This is what you get when people that barely know a thing about Freelancer physics and combat do balancing :3
Same stuff happened by removed the shield bubbles...
"Oh wait this influenced combat?"
Same with the missiles.
Shields got reversed, now to wait for the rest.
Honestly, I'm not against change, but reworking everything the way it was done without actual second thoughts to it or testing, it's quite hilarious.
Not to mention 90% of what was changed was never tested by the modders themselves, speaking about certain ship models with obvious bugs that could've been spotted by the modders themselves if they had bothered to actually test what they threw into the mod. Spatial being an example of showing it wasn't tested at all.
Sure you're all doing it for free, but don't you have this feeling that when you build something you want to do it right? Before showing the product?
Oh yes, beta is to test stuff. But it's also how you managed to drive away people. And here 'we' are complaining about the lack of people.