Discovery Freelancer: Fire and Fortune Release Date Announcement

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Talk us about the amount of Nova Shots must land by damaging correctly that 6M health pool

76 Nova hits to destroy the Corsair Battlecruiser front (by which time, again, the ship itself has exploded already). I really would be more concerned that explosive weapons are inferior against BCs, rather than wrongfully assuming they are over-tuned because "explosion resistance" is something the vanilla game does not use for collision groups.

More secondaries for Battlecrusiers [snip]

I just had a look at specifically Liberty Battlecruiser Primaries in the test build. By now, I assume you understand that prims are a versatile slot on BCs and that they cover both the high accuracy, high velocity niche against other capitals, and the snub defense niche. They do -- converted to current Discovery numbers, which takes a little bit of math as things have changed quite a lot -- 23,500 DPS. Live server Liberty BC Secondaries do 8,820. This means that two BC prims do as much damage as five current secondaries. You can run up to five, though that would be a pretty bad loadout in all likelihood.

Maybe that still doesn't sound like a lot to you. But let's look at Battlecruiser Flaks, then. Test build BC flaks deal -- converted, again -- 74,000 shield damage. Most of that is energy damage, so bomber powercores won't take kindly to it. They'll also have their shields one-tapped meaning that most of the time, when bombers get close to you, they're not going to have shields.

Now, BC flaks do have some mechanics to keep them from being overwhelmingly powerful, which maybe we can go into detail about at a later date, but you're drawing really, really bad conclusions from nothing but turret counts.