Discovery Freelancer Patch 4.88.6 Capital Ship Changes

[Antonio]

I have mixed feeling about the battleship FGs. A rebalance is needed indeed but turning it into tanking weapon doesn't fix the bug itself will probably promote more (instakill) cloakbutting. The cloaking plus damage buff with hurt newbies even more since they often accidentally get too close.

It doesn't fix the bug itself but it gives you a 30% longer window in which you can try to dodge it blindly. Yes, it will still be bugged, but the projectile will be so slow that you'll have a chance at least. As for really close range, you're not going to be dodging it anyways so the projectile being bugged is negligible. Yes, Valor gets power in uncloaking on other ships (and close quarters combat in general), but it also gets a nerf against ships that keep distance - a fair tradeoff for a heavy battleship which is supposed to act that way anyways. As for the instakill part, you won't be instakilling battleships or battlecruisers for sure, maybe a small amount of cruisers if they don't have a good armor or don't pay attention to the cloak sound and sit still, in which case it's entirely their fault.

Storta don't really need that much buff, it's already godly with turretsteer + roll.

With the new cruiser core adjustments, the Rheinland cruiser probably have too much core/hull for its size? Please reevaluate the ship.

I fly both Storta and Rheinland cruiser btw.

Storta is huge for a medium cruiser, probably the largest one in the game. The buffs are well deserved. Rheinland Cruiser will be looked into, thanks for pointing it out.

Cruiser razor removal is nice, I guess light mortar will become the new "razor". Do you have any plan to adjust the gimmick dual missile setups versus snubs? Long-range spammy instakill with weapons that aren't meant to fight snubs in the first place aren't that healthy either.

Light Mortar -can- replace the razor, but at it's not a spammy, fast-turning gun. If you miss, you lost a lot of your core and the turret has a significantly slower turn rate on top of being extremely inefficient in general, so it's nowhere near as effective as a razor. Cruiser missiles got an efficiency buff, but they still have pretty bad tracking and it's really not that hard to dodge them in a snub even without CMs. Not to mention you can not only CM them with a single click but 1 CD will usually blow multiple missiles fired together at once.

As for BS solarises buff.. maybe the better course of action is to rebalance secondaries instead? For instance, adding a minor deviation so secondaries carrier don't randomly instakill snubs that easily, especially during the split second the carrier starts firing and snubs aren't aware yet. This way the secondaries will be less relevant against snubs and small GBs, allowing solarises to take that role.

Also, are there any plans to make BS gatling solarises and cap zappers more attractive?

Class 10 battleship guns will be reviewed again in one of the future updates, for now it's going to stay as it is. Zappers will definitely be fixed, and we'll reevaluate the effectiveness of secondaries in general. Let these changes kick in first.