5.2.1 - patch notes

[Haste]

This brings me back to my point - When do we expect to see some sort of love for bombers and the sort that makes them less than useless?

I am fairly sure that as of this right now bombers are in a great spot. I don't think we should make more changes until we see them in larger scale fights. Neutralizers and Scorchers are awesome, weapons like SNACs and ASMFDs (especially the latter given their anti-snub usefulness) are now very respectable hullbusters against capitals, Bombers have vastly more powercore recharge under pressure than before, Bomber shield boosts are longer.. It's hard to imagine that with all that they're going to underperform. If anything, based on testing where bombers often outdamaged fighters against capitals ship by a 2:1 ratio or more, I'd be worried they're overtuned.

They're not exactly impressive, are they?

At a glance, they're not, but do remember that flaks are better at deshielding (especially against clumps of snubs) than prims. Prims are hullbusters. I am however not nearly as interested in anti-NPC performance (against NPCs the changes are a strict nerf as they do not dodge anywhere near as well as players) as I am in seeing their performance against high level snub players.

I honestly don't know how forcing prims use only on snubs isn't more silly and one dimensional than having both prims and flaks viable against snubs and prims also usable against caps.

Finishing off squishy components with prims is still very much a thing, and cruiser prims are the only thing that'll hit a competent gunboat past about 900 meters. Flaks are very much one of your two anti-snub tools, with their secondary function being gunboat deshielding in a pinch and obviously missile defense.

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