Upcoming 2.2 Changes to Combat, Blueprints and Power Play

[Cmdr Kharma]

I actually, and very surprisingly don't have a problem with these changes.

I honestly think it's quite overdue.

But then I started using fixed pulses last week
I'm going to switch those to burst now.

Great........

That's the "Teams" shields going down even quicker......

Feckin psycho......

[Falcon_D]

Don't really have a problem with the Fixed vs Gimballed much. Except that NPCs are deadly with fixed and seem to spam chaff quite often. Don't know why you need to nerf the gimballed weapons tracking, though since then can be so easily countered with chaff. I've found that a number of times I've had to unlock my target and use my gimballed as fixed.
Guess it's time to start putting large PACs on my Python and Corvette again. I actually miss those, and with rapid fire mods.

Power play, don't really care.

The RNGineer part is what seems to get to me the most. Tweak the attribute value, great. Remove attributes, not ok. Add attributes, then auto roll for players who already have the mod, definitely not ok.

[de Carabas]

Just for a change I'm divided on all these changes.

Part of me thinks that it's great that the devs are listening to some of the feedback and then using that with their own ideas to continue to enhance the mechanics and (hopefully) gameplay.

Then there's the bit of me that thinks this just adds fuel to the fire that the game is far from a finished product. I don't mean the fact that there's a lot of gameplay elements still to come, more that they are going back to season one stuff to make pretty extensive changes.

Then of course there's the bit that says 'whatever' as I'm out exploring and it makes no difference to me. Even if I was in the bubble the whole PowerPlay bit has never interested me beyond ranking up to get Imperial Hammers.

Like others I really do wonder now what it would be like to start from scratch in this new setup. No way that I'm deleting my CMDR to find out with over 7 weeks of in-game time.....

[Dudley]

Sigh.. It took me ages to get the ship just how I wanted it.. now it looks like, "back to the drawing board"...

o7 Dawg..

Ow... who slapped me..?

[Liebs]

Then there's the bit of me that thinks this just adds fuel to the fire that the game is far from a finished product. I don't mean the fact that there's a lot of gameplay elements still to come, more that they are going back to season one stuff to make pretty extensive changes.

I think this part is less notable and more common than is believed. As an example, in League of Legends they have quite frequently gone back and basically tossed out the champions that the game started with and re-did them in a way that made more sense for their balancing philosophy.

I think the key here is that it appears Frontier is going to be willing to make a deeper commitment to balancing the game beyond just dealing with the most absurd things. Also them providing context and reasoning behind their changes with these updates is a good touch.

This isn't to say that all the changes they made are good, but I think the "at least they're trying" idea has merit.

[Sevin Church]

They've also done this with games like Marvel Heroes, where they spend months retooling a playable hero to bring it up to par with the newer ones they have released. And they haven't screwed it up yet thankfully.

[Loriath]

THE SKY IS FALLING!

THE SKY IS NOT FALLING!

How about we wait and see what EXACTLY how the changes will affect things with what they are proposing when the ßeta drops and we see the actual changes. They have said we are not going to lose what we have already rolled.

They have proved to us in the last ßeta that they want to work with us and listen to our feedback. I don't see this changing at this point.

[de Carabas]

THE SKY IS FALLING!

THE SKY IS NOT FALLING!

How about we wait and see what EXACTLY how the changes will affect things with what they are proposing when the ßeta drops and we see the actual changes. They have said we are not going to lose what we have already rolled.

They have proved to us in the last ßeta that they want to work with us and listen to our feedback. I don't see this changing at this point.

Stop being so bloody reasonable! Honestly, the last thing we need is a level head and sense of fair play!

[Loriath]

Stop being so bloody reasonable! Honestly, the last thing we need is a level head and sense of fair play!

HOW DARE YoU CALL ME THAT!

Take it Back!!!!!

[TorTorden]

It sounds like some of the gripes about PP AI may be fixed, but then they said all PP AI will have interdictors.
I still find this whole concept very confusing.

Well I find the concept of power play as completely out of whack with the entire game so anything beyond that, is OK whatever, cue eyeroll.
The learning curve really isn't that much in ED, it's a fairly basic space fighter/trader.
Seriously tried DCS or even ms flightsim ?

It could be worse, like in eve where hardly anyone would let you play with them until you had at least two years and six months under your belt, and that was to be considered "a noob".