Saron HRB and Proton II PPA

[WSNeo]

Proton II PPA

• Tuning pass done on PPA to make it a more competitive option. Fire rate should feel improved and it should do more damage to armor and has a slightly higher blast radius.
  • Changed to a different resist type, allowing more direct hit damage on vehicles.
  • Fire rate reduced from 600ms to 400ms
  • Max Direct hit damage reduced from 300 to 275
  • Max damage range increased from 10 meters to 50 meters
  • Minimum Direct hit damage increased 150 to 225
  • Min damage range increased from 100 meters to 150 meters
  • Inner blast radius damage reduced from 350 to 300
  • Inner blast radius increased from 1 meter to 1.5 meters
  • Outer blast radius increased from 3 meter to 4 meters
  • Clip size reduced from 60 to 50
  • Ammo Capacity reduced from 420 to 350
    • Amount granted from Ammo Capacity Certs reduced from 60 to 50 per rank.

Saron HRB

Slight redesign of HRB. It can now rapid fire several shots before reloading. It is pin-point accurate on the first shot, but the cone of fire blooms significantly after the first shot. This allows it to ‘unload’ on targets at close range for a faster TTK. TTK at medium to long range should remain the same when waiting for the cone of fire to reset.

New description: “The Saron HRB fires fast and accurate armor damaging beams. Accuracy of the HRB decreases significantly for half a second after each shot. VS use only.”

• Removed firing delay
• Magazine size increased from 1 to 6
• Added Fire Rate of 200ms
• Direct hit damage per shot decreased from 1500 to 425
• Increased projectile speed from 250 to 300
• Max ammo capacity increased from 30 to 180
  • Amount granted from Ammo Capacity Certs increased from 3 to 6 per rank.
• Added cone of fire bloom per shot of 6
• Added max cone of fire of 6
• Added cone of fire recovery of 6 in 0.5 seconds
• Reduced effectiveness of AoE sense it can be spammed against infantry more
  • Inner blast damage decreased from 750 to 350
  • Inner blast radius decreased from 1 meter to 0.5 meters
  • Outer blast radius decreased from 3 meters to 2 meters

Starting with the PPA, thank you for listening to us regarding how a lot of us felt about this weapon. I was surprised as to how quickly this was addressed after the MBT feedback thread was posted.

Regarding the Saron HRB change, completely unnecessary to change something that was not broken. The Saron is completely fine as it was before this update, and forcing sudden redesigns on players is not a good thing to do. Alternatively the developers should have just made a new new variant (with an -RF suffix for rapid fire or something) and threw it up on the Depot for extra money. The same is true for the next charge weapon that we (the VS) will inevitably get but didn't ask for.

Except for the new VS Pistol, that gun looks legit.

Anyone else feel the same way?