We already have this, it's called ECM Burst.

Edit:
Oh and, the ECM Burst also has a higher chance
of breaking locks when more ships locked you,
simply because there are more ships ...

Sounds like alpha strike is still king...one shot their ship before their shiny new lock breaker module can cycle.

Sounds like alpha strike is still king...one shot their ship before their shiny new lock breaker module can cycle.

I don't remember seeing this... got a pic?

Any thing else from the presentation?

Exactly what a drakefleet needs.

What does everyone else think?

However this may be a bit problematic with titans and supers where successfully taking the sip down requires a huge amount of players to lock the target (provided anyone still flies titans and supers when it comes out due to goons nerfing them beyond uselessness).

I like anything that is anti-blob. I would be concerned about implementation and balancing, as usual, but by merely suggesting this module they show what they are thinking about. Which pleases me.

So, do we get a lock warning alarm other than auto target back to go with this thing?

My first thought is that large long engagements are now going to be large really, really long engagements.

Mr Epeen

Before Target Breaker you have to one volley ships in fleet fights because of tons and tons of logis. After Target Breaker you will have to one volley ships in fleet fights because of tons and tons of logis.

Nothing for nothing. So...an item that makes all other targeted modules ineffective. BUT, it only works when you're in the large alliances...kinda like war dec mechanics...you have to be able to AFFORD to war dec Goonwaffles now...

If I was there I would've asked this (And if a Dev look at this question maybe he can respond :) ):

Why for shield boosters, which naturally should use cap, and not for armor repairers, that evidently need material to replace the damage?

Anti-blob module that also benefits the blob .. going to be a Must HaveGäó I fear. Just hope it is a high-slot module or it will be yet another indirect nerf to Amarr's midslot deficient lineup.

Questions:
- Will super-capitals be prohibited from using it?
- Will drone locks count? Big enough swarm and module user is effectively invulnerable to drone damage, could be an awesome counter for Dreads against SCs.

Anti-blob module that also benefits the blob .. going to be a Must HaveGäó

- Will super-capitals be prohibited from using it?

- Will drone locks count? Big enough swarm and module user is effectively invulnerable to drone damage, could be an awesome counter for Dreads against SCs.

I love the idea - anything that helps moving fleet fights away from the horrendous ctrl click primary hit f1 idiocy is great.

However this may be a bit problematic with titans and supers where successfully taking the sip down requires a huge amount of players to lock the target (provided anyone still flies titans and supers when it comes out due to goons nerfing them beyond uselessness).

Why rely on hostiles using drones? logistics drones require a lock, have everyone deploy 5 small armor bots on the friendly primary and he could easily have 2000 locks just from friendly ships, would probably give him a guaranteed lock-break

Just hope it is a high-slot module or it will be yet another indirect nerf to Amarr's midslot deficient lineup.

Hey if it gets those Sansha off my ass , I'm all for it.

The problem with this is how do you balance it to scale from 30 people all the way up to 1000 ?

I searched around and I'm surprised that a topic on this hasn't been made already, but one of the things announced in the modules presentation was the concept of a target breaker module. Here is a quick run down of how it works:

Each time the module cycles, it has a % chance to break and reset all other target locks on your ship from other ships. This % chance is extremely low, but for each additional ship that locks your own ship, the target breaker has a bigger % chance of breaking and resetting everyone's lock on you. So if you're fighting one person, chances are the module will have negligible effect. If there are 200 people in a massive fleet fight targeting you, then you're likely to almost always reset their locks.

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What does everyone else think?

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This has been the issue with other proposals involving changes to targeting mechanics but I think this module idea that CCP is considering skirts around the issue quite elegantly.

If everyone can't primary one target, then dps is being split--multiple ships are being hit at once. Remember, this module only breaks locks, you can retarget easily. Unless a fleet has "hive mind-like" characteristics, its going to be next to impossible to lock everyone whose tank is breaking. This module would break the locks of friendly ships and those friendly ships would be constantly retargeting other friendly ships which takes an impossible amount of coordination to use effectively. The fleet can't keep up with 20, 30 or 40 broadcasts of multiple people who are low on hp.

So while fleet fights might last slightly longer because of friendly locking, I don't think we're going to be anywhere close to the issue of fleets being somewhat invulnerable to each other. Remember that this solution removes logistics locks too so that while no dps is being applied to you, no one is repping you also in the meantime as everyone is retargeting you.

Also, the issue of drones could be solved by having a successful lockbreak reset a drone's orders. The ship with the logi drones would have to retarget the vessel to have drones repair it again.

this is good. instead of primaries we might have "kill ECM boats" or "kill logistics"

How do you know to activate your lock breaker vs the alpha fleet? You see a screen full of yellow boxes. So the alpha fleet needs to fit passive targeters. Surprise!

Plays straight into the artillery paradigm though as a flock of those things provide maximum oomph for least amount of locks .. guess CCP wish to extend the Winmatar fad for another year

From a discussion with a friend, we came up with a suggestion in order to prevent the target breaker module from being an easy GTFO-button that becomes mandatory on all PvP and PvE fits: you cannot warp while it is active. That way, you can GTFO if you get out of range in time, or mwd+cloak after activating it, or simply use it to screw up the enemy fleet's primary-calling, but you can't use it as a "this fight is too much for me, time to push the dishonor-button" mod.

why not just add a game dynamic that increases lock time exponentially the more people lock on one signal target

"signal interference distortion"

I - adaptive hardeners (gives +resists all across the board but much less than an invulnerability field, these resists adapt to incoming damage with each cycle and increase the resist in the categories of damage you've recently taken and decrease resists in other areas to compensate)
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