Weapons rebalance in Utopia/ Nerf kinetic/destroyers

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Searry

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Will there be rebalanced weapons for Utopia?
I find the meta to be very boring. Destroyers only with the longest range weaponry, that's kinetic.
No uses for other ship classes except maybe hangar battleships, but those cost too much to have bang for the buck.
Destroyers with kinetic weaponry needs to be done with, I want to use other classes as well.

And before anyone tries to contradict this, just think about it. 200k blob of destroyers with the longest range kinetics start shooting long before the enemy without it gets their shit in. Even a few seconds of this makes a big difference in wars. In MP the guy with the guns which can shoot from afar always wins.
 

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there will be some balance work (ie missile buff) but not a redesign
 

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Will there be rebalanced weapons for Utopia?
I find the meta to be very boring. Destroyers only with the longest range weaponry, that's kinetic.
No uses for other ship classes except maybe hangar battleships

Yeah stopped listening about here. You might want to get your head checked if you think hangar ships are useful. Pd/ flak are far too brutal in the current game.

Full destroyers will only work vs other full destroyer fleets. Cruiser fleets will wreck them, especially with an armour focus if you're going solely kinetic.
 

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Yeah stopped listening about here. You might want to get your head checked if you think hangar ships are useful. Pd/ flak are far too brutal in the current game.

Full destroyers will only work vs other full destroyer fleets. Cruiser fleets will wreck them, especially with an armour focus if you're going solely kinetic.
You clearly haven't played enough. Hangar ships are usefull because nobody expects them.
 

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You clearly haven't played enough. Hangar ships are usefull because nobody expects them.
I use hangar cruisers/Battleships somethimes.
Only usefull when the enemy has no PD/Flak and the fight is expected to take many day's.
Or you jump nearly on top of the enemy

Otherwise? compeltly useless.
 

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I use hangar cruisers/Battleships somethimes.
Only usefull when the enemy has no PD/Flak and the fight is expected to take many day's.
Or you jump nearly on top of the enemy

Otherwise? compeltly useless.

That's true for me as well. A shame really, since I love starfighters so it was a huge disappointment for me when they weren't that good.