Discovery Mod: Balance Issues

[Curios]

kay, since some time have passed i can express my finding concerning new balance in 4.86.

So, that's how it looks for me:

- Light capitals are a bit underpowered
- Hatchet is rendered useless with no having backshooting guns and even the only heavy slot is not 360*, so people may run for kamoinu or whatever is that new BC because it's a way better.
- A little overdone with lasers - they are too badass now so all weapons slower then 5.33 are now not really great, especially that touches slow 2.0s, slow 4.0s - they are loosing badly to lasers.
- Werewolf is op, greyhound is op. Used to fly both in 4.85, yes, they were np for me and also yes, they'v deserved some buff amongst with lasers but it was clearly overdone.
- All independent Ided folks are now kinda screwed, maybe it will be good to change the nerf ratio for freelancers\mercs\inditraders\indiminers\indipirates to make them a little bit better, now they are thrown to use generic things with generic guns or codes.
- Buckshots are still crap.
- Osiris need it's heavy slot to be moved on top.
- Kusari Bs's weapon arcs are joke 8)
- Hammerhead need it's armor to be buffed, it's not small and 7900 is too low, from my pov, any HF with AU8 mounted and with full armor must be able to survive MR or nuke.
- Solaris are useless
- Any types of capital pulses are still useless except on GBs
- CM are not working effectively on BS missiles (Any time i tried they have failed)
- Flaks are bugging down all torps\missiles
- Two points above messes up the idea to make BS missiles to be anti capital weapon - now fighter is not able to throw them down effectively from his tail with CMs but they still fails a big way against a BS with single Flak. From my POV flak must be able to blow them up not to bug their tracking.
- Salamankas are still crap
- Colada is still useless - Remove it already or fix it for the sake of gods, it's not fanny.
- Glady is actually a VHF, so have to go in that category with armor buff, it's too huge and slow for HF despite it's sweet loadout, actually i didn't saw any gladiators for months, that tells something.
- Cargo limits on Raba and Ptrances are a joke, how pirate supposed to trade with that little cargo limit? Actually i fail to understand why it was necessary at the first place. Pirate transport was, maybe, np. But instead of nerfing it's agility (which would make sence) the cargo limit was nerfed. So i fail to see any logic there.
- Togo's weapon arcs are not fanny.
- Big gunboats are now useless a bit time, with stearing lights are dancing around them with no problems. So all imperators, bret gbs and so on are still up. (That point is questionable since I'm not a big fun of gunboats, so that may be different)
- Sabre is np, but again, it was nerfed not in the way it had to be nerfed.
- Giving Rouges own Inferno is meh, i can't get why it was done. Inferno was always an OC toy and no one's else. That was making sense, but now we are throwing infernos around like it's some regular MR.
- Prosecutor is huge for it's stats, kinda not fanny.
- Generally all factions with slow ships and slow guns are now screwed against factions with lasers in their disposal, huge ships are eating damage like a cake. But we are getting back to abovementioned problems.
- Shieldbusters are now screwed. Along with the whole shield idea were people had to decide to sheld themselves from hull busters or from shieldbusters, now it's too damn easy and not surprising.

Generally the fields which were deserved some attention got them, but it was overdone in some cases. I hope those issues will find some attention once again.

(bow)

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