What happened exactly before the 0.9.0?
Mass Nerffect 1 :
A strange mixed fleet with “Cerberus 2” and “Crusader type S” (and little bit later “Anaconda M”) called : Frigballz.
This kind of fleet was overpowered and facestomped everything. Super tanky, super heal, super dammage, Mobility with Warpgate…
Devs wanted to fix this abuse by nerfing the engineer’s healing systems. Some Nerfhammer have fallen, a rework has been done.
Still not working, the frigballz was too strong.
Mass Nerffect 2 :
During this era, the Galaxy was Dominated by the Frigballz.
Devs nerfed the Guard’s Self Healing, and… that not worked as planned.
Second try, the “Great Galactic Nuclear Winter”, not worked too, the frigates were still too “strong” ! (Dat joke with the ultimate tactical nuclear bomber)
And “BOOM” ! The great NERFHAMMER FALL ON THE NUKE !
But nothing could stop the Frigates !
Mass Nerffect 3 :
And a tragedy happened ! A Dark Nightmare, the Ultimate Weapons against Frigates emerged from a Forbidden side of the galaxy !
Teh terrible “PATCH 0.9.0” (TA TA TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA).
We all know why it came… It mission was to eradicate all the frigates !
But it was too smart to just nerfhammer all the frigates, especially just after the federation’s up !
So, it decide to rework all the weapons system ! In ONE SINGLE NIGHT !
(It also ninja nerfed some frigates, it removed the passiv bonus on the Anaconda M and the Crusader type S)
All the Heavy weapons dissappeard ! A lot of weapons were changed ! Everybody lost their mind !
But the Fall of the Frigate began…
It do not only changed the dammages mechanics of the entiere galaxy.
It also changed all the tanking mechanics !
It wrote, with the blood of all the dead frigates:
“Resistance is futile, and regen , and shield/hull quantity too ! Because I created the Singularity Cannon !”
Now the mobility rulez teh Galaxy.
All this just to say they didn’t nerfed ships, they nerfed the resistance/regen mechanics and upped the mobility mechanics with the new weapons systems !
The range of the guard’s modules has been nerf to let Ceptors use the new weapons.
And they didn’t change a single direct value on guard because Jericho has been perma nerfed in a lot of patches, and Fed has been up.
PS : I should stop coffe.