Do you think making SNAC useless vs snubs was a good idea?

[Antonio]

I already tried to reason why this is a joke of a change, but to no avail. SNACs on shieldless snubs making a mistake are a problem, but instakilling 5 people through the shield in a 1v9 is okay. None of them even got hit, they just happened to be close to an asteroid.

It's not like the SNAC was as effortless as cruiser razors where you zoom all the way out and spam them for 10 minutes before your core runs out. Fluke kills happened, but fluke kills happen on all instakill guns. A fluke battleship cerberus or cruiser missile on a snub, etc.. SNAC actually required some skill and first of all it required the enemy to allow you to SNAC him in the first place - by simply running away the snub eliminated 99.999999% of chance of getting hit.

Also, the fact that no stat was changed showed how little thought was given to it. There's 0 reasons to use the SNAC against caps as well because other bomber weapons, most notably Corona, outshine it in everything. If it's really going to be useless against snubs at least give it proper anti-cap stats.

Oh and to anticipate a question that's surely gonna be brought up - I don't care as much as it may seem about the change, I just think it's bad. I fly all classes and will adapt, for instance by using Coronas because they're just flat out a better SNAC. I'm speaking from both the fighter and the bomber PoV and have been SNACed outside of Connecticut once in 5 years while flying snubs often and I never found SNACs an issue to deal with when fighting against them. People complaining about them are almost exclusively on the receiving end of them, constantly repeating the same mistakes over and over again and wondering how they died.

If there's anything positive from this it's that SHFs and heavy bombers got a considerable buff now, they might be worthwhile in more than just very specific scenarios.

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