4.86 Release Date and Teaser

[Hades]

No, just putting in a counterbalance to prevent folk from taking the best guns and the best ship, and creating an overpowered combination from that as a result. A long overdue balance check, nothing more. For people who don't do spray and pray very little changes. For folk using debs and codes, or bomber weapons only, nothing changes. For folk who take, say, a black dragon and tizonas on a pirate ID, it'll impact quite a bit. For folk who on an IMG ID fly with Magma Hammers and a Karasu, it'll impact quite a bit as well.

Folk claiming to want tech for RP reasons (which is always the excuse) got no point to whine about this as it won't impact the roleplay. Weapons do the same damage, ships have the same cargo space and maneuvering speeds. Just the energy recharge is slower. Folk wanting tech for PVP advantages or getting around ZoI restrictions are frankly, out of luck, as pure PvP tends to rely on energy.

Which is why all weapons of the same type need to be equal so this wouldn't be an issue and people would prefer to choose guns for RP reasons anyway, but I digress.