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Pinkz604's avatar
7 years ago

The Chimera Capital Ship has RUINED the Fleet Arena!!!

I’m a long time player who has absolutely loved the Fleet Arena ever since it’s inception, but now I find my enjoyment for playing it is all but gone. What was so amazing about Fleet that separated itself from Squad Arena was how all three original capital ships had their own strengths and weaknesses, worked best with specific ships, and operate in a way that caters to the user’s preferred style.

NOW Thrawn’s Chimera is created and it has completely messed up the balance! Basically anyone who was fortunate enough to get that ship on its first release has switched to it and it has made even weaker players SIGNIFICANTLY better! It’s easily made Akbar and Mace totally irrelevant and even Tarkin seems to be out the door as a shift towards everyone using the Chimera is well underway!

It’s literally the ultimate Captial Ship. There’s almost no point in going against it if you don’t have it. It’s ultimate power even kills your ships when they have Mace’s Dammage Immunity ffs!!! How is that even possible??? What’s the point of DAMAGE IMMUNITY and timing it perfectly if your ships can still die in one shot?!?

Fleet used to be a fun rock, paper, scissors style match that greatly relied on strategy and intellect. Now by picking the Chimera, it’s like bringing a gun to a knife fight. Maybe once in a while you lose, but the VAST majority of the time your gonna win that fight and it’s not even fair.

One desperate plea to the developers... PLEASE tone down the Chimera or at least rework the other ships so they can compete again! That ship is so OP it’s either broken or the whole damn Fleet Arena is broken now. Either way, something needs to get fixed to make it fair and fun again! #MFFA #MakeFleetFunAgain
  • I've only seen one Chim so far in my shard, and beat it like the others - blow up biggest threat (Scimitar, MilFalc, etc. or Biggs if no other) then proceed from there.

    So with that said, how does strategy change against Chim?

  • Well this depends on arenas, everyone prefer to use what most players use. My arena doesn't t many Chimaeras, it's like only one third. And I sometimes getting my butt kicked by Endurance, even Home One occasionally. The capital ships don't make that much difference. If you lose a fleet fight, it's totally just having a bad luck.
  • I disagree with the OP. I have the Chimaera and it's fun to use, but I am equally adept with Tarkin's ship, and frankly if I had to make do with Ackbar I'd be fine with that.

    Territory Wars are good indicator of this. I put my Chimaera on defence each time and used the other Capital ships to attack. And I attacked Chimaeras. And I beat them.

    Fleet PVP is more about the star ships and how you manipulate turn meter (e.g. using Bistan or Reaper) or target-locks (with a variety of pilots). All Capital ships have their strengths and synergies with different Pilots but there's no unbeatable line up.
  • "SCPD;c-1377330" wrote:
    It's the strategy for different capital ships that matters


    For example, when you face a Tarkin lead with TFP, you want to avoid attacking TFP with anyone than Vader's ship cause the dodges give TM to Tarkin that will speed up his auto win special
  • "ScottyLee;c-1377453" wrote:
    "SCPD;c-1377330" wrote:
    It's the strategy for different capital ships that matters


    For example, when you face a Tarkin lead with TFP, you want to avoid attacking TFP with anyone than Vader's ship cause the dodges give TM to Tarkin that will speed up his auto win special


    Thrawn gains same Tm as Tarkin does whenever tfp evades, as that are both Empire capital ships. Bistan, Poe, and Vader are hard counters to him (TFP)
  • Pinkz is just bitter that he/she can't snipe the top players of the shard anymore. Pinkz also made a reply about and I quote "Pretty comical how every time there's a toon who's a good arena character, somebody wants to nerf them because they couldn't beat them....." You can't have it both ways Pinkz.... I'm sorry that you're one of those mediocre players that you're complaining about. :(
  • So, ignoring all the people here with easy as cake fleet shards.
    You're right. I understand where you're coming from. Tarkin was the dominant ship before Chimera, but it was still probably 50% Tarkin, 50% Ackbar/Mace. Then Chimera came along, and now it's a rarity to even see 1 non-Chimera team in my top 50.
    The reason it's so powerful is because EA needed a reason for players to spend $$$ on ships.