Discovery Freelancer Patch 4.88.6 Capital Ship Changes

[Antonio]

A couple of updates:

-Liberty Gunboat's turn rate reverted to live version
-Liberty Gunboat's armor up from 85k to 95k
-Rogue Gunboat's armor reverted to live version

i like the change made to battleships, maybe if the "tests" succeeds extend it to all caps and transports ?

Caps definitely, although I doubt it'll be happening for transports.

Cap missions will need some rework then. They were already borderline impossible to do alone, and if you increase the HP of the NPCs so much they'll be impossible for lone players.

Forgot to mention it in the patch notes, all NPC capital ships are losing their x1.7 armor upgrades. They'll be around 20% harder to kill overall, which is not that big of a deal.

So...When is this coming out?

In the next hotfix.

Repairs over time would be cool for Gunboats/Cruisers/Battle-cruisers/Battleships, with a "the bigger the ship, the slower the repair rate" thing. You would have to think ahead and decide to start the repairs before you take too much damage, taking the risk to waste repair equipment if you take too little damage compared to what you invested for repairs....
Or something.

We could be considering something like that in the future. For now, we're not doing any reworks.

What about bret gb??

What about it?

The Bret GB is the easiest GB to hit. Its big and slow. surely it will need a buff to its agility or hull/armament

The hull and firepower is high enough already, and although it is pretty big the only thing that we could buff is the turn rate, which won't help the survivability that much. It's a unique gunboat that excells at taking down other gunboats, and does the job against snubs.