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[MustrumRidcully]

Lanessar, on 10 December 2012 - 07:12 AM, said:

The only thing I see clearly from said table is that the Devs are working on heat, when the Medium laser is the problem.

Yes, it feels like that to me, too.

Heeden, on 10 December 2012 - 07:40 AM, said:

MLas is roughly the same as LLas as far as damage-per-heat goes and the devs think the large is in a pretty good place so I imagine they'll be wanting to balance around that. In fact only the ERs are horribly out of whack with the PLas variants possibly needing a look.

The problem with changing the whole heat system to fix a couple of problems with energy weapons is it will also be a buff to ballistics and missiles.

The way I see it, the choice is either:
Rebalance PPCs, ER PPCs, Er Large Lasers, Large Pulse Lasers, Medium Pulse Lasers and Small Pulse Lasers
Make DHS real DHS, and rebalance small, medium and maybe large lasers.

I dunno, the latter seems almost easier.

Edited by MustrumRidcully, 10 December 2012 - 07:45 AM.

[PurpleNinja]

Based on evidences presented, Double Heat Sinks working as "double" is best solution.
Who cares anyway? PGI wil nerf then to 1.2.

[Heeden]

MustrumRidcully, on 10 December 2012 - 07:44 AM, said:

Yes, it feels like that to me, too.


The way I see it, the choice is either:
Rebalance PPCs, ER PPCs, Er Large Lasers, Large Pulse Lasers, Medium Pulse Lasers and Small Pulse Lasers
Make DHS real DHS, and rebalance small, medium and maybe large lasers.

LPlas, MPLas and PPC aren't that far off the LLas in terms of heat efficiency, MPlas I would say are fine but SPLas could do with a little love.

If you change the heat sinks you would be buffing all the missile and ballistic weapons too don't forget so they would need tweaking.

[MustrumRidcully]

Heeden, on 10 December 2012 - 07:53 AM, said:

LPlas, MPLas and PPC aren't that far off the LLas in terms of heat efficiency, MPlas I would say are fine but SPLas could do with a little love.

If you change the heat sinks you would be buffing all the missile and ballistic weapons too don't forget so they would need tweaking.

Most ballistics can do pretty fine with just engine heat sinks. Exception is basically primarily the AC/2 and the AC/20. It takes really a long time to overheat with ballistics only - long enough that it doesn't really matter whether their out of engine heat sinks are better or not. There are of course synergetic effects in place - if your Dual Gauss never heat you up, you can add 2 MLs for little cost and much damage gain on close ranges.

Edited by MustrumRidcully, 10 December 2012 - 07:55 AM.