Version 5.1 - Aftershock. Things I DISLIKED

[BobMacaroni]

Coming from a cruiser main myself, I didn't actually mind the cruiser changes that much, I actually preferred them lots over 5.0 (though I would still say that 4.95 had the right ideas and direction, if only it got rebalanced instead of remade). The backwards gun doesn't make sense in lore, but from a gameplay perspective I find it works pretty well, at least for the more maneuverable cruisers who can reliably use it. I think the bigger issue with snubs on capital ships isn't that fighters are too OP in swarms, or capital ships are too weak - they are not. My problem is that secondaries are so ineffecient and run out of energy super quickly, which means you don't have any energy to fight back against the snubs and deal substantial damage to the swarm before you run out. Snub swarms will always be an issue, and always have been, except now it's just snubs instead of snubs and bombers, which were easier to hit and balance against. Think back to right before 5.0, when SCRA, 404th, and RHA were terrorizing Sirius on SNAC bombers. It's the same thing now, except now you can do the same damage but in a ship half the size, more maneuverable, and harder to counterplay; old bombers were easier for new fighter players to kill than snubs are, and easier for new players to use.

Snub swarms will always be an issue, but now it is a lot worse of a problem since fighters can do everything bombers can, and fighters are harder to pick up than bombers but have a much higher skill ceiling. I think the best solution would be to improve secondary turret efficiency and make bombers much more viable than fighters in anti-cap fighting, which will be (in my opinion) a lot easier to balance against and allow new players to be more influential in PVP.

(Also, can we please remove the arming time for torpedoes? I get the idea and all, but using all your powercore to fire torpedoes just for said torpedoes to just vanish because your target moved a slightly closer to you is... not very fun. Bombers in general are not much better than fighters even for anti-cap and the torpedoes are way too situational)