Through some testing, I’ve concluded the following:
The special module is kind of gimmicky. It doesn’t perform as well as the diffusion shield in that you are stationary, a very large target, and from what I can tell the shield has no resists, meaning it goes down very fast. Also, the whole effect can be canceled by anything moving your ship (any sort of gravitational disruptions, being bumped by anything, part of the map moving, repelling/attracting effects), even by your own teammates just trying to get into the shield dome. They had to make an update to Sector Conquest (no information on the update was given) but they removed the backwards 50m/s drift so that the Pilgrim can latch onto dreadnoughts. Instead of just making it so it could latch onto these specific structures and have the 50m/s backward drift negated temporarily, they removed a key feature of a game mode for the purpose of 1 ship’s alternate equipment not being unusable in the mode. Not only did they remove it, they removed it DURING the USA time zone Sector Conquest battles, not before, not after, but right in the middle of the battles, they shut down the servers for 10 minutes. Again (luckily this time it was only shut down for 10 minutes and not 45 in the middle of a battle). Aside from gripes, the special module performs like a shield booster on crack and can easily be used to restore full shields to the ship in seconds at the pilot’s convenience, which if that sounds stupidly powerful, it is. This in combination with the new all-ship repair kit variant, your ship can be back to full hull and shield in seconds as if it was never attacked in the first place, and it can do it again, and again, and again.
Active module is r*tardedly overpowered. It completely conceals everything inside, making beacon captures and anything effect requiring line of sight to become impossible to achieve. Drones and auto-turrets that shoot at targets regardless of radar status cease to function. Weapons with built-in aim-botting mechanics such as Front Blaster and Geyser are still able to target and fire on enemies within the cloud. You might be saying “oh its just like whitenoise blah blah” except that no, it isn’t. Sector Conquest META has been broken by this one module, and it is OBSCENELY pay to win. Two of this ship added to your team almost guarantees a victory. There’s been other absurd things such as relocation mechanism that have left any semblance of insertion/covert attack strategy (“2 waz’gots, 2 dessy, 1 tackler, rest gunship, rush B cyka blyat” still works though) in shambles, but this takes the cake.
The gun is completely overpowered in PvE and PvP. In most modern PvE battles there are swarms of enemies weak enemies, kill any one of them with 1-2 shots and badabing badaboom the entire group dies. Same with PvP, if there are people by a beacon, just tag them with the gun and when they die they set off 6000 damage nukes, causing a chain reaction that just kills the entire enemy team, because “reasons”. Something interesting of note is the weapon can easily fire 600rpm, but it fires in sequence (akin to mortars and phase suppressors), meaning yes you get 600 rpm but you only get the damage of 1 turret as opposed to Assault Railgun where all 4 weapons are firing simultaneously. Keep this in mind if you try to dog-fight, when firing in your blind spot your weapons will over-heat after a few shots and will fire at 1/4 standard rate (if you do not own the gun, to experience a similar effect jump in a frigate, throw on some kind of mortar, and try to fire it backwards).
Passive module is ok. It acts similar to Wounded Beast. It can be useful in dog-fighting, but with the special gun you may still find it difficult (to combat this just give yourself more rotation speed so all your weapons are always facing forwards).
I absolutely hate the ship, its imbalanced, blatantly p2w costing a grand total of:
Several of my corp-mates have left/uninstalled the game permanently due to this ship, others are debating leaving the game as well. Oh and just to top it all off, I think the ship looks ugly.
