Increase its range to 800-1200m and tighten up the shot pattern a bit. It will still be a limited use niche weapon, but it will be slightly more useful.

-1 Gats with range sounds like a laugh

buts its an HV - these weapons are insanely hard to use effectively already, and I dunno anyone who would use one of these over their MkII/Hive cousins. a buff should be fine, danstr. +1 from me.

@danstr: Any time a pilot equips this weapon, they have basically turned "hard mode" on in VO. The Gat HV has close to zero auto aim. While its velocity (200) is 20 more than any other gat, you have to be incredibly skillful to use it effectively. It also has 8 grid. Plasma HXs have about 800m range, so why not give the HV some more range as well.

If a weapon is a challenge to use, the solution shouldn't be to buff it.

That being said, fair enough. Ignore my -1, kids

+1 to knauf, give that HV some love!

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HV shot-timeout (this is how range works) has been increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds. Change is currently in production.

5 * 200m/s = ~1000 meter range. The Plasma HX is actually 6 * 160m/s = ~960 meter range.

I did not change the shot dispersion pattern.

Hi Inc,

Thanks for this. Just a heads up, the shot timeout on the HV is still at 3 seconds.

Knauf

Per the General thread, I double-checked the change and pushed it into production again. Let me know if it's still not changing, that may require a lot deeper dive to see if something is hardcoded somewhere.

But, I may have also just missed a step when I released it last night.