Version 5.0 "Fire and Fortune" - Everything I DISLIKED Part 1 - Balance and Stuff

[Schxer]

I mean, I'm not sure there's a way to satisfy your issue of just being outnumbered beyond skill to be honest. If you start balancing weapons for uneven odds, all that'll mean is that the weapons or mechanics designed to help you even the odds are just going to be used against you in greater numbers and be an even greater curbstomp.

I'm not sure you understand the issue here. Why don't you consider the experiences of people before the patch? The kiting side, which is obviously because of lower numbers, even while having a disadvantage could deal with it through skillful plays. Sure we didn't win them all but we could at least reduce their numbers before falling to zero ourselves. However, you can now say goodbye to your skills because every ship launching missiles at you while also using the guns, and high fire rate guns at that plus the new close ranges for all weapons, how much can you dodge? Do you get an opening to return fire among all that? Do you even have powercore left after using the secondaries and flaks for the missiles? Oh wait more missiles are incoming.
Also, let's not forget the slowed cap movement and the 'drifting' so you can turn but you'll keep moving in the same direction for a few seconds. I don't have to tell you it makes all the difference with strafing out of the window since you can do that once every 15 seconds or so now.