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ChipMHazard · 2013-12-16, 11:20 PM

VS Assault Rifle Changes
H-V45

This weapon is receiving the standard 0.75x weapon adjustments
Vertical recoil increased from 0.2 to 0.245
Hip fire accuracy reduced
Crouch: 1.0 to 1.125
Crouch walk: 1.5 to 1.75
Running: 2.0 to 2.25

CME

Reduced maximum recoil angle. Makes initial burst more accurate and predictable, and overall recoil more consistent.
Equinox VE2 Burst
Standard burst weapon accuracy improvements
Aimed accuracy improved from 0.1 to 0.06
Horizontal recoil reduced from 0.175 to 0.17
Reduced maximum recoil angle to make burst angle more consistent

VS Carbine Changes
Pulsar C

Improving short reload to better match rate of fire
Short reload from 1.82 to 1.67 seconds
Solstice Burst
Standard burst weapon accuracy improvements
Aimed accuracy improved from 0.1 to 0.06
Horizontal recoil reduced from 0.175 to 0.17
Reduced maximum recoil angle to make burst angle more consistent

Serpent

Recoil is being increased. This weapon previously had too little recoil for its rate of fire.
First shot recoil increased from 2.5 to 2.75
Maximum horizontal recoil increased from 0.25 to 0.275. Minimum horizontal recoil remains the same at 0.25.

VS LMG Changes
All VS LMGs
All VS LMGs now match the LMG standard of having a 0.2 crouch move COF and a 0.4 stand-move LMG COF. The VS carbines and assault rifles retain their high moving accuracy because it offsets them having lower magazine sizes and a lower than average rate of fire, which are traits that the VS LMGs don’t share.
Orion

This weapon is receiving the standard 0.75x weapon adjustments
Long reload improved from 4.0 to 3.655 seconds
Short reload increased from 3.045 to 3.28 seconds
First shot recoil increased from 2.15 to 2.25
New minimum hip-fire accuracy: 2.25
New maximum hip-fire accuracy: 3.5

VX29 Polaris

Small improvements to reload speeds and full auto-accuracy
Long reload from 5.1 to 4.925 seconds
Short reload from 4.0 to 3.925 seconds
Reduced maximum horizontal recoil drift
New minimum hip-fire accuracy: 2.25
New maximum hip-fire accuracy: 3.75

Pulsar LSW

Increasing vertical recoil so that it better matches the weapon’s rate of fire. This weapon previously had a recoil value that was the standard for most 650 RPM LMGs.
Vertical recoil increased from 0.3 to 0.335
First shot recoil reduced from 2.75 to 2.45
Short reload improved from 3.2 to 3.09 seconds
Reduced maximum horizontal recoil drift
New minimum hip-fire accuracy: 3.25
New maximum hip-fire accuracy: 4.25

SVA-88

Lengthening reloads to match 0.75x move speed weapon standard. This weapon is not receiving the 0.75x moving accuracy penalty because of its lower rate of fire.
Long reload increased from 4.18 to 4.7 seconds
Short reload increased from 3.065 to 3.38 seconds
Vertical recoil reduced from 0.45 to 0.44
First shot recoil increased from 1.5 to 1.75
Max horizontal recoil increased from 0.2 to 0.225
New minimum hip-fire accuracy: 3.0
New maximum hip-fire accuracy: 4.0

Flare

This vertical recoil reduction gives the weapon the same full-auto recoil as the other weapon in its rate of fire class, just in a slightly different pattern.
Vertical recoil reduced from 0.45 to 0.44
New minimum hip-fire accuracy: 3.25
New maximum hip-fire accuracy: 4.25
Tweaked the code that unlocks the secrets of Vanu. It is now 593-754-8133.

Ursa

Small reduction to reload speeds to match the damage output of other weapons in its class. Small increase to accuracy so to better offset its lower rate of fire.
Short reload from 3.6 to 3.72 seconds
Long reload from 4.5 to 4.7 seconds
Vertical recoil reduced from 0.4 to 0.395

VS SMG Changes
Eridani SX5

The below damage change is as overall improvement to the Eridani’s damage curve.
Min damage range increased from 6 to 10
Max damage range reduced from 42 to 40

VS Pistol Changes
Cerberus

Improving accuracy and magazine size. This weapon’s limiter at range is now lower damage instead of lower than average accuracy
Magazine size increased from 8 to 10
Ammunition capacity increased from 56 to 60
All aimed accuracy states improved from 0.6 to 0.3
Hip accuracy improved
Stand: 1.5 to 1.0
Stand move: 2.0 to 1.5
Min damage reduced from 125 to 112

VS MAX Changes
Blueshift

Reducing reload speeds to match damage output of the other MAXes
Long reload from 2.7 to 2.8 seconds
Short reload from 2.0 to 2.3 seconds
Nebula
Reducing short reload speed to match damage output of the other MAXes
Short reload from 2.15 to 2.3 seconds
Cosmos
Improving the damage output over time
Long reload from 3.2 to 3.1 seconds
Short reload from 2.4 to 2.1 seconds

VS Battle Rifle Changes
Eidolon

Improving damage at range and long reload. The damage improvement increases this weapon’s performance at range against targets with nanoweave armor equipped.
Improving damage at range and long reload
Minimum damage increased from 200 at 65 meters to 225 at 75 meters
Long reload improved from 3.5 to 3.4 seconds

NS Weapon Changes
NS-11a and NS-11c

Improved angle so initial burst is more accurate (no shots land on right side) and overall recoil is more controllable.

