Wesker, you were not the only one whose opinion was that the nerfed Cerbs are a bad idea for cap combat.
The time cerbs are nerfed to the actual low range the many duels and battles I had fought with my capital ships showed how important
the long range cerbs were for heavy battleships.
Where heavy battleships had the chance to actually do damage on high range while still being on a range at which they could dodge fire, now they are going under in a long range mortar combat. Lighter battleships have no problems dodging any mortars on even lower ranges down to 2k, and evade enough primary gun fire on the same range to survive a fight with any heavy battleship. This makes heavy battleships unsatisfying to play.
Even the most feared heavy battleship, the valor, stands nearly no chance to a medium battleship like the liberty dreadnought, as many fights like a recent duel between wesker and an overlord player showed. While Wesker, as everyone knows a skilled cap player, was only able to scratch a little the overlord with his valor, he took a huge amount of damage and left the fight. I duelled the same overlord then with my long range setup valor and only barely won thanks to spamming 2 battleship missles. Flying a lighter battleship takes much less effort now, it's just mainly straving and firing prims and mortars backyard. Handling a heavy battleship is still much more difficult and the only chance for less skilled players to win is to get a cloak and buttcloak the lighter battleship, but oh well, cloak CDs are there, yeah ez win for light battleships. People don't even want to fly heavy battleships such like valor now. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/results?q=discov...p=CAI%253D. 8 Dunkirks and one Crecy, on the GRN side 2 Valors and 6 Battlecruiser. This video represents the past balance changes. This is the result of the huge nerfes for the valors aswell for the crecys. The restult of the event: Draw.
To win the last New London raids, which Wesker had recorded and uploaded to Youtube, we had to cruise + engine kill up to the Dunkirks. I can't imagine this was very enjoyable for the BAF players and for me it wasn't either. It was not challenging and over in an instant.
The old cerberus were important for heavy battleships in order to give them a fighting chance against lighter caps. Right now heavy caps are going under, the gap in effectiveness between light/medium and heavy caps is much too huge right now to make capital ship combat enjoyable for both sides.
- RNS-Ressentiment, sometimes CNS-Nutella, Mount.Rongyu
