Would it be possible to have the ship tech tree and their modules back the way they were before the 0.8 patch? It feels that the factions are more diverse and that there strengths and weaknesses arent as significant. For example with the empire frigates they were primarily long-range and guard, with the Wardens as the long-range sniper and the Legion as the guard. Now the Legion are also long-range as well with higher hitpoints and shield than the Wardens frigs, so people are more likely going to choose the Legion if they want to snipe. Arent frigs with high hitpoints and shield meant to be in intense fights with the intys and fighters, now the Legion frigs will snipe and their tanking ability wont really be beneficial to the team. I noticed that the Legion and Wardens Cerberus frig are both engineer now, wouldnt it make more sense if Legion frigs were guard and frig instead of long-range and that the Wardens Cerberus be a long-range frig instead of being an engy, it still has hitpoints similar to its other Wardens long-range cousins but is now primarily a frigate that is meant to be getting in close. If my frig has lower hitpoints than the others I would rather sit back and snipe instead it now expected to get in close. Faction specific abilities arent really faction specific anymore. The Empire fighters used to have overdrive but now some have the diffusion shield which is Jericho and now some Fed fighters have lost their ODG Chameleon and have the overdirve module instead. It seems that the factions have lost what gave them an upper edge, if I’m in an empire inty and use microwarp to escape I dont want a Fed inty to microwarp to me and attack me.
It might be different, And honestly I think all factions should have every role, some roles tweaked, and modules of other roles having some effect on roles that they don’t originally belong too. But you just need to find the right build, at the moment its still confusing but give it time it will just fix itself.
They are going to fix up the Bomb planting issue and other bugs that were brought up after the patch.
If anything they shouldve added in more ships and branch them off, for example on the tree you have the harpy as a long range frigate and since its the beginning ship it branches off it couldve branched off to separate specialties like iron harpy (legion) (guard) and steel harpy (wardens) (long-range) and then a new empire frig for engineering and do this for all ships and factions, that way all the factions have the same modules and it opens up more range in the faction as well instead of modifying previous ships.
i think there should be a distinct advantage to buying and using the different ships, like buldi modules that you have to take a certain path to get to and stuf like that, so there could be a more diverse ship tree with more ships
It is not planned to return to the old system.
I’ve come to like the new system.
The only thing I hope for is that every ship has a distinct roles within its Tier.
I give up bonus credits to take my basic Machete for a missile rampage.
I wish there was a compelling reason like this on other ships, but they aren’t as distinct.
It is not planned to return to the old system.
Than can they atleast fix the tech tree. The tech tree looks absolutely ridiculous the way it is layed out currently. If they spent 5 seconds looking at it they would know as well that the old tech tree was far better.
Not to mention I agree with the opinion that the game was better before 0.8.0, since 0.8.0 is just absolute crap to me, all FACTions are basicly the same, no real diversity anymore and no more fitting the way you like to fit your ships, which were 2of the things that made the game so great.
edit: not to mention the 100 imbalances they brought in with a single patch. yeah…good going.
But 0.8.0 has ruined my account anyway, yeey for xxxx implementation! killed 99% of my progress in this game! good going!
Also very good support in this game! ticket is there now for a week i think, and still no response!
Funky Bacon thats hell disappointing to hear about your account and how the game is now upside down, they shouldve given at least half of the buy price for ships that were changed to the players that owned them. I really bunged up the title of this thread lol.