I've been playing Discovery open singleplayer the last few weeks (gonna check out the online RP server soon, it's lonely playing with myself:laugh:), and I have to say it's the best thing that's ever happened to Freelancer, gives the game a whole new lease of life. But I've run into a couple of gameplay balance issues...
The new Freelancer faction are way too tough. I got on the wrong side of the Freelancers after doing numerous missions against the Bounty Hunters, I can win if just 1 or 2 Freelancers flying Falcons attack me (I'm in an Eagle with 2x Kraken Type 2 and 4x Nomad guns, class 10 shield etc.), but if I get jumped by 6 of them I have to flee for my life. Weird since I can normally take Falcons out with only a few hits, and I can hold my own against 8 Outcast Sabres or Corsair Titans simultaneously. I got attacked by a single Freelancer flying an Eagle, and I swear it was totally immune to my weapons, I had its shields down to 0 and was firing all my guns at it simultaneously, and its armour wasn't going down at all. I can understand that the Freelancers are experienced pilots and probably have armour upgrades, but this Eagle was tougher than a battleship. I don't see how it could have taken that kind of damage even with a class VIII armour upgrade.
Along a similar vein, most of the time when I take a difficulty 39 mission against the Bounty Hunters I encounter Hammerheads in groups of 3 or 4 (no big deal), but sometimes the game spawns 4 BH battleships instead. I saved up the 7 million for a Nova cannon but I still couldn't have taken on more than one at once. Shouldn't these missions spawn only a single battleship, if that? Or a battleship with a few fighter escorts?
I'm also running into issues where large ships (e.g. Large Transport) can land at hollowed-out-rock pirate bases, but crash when you try to leave.
