Vehicle Ground buffing items removed

[Xantrish]

So earlier today, i was going to put on a omni-tek gunship.
So i grabbed my beast boots and for some reason they seem to be missing the buff to Vehicle Ground.
Checking around a bit more, and stuff like the Sandals of Navigation, and support crepsule gloves are missing it too...
Is this an intended "fix" to make it more difficult to get on land vehicles, an oversight or is this a case of,
swimming is going to be removed, so lets take out swim stims 2 years before swimming is removed?

Some clarification on this subject would be welcome, so i could figure out how to proceed from here.

- Ery

[Theppy]

This made me curious so I did some digging and it looks like a number of items involving not just vehicle ground, but also water and air were altered. Here's what I could find so far..

• Support Unit Crepescule Gloves: Vehicle Ground replaced with Vehicle Air.
• Sandals of Navigation/Slippers of Manoevring: Vehicle Ground and Vehicle Water replaced with RunSpeed.
• Boots of Concourse: Vehicle Ground and Vehicle Water replaced with... RunSpeed.
• Experienced Aviator Sunglasses: Vehicle Ground and Vehicle Air replaced with... nothing.
• Spectral Com-Glasses: Never ingame to my knowledge, yet they got their V.Ground, V.Water, and Trap Disarm removed.
• Novictum Ring for the Support Unit: Vehicle Ground and Vehicle Water removed, replaced with nothing.
• EVA Survivor: Vehicle Ground and Max Nano removed, replaced with nothing.
• Mate - Sugarfree Rum: Vehicle Water +5 removed.
• Mapmaker Boots: Seemingly removed from loot tables altogether...
• Floating Bag of Jukes: Vehicle Water removed along with Swim and replaced with RunSpeed/Vehicle Air; also the First Aid and MaxHealth mods were beefed up.
• ICC Pilot Cloak still has Vehicle Ground & Water mods on it, but all ICC cloaks seem to be MIA since 18.7.
• And sadly the Silly Ring has gotten noticeably less preposterous, losing 26(!) of its modifiers, including among them all vehicle skills.

Not sure what the intention is here. Ground and Water Vehicles both had separate terms created for them in the new ICC shop, yet these changes would seem to discourage players from wanting them. Also these mods weren't removed from some other items, which makes it all the more confusing.

[Awikun]

Good I equipped Gunship on my level 200 twink project before patch.

I will think 3 times before I unequip it because without those mods I would have to waste quite a lot of IP ...

[Xantrish]

Well i was able to equip my gunship... without any ip in it but it was quite a hazzle.
The only item that gives vehicle ground specifically anymore well apart from Boots of the imaginative (fixer only)
is the Malodorous Ring, wich buffs 50.

Apart from that i had to push around 1450-1500 sense, since its 60% to vehicle ground
I actually had to make the Alpha Control Eye, for the extra 8 vehicle ground over the beta eye.
So yeah i dont really see the reasoning behind this apart from if they want to consolisate every
vehicle into one skill.
Thanks for the list btw Theppy, seems it involved even more items then i first belived.
Hopefully we will get a reply with the reasoning behind this

-Ery

[Demoder]

These things buff vehicle ground:
7 armor pieces,
3 weapons,
the Motorist 1 through 4 perks and Universal Advantage - Transportation

In addition to a bunch of implants (don't know if those can be made any more), spirits and symbs.