Snub PvP; A deep dive complaint

[Reeves]

Under normal circumstances I find myself disagreeing with the vast majority of people who are heavy into PvP on the server. That's just how it's always been for me because my priority is different things/experiences when I choose to spend time on the server.

But I do have to admit that I cannot recall a time, since I started playing Discovery, when I've been having as little fun as I currently am. To the point where I am actively unable to bring myself to log given the average experience you get by being a fairly average snub pilot on the server these days. I'm already somebody that's fighting an uphill battle given how easy it is for me to get overwhelmed by lots of visual stimulation (I'm probably on the spectrum lmao - just undiagnosed and that's a fair enough thing to consider a skill issue), but matters are made worse by the introduction of entirely foreign mechanical elements to the game.

I was apprehensive about the shield changes when I saw them. Well, not entirely. I was happy to see the different shield types be made distinct from each other. But I was unhappy to see things go even further by adding an entirely new mechanic to the spin of things that's done nothing but give people grief since it's introduction.

Shield overcharging.

I cannot count the number of times a GB or capital ship of some variety has walked into a fight with the bare minimum rp required, and far more batteries than is possible, and just ruined everything for everyone involved. The worst part is? This wouldn't be a problem if we wound the clock back by a year. A clumsy cap pilot getting surrounded was going to die pretty quickly regardless of whether he had 10k shield batteries or none at all.

That's my biggest gripe. Fights take longer because of an invulnerability screen that you can't do anything about. Weapons have also been "reworked" in a way that feels extremely strange and convoluted. There are now twice the number of snub guns that all feel pointless to use in the current PvP landscape. The only class I can sort of will myself to play anymore is ironically enough GBs and even they have it bad given the current balancing of torpedoes which have great tracking, insane lifetimes, and outperform the "stock" GB loadout of pulse+prims by default. It's so bad you can get walked on in an otherwise perfectly balanced match-up.

I feel like balance as a whole has just lost the plot and gotten greedy to change as much as possible.

You need to go back to the feel of things and start actually testing the stuff you're putting on the server instead of lying about it. Maybe when you see how brutally unfun the general experience is and can be bothered to include a wider testing sample of people, without boiling away their patience to cooperate with you because of sheer noise, you might actually be able to fix this and bring back the fleet brawls that used to happen semi-frequently and all over the place.

And yeah, I am kind of annoyed, because this spree of changes has made me feel locked out of my faction's "theme" which is being snub-centric and focused on speed.

Speed no longer means anything when you can be suppressed by a combination of missiles/mines without an effective hard counter.

The current experience is simply abysmal and something needs to be done about it ASAP.

Please.

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On indefinite hiatus because the current state of gameplay sucks - ping me over discord if replies are needed