Not only guards this time.
Traklers!!!
Afterrburners inhibitor 1 sec cooldown and 4200 range.
You still need firepower to kill things and guards don’t give a damn if you remove their afterburner and then tickle them with fighter weapons. And no one sane flies non-frigates right now. There’s simply no point. Unless you’re the poor sod stuck without any frigates leveled.
But sure, it’s OP against ints and fighters. But who cares? They’re not viable anyway. Can’t kill what’s already dead.
Credit grind worsened by contracts not giving credits anymore…
Come on devs…This game is already insanely grindy, no need to make it even worse…
mate just try the game now It’s unplayable if u don’t fly a frig. That’s all.
The aiming point is now too small, also the aiming prediction point.
I played one T1 game and from the 38000 kredits earned I had to pay 20500 credits to recover Mk.IV upgrade kit or I could have had just one artifact if broken down for free. 7 artifacts if i paid GS…
The economic side of this patch in both credits and loyalty is outrageous and the HUD changes didn’t please me at all…
For the record, jericho LFRs are unplayable too. Permanent missile shield on balls that shoots down everything for the lulz. You can even try firing the five missile volley, and it will get shot down entirely. Hilarious.
lol luckyo, you are so close minded, you are just funny.
It isn’t permanent, and a octopus can easily reach a guard even with AMS on.
lol luckyo, you are so close minded, you are just funny.
It isn’t permanent, and a octopus can easily reach a guard even with AMS on.
Sanity is close minded. Insanity is open to all options. Like you.
Also, how on earth can it, when it takes it four seconds to shoot the entire thing down, it takes slightly less to launch all missiles and they need to travel for a while inside octopus range? I’m pretty sure guards don’t fly fast enough to be hit by even one missile before AMS works through all of them.
But hey, that’s sanity. And logic. Two things that are “close minded”.
Dudes, AMS is now activatable, u activate, it works for 10 sec, and then we are on CD for i dont know how long.
But thats not what i was aiming to talk about…
Well, they managed to get the worst MatchMaking ever created by mankind and made it 10 times worse.
Now, if you are flying T3’s from r7-r9 and u squad with 1 poor guy with ships also in that same range u get pitted against a team with ONLY T4, and those ridiculous 5x5, 4x4 matches.
Imagine how ridiculous is it, if we get 3 ppl with the first ships of the game to squad up, they would be fighting T2’s, and with 4 people they might even get put on T3 matches… For real, my T3 guard could kill all 4 of them at once only with pulsar… a T3 sniper nuke launcher (now torpedoes have nuclear cloud… like it wasnt powerfull enough before). could cause dammage enought to kill all 4 T1 players 2 times with 1 torpedo.
I will not even talk about the prices since everybody talked already, just stating that i fell a homeless trying to buy ferraries.
And, regretably the loyalty change, that i thought was going to be reasonable ended up being completely mental, ludicrous prices.]
I think it is time for me to quit this game, and from the looks of it, others from my corp are considering quitting too, since this was such a kick in the balls.
But the worst part is comming to the forums, and see that in a few hours tons of posts have already been made complaining about the ridiculous patch, and we see antibus trying to convince ppl that things are being taken into consideration… And that things are working as intended… how can’t they see they are killing their game?
Dudes, AMS is now activatable, u activate, it works for 10 sec, and then we are on CD for i dont know how long.
I know. Less than 30 seconds. A standard squad is now triple guard with engineer, and completely immune to any missile attacks because it has permanent AMS that fires every second.
This cannot be repeated enough times: Mass Propulsion Inhibitor range is beyond ridiculous.
Because seeing enemies is too mainstream
And please add a confimation on unfitting a ship. Due to my idiocity/swiftness I have unfitted 3 ships so far by accident trying to remove them…
I wish I knew russian to know what’s going on on russian forums…
Mostly people complaining about prices, kaspersky flagging the game update as a trojan and being weirded out by the balance.
Most of the top players are pretty much banned there by now, as any attempt to argue about balance there basically leads to “you’re trying to misrepresent devs’ intentions, have a ban” action.
This cannot be repeated enough times: Mass Propulsion Inhibitor range is beyond ridiculous.
Working as intended. If you’re stupid enough to try to engage a guard, you deserve to die. You should not be able to escape such a huge mistake.
Sad but true.
Stealth nerf: Frigate drone speed now 25% or 50% of speed before. Now they are kinda useless 
Working as intended. If you’re stupid enough to try to engage a guard, you deserve to die. You should not be able to escape such a huge mistake.
Sad but true.
i wouldnt say being at 3k from a guard is “trying to engage it”
Pretty hilarious HOMM2 altered screenshot by maximum997, saying “devs declared a week of frig balls. Amount of guard frigates doubled”.
Wells guys, just tried 4 matches with my t4 grizzly guard… I died couple of times in three of them. So do not worry about guard coz the increased shield boost CD is really a massive nerf. And pulsar nerf is huge too lol Build must be reworked now tanking shields like crazy is mandatory I suppose. Coz once u loose them big problems arriving lol
Edit
I wasn’t using mass inhibitor and damage reduction thing coz they were pretty useless till today.
i wouldnt say being at 3k from a guard is “trying to engage it”
At this point, being in sensor range of one counts as “it trying to engage you” which means that he deserves to win. He’s a god frigate after all. Or as funkybacon put it today, a raid boss. And if you aggro a raid boss, you should have a party together to fight it or be ready to die horribly.