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

[Lord Caedus]

Lev I know you're keeping an eye on this thread, and you have a lot more recent experience in this than I do, so feel free to correct any points I might get wrong here. From the two different videos I watched, the larger overall issue was that the ship in question was in a scenario where it was significantly outnumbered by its opponents. You would've just as easily been killed in that situation by the enemy ships firing mortars at you until you died, the weapon being missiles or torpedoes in particular aren't going to be a difference here. Secondly, in most of the clips shown, the ship being hit by the missiles isn't attempting to maneuver to dodge them at all, the ships are at best shooting at the missiles to attempt to kill them with their guns and occasionally launching counter measures. In the clip of the BC fighting the Corsairs over New London in particular, almost the entirety of the torpedoes being fired are from a singular bomber, and the BC is making almost no attempt to shoot said bomber or to maneuver to avoid the incoming fire.

In the second video's clip of the Hel, you're again in a scenario where you're being fired at by multiple enemies with no real hope of escape. You get hit by a battlecruiser that has a quad missile loadout from what I saw. Let's entertain the possibility that you're fighting that ship alone for a moment. You're in a Hel, which is a relatively small target and are much more maneuverable than the LABC. Your opponent has all of his cruiser heavy slots devoted to missiles, which means he's giving up about half of his firepower to weapons that can only fire forward. Your best bet is to attempt to get around him and fire on him from his sides and rear, where he has more limited firepower, and you mostly only have to worry about his heaviest turret, which turns extremely slowly and will be hard to keep trained on a ship like the Hel.

In the next clip, you get over extended and focused down by at least three ships. You're not going to survive that fight unless you turn around much earlier and stay with your own group. I'm going to reiterate the point from earlier. Almost all of these scenarios involve the ship in question being cut off from any support due to over extending, or from being significantly outnumbered, or both. Yes, missile spam can be a pain, but the fact that these enemies are using missiles isn't what is getting you killed in particular in any of these situations.

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