NS-15m

Same burst improvement as above NS-11 weapons. This weapon is also receiving a small increase to horizontal recoil drift because it was incorrectly set too low before. It now matches the other NS full-auto weapons.
Reduced maximum recoil angle
Very small increase to horizzontal recoil drift
Minimum hip-fire accuracy remains unchanged at 2.0
New maximum hip-fire accuracy: 3.25

All Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle Changes
All sniper rifles have been adjusted to have better defined 1-shot headshot kill ranges. Reload speeds, damage, and other stats have been adjusted to match.
NC14 Bolt Driver, TR M77-B, and VS XM98

Max damage reduced from 750 to 650
Min damage changed from 550 at 750 meters to 400 at 350 meters
Long reload improved from 5.0 to 4.6 seconds
Short reload improved from 3.5 to 3.0 seconds
1-shot headshot until 250 meters

NC SAS-R, TR TSAR-42, and VS Ghost

Long reload improved from 4.5 to 4.0 seconds
Short reload improved from 3.15 to 2.8 seconds
Max damage reduced from 750 to 700
Min damage changed from 550 at 750 meters to 400 at 265 meters
1-shot headshot until 200 meters
Removed sway when using low powered optics

NC LA80, TR SR-7, and VS V10

Long reload improved from 5.0 to 4.7 seconds
Short reload improved from 3.75 to 3.1 seconds
Max damage reduced from 750 to 650
Min damage changed from 550 at 75 meters to 400 at 350 meters
Bolt time increased from 1.3 to 1.395 seconds
1-shot headshot until 250 meters

NC EM4 Longshot, TR RAMS .50M, and VS Parallax

Long reload improved from 6.0 to 5.575 seconds
Short reload improved 5.0 to 4.72 seconds
Max damage changed from 800 to 700
Min damage changed to from 550 at 100 meters to 400 at 400 meters
1-shot headshot until 300 meters

All Semi-Auto Sniper Rifle Changes
NC Gauss SPR, TR 99SV, and VS VA39 Spectre

Long reload improved from 3.6 to 3.3 seconds
Short reload improved from 2.6 to 2.22 seconds
Improved recoil angle so it will more consistently pull to the right

NC Impetus, TR KSR-35, VS Phantom

Long reload improved from 3.6 to 3.3 seconds
Short reload improved from 2.6 to 2.22 seconds
Removed sway weapon using low powered optics

NC Shadow, TR HSR-1, VS Nyx

Long reload improved from 2.9 to 2.76
Short reload improved from 2.0 to 1.95
Min damage range increased from 65 to 75 meters

All Scout Rifle Changes
NC Stalker, TR SOAS-20, VS Artemis

Long reload improved from 2.9 to 2.45
Short reload improved from 2.0 to 1.865
Improved hip accuracy by 0.5 in all states
Min damage range reduced from 65 to 60 meters to match the other weapon of the same damage model

Rocket Launcher Changes

Damage Reduction

All launchers have been reduced in damage so that they better interact with flak armor. The resists on the vehicle side have been modified to match, so all launchers will still be doing the same damage against vehicles as before, with the exception of the Annihilator which got a damage increase.
The Annihilator is getting a damage increase because it already had two downsides, it lacks lock-free fire and it has a longer lock time. We’re removing the third downside.
Default launcher damage = 1135
Decimator and Engineer anti-vehicle turret damage = 1335
All lock-ons, except the TR Striker, damage = 1000
TR Striker damage = 335

Lock-on changes

All lock-on ranges have been reduced to better match the effective attack ranges of infantry versus vehicles
Ground lock-on range reduced from 400 to 300 meters
Air lock-on range reduced from 500 to 450 meters
Close range lock-on times are now faster to better fit the risk/reward gameplay between infantry and vehicles.
All launchers will use their fast lock time if the target is within 100 meters
The lock time will then scale linearly to the far lock time at 300 meters
The far lock time is always used if the target is farther than 300 meters away

Dedicated anti-tank launchers

Fast lock time: 1.5 seconds
Far lock time: 2.0 seconds
Dedicated anti-air launchers:
Fast lock time: 1.0 seconds
Far lock time: 2.2 seconds

Annihilator

Fast lock time: 1.5 seconds
Far lock time: 2.5 seconds

Striker

Fast lock time: 2.0 seconds
Far lock time: 2.25 seconds
Rocket velocity changes
Rocket acceleration has increased to make hitting moving targets easier. Rocket speeds and gravity have been adjusted to match.

