Gear Score

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Patch Update #712 - Released 13th January 2023 includes some changes to the gear score (GS)

the changes are the following:
 

• Gear Score

  • Changed GS for «Brutus» drone from 33-2733 to 33-1733 GS

  • Changed GS for «Rare» category augments for turrets from 300 to 100 GS

  • Changed GS for «Epic» category augments for turrets from 300 to 200 GS

  • Changed GS for «Rare» category augments for hulls from 300 to 100 GS

The changes of the GS of brutus seem logic to me, however the changes to the GS of augments for hulls and turrets don't for the following reasons:

- People might start forcing themselves to use legendary items to keep thier GS at 9999, reducing the overall fun they have playing.
- This will result in people using stronger- and status effect augments more often, reducing the overall fun other people have.
> An example of this is that sometimes more experienced players want to play in a more challenging/ more fair way, so they for example play freeze adrenaline instead of freeze jammer.         With this update they will get punished for that.

- The idea is that GS is supposed to show that people have a better tank, however the Legendary augments are not always better then epic and rare so that would mean the shown GS would not represent the status of the tank well.
> An example of this is playing heavyweight on wasp, Which would in most cases be better then other hull augments.
> Another example are the people with maxed out garages that for many turrets prefer to use the epic augments. This should conclude that those are not inferior and should not give a lower GS. 
 

 
 

[AncientFire 1,894]

Yea this GS change seems a bit nonsensical

No clue why they did it

[soviet.reunion 76]

I don't think mm players care about having a 9999 GS... the players who think this game is a fashion show play in parkour battles. 

[MRL-Missoula 96]

i have both hyperion and crisis xt .....so it wont affect me

 

[PirateSpider 1,491]

Would've been better if they made it to 33-2233. Brutus provided an advantage over other drones near around the second half of 2021 when it was made much cheaper to buy and upgrade and didn't consume any batteries or extra supplies like some did.

Brutus users back then had a significant advantage over non drone users. 100% supply boost vs 50% supply boost. And even more so now that non drone users can't use supplies.

[Maf 32,305]

On 1/13/2023 at 1:29 AM, Fun said:

- The idea is that GS is supposed to show that people have a better tank, however the Legendary augments are not always better then epic and rare so that would mean the shown GS would not represent the status of the tank well.

I agree, but, generally speaking, legendary augments ARE more powerful than lower tier augments, so it makes sense to give them a higher GS.

Also, this change is a general strategy to encourage players to try and get more legendary augments (i.e. spend more money on containers and battle passes), if they want to get that fancy highlighted 9999 GS.

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• Gear Score
  • Increased GS for «Epic» category augments for turrets from 200 to 300 GS 

Update

[Spy 14,736]

This new change makes sense as not all augments are equal, however some of the purple tier augments can be even more powerful than the legendary and exotic ones, like Adaptive reload for Hammer used to be quite recently.