It's directly a matter of being good.

Moving and aiming at moving targets, it's fps basics.

This is actually removing a nerf from October. Many many early beta players hated that nerf.

So your approach to balancing armor vs shields is to gank the movement speed for EVERYONE. Brilliant. How about we actually balance the modules themselves.

Here a good balancing point. Remove the movement speed from armor but place a -% on base shiled or total shield and vice versa. Hmm maybe that gives the buff of one while at the expense of the other tank. And tanking both ends up having a break even point.

Not the best idea i admit but definitely better than reducing the movement speed of everyone just to balance around the slower movement speeds resultant of armor tanking.

So you agree with PDIGGY, CCP nerfed strafing speed because of crap hit detection.


Meh IMPS listen to non-IMPs plenty. We just don't listen to carebear scrubs of which there are many on the fourms.

Still trying to update, on my 4th try now (2 times it just failed, 3rd time I accidentally turned of my PS3). So I haven't had a chance to witness how the strafing affects the game.

Off hand I would say it is a good thing, although it will amplify the KB/M advantages by leaps and bounds. Even in Chromosome the strafe speed made KB/M scout players nearly untouchable, I can't imagine how unbalanced it will be now being faster than that.


Also people may not realize this, but this is in one way a calogi nerf, as we have reduced movement speed and could already get out strafed by an assault. Now that difference will be amplified even more, thus giving the assaults a much bigger advantage over logis running as hybrid assault players.


But I think it's going to be nice now that I can actually use strafe to dodge my opponents, which really couldn't be done very effectively in Uprising 1.1. Mostly it was just a HP sink party, whoever had more HP to endure, won. Now that strafing is useful again, HP will be less important than being able to strafe intelligently. So running lower tier suits may be more viable against proto suits.

Your argument is ridiculous.

You bring in lots of other issues to try to confuse the debate because you are losing it.

New players with FPS skills will be able to win against high SP proto gear players that can't aim and strafe. This is not the case with a slow strafing Dust514.

Vet players with actual FPS skills will still be tough for them of course.

High strafe speeds increase the importance of player skill as opposed to player SP.

High strafe speeds means a new player with low level gear can beat a high SP player if the new player has actual ability to aim and strafe at the SAME time, yes you can do both with DS3 just takes practice. It's why so many MAG players were in closed last summer and dominated the EVE players before they got KBM.

Slow strafe speeds means greater importance on SP because player with more HP/ DPS is likely to win. This hurts new player retention when they realize the brutal SP climb they have to make to compete.

With these strafe speeds I can put on militia gear and beat a player of lesser skill in proto gear. People complaining about pubstomping protobears should be happy.

I do agree about splash weapons they reduce the need for skill because you only have to aim near the enemy.

Try a dropsuit with ferroscale plates that have no movement penalty and damage mods and tell me you can't compete against a shield tanker who has to decide between shield extenders or damage mods.

CCP touches strafe speed I will quit

Lets fix aiming first before everyone goes rawr

Dustfiend= Dropship QQ master

Aeon Amadi= Evetard/ Fanboi complaining about dust still trying to sort that one out lol
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Have you ever tried the triage nanohives that repair armor at a ridiculous rate or playing with a legit logi that has a repair tool that does 105hp/s hell I have 112 armor but I use compact nanohives that repair armor and resupply and there are higher level versions that last longer. Quit complaining about shields base rep speed when you have access to equipment that repairs way faster but you neglect to use.

Hmmm if you were good I would know you... or funny

Anyways, you seem to know me