Cruiser Balance

[mjolnir]

@ Telbasta, read things properly and stop taking hasty conclusions.

Right now you can mount 1 cerb + 5 normal guns on a GB and go against anything... get 2 GBs and 1-2 missiles turrets on each and you can take a BS as well as fighters/bombers. The BS will never hit your hull as well. A bit too universal don't you think?

The proposed changes are:

1. Anti-capship specialized GB guns (Razor, Inferno, Forward guns) get 2k range
2. Normal turrets get under 1000m gun range while Cerberus get some 1400m
3. Missiles are changed so that you can only reasonably use 2 of them (by energy or ammo or weapon slots). While they keep their tracking and maybe get slightly increased damage (provided vanilla ships loose damageable components)

So what would this mean for your Kusari GB:

You can still sit at 1.5 k and fire the forward gun on a cruiser - but hitting it will be more difficult than with cerbs. You can still kill fighters with your two missiles turrets and two solaris. Maybe actually better than you could before.

... all this is a proposal that if implemented will be tested by everyone in the beta versions of 4.85, maybe it's time to wait and see then?

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