Another question

[tansytansey]

Right, well I was thinking of a system that would overhaul bomber/everything else relationships, but I know for certain it'll never be implemented here because of the work load.

1) Bombers become closer to dedicated freighter looking bombers, like the Hades from Starlancer. They're limited to maybe two gun hardpoints, and not particularly high level ones at that.

2) They're given four torpedo slots and twelve torpedoes. These torpedoes will have ungodly killing power, enough to tag a battleship in maybe four-to-six hits, medium size explosion range though.

3) Give battleships slightly weaker shields and ungodly amounts of hull, so fighters can blow components off, but not actually scratch the hull in any meaningful way. Give fighters to option to mount incredibly slow anti-capital shield busting weapons.

This would encourage battle coordination with fighters tagging the shields, then maybe blowing off the shield generator (which would need a bigger model) and pulling back to cover the bombers for a strike. Defending fighters could also try to shoot the torps down, as could the battleship's flak.

As I said, not going to happen because of workload, but limiting the amount of torpedoes a bomber could carry would make for more realistic and potentially epic fights.

Freelancer is not Starlancer. I believe it is the Devs and Igiss' intention to keep Discovery as close to the Vanilla feel as possible, and completely revamping the combat system is not the way to do that.
However, limiting cargo could work for LFs and Bombers. LFs are far too small to carry the same amount of ammunition as VHFs... and missiles on bombers makes it far to easy for them to kill fighters, namely LFs.

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