I've noticed a nerf in a set of faction guns from the Vanilla ones

[ProwlerPC]

They are actually pretty heavily used by the faction too. Myself I have 4 on my Fighter and 2 on my Bomber and I know many of our members can say the same thing. I have no intention of changing my loadout as I do what I do quite well. In fact, if I wasn't currently replaying the SP story and poking around in space I wouldn't have noticed that the ones in the original game were more in tune with the infocard (Higher damage at lower energy efficiency, not lower damge at even lower energy efficiency). This is also notable to me since there are so many people concerned about escorts being unable to down their charge's assailants with enough probability of success. I, having always used these guns, felt compelled to argue that the forward guns needed to be buffed when I was flying with guns that were nerfed and placed in a tougher environment than the originals. I still argue that the guns need to buffed and bombers not nerfed even if the bomber's use the same guns. Escorts would be better at their jobs no matter who's sporting them as they will be firing on ships that are focused on another, the guns need to eat shields and hull faster. Chucking that in, sorry ;)

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