This patch, so bad. So, so bad.
Plasma Gun
Stats have shown that this weapon is not good enough against ships with strongs hulls: damage is too low and it’s too hard to hit the target. Considering its an EM weapon, I wouldnt and never did expect to do enough hull damage to take out stronger hulled ships, especially not empirial. Considering the range and accuracy it possesed already, it was a more than efficient weapon.
Projectile speed increased by 20%
Spread reduced by 30%
Damage increased by 10%
These buffs will make plasma guns incredibly over powered. A positron cannon buff would have made more sense. Bad.
Heavy Blaster
Pilots armed with Heavy Blasters found it hard to fight with smaller and faster targets. With absolutely zero surprise. It’s called heavy for a reason, and the damage nerf its taking here will make it worthless of its name, eliminating its efficiancy in taking out -or even suppressing- heavy targets. Removing the Barrel Slowdown doesn’t mean much of anything, as frigates will still struggle to turn and track faster interceptors. The Dynamic Spread only serves to slaughter any last potential use this weapon had at its purpose.
Damage reduced by 25%
Removed barrel slowdown
Implemented dynamic spread
Spread continuously grows
Initial spread stands at 1 degree
Maximum spread stands at 3 degrees
Time to reach maximum spread equals 5 seconds
As far as Im concerned, this is a dead weapon. It looks like they tried to make it into some kind of short range weapon? But that was never what this weapon was made for.
According to pilot feedback, some weapons were still not good enough, most likely because they were whiny scrublords.
Assault Railgun
Spread reduced by 30% Don’t really care, guns were rather powerful enough and don’t really need it, but it won’t affect too much.
Singularity Cannon
Projectile speed increased by 20% As a close range weapon this was just another plain unecessary buff for scrubs who couldnt use it.
Coil Mortar
Projectile explosion radius increased by 50%, from 100 to 150 metres. Again, I don’t care.
Gravi-Beamer
Damage increased by 10% This was probably needed, but it could have taken a speed penalty buff instead.
Pulse Laser
Spread reduced from 2.3 to 1.8 degrees Again, another buff for scrubs who couldnt use the weapon. I don’t get why they dont make Pulse lasers just like the other beam weapons.
The LRF Nerf is… hard to think about. For one, Im glad they only nerfed some parts at t1 and 2. But at the same time, nerfing the explosion and radiation damage was a huge mistake. I feel like they could have applied that nerf only to t1 and 2 as well.
I have nothing to say about the active module changes.
WHY WOULD YOU EVER WEAKEN ONLY -ONE- IMPLANT. THE OTHER TWO ARE NOW AUTOMATICALLY STRONGER.
Ship Modifiers [shortened]
Enhanced Scanner
Now also increases critical hit chance. Would have preffered a lock time buff.
Collision COmpensator
Ship rotation speed bonus reduced by 33% This is terrible. Collision Compensator is without a doubt the most important engine module. Nerfing it so badly is a huge problem.
Galvanized Armor
Damage resistance bonus reduced by 8% This was another unecessary nerf. Mk4 Galvanized armor now only does roughly 1.5x the resistance instead of 2
Improved Pylons
Missile reloading speed-up increased by 400% ** WHAT IS THIS I DONT EVEN**
Armor-Plated Hull
Speed reduction increased by 23% This was just unfortunate for frigate captains everywhere.
‘Horizon’ System
Firing range boost reduced by 17% Again, just plain unecessary.
Finally, Im pleased with the combat recon change. Its about time the captain is chosen from strongest pilots and not ships.
Squad balance will never be fixed until there’s just no change whether or not your squadded.
TLDR
That is all. Hopefully some of these terrible changes will be reversed. All in all it just feels like they want to kill the game.
As a new guy to the game least 2 weeks playing it and learned a lot of the basics I’d have to agree with you on some of that and some not sure yet, but like the singularity-EM weapon though I’ve felt that it never really should’ve been a fighter’s weapon and more of an interceptors weapon because of its firing mechanics and such but had it been something like a beam or just fired differently like a fast projectile and when hitting the target creating a mini black hole that did some continuous damage for a short time then putting it on a fighter would of been ok.
