An easy summary of the changes to the rotaries on the PTS. ESF TTK assumes that you have extended mags and hit with every bullet. Burst damage is the DPS the weapon outputs while you're firing. Sustained damage is the damage you can output overall which includes reloads. Ex. Sustained is sustained damage with max magazine size. Terran Republic M18 Rotary Current Damage: 237 RPM: 1,500 Ammo: 50/500 Reload: 1.5 Velocity: 650m/s ESF TTK: 2.11sec Burst damge: 5,925 DPS Sustained damage: 3,386 DPS Ex. Sustained: 3,646 DPS M18 Rotary PTS Damage: 315 RPM: 1,000 Ammo: 50/500 Reload: 2.25 Velocity: 650m/s ESF TTK: 2.38sec Burst damage: 5,250 DPS Sustained damage: 3,000 DPS Ex. Sustained: 3,271 DPS Vanu Sovereignty Hailstorm Current Damage: 308 RPM: 1,200 Ammo: 40/400 Reload: 1.5 Velocity: 550m/s ESF TTK: 2.03sec Burst damage: 6,160 DPS Sustained damage: 3,520 DPS Ex. Sustained: 3,850 DPS Hailstorm PTS Damage: 360 RPM: 857 Ammo: 35/350 Reload: 1.75sec Velocity: 700m/s ESF TTK 2.43sec Burst damage: 5,142 DPS Sustained damage: 3,000 DPS Ex. Sustained: 3,306 DPS New Conglomerate Vortek Current Damage: 388 RPM: 1,000 Ammo: 35/350 Reload: 1.5sec Velocity: 650m/s ESF TTK: 1.93sec Burst damage: 6,466 DPS Sustained damage: 3,772 DPS Ex. Sustained: 4,157 DPS Vortek PTS Damage: 500 RPM: 750 Ammo: 25/250 Reload: 2sec Velocity: 650m/s ESF TTK: 2.0sec Burst damage: 6,250 DPS Sustained damage: 3,125 DPS Ex. Sustained: 3,556 DPS
Are these confirmed? I seem to remember the hailstorm getting a reload speed buff not a nerf. EDIT: Ok so they nerfed every bodies reload, just they hit the VS the least hard.
https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2...patch-notes-july-12-2013.140689/#post-1964095 It's following those patch notes (which haven't gone to the PTS server yet). Don't really know why it's being delayed or what they're doing.
At a glance, it looks like Mossie gets the short end of the stick. Could be different in actual play, though.
No, the mossie and the Scythe are immensely buffed since it no longer takes two reloads to destroy a reaver. The Reaver was brought back in to the line with other aircraft.
my question ... my understanding , at least in regards to the mossie , is that they extended the clip only , so does it still take the same amount of actual bullets to kill enemy esf with TR rotary ? sorry nvm looking at the charts i see that the Clip was not extended .
Nice, the only thing the Reaver had in its favor was slightly extra damage output, now they took that away too....... By god if i ever meet a shareholder of SOE the first thing i will ask is for him to fire every Dev this game has had to date
LOL ... the reaver is more in line with what it should be , and it still has higher dps , both burst and sustained , and it still has the fastest ttk ... The reaver is also the best hover dogfighter right out of the box , and it still has it's higher AB speed . the only thing different is now the other empires esf are now close to being on par with the reaver ROTARY WISE ....
This is why all think that mediocre NC pilots are as dumb as a sack of potatoes. Just switch your empire, since you can't seem to realize that the reaver has far superior vertical thrusters. Maybe it's too complicated a setting to fight in for you. A simple FYI: The dog fighting in this game is centered around reversethrusting.
We've talked about the pros and cons of the Reaver in these forums 1000 times. It's no coincidence that 90% of all players agree that it's the easiest ESF to destroy. That some people may have spend 200 hours in the Reaver and they can control it with very good results matters not. New players are much much better in Mossies and Scythes.
The rest 10% are the best pilots of every single server, because those 10% are NC pilots who know how this game and its flight mechanics work. If you start balancing this game through the lowest common denominator, I'm out.
So SOE should balance this game based on people who have nothing better to do with their lives and so they can spend 10 or more hours playing per day to manage and reach a super level ? Seriously ? Guess what NO. Besides SOE like every other company out there shouldn't care about that 10%, the 90% is what matters.
Okay, yeah, lets buff the Reaver beyond any comprehension because NC are such rubbish players. Does that sound like more balaNCed?
All rotaries are increased by 20ms firing time per bullet. All equal. Fair enough. NC bullet damage is then increased by 29% TR bullet damage is increased by 33% VS bullet damage is increased by.. 17% ? So VS lose around 12% damage for the benefit of a 0.25sec faster reload and a mere 50m/s extra projectile speed? (VS had 100m/s less projectile speed for the last 7months compared to the other 2 factions). Seems pretty underwhelming... or we're all victims of Luperza's typos (like the new needler doing the same per bullet damage as the VS saron.. but with a higher fire rate?.. or the 3/3/3/3 m18 mag size upgrade progression) Hope it hits the test server soon.
The Reaver get moar damage (like it got not enough) and it get so more DPS than other (+1000 DPS, are you kidding me?!) We can perfectly see the stupid influence of Higby on NC, the Vortek is the more efficient at all points compared to other ESF. NCside 2, enjoy Also, the Vortek gonna anti vehicle, it will kill a Harrasser faster than a ESF.
