29-03-2012, 10:38 AM
As some of you seem to be a bit on edge about bringing class stats down I'll explain it a bit better.
What we are planning on doing is bringing all stats down a tad, say 20-25% as a rough number. With the exception of weapon proficency which will probably be taken down a lot more since we are way over soft cap anyway.
Now this change holds true for both players and AI. And we with this change we are taking away totaly overpowered items from the AI as it will be easier for us to just balance them by bringing stats up and down now.
So in fact the efficiency of classes should stay around the same, that is our goal, the numbers will just be lower but your killing and survival power will (hopefully) be around the same as it is now.
As for Snipers, we are not talking about giving you terrible accuracy, not at all. Right now you have about 6-7 seconds or so pinpoint acuraccy at Sniper level. We are going to bring this down to around 1-2 seconds, but increase your rate of fire. The projectile speed might decrease a bit as well, we will see during testing. You will still have a lot of killing power, but crossbows will be the one who can take their time and aim for the heavy targets and archers hail down death at a rapid rate. I will also mention that more AI might decide to leave their shield at home with this patch.
What we are planning on doing is bringing all stats down a tad, say 20-25% as a rough number. With the exception of weapon proficency which will probably be taken down a lot more since we are way over soft cap anyway.
Now this change holds true for both players and AI. And we with this change we are taking away totaly overpowered items from the AI as it will be easier for us to just balance them by bringing stats up and down now.
So in fact the efficiency of classes should stay around the same, that is our goal, the numbers will just be lower but your killing and survival power will (hopefully) be around the same as it is now.
As for Snipers, we are not talking about giving you terrible accuracy, not at all. Right now you have about 6-7 seconds or so pinpoint acuraccy at Sniper level. We are going to bring this down to around 1-2 seconds, but increase your rate of fire. The projectile speed might decrease a bit as well, we will see during testing. You will still have a lot of killing power, but crossbows will be the one who can take their time and aim for the heavy targets and archers hail down death at a rapid rate. I will also mention that more AI might decide to leave their shield at home with this patch.