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Azreal Chief Marshal
Joined: March 14, 2004 Posts: 2816 From: United State of Texas, Houston
| Posted: 2013-11-19 10:46  
Ok, its feedback, so....yeah
I fly K'Luth. I do not like that they have so many dreads that are just down right good.
Cruciform: Able to come in and cloud a shield under, hit dictor and troops. Seldom has to worry about planet defense, and sometimes even plats. Can out-spam plats most of the time if done right.
Harbinger: A Nightshade with command mods, basically. Under utilized atm.
Wyvern: Mines spam is just awesome!
Nemesis: Mine spam is just awesome!
Scandent: Mine spam is awesome! (10 mines on that puppy!)
fact is, there is not 1 bad, weak dread in the bunch. Its too much for luth to have, alongside cloak.
It only takes one smart player to jump in an antennae or veil and you can cover your dread wings very nicely. Its just too dread heavy on our side here.
Its not the ships. Its not the cloak. Its not the EWAR, its ALL of them together that give the K'Luth so much of an advantage in dreads that tbh, there isnt really any reason to fly virtually any other ship.
I don't know how to say it right, I know. Im not saying I think what I am trying to, I guess because I cant think of any suggestion to change it (other than give cloak an actual timer which will cause way too much omgwtfwtfwtf!!!!11111one). I just know that there is a very valid arguement from the other sides about the strengths of K'Luth in the dreadnaught areas.
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Jim Starluck Marshal Templar Knights
Joined: October 22, 2001 Posts: 2232 From: Cincinnati, OH
| Posted: 2013-11-19 11:48  
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On 2013-11-19 10:46, Azreal wrote:
fact is, there is not 1 bad, weak dread in the bunch.
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Then we did our job right when writing ship layouts. That was the whole objective: to eliminate ships that were universally regarded as "bad" or "weak".
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Azreal Chief Marshal
Joined: March 14, 2004 Posts: 2816 From: United State of Texas, Houston
| Posted: 2013-11-19 13:06  
So K'LuthSpace is ok being DreadSpace then.....?
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Fattierob Vice Admiral
Joined: April 25, 2003 Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2013-11-19 13:52  
I think the issue is that k'luth will always gravitate towards whatever gives them the most damage irregardless of maneuverability because of cloak. So dreadspace.
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Walrus of Apathy Admiral Templar Knights
Joined: August 07, 2005 Posts: 466 From: Dorans Basement
| Posted: 2013-11-19 14:51  
Honestly, I've seen FAR more K'luth players in cruisers than I have in Dreads. And the Dreads I do see die fairly easily. Yes, K'luth have a number of good dread options but from my my experience it's hardly dreadspace, especially since they have just as many good Cruiser options (Thorax, Naga and Scythe be mad good yo.)
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Enterprise Chief Marshal
Joined: May 19, 2002 Posts: 2576 From: Hawthorne, Nevada
| Posted: 2013-11-19 14:59  
I think its more of an issue that despite the energy drain and the damage to the cloaking device itself, its otherwise ineffective at actually deterring Kluth since cloak doesn't actually break enough to pose a risk for the player.
And as for the energy drain, there is always ELF.
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Iwancoppa Fleet Admiral
Joined: November 15, 2008 Posts: 709
| Posted: 2013-11-19 15:06  
I've been listening to devs(who prefer to ignore players) and their reasons for it and thus trying to play all factions to get a better viewpoint on the game.
I'm not sure if K'luth dreads as they are now are an issue. As ent said, while nothing is a real deterrant to the use of cloak(ECCM never really breaks it) the combination of dread level maneuverability and cruiser level protection(relative to ugto) makes K'luth dreads easy to kill.
The scandent's only weapons are mines, and compared to a normal tier 1 dread, it loses 2 plates.(mines + luth debuff)
The wyvern's armor is extremely thin as it loses 3 plates compared to a tier 1.(tier2,luth,mines)
Cruciforms do have an advantage and changes should be made, in my opinion. It has