Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Explosion velocity and or explosion radius bonuses for RHML.

My good man, that would make them useful and that is quite clearly not the aim here.

RIP in Peace Rapid lights )))))))

Everything else about them was done without player feedback or testing, so nothing about rapid launcher changes would be surprising at this stage.

We can but wait and see if there is something good to come.

Let's really not use a match where they hit every single checklist in the "How not to use RHML, and how to fit them to poorly chosen ships"

100+km kiting is never, and will never be the RHML's strong points.

That's not to say it's a good mod, cause it's not, but that match was like demonstrating how useful a computer is by handing it to a monkey.

If the Providence Wisadrs (Yes that is spelled correctly) actually have anything to do with Proviblock, I wouldn't be surprised to see laser Ravens, shield Abaddons, or the like. Just because they made it this far certainly does not mean they are good, it means that their enemies were worse.

As I said before, by all I can tell, the RHML are aweful, but you don't pick a worse case poor scenario to showcase why it's bad. I wouldn't use an alarm clock as a hammer, although I could try and hammer in a nail with one, and I wouldn't use RHML's in an arena 200km wide to fight a kiting team.

Frankly though, ~Missiles~

~ Missiles~ + ~Provi~ = unsurprising total uselessness.

I can't help thinking that, if they actually *had* a functional ammo swap fix, they wouldn't be sneaking it into the 1.3 update without so much as a teaser.

I haven't seen this past weekend's matches yet, but I did finally get to watch the YouTube replays of the first weekend. Two things:
1) The second WEHURT win: did not get the impression that the outcome would have been any different had the Cerberus and Caracals been fit with regular small LMLs. Looked like the Sentinel probably had more influence. Exciting match, nonetheless.

2) Judging by the way Rise, Fozzie and Dolan all gushed about how much they lurv the new RMLs, I doubt we'll see much more truly constructive work on them at all. Some minor (read: trivial) tweaking, perhaps, but probably nothing significant.

I still think that redoing RMLs along the lines of the pre-rubicon stats, but with a new overheat mechanic to create the "burst" functionality, combined with a rework of the entire missile damage application progression, is the best way to handle the whole thing. It is a shame that the right way to do something is often also the hard way.

Yes, the second day: Asine Hitama's Team vs WEHURT
WEHURT fit two Caracals and a Cerberus with RLMLs, and won the match. Correlation does not imply causation, however; those ships could have been fit with standard LMLs, or perhaps even HMLs, and I sincerely doubt it would have affected the outcome much. I think the Sentinel keeping the Vargurs TDed for so long was a greater factor.

Delayed to Wednesday, but the patch notes are released.


Good News: There *is* a change made to missile damage application!

Bad News: That's the *only* change made to missile damage application listed in the patch notes.

Sadly a change that has little to no affect for the majority of players.

Yeah 770 DPS for 43 seconds then none for the next 35.. What more could a pilot who has spent over 1 bil on his ship need.
Now if Heavy missiles got the explosion velocity bonus they might actually be able to hit something for a damn and be worth using. (Probably not, 35 second reload is just too long)