There are a number of issues with the LAVs, which weGÇÖll be addressing in a series of updates.

The first two will be going out today in a hotfix.

"Murder Taxi" Fix
This issue is not limited to just the Militia vehicles, but the infinite supply of them certainly doesnGÇÖt help the situation. To discourage wanton (yes, wanton! ) abuse of LAVs weGÇÖll be making them consumable.

GÇóThe Baloch - Impact and Onikuma - Impact given as starting items to new characters will now be consumable. This means all current players who have this item will only have 1 run of it before it becomes unusable. It is not available on the market, but the Baloch and Onikuma (which are functionally identical to the Impact versions) will be available.
GÇóAll newly created characters will be given 10 copies of the Baloch (GA, MN characters) and Onikuma (AM, CA characters). When these run out youGÇÖll need to dip into your savings, so use them wisely!

Saga-II Fix
The Saga-IIs were removed last week because they were put out prematurely and had a number of issues. Upon their return, this is how they will stack up to the existing Saga:

Saga:
Heal Shield Rate: 16 HP/s
Shield Recharge Delay: 0s
Shield Depleted Recharge Delay: 2.5s
ISK Price: 40,000 ISK
Skill Pre-Reqs: Vehicle Command I, Caldari LAV I

Saga-II:
Heal Shield Rate: 35 HP/s
Shield Recharge Delay: 6s
Shield Depleted Recharge Delay: 6s
ISK Price: 65,000 ISK
Skill Pre-Reqs: Vehicle Command I, Caldari LAV II

GÇÿLC-225GÇÖ Saga-II:
Heal Shield Rate: 35 HP/s
Shield Recharge Delay: 6s
Shield Depleted Recharge Delay: 6s
ISK Price: N/A (approx. 100 AUR)
Skill Pre-Reqs: No Skill Pre-Reqs

GÇóThe tweaked shield regen numbers mean that after 11 seconds both vehicles will have healed an almost identical amount of HP, but thereafter the Saga-II completes healing the base 1425 HP total in 46s whereas the Saga does so in almost double the time (89 seconds).
GÇóThe Saga-II comes with a default Reactive Deflection Field module which is has no PG/CPU requirements but is functionally equivalent to a Shield Hardener I module. Effectively, the bonus here is the 45 CPU and 5 PG you save.
GÇóThe Saga-II comes with a GÇÿBrimstoneGÇÖ ST-1 Missile Launcher, which is functionally equivalent to the ST-1 Missile Launcher but has no skill requirements.

Further to these two fixes, weGÇÖre in the process of updating how collision damage is calculated and addressing vehicles, vehicle modules, turrets and vehicle skills in a rebalance pass that weGÇÖre hoping to complete for Uprising 1.4 or a hot-fix thereafter. This is likely to be a fairly substantial overhaul so once weGÇÖre in a position to do so weGÇÖll make sure you all get a good look at them and weGÇÖll attempt to address any concerns before finalizing the update.

Feel free to post your feedback right here!

DUST Game Design Team

and an LAV you buy now has a higher regen then a shield HAV... good job CCP.

The more I see you post the more Im convinced you cant be pleased

This is where CCP delivers first blow to the murder taxi. Next stop: 1.4 patch (probably like end of August?)

Thanks a lot for this. Will no longer waste my swarm rockets on free LAVs ;)

there is still other BPOs lav out there...

there is still other BPOs lav out there...

Yes. But they are less common than those freakin' Baloch craps.

Dear players,

Today DUST 514 will go offline for an extended period of time starting from 11:00 GMT. Server is expected to come back up at 11:50 GMT. Today we are:

* Ending Mordu's Challenge event (rewards will be deployed next Tuesday)
* Applying changes to the LAVs, and for more details, here is our Game Design team's message:


Thank you.

It took you almost three months to come up with this. For the love of God, tell me you work more than three days out of the week.

I'm not being funny, but please can you change the date format to YYMMDD ? This is the ISO 8601 data format that can be understood internationally WITHOUT confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

It's a well known phenomenon that the USA are *unique* around the world for using MMDDYY, when the rest of the world uses either DDMMYY or YYMMDD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

Please take heed, community team - you have an international audience and should ensure that you can be understood clearly by more than a single country.

I'll assume you are a troll or unable to read this:

Further to these two fixes, weGÇÖre in the process of updating how collision damage is calculated and addressing vehicles, vehicle modules, turrets and vehicle skills in a rebalance pass that weGÇÖre hoping to complete for Uprising 1.4 or a hot-fix thereafter. This is likely to be a fairly substantial overhaul so once weGÇÖre in a position to do so weGÇÖll make sure you all get a good look at them and weGÇÖll attempt to address any concerns before finalizing the update.

and an LAV you buy now has a higher regen then a shield HAV... good job CCP. i feel like your vehicle department is on crack and takes orders from the dropsuit department.

So you are confused because there is no 18th month? Can't swap two numbers and get the date? :/ Poor thing.

how can you mistake this date, there is nither 13th nor 18th month, and I doubt they are doing a post about a patch in 5 years.