u/Acceptable-Bid-1019

If someone destroys your ship when you're out on foot when 4.8 hits there's no way of getting home. You can't commandeer abandoned ships anymore and make a getaway.

It would have been a solid move to make ships flyable but having the components bricked upon removal

The armour changes have done less to effect the LF meta than you'd assume, LF's were just equipping NDB's anyway and even then a good LF pilot can equip pretty much anything with enough alpha and dominate most solo ships with relative ease.

The issue is that it's now a lot harder to apply damage to LF's. Previously the most effective anti LF weapons were the CF laser repeaters, they had an 1800 m/s projectile speed meaning that when LF's were approaching you could apply damage whilst strafing to better avoid them closing distance until you were trapped by your own turn rates. The MX's ability to strafe coupled with it's impressive gimbal range and stock rhinos made it a more competitive option than something like a vanguard for PvP. Even if the LF could still dust you with NDB's.

However not only are you now more susceptible to damage but you can't reliably apply your own because the CF's have had their weapon speed reduced by nearly 400 m/s. They have a slower projectile speed in the PTU than the S4 breakneck gatlings do in the PU.

What's more is that it's still the fastest velocity size 4 weapon, tied now with the attrition. The problem with the attrition against LF's is the slow rate of fire. And for clarity this effects CF's across the board, not just the size 4's.

We have a couple of excellent HF pilots but it was an absolute massacre throughout the testing period.

TLDR; It's easier to apply damage to HF's and it's harder to apply damage to LF's due to armour and weapon velocity changes

Currently its just idle/ non interactive gameplay whilst you travel. It would be nice to have an in game news feed from different planets/ systems/ manufactures that provides information in game and gives players something to look at during long idle periods.

Of course subject to change as always but as it stands I'm not sure how I feel about this, I was starting to enjoy the newest armor changes, the made sense to some degree.

The Asgard has been hit hard. Only mentioning that ship specifically as I know its a crowd favourite but really everything has. It's deflection rates are 59/32. The heavy fighters got nerfed heavily alongside the Connies and Corsair and the Shiv has been weakened even further defensively

As a comparison the Corsair is now less armored in the PTU than the shiv currently is in the PU.

But really it's everything that's taken a big hit, all values are down across the board.

Edit: I've added a link for the new values below

SC Ships Performances Viewer

Is this me missing something? It's brutal the way I've been doing it. It makes only a few combat ships viable due to the QF requirements and half of my play session I'm just sitting ideal in QT

Edit two for visibility: You can still dupe.

But, you can only dupe stock components. You can currently remove the stock components from a ship via ship manager, reclaim it as stock and have the components come back whilst keeping the others and have them not be bricked. This seemed to be the case for me anyway.

Firstly if your ship is destroyed you lose all the missiles that you originally had on the ship, even if they were fully stocked and you'll have to buy them back with every claim. So every time you claim a firebird you'll need to spend another 180,000 whether you used your missiles or not.

You do get your ballistic ammo back meaning you don't have to pay for that when claiming. But, if you want to get your ballistics back without destroying your ship, so a landing pad for example, you'll need to pay for your missiles as well. And, of course, if i hangar eats your ship or you bug out and blow up leaving the hangar you're paying for the insurance and the rearming even if you just rearmed seconds before.

Insurance really isn't that much for smaller ships and isn't all that much more than the expediated fee, it's also instant.

You will lose your pledged paints if not insured. I really don't like this personally and think it needs to be addressed before going to live. I didn't even realise until I tested something else and noticed by accident. So new/ poor players beware.

I had a bug in which my insured ship didn't actually insure meaning that I lost the entire loadout. So there's a chance that if you upgrade your ship with looted and crafted components that they'll disappear. I don't know if this has happened to anyone else.

It's a bit of a high risk system tbh, there's so much riding on this not being bugged/ messing up because randomly exploding is one thing but randomly exploding and finding out that the system was bugged and you've lost all your weapons/ components and pledged paint is another.

If working correctly though it's really not that scary of a change.

Edit: One thing I regrettably didn't test was claiming a ship from one location to another. So if I have an insured ship with a new loadout and a pledged paint sitting at seraphim and I'm in Nyx I don't know if I can get it there without either losing the loadout and paint or having to fly all the way back to sera to get it and fly all the way back to Nyx again. Which would mean the ship I was just in would have to stay in sera or go back to its stock loadout if I claimed it back in Nyx