Discovery Freelancer: Fire and Fortune Release Date Announcement

[Petitioner]

Yeah, it's definitely a step in the right direction with this communication, announcing stuff etc. Way more could and should be done but this is a good start.

The staff team has made it a priority to be more forthcoming about seeking community engagement with major changes like this. While not all the engagement in this thread has been constructive—and I'd like to remind everyone to do their level best to post in good faith, even with those they historically have disagreements with—most of us have been really enjoying seeing the community response to the increased communication lately.

Personally, I'm not a caps player, more of a bombers type of gal, and I'm extremely excited to see bomber combat becoming both riskier and more rewarding. My personal selfish hopes are that post-patch fleet battles provide me with solid impetus to level up my game and properly git gud with my SNACs.

it would be cool to see more systems go through what is said for Alaska, that is probably one of the coolest additions imo

Like the OP said, Alaska is a focal testing point for this pivot in system design philosophy. I don't know specifics, being a mod rather than dev, but I assume that other systems will have a toned-down version of the Alaska-style changes, so that the implementation of envirohazards can be gauged in degrees in terms of its impact on gameplay. If it turns out to be something people actually like, that makes the mod more enriching rather than enraging or—gods forbid—boring, I imagine we'll see the dev team extend those features to more and more systems.

It might be a nice idea with modules, if every single class had it.

On this note, one thing I'm curious about is if there are animations and proper models for when ships have had their modules blasted off, as it was with snubs in vanilla. I understand that snub components were done away with for a number of reasons—to my knowledge, the primary one being that the dev team lacked the time/capability back in the day to add the same functionality to Disco-original ships; the secondary one being balance concerns; and possibly something to do with server load?—but I'd imagine the first two arguments (at least!) likely no longer apply, at least in regards to capital ships.

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