Discovery 4.82 Beta features, bugs & suggestions

[Zukeenee]

Well now, I wouldn't say that the LFs need to be toned down. The biggest problem on them is the hitbox, and that's only on a few of them. I find the House Mk II LFs to be quite equal to many other ships in the game.

Just a few weeks back, I, in my Wyrm, engaged Dab, in his Eagle. The fight was quite "balanced", as you might call it here. I was able to dodge many of Dab's shots, but in doing so, lost opportunities to fire on him. The shots that did hit me dealt quite a bit of damage, but not enough of them did hit to kill me. Meanwhile, I use the Wyrm's agility to get behind Dab and fire on him. However, with the lesser number of guns on my LF and the lowered weapons class, I couldn't get past his Class-10 HF shield unless I sat and pounded him for about ten seconds straight-- by which time Dab could turn around and blow me to pieces, so that was out of the question. After about 20 minutes or so, I just decided to leave the fight. And so began the "KSP Pays for Safe Return of Hostages" news story. But that's something else entirely...

So it all comes down to this: LFs can move faster, but deal less damage. HFs and VHFs move slower, but deal more damage. Even in LFs that have Class 9 gun mounts, it's still difficult to take down a good HF shield.

So unless the definition of "balanced" has changed from "Virtually equal in a fair fight" to "Light Fighters must be weak and easier to kill", then I would say that things are balanced as they are. I think that the real reason that people are complaining about Light Fighters is because of those few that have hitbox problems. So please, don't bring all LFs in general into this.:)

Ohh... there's something else I wanted to say, I'm sure of it... but I can't remember. Well, it is 4 AM over here. My brain's running on caffiene. I dunno, I guess that's all I have for now.

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