Default Launcher

Launch Speed: 35 m/s
Acceleration: 40 m/s
Max speed: 85 m/s
Gravity: 2

Decimator

Launch Speed: 30 m/s
Acceleration: 40 m/s
Max speed: 60 m/s
Gravity: 2.5
Dedicated anti-air and anti-vehicle launchers
Fired rockets will no longer accelerate if fired without a lock

Other miscellaneous changes

Max aimed accuracy now matches the majority of other weapons in the game at 3.0, increased from 2.0. This has no impact on most movement states. The exception is firing while jumping, which will be less accurate now.
Reduced hip accuracy of all rocket launchers that can fire without a lock. They now all match the below. The previous hip accuracy was too high for weapons with this much damage output
Crouch: 2.5
Crouch move: 3.0
Stand: 3.0
Stand move: 3.5
This is an increase of 0.5 to the decimator and 1.0 to all other launchers
Added an upward kick angle to all launchers when firing while aimed. This gives all launcher projectiles a more natural arc that can be learned
Fixed a bug that was causing launchers to reach their aimed accuracy before the iron sight duration had finished
The Striker and Annihilator no longer have predictive tracking. Their projectiles now fly like the other lock-on types (they shouldn’t hit vehicles behind cover now)

NC Phoenix Launcher Changes

Reload speed is now faster at 4.7 seconds, down from 5.2 seconds.
Mana Anti-Vehicle Turret Changes
Projectile lifespan was reduced from 15 to 10 seconds. This drops its max range to match the AV turret’s render distance.
Blast damage reduced against infantry to match its intended role as an anti-vehicle weapon
Max damage reduced from 1000 at 0.5 meters to 500 at 0.35 meters.
Gravity value of 2 added. This only applies if the rocket is no longer controlled.

Underbarrel Grenade launcher Changes

Damage and accuracy values have been adjusted. The previous values were too strong for a weapon that has no resource cost limiter. The biggest change here is that an indirect hit will no longer kill a full health target, only direct hits will.
Blast damage reduced from 1275 max damage at 0.1 meters to 700 max damage at 0.35 meters
Transition time in and out of the launchers increased from 0.550to 0.800 seconds
Added a hip cone of fire
Crouch: 2
Crouch move: 2.5
Stand: 2.5
Stand move: 3.0
Sprint/jump: 7.0
Also added to smoke launchers
Added a penalty to accuracy when aimed and moving. This matches the current values of the rocket launchers
Crouch walking: 1.0
Stand walking: 1.0
Sprint/jump: 3.0
Projectile speed dropped from 50 to 45 m/s
Gravity increased from 3 to 7
Note: This is a larger change then it sounds like. We fixed a bug that was causing the previous gravity value to not apply correctly.
Ammo pack pickup delay increased from 4 to 5 seconds

MAX Anti-Vehicle weapon Changes

All MAX AV weapons except the VS Vortex have had their damage infantry reduced.
All MAX AV weapons now originate their projectile at the eye, making them all more accurate.
Direct damage against vehicles and other MAXes is the same as previous values, unless specifically called out below

NC NCM2 Falcon

Direct damage reduced from 875 to 585
Max blast damage increased from 80 to 90
Increased projectile acceleration, from 30 to 40 m/s
Reload speed is now faster, from 2.1 to 1.9 seconds

NC NCM3 Raven

Direct damage reduced from 490 to 335
Max blast damage increased from 50 to 115
These got a small damage increase against tank armor. Rockets needed to destroy a full health target remains the same
Added gravity value of 1. Only applies if the controlling max dies

TR M3 Pounder

Direct damage reduced from 425 to 285
Max blast damage increased from 100 to 190
Gravity dropped from 10 to 7.5
Counted the number of hairs on Higby's head. The total was 599,687,0498.

TR MR1 Fracture

Direct damage reduced from 315 to 210
Max blast damage increased from 25 to 30
Short reload is now longer at 2.2 seconds, from 1.75 seconds
The flat projectile velocity of 200 m/s has changed to the below
Launch Speed: 70 m/s
Acceleration: 50 m/s
Max speed: 180 m/s

VS Comet VM2

Direct damage reduced from 475 to 315
Max blast damage increased from 80 to 85
Short reload is now longer at 1.6 seconds, from 1.5 seconds
Rate of fire reduced to 110 rpm, from 120 rpm
This evens out the damage output with the other max AV weapons
Accuracy reduced from 0.1 to 0.2

VS Vortex VM21

The short reload is now longer at 1.8 seconds, from 1.5 seconds. This offsets the increased damage against infantry.
Base direct damage increased from 105 to 167
The damage curve is now more consistent across all charge levels. Large changes below
Charge level 1
Fixed a bug that caused charge level 1 to be weaker against Prowlers (and Magriders). Damage is now consistent across all tanks.
Charge level 2
Increased damage against all main battle tanks, infantry, and other MAXes
Small reduction to damage against Sunderers, Lightnings, and all aircraft
Charge level 3
Increased damage against Harassers, Liberators, and other MAXes
Reduced damage against Galaxies. Very small reduction in damage to ESFs (the hits to destroy remains the same as previous live values)
Reduced damage against Vanguards to better match the damage against the other tanks