4.88.6 (4.88 Final) - Fall Update: Bretonia and Liberty Cleanup

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I like the heavy transport turrets a lot. Btrans were very weak in their combat role before, but now they can - when someone lets them get close - really pack a punch. It also proved not to be op in conn tests, as more agile cerb transports easily kill it by staying at range. It is a nice nieche that this gun fills and finally Btrans can use their huge power core.

I am not sure whether 50 cargospace / gun is justified, as it makes a CAU8 Btrans with 10 heavy guns end up with less cargo space than a Serenity (which wins a 1on1 against a Btrans every time). Perhaps 25? 30? 50 feels a little excessive.

Anyway, really nice addition.
Also thank you for handing back some survivability to Btrans.
Feels a lot better now.

Jack

Just noticed the same. 50 seems bit too much. 25 sounds alright if you ask me. Would still reduce the cargo space enough, especially regarding how much energy they consume.

Well, I think the used cargo of 50 units is actually quite good, because it will give you the choice of having either a good cargo load, but inferior firepower, or almost cruiser-sitze firepower at the expense of severe cargo loss. Making the heavy transport turrets occupy less cargo space would result in an op transport with nice firepower and good cargo hold.

Furthermore, I doubt one should use pure heavy turret loadouts anyway, because they are too one-sided. Mixing them with cerbs that have a higher range should work best. And you still got some more cargo for transporting

Right now, I think the 50 units occupation is fair.

On the contrary, as said Charons (cerbs as we call 'em) beat Heavies simply because they have LESS drain (around 2 times less) and bigger range, and they require less cargo space than Heavies. Their only downside is slower refire and lower projectile speed, but DPS wise I think they both do around 4K dps so there's not too big of a difference in the DMG output, besides the fact the guy with the heavies will have his core dead twice as fast.

Also mixing turret types with different projectile speed is not that good, because you will be hitting less targets that are dodging due to difference in speed.

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