Is it time to nerf cruise disruptors?

[Tenacity]

In regards to cloaks,

I'd like to see a switch up and make cloaks only disruptable but a cloak disruptor, even just a charging one.

But then the cloak disruptors should be made to fit in a gun slot, so no one has to sacrifice their normal CD to have one. That means more people could/would use them, and you could combine having a cloak and cloak disruptor. The same would go for me with jump disruptors. Make dedicated equipment for it, and make them guns essentially, and only work for jump disruption. Each disruptor basically would only have the one purpose, but in theory you could then stack and no lose normal CD ability.

So those only wielding regular cheap old CD's, you dont get 2 or 3 in one. And hey, that itself could be a super item, a CD that will disrupt cloaks and jumps. That does sound like it should be not so easy or common to me. A good goal to work on. People could specialize or sacrifice guns to stack.

I think that would make normal CD's more traditional weapons again.

As grey already mentioned, cloak disruptors occupy the countermeasure slot, not the cruise disruptor slot (which also means that, hey, even if you run out of disruptor batteries you still have a cruise disruptor to effectively do the same thing). They're fine as-is, cloak disruptors can cover a 10k+ radius (type 3) and occupying a countermeasure slot means they cannot be used at the same time as a cloak (for most ships), which is a proper tradeoff - you either get stealth or you get anti-stealth, not both.



Another issue with cruise disruptors: on fighter-class vessels, they bring such an overwhelming amount of utility, offense, and defense to the table that they completely void the other weapons which use the same slot - mini razor, hades/inferno/escopeta, and fighter missiles. These weapons are almost never seen on an actual snub because a cruise disruptor is too powerful in comparison. The one time you do see those weapons is on SHFs or Bombers which have multiple mounts for them, so they can still run a cruise disruptor.

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