Yeah, I fear that the jericho LRF might actually become OP now…But will have to see.
It’ll be nerfed as soon as that happens. But how long has there been an issue? After I finish leveling my Katana type S, it looks I’ll drop back down to T2 to work on my Templar.
Maximum size reduced to 3 pilots
You are VERY mistake if you think this is going to solve anything. What’s next? Reduce them to 2 pilots? Let’s just remove squads altogether, that’ll fix things nicely. On a game that actually TELLS people you should team up, this was a god-awful move.
They’re attempting to handle squad dominance. Squad skill is different than independent team skill.
Premium ships of ranks 1-3 are no longer available
Everyone in possession of these ships will get to keep them
God forbid you should just refund them, instead of letting them keep ships no rookie will ever be able to purchase. They’ll just go “what’s this!? what are these ships?”
They really don’t like refunds. At least for the weapon changes, they were severe enough to warrant it.
Free synergy gained by premium ships is now increased to 20% of total earned synergy
Worst. Move. Ever. 60% or refund.
Other than my Desert Eagle, I’m not going to use premiums anymore. Why keep the Desert Eagle, it’s my only T3 gunship. It has 450k of synergy built on it, because I like it. Most of that game time is after 0.9 when I knew it’d probably be worthless.
Singularity Generator:
Time to overheating reduced by 15%
Cooling time increased by 18%
THIS is what you waited 3 weeks for!? Making it MORE overpowered!?
I think that’s a nerf. It stops firing faster, cools down longer. I think the biggest issue is the AoE of the projectile.
Shrapnel Cannon:
Damage increased by 5%
Range increased by 18%
Yes. OP weapon is now more OP. Well done.
The reason you see it used so often is because the inty weapons suck on average. After the patch, I’m using “horizon” module a lot. Taking on beacon drones without one limits you to taking fire.
Gauss Cannon
Rate of fire reduced by 40%
Damage increased by 67%
Alright. NOW it might feel like a sniper weapon. There are still 3 charges which means it will now be able to 1-shot Fighters.
Maybe I’ll try equipping it on my command. Once I finish T3 Jericho commands, I’ll have to switch to Empire Commands to deal with getting a Lucifer. Is there even a genuine benefit on gunships? I never liked command ships, even if getting free bufs helped my score.
“Press 1” You helped your team, have some points.
“Press 2” You helped your team, have some points.
“Press 3” You helped your team, have some points.
“Press 4” You helped your team, have some points.
Yeah, it’s actually helping, at least my blue Valkyrie does, but still.
Synergy
Now, upon achieving maximum synergy, ships earn double the amount of synergy
Good and bad. You know why it’s still bad, I REALLY hope no one has to tell you why.
It’s a gesture, but they know what they’re doing so they’re really not making it better. They’re just encouraging people to pay cash on synergy transfers.
Just Antibus, PLEASE, don’t breack ECM too… don’t make them usless ships.
There is nothing wrong with ecm actually, what’s wrong here is stasys.
So change stasys, remove it completly if u want… but please don’t change anything else.
How limited should ECM be? Ion Emitter isn’t enough to assist in kills, only preventing death on your team. Energy absorber helps prevent module and afterburner use, but that’s it. What do you recommend to replace it?
I feel lik this has to be said again.
As far as the players were concerned, and let’s face it, ours is the only opinion that matters, Premium ships were a way to progress more quickly.
Take Tier 3 prior to the 0.9.0 patch. If you bought a Rank 7 ship and fly it, you’d earn less money than if you’d stayed in Tier 2 and flew your Rank 6. This was pretty much guaranteed for the majority of players because Rank 7, especially the Phobos, were and still are terrible ships. Eventually, you get to Rank 8 and your income and xp rate improved, and then eventually you’d hit Rank 9 and you’d be earning good amounts of cash and xp.
Or, you could go Premium. This would immediately give you Rank 9 cash and xp income, plus a little bonus income because you had no repair costs. You earned money faster, you got xp faster, and you progressed faster. You could skip the crap ships nobody wants to fly and shouldn’t be in the game at all because they serve no purpose, and get the ships that people actually want to fly.
Premium helps you jump into a tier as well, skipping R7.
