Mjolnir said that light fighters would be getting faster cuise in the next mod right? That doesn't seem to help much in combat but I had this idea:
Light fighters could have their engines disrupted for less time. e.g: your in a fight with a light fighter against a Sabre. He is disrupting your engines with each pass, and you are disrupting his. Since none of you have mini razors the only thing you have fear is a nuke.
But if LF's engines were able to be undisrupted faster, they would have the advantage of being able to turn around much quicker, thus rendering the Sabres CD almost useless- and giving LF's an advantage against VHF's with CD's.
i would say change the CDs themselves. as it is right now (virtually) everyone uses a train CD. thats because it is the best option with zero opportunity cost. the only alternative is the mosquito, which based on the info card is designed to be used for hunting fighters. unfortunately they both have nearly identical turning radius, and the mosquito lacks the range, speed, and explosion radius that the train CD boasts. in practicality, even if you were to dodge a train CD in a fighter, it still will disrupt your cruise engines because the explosion radius is so huge. and furthermore, its so close in agility to the mosquito that its not likely to miss anyways making the mosquito completely obsolete. im not saying any kind of nerf/buff is necessarily in order. but keeping the train CD as effective as it is now on larger ships, while reducing its effectiveness on smaller ships would allow the mosquito a place in Freelancer that it currently does not have. every other aspect of the game requires players to choose one benefit while losing another in some way. gain range lose power and etc. shouldnt the CDs be that way too at least a little bit?
Blast radius on the Train means you have a much higher chance of irritating NPC's though. Only real difference I can see though. Still on the fence on which to use.
its just the train can do everything the mosquito can, but ALSO take down trains. why would anyone (other than me bc i just like variety) use a mosquito with the current stats?
' Wrote:its just the train can do everything the mosquito can, but ALSO take down trains. why would anyone (other than me bc i just like variety) use a mosquito with the current stats?
Because it's way more accurate? Train tends to overhit targets and circle them. It's actually too fast, odd as it may sound.
And I agree with Spazzy; the delay only affects initiating cruise...
The cooldown only procs if you're cruising, or charging for cruise. Being hit with a CD when your engines are not cruising does nothing to your cooldown.
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it does, in LF its even easy.
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