for fun or entertainment.

FoxFour Feedback

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Lots of good going on here. Will limit my feedback to concerns.

Swarms - I understand the need to address the Swarm Launcher's oppression of the DS, but in my best estimation, reducing swarm launcher range will create as much (if not more) imbalance as it remedies. Getting within swarm range of hostile vehicles is already risky business. If you were to filter out Commandos from kill-spawn efficiency tables, I suspect you'd find ample data to support this long-held and routinely reaffirmed observation. Swarming tends to get mercs killed. They might have a "fire and forget" weapon but they also have to juggle a number of risk factors which forgers from afar (oft atop roofs and/or behind friendly lines) needn't concern themselves with. Should the range nerf go through, I do not expect Swarms will see much use in the weeks and months following FoxFour. High operational risk + negligible reward will be to blame. If the range reduction is an absolute must (again, a bad idea IMO), I'd propose also reducing lock-on time by half; this way, a swarmer will still be able to get one volley off at a charging LAV.

Scrambler Rifle - I've long opined that the ScR was OP and I agree that a nerf to spammability is in order. That said, I'm concerned that the combination of nerfs on the table might be too much. Increasing heat and slowing charge-held movement by 20% seems a solid solution. Adding an increase in kick to the mix may be too much (secondarily, in conflict with laz0r beam properties), though the effect of such small number is hard to gauge without proper field testing.

Bolt Pistol - It is my opinion that the Bolt Pistol's problems can be blamed solely and squarely upon too much hipfire aim assist. Would've personally proposed and preferred a nerf to hipfire aim-assist adhesion/magnetism. This would've addressed the BP's problems directly while keeping it a competitive "skillshot" weapon. The RoF nerf seems steep. If spray-and-pray sidearms (i.e. SMGs, new ScPs, new MagSecs) kill more quickly and reliably than skillshot weapons, there will be little (if any) reason to run skillshot weapons.

Shield Changes - I understand that this is a first step in a process toward the ultimate goal of balanced armor-v-shield interplay. I'd ask only that the Devs keep in mind that changes which make the game easier for those with high hitpoint reserves also make the game harder for those without. The effects of slowed TTK are not felt equally.

Assault Changes - Very much in favor of the proposed racial bonuses to GA and CA Assault; concerns are limited to implementation and values. Fingers crossed that the Caldari bonus only applies when aiming-down-sights; you might otherwise have a problem with longer range RR and ARR outperforming shorter range rifles at short range. On the topic of short range, I'd suspect RoF bonus of 10% would grant an AR-toting GA Assault an edge in CQC. An RoF bonus of 25% (or even 15%) strikes me as over-the-top.

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FoxFour Predictions

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Class Usage / Performance Trends
http://i.imgur.com/YBtLizZ.png

Unaddressed Imbalance
OP - Active Scans / GA Logi
UP - EWAR-oriented Scouts

New Imbalance
OP - Dual Tanked Assaults
OP - Damage Amp'd GA Assault
OP - Assault Dropships
UP - Swarms
UP - Bolt Pistol
UP - ScR

Not really sure what you're trying to get at with shields, there...

FoxFour should be an interesting build. Finally got around to posting my feedback:




Agree? Disagree?
What did I miss?

An arms race toward parity between high armor and high shield units stands to further disadvantage low armor and low shield units.

All in all, I feel like assault and logi's got buffs and scouts got nerfed some again.

All in all, I feel like assault and logi's got buffs and scouts got nerfed some again.

EDIT: I think the changes will catapult the Calassault into viability. Initial theorycraft suggests a fit with shield HP approaching 700, a regen rate of 70ish HP/s, a recharge delay of 1s, and increased mobility via a kincat/cardiac regulator is possible

@Adipem, it has been a long time belief of mine that HP mods should be hit with a hefty nerf hammer, and raw suit HP numbers upped in compensation.

It displeases me that we increase our HP by 2x-3x and more with these modules. They should give an edge, not be a required module type that everyone and their mother must fit to be competitive.

More utility modules make the battlefield far more interesting than moar HP.

How so?

Most of the shield buffs I can see to suits are innate.

@Adipem, it has been a long time belief of mine that HP mods should be hit with a hefty nerf hammer, and raw suit HP numbers upped in compensation.

It displeases me that we increase our HP by 2x-3x and more with these modules. They should give an edge, not be a required module type that everyone and their mother must fit to be competitive.

More utility modules make the battlefield far more interesting than moar HP.

The assaults and logis got some big buffs to shield regen/delay overall, scouts remained either the same or got worse stats.

The locus grenades are bad for everyone but worse for scouts who are going to be insta killed by them 99% of the time their within the blast after the changes.

Plus you add in the reduced TTK with the weapon buffs and ROF bonus and a scout will be shredded in CQC by those gal's. I also wonder if that magsec is going to be pretty damn vicious but have no personal use to get a sense of where it's at and what the change might do.

It's about time people used ARs on Galassaults and had people actually notice them in CQC.

*tightens tinfoil hat*

The end times are coming.

Agree? Disagree?
What did I miss?