Missions & Complexes

Basically be prepared to lose 2-8 drones... for the next few weeks. After the December balance changes, I don't know how the Gila will work without the drone HP bonus and the loss of CPU and a low slot. Between the changes to Burners in Parallax and the nerfs to the Orthrus and the Gila in December, I don't see these being the cakewalk that they used to be.

I am sure that the change is intended as a stealth burner buff, and now we are the guinea pigs for their change. Otherwise this was easy to get a patch in one or two days, for example by a temporary cut in burners logistic overall repping power to bring it back at normal levels... that if they indeed had any intention to "fix it".
Now we just get stuck in missions with ships who worked before, pinned down by a stealth change and burning guns in a futile attempt to kill that rats on steroids who not die anymore, then most likely losing our mission ship after we run out of charges or patience.

Is a long time already from when CCP **** me off greatly with their stealth stupid changes (remember the introduction of ECCM skill? That was a stealth nerf to ECM if you not get it yet ) also other idiotic game play changes, like sentries nerfing (before you jump and contradict me remember that years ago gate sentries had shoot outlaw drones, protecting small ships as well, like AF, gate sentries had shot any outlaw as long he had 15 minutes criminal flag, and also aggression mechanics of sentries had not allowed you before ******** game play mechanics, like that when you shoot a guy, warp out and back and then you are free to shoot him again forever without sentries intervention, even if that guy has not shoot back at any moment, etc, etc).

To cut the crap and not waste my time anymore, i will do what i was tempted to do for so long and uninstall this damn game. For real.

Drone aggro seems mostly controllable by waiting for the npcs to get into orbit range and then firing 3-4 volleys at one of the sentinels. I also run with a target painter and a corpum nos so perhaps those generate additional aggro. Although sometimes it does just seem hellbent on killing drones. but t1 vespas are so cheap meh. the time wasted is more annoying.

No hp bonus change afaik https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=451065&find=unread
-1 low slot -20 cpu. which pretty much means -1 damage mod, I'm thinking of dropping the BCU first, but maybe a DDA depending on how drone aggro feels.

yea bring a mobile depot and 4 sprs, I usually refit one while my launchers are reloading as the BCU does nothing and it adds some safety, and swapping to 2 sprs is almost completely safe.

as far as I can tell the range scripts do work. With the polar garmur and rage rockets I'm sitting right on the edge of effective range at 22km and hitting, if the range script didn't work I'd be ~2km out of range.

although makes me wonder about the missile disruptors that are supposed to come out in December.

Just tried the hawk team mission again. It is still broken, unless this is now intended.

Last message we got from CCP was that it was not intended. I guess if we don't get any feedback some time this week we can do another round of bug reports since it's now officially a bug.

Yea, ECM being frustratingly random even with OH and skills and rigs and killing my own dps and cap to get as high ECM strength and as many as possible is actually NOT the worst thing.

The worst part of all of this is when my missiles hit the burner. I can see them exploding on the hull of the ship and it registers nothing. I do everything I can and the game still gives me the middle finger.

And we still don't have a fix for this and no feedback. So much bull. I'm going to go play STO, call me when they bothered fixing their ****.

the missile graphics are an approximation and are "cool" because you can see the missiles leaving the launcher. personally I think they should bring back the glowing balls of doom that are fired from the center of your ship as accurate and visible beats the hell out of a cool approximation, that you can't even see if you zoom out, or are shooting at long ranges.

that said I just had a mission where the damage logs didn't even show up on screen. they appear to be in the log, but I don't really want to fly with that open all the time.

even so, with ~30km javs 220 heated dps kills the burner nice and quick once the logi are jammed out, I'm liking the setup a lot.

My hunch is with next major patch,

yeah but sorry thats 6 weeks. asked about new infos about 2 days ago in my bug report comments but nothing happend.
wish they gave up these 6 weeks updates.

they introducing more and more bugs every time.