Dev Post: Black Ops Little Things

By riverini | Jan 18th 2013 2:25PM
38 Comments

Today CCP Fozzie blurted in the EVE-O Forums how the black ops ship class will be getting a bit of a buff in the upcoming Retribution 1.1 patch:

Greetings spacefriends.

Those of you who have read the CSM minutes (You’ve read the CSM minutes, right?) will already know that we have a modest package of Black Ops tweaks in the pipeline that didn’t quite make it into Retribution 1.0. These changes are meant to reduce some of the difficulties using Black Ops battleships for covert bridging, and hopefully open up some more options for those of you who are or will be involved in covert gameplay. This is not the big Black Ops rebalance, and we here at CCP do not consider Black Ops “done” after these changes. We are putting these tweaks out now since it may be a while before we can get to the full Black Ops rebalance and we don’t want to leave them in their current state in the meantime.

None of this will be a surprise to you avid minute-readers, but for everyone else here’s what we have planned:

Increase the base jump range of all Black Ops ships to 3.5 light years (equal to that of Titans)
Reduce the mass multipler used for Covert Jump Portal fuel costs from 0.00000018 to 0.000000135 (Reduces the fuel cost of covert bridges by 25%)
Increase the fuel bay on all Black Ops to 1250m3 (25% increase)

These changes will not be in the current Sisi build but should be in the build after that so you can start playing with them. We’re aiming to have the changes out in Retribution 1.1 on February 12th.

Let us know what you think of the proposed changes in this thread.

Hopefully we’ll see an increase in covert hot drops after February 12th. Watch out!

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- R

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  • Blops pilot

    About goddamn time

  • tyyr

    no doubt!

  • Unknown

    Sweet. Cause right now they are almost worthless. And we still use them. But the limitations make it hard.

    • cheesey

      yes being able to drop somebody in a cyno jammed system is such a horrible horrible ability…what a worthless piece of shit

      • Washi Meisei

        Cheesy are those tears we see?

  • http://gamingmod.blogspot.co.uk/ Versuvius Marii

    Lovely! Three days away from being able to fly a Widow so this is nicely timed, from a personal perspective.

  • Selth

    The members of Bombers Bar are jumping with joy! First Guided Missile Precision working for torps to a buff on Black Ops ships!!! Thank you CCP!!!

  • Lugalbandak

    Nice , tey needed a buff , geuss the trailer was a clue.

  • nerds unite

    can not wait for the lol mails from carebears that don;t know they're suddenly in blops range

  • cBOLTSON

    fuck yes! about time! Even that small buff will be a good start.

    • http://evenews24.com Crunchmeister

      Agreed. It's been a long time coming. More fuel bay, lower fuel costs and longer bridge range. Absolutely perfect!

  • Washi Meisei

    Maybe also let cov cynos be lit in high sec? Could make war dec's more intereting……..

    • bp920091

      agreed, they should be able to

      Seriously though, as a black ops pilot, this is excellent news :)

    • Gumpin

      I actually like this idea.

      only negative is people would use them to avoid chokes too. Kinda kill that aspect of wardecs.

      • Washi Meisei

        Cov cyno black op fleets dropping on people wouldn't kill 'high sec' war dec's. It would open up different tactics and uses of ships they don' use.
        Avoid choke??? As in choke points? That only works if they are using covert ships. But the ship carrying the cyno can't avoid those 'choke points'…… but then the nature of black ops brings in a different tactic…… over black dropping on war targets as they camp gates. Intead of ones ignoring someone running around in a bomber or a force recon in high sec because it can cloak…. ones would have to worry if it has a covert cyno on it.

        • Washi Meisei

          Besides….. war dec in high sec…… IF we were able to drop high sec covert cynos…… high sec care bear botting away with an orca and 12 hulks…… cov cyno goes up….. Black Ops, bombers, recons oh my………. pop goes the bots…… MORE TEARS!!!!!!!

    • Danny_Centauri

      This could be very interesting and make highsec wars with alt for insertion of gang viable.

      • http://twitter.com/R3DOrchestra @R3DOrchestra

        Trust me, you don't want to have that. Letting some badass BO vets like us play with empire pubbies is terrible idea :D

        • Azran

          shhhhh.

    • cheese

      Allows ease of access to anybody with a cloaky hauler…if you can setup a chain between jita and your nullsec with just blackops you can easily move a fuckton of cargo with 0% risk

      • Washi Meisei

        how the hell is 10k m3 a 'fuckton' of cargo????? rofl

        • Ragnerock

          10k m3 worth of 0.0 loot would be a fuck ton

          • Washi Meisei

            10k m3 of 0.0 loot is only about 180mil worth. 3 noctis loads of loot and salvage. it's not a fuckton as stated by cheese. People can already do what cheese is whining about. They just fly said cloaky transport from what ever hub, to a low sec system, and bridge with a black ops BS to what ever system……. just 1 thing…… NO ONE really does it because it takes too long. They use a jump freighter, its quicker and holds more.

          • Selth

            Now 10k of WH salvage might be a different story lol

          • M1k3y

            Nobody hauls the loot, just the salvage.

      • Freighter Box

        chain of blackops? it would be cheaper to just buy a jump freighter.

  • Kiyohime Ronuken

    SUPREME VICTORY!

    OK – now that I have that out of my system… these are very welcome changes.

  • nowedontcare

    And noone ever engaged an arazu again…

  • petwatch

    Looks like covert ops cynos are coming to blops as well.

  • analinspace

    When can my black op battleship use a covert op's cloak and warp cloaked?

  • http://twitter.com/R3DOrchestra @R3DOrchestra

    Me and 40 other NC. BO pilots are fapping on this thread!

    • Uggh

      I stopped reading when you said nc.

  • A guy from eve

    Bet DNS aka Dirt Nap Squad just creamed their selves!!

    • Kah'Roor

      confirm

    • Snorkel

      All over the place

  • Seraph IX Basarab

    Finally! Great.

  • LOL.

    so black ops will be boosted to be overpowered, and then nerfed to shit next winter?

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    Black Ops is really amazing game.