Discovery Freelancer Patch 4.88.6 Capital Ship Changes

[Shaggy]

There's an extremely big difference between looking at stats and explaining how you think a duel will go to actually testing both against one another and seeing how it goes. The Thresher 7/10 times was out-classed. It can't do enough damage on its own to be an efficient capital vessel. It might be flat on its vertical profile but it's thick, so even with rolling it's a really easy target, because most cruisers can't move fast enough to avoid other cruiser weapons, which puts weight category on the board.

Its arcs make little difference when the ships cannot do enough damage to anything it's shooting at.

Praefect has it outclassed, outgunned, and outweighed. That's one of its main enemies.

Resheph can out-damage it. Second main enemy.

Irra can out-damage, outclass and out weight it. Third enemy.

Storta can out-maneuver it due to its profile and out-gun it.

I should've also tested it against the Vidar, because all of those cruisers are ships the Thresher has encountered and will encounter again, and with the way it is in comparison to all of those, it's outweighed, and people are better off going for the now-buffed Bullhead if they want an effective middle-ground cap that behaves like a cruiser should, because even with the power core buff, the thresher is a medium destroyer with the stats of a light, hybrid or not. The size might be small when comparing it to the Typhoon, but the Typhoon is an extremely rare ship to encounter, and its shape is much different.

So please re-consider the balance change you did, because the Thresher isn't balanced at all. It's awful.

Vendetta if they have to test the Thresher against fighting it's main enemies to see if it is capable of duels then they will need to do that for every single ship in the game, which will take alot of time, effort and hard work. I honestly believe that the Thresher is a good ship, i've used it myself as a former Core| member and it was very good as an anti-snub. Why would you want to use a Light/Medium Cruiser for anti cap I do not know when you have the Bullhead which is a perfect Anti-cap. I have one and I enjoy my Bullhead alot.