Balancing Racials - Fighters

Suggestions Balance
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For the longest time I was wondering why I constantly was struggling against the other fighters (Empire & Jericho) and it’s pretty obvious why after reading their racial bonuses. 

Empire:

Overdrive= Increase Rate of fire, Rate of regen, Speed, strafe, and rotation speed by 50% for 16 seconds 

 

Jericho:

Phase Shield= Increases shield resistance to a particular type of damage by 60: I.E. WTF pawn anyone in a 1vs1 

 

Federation:

Charmeleon= Makes you stealth for 18 seconds. Anything you do removes it. 

 

I’m sorry, but last I checked stealth contributes absolutely nothing for the team. Its a “get out of jail” card and that’s it. Really we respawn in Arcade mode so what the hell is the point? Charmeleon needs to have a passive affect on top of it. I’d say shield regen with it? Tbh this skill seems almost better suited for the interceptor then the Fighter. Heck maybe make it so that weapons don’t over heat as much with racial skill and that would be an incredible boost alone.

 

In short, I’d rather be effective 100% of the time while I’m fighting, not 50% while I’m attacking and 50% because I’ve got my tail between my legs staying cloaked.

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There are a couple posts that are similar in the ships suggestion sub-forum. post there please. 

 

Also, Chameleon is miles better than phase shield. Phase shield is pretty much only useful in PvE. not to mention, it’s the only special module that has an opportunity to have 0 effect even when it’s on. (you run out of shields)

 

Overdrive is clearly better than the other two though. but really, put your thoughts into the other thread by Dracorean called “Ship Roles”

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You are flying Federarion ships wrong then.

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Sry opener, but just yesterday i had a wolf-mk2 against me … well , i had nightmares last night. He played it awesome , when i was about to get him , he cloaked and i was forced to look for another target , after a while cloak wears of and baaaaaaaaaam there he was , ripping me apart while i was unaware.this happend 2 times .

 

Well , yes you can say bad gameplay from me . Sure. But also good gameplay from him.

 

To Raid-Shield , there is nothing usefull i can actually say cause i never flight one, but when i have to choose which of the three fighter is the most dangerous , the raid one is in my opinion on the last place ;(

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Fed Fighters are the only non Empire ships I run because they are easy to disengage or sneak up on people.  

 

If anything needs help its Jericho.  

With everyone able to switch damage types freely in T2 onwards they are pretty much useless if The Guy Who Is Shooting You notices when you are in the middle of his screen.  He will notice.  Also shields go down so fast its hard to get it up in time.  

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You are flying Federarion ships wrong then.

 

Read my post, I understand the thought behind the cloak, but it needs a bigger buff. There is nothing worse then sneaking up on a Frigate and then him turning around fast enough to blast you to bits while your guns are overheating or you trying to stay perfectly behind them and you’re cannon fodder for his friends. Maybe if they made it so that you’re shields regen faster while you’re cloaked or gave Federation fighters a increased rate of fire or reduced heat after they come out of cloak this would make things more even. P.S. when it comes to “Phase Shield” is there a graphic that pops up to know when it’s active?

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Honestly speaking I use my Fed Fighters very carefully if I choose to go Frigate hunting.

My load out uses 3 command modules: Damage buff, Shield resist buff, Hull resist buff. Plasma Weapons, and my missiles are all Kinetic.

Usually I spawn as my Interceptor first especially when beacon or detionation is up, this allows me to see if there are any pesky snipers on the enemy team and what area they’re camping.

If said snipers are being a problem for team I respawn as my Fighter.

Buff yourself with all 3 buffs you have on board, knowing that frig hunting DOES tend to be suicidal these will help you resist damage to hopefully get a 1:1 KDR on the frig.

Since there are so few levels its not hard to learn what would be the best route to offer the most cover to hide behind and get as close as possible to the enemy frigs before using cloak to close the gap.

While your behind cover before you strike press Tab to look and see if the enemy frig has any friends nearby, or is close to the ‘respawn’ area for the enemy team, waiting a few seconds can make the difference between having several enemies respawn and engage you or zoom off to engage elsewhere.

Engage cloak, when you engage the frig you should already be at their flank or behind, use your shield killing guns, hold off missiles until they go down, then unleash hell get used to rapid switching Z and X and changing to kinetic on main guns.

 

IF you do this right you should kill your intended target within 10 seconds, especially if they’re in sniper mode.

If your happen to be insanely lucky you could take down a small group of frigs if you attack the rear most one (I’ve done this a few times, quite fun)

 

cheers.

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i honestly like the idea of adding more speed to them, making them 330 ms or some where around there and giving them cloaking.

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i honestly like the idea of adding more speed to them, making them 330 ms or some where around there and giving them cloaking.

 

Wth are you on about?

 

Silent Fox = 352.8m/s without Synergy.

Wolf MK II = 352.8m/s without Synergy.

 

And they already got cloaks, your post makes pretty much no sense at all.