Discovery Freelancer: Fire and Fortune Release Date Announcement

[Tenshi Kuonji]

It looks nice, but when that battlecrusier need to fight against bombers, well, is gonna be a mess out, not being able to defend itself, no secondaries/solarises to make bombers/fighters think it twice, dunno why people can't see about it
But well, seems the efforts isn't being made by some crude reasons ... sadly ...

That's what we have fighters for, defending the caps against bombers is their job. IMO it promotes team work and makes things less "muh cap can do it all" gameplay, makes encounters and group battles more interesting.

Do you know not always you are with a fighter escord and some times you need to deal with the enemy in solo-combat right?
What about i wanna make missions for it and when a bunch of fighters NPCs appear, well, you will be eaten in scraps

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[Haste]

one (1) high powered missile is going to render battlecruisers entirely useless by destroying their regen, shields, and movement speed at the same time

At the moment of writing, it takes 6,000,000 explosion damage to destroy the front section of a Corsair Battlecruiser. That is 1,438,000 more damage than the ship has total health. It also would require the ship to be hit -- frontally, of course -- by 43 Marauders or 57 Devastators. These ships have flaks. Explosion damage is useful for softening up components or finishing off components with very low health remaining, but is basically never going to fully destroy a component on a Battlecruiser on its own.

TL;DR: You are aggressively wrong. It may be an idea to reserve judgement for after you try the class.

What about i wanna make missions for it and when a bunch of fighters NPCs appear, well, you will be eaten in scraps

You shoot and kill them with Battlecruiser primaries, which are more akin to really beefy Cruiser prims than they are similar to Battleship prims.

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[James Greed]

i too will form an opinion without actually trying the patch, stand by.

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Greedback

[L1ght]

As a long time "playtester" before they became a thing, I've seen how much work and effort has been put in to this patch balance wise. Over a years of work went in to remaking BCs and other balance related things that will be revealed when the patch hits. I can safely say the end result of it all was worth it and I'd recommend people not forming an opinion prior to trying them out. Big thanks to the dev team for the time and effort they put in to this, we are all grown adults and have limited free time after all.

TLDR: Patch is cool and good, you should all play it!

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[Lusitano]

it is just the BCs that are going to get some changes or other classes algo? i remember talking about the fighter bombers and also the svhf ...

[LuckyOne]

So, uhm, yeah, is nobody going to chip in what happens to the Battleships in the new meta? Really hope they will not end up just huge slabs of targets for the cruisers, the bomber swarms and the new BCs ... Should we all put them to drydocks until some future BS rework ?

[Toaster]

it is just the BCs that are going to get some changes or other classes algo? i remember talking about the fighter bombers and also the svhf ...

Gunboats are also getting reworked.

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Olivia Sable

[Lusitano]

it is just the BCs that are going to get some changes or other classes algo? i remember talking about the fighter bombers and also the svhf ...

Gunboats are also getting reworked.

yeah i saw that but fortgot! thanks. i was just asking because i remember taling about the problems with svhf and creating the new class of fighter bombers and all that, and even planing taking down the svhf and maing all fighter bombers ... or something like that! just asking

[=Hellfire=]

So, uhm, yeah, is nobody going to chip in what happens to the Battleships in the new meta? Really hope they will not end up just huge slabs of targets for the cruisers, the bomber swarms and the new BCs ... Should we all put them to drydocks until some future BS rework ?

Yes, make Freelancer about small ships again, battleships should be a rare occurrence instead of everyone having access to one

[Doria]

Yes, make Freelancer about small ships again, battleships should be a rare occurrence instead of everyone having access to one

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