Limit the number of bombers available, decrease their hull value, ANYTHING.
Right now every game looks like this - 4 TIE Bombers doing suicide runs and 1 other player who isn't it on the joke.
With fully powered lasers and an unguided gatling gun I can only do 45% damage to ONE bomber as it comes at my cruiser. And there are three more coming and they only need one pass to destroy a subsystem
Yeah, as a rebel, your hope of getting anywhere near a capital ship is close to nothing..
The few times I've managed to get close to a capital ship, I died before I actually hit anything important.
Here's an experiment - go play a single practice against a capital ship as a rebel.
Then go play a fleet battle and get next to one corvette..
You last 4-5 times as long against a full on Star Destroyer all by yourself, than you do against an Imperial corvette with several AI and friends helping you.
I'm confused.
You know why people 'farm' AI?
Because the objectives are not any fun, nor are they worth pursuing, if you want an enjoyable, contributable game experience.
Yeah the tie bomber seems OP for sure.
I agree with the general premise that SOMETHING should be done to rebalance the Tie Bomber...
However I would just ask DON'T GO OVERBOARD! Don't overdo it. It's not as if everyone good plays Tie Bomber ALL the time.
What I DON'T want to see, that I have seen suggested, is to nerf the Rotary Cannon. Please no! I love that thing. Discovering that weapon for both T/B and Y-wing is the only thing that makes this game FUN for me. Because otherwise it takes so stinking long to KILL anything! (This is coming from an old XvT / XWA player who was accustomed to that unique satisfaction of "snap kills." Please don't nerf the Rotary Cannon! (I use the UN-guided version of course. Guided laser weapons are a travesty.)
Instead, these are things they can do:
- *Slightly* nerf the T/B hull. Like shave 4% off all the hulls and 8% off the super strong hull, something like that.
- *Slightly* increase the power of EVERY OTHER main laser weapon in the game! (if you think the Rotary is too strong) How about that? 🙂 Needs to be easier to kill things anyway. Then maybe I would play A or TI again.
- Fix the problem where the Y-wing's Auto Ion turret doesn't work in Dogfights. That is LAME-O. Especially lame if they did it on purpose and just neglected to explain it anywhere.
Just my 2c. I love playing both Tie Bomber AND Y-wing... not because I need an unfair advantage over people, but again, just because I like to KILL things.
I was the guy constantly complaining a couple weeks ago about the difficulty AIMING in this game, how there is too much angular momentum coming out of tight turns, and I hate the need to "counter-steer" to avoid "over-steering." But the odds of them ever changing that are fairly low, and when I discovered the Rotary Cannon, I quit complaining about that and just made it a game. I pull the trigger when I think I am about one second from getting a good shot, then finish homing in, then let 'er rip 🙂
Right now, Tie Bombers are literal battering rams with guided long range lasers. I always laugh after I've unloaded my fully charged rapid fire laser bar (as an A-Wing) on a Tie Bomber in a head-to-head approach, and the Bomber rams through me like it is a Bulk Cruiser or something, and comes out of all that with like 50% damage only. It could almost do all that one more time.
Fleet Battle PVP will continue to be pointless until many things are fixed, including the current meta of Tie Bomber suicide swarms. Zzzzzzz. Experienced players will stop playing these cookie cutter matches, and new players will give up after getting beaten every time. The current state of PVP, including the Tie Bomber meta, is a recipe for long term failure.
I think 2.0 patch will fix this so wait for 2 more days!!
@Metric-SINISTER , you are not *supposed* to be able to kill a T/B on the HTH with an Awing - not if he is aiming and shooting at you. That's just how this game works. There are meant to be 4 very *different* classes with different capabilities. You can certainly get behind / beside him and make him pay though.
Personally, I would prefer *everything* be easier to kill, like in XvT / XWA. But if it is going to be a "modern" type game, where things have more health in general, then the "tank character" does indeed need to be "tankey," or else it just becomes useless.
That's why I suggest a *slight* nerf to the T/B. Trim its hull, and especially trim the reinforced hull.
Or, slightly buff all the weapons of fighers, interceptors, and support.
But please do not nerf the Rotary Cannon! (The unguided one.)
I would love to see all guided laser weapons go away though - rotary and burst - just keep the unguided versions.
