4.75 Beta Release

[Circadian_Lupine]

The other 4.75 thread is becoming saturated with discussion about update procedures, file locations, release dates, and other useful stuff. Lets keep this one strictly to in-game issues and discussion about changes that we either like, don't like, or would like to see changed.

A couple to start with


1.) The nerfed capital ship missiles.

The largest class of battleship missile were a bit too powerful when concentrated against a similarly weight-classed opponent in some cases, so a reduction in firepower was called for. The reduction maaaaay have been a bit on the extreme side. Especially when applied to cruisers and gunships. I believe that the rhineland battleship COULD do without 7 thousand damage-per-shot missiles, but the smaller cruisers and gunships rely on those for fighter defense, and have been somewhat crippled by the changes. To the point where a reasonably high level fighter can purchase and mount better missiles. The whole point of capital ships being expensive, slow, and a pain in the ass to drive, is because they're supposed to have superior firepower.



2.) Increased capital ship laser damages

This was a small step in the right direction, and the higher damage addition to the Osiris lasers FINALLY bumped thier damage per-unit-time to higher than that of a nomad energy blaster. There was seriously something wrong with a small fighter class weapon doing more damage than a turret larger than the entire ship the fighter weapon mounted too. All of the other capital ship lasers i've seen so far though still do less damage than a nomad energy blaster, with thier extreme size they should probably do considerably more. I also noted that the cruiser lasers (at least on the rhineland cruiser) are still pitifully weak. The pinprick lasers combined with the newly nerfed missiles are going to destroy the role of a 20+ million dollar ship.....



3.) Fixed nova torpedo launcher

Very nice, finally a couple fighter class ships can give a capital ship something to worry about. I haven't had the chance to test it against any of the missile dead zones on most of the capital ships, but the increase in explosion radius might be enough to punch through. I'll have more on that when someone logs on that doesn't mind being shot for testing purposes



4.) New Ships

In order to keep spoilers to a minimum i'll hold off most of the details (classes, locations, prices, weapons, etc) until at least a week or so after the official release of 4.75. When replying in this thread please try to remember to be as vague as possible in this area, there are people that really like discovering new things on thier own. So far i've seen 2 new ships for sale that look like they could be interesting in different aspects of the game, but haven't felt like risking the credits to do a full rundown on thier abilities. Seems cool though





That's it for now, i'm going back in to check out more stuff. Once enough people download the update and start experimenting maybe we can get a set of polls going to see where people stand on the major changes in 4.75

I'll wait till we've all had a chance to play with the new equipment before starting any of my own though.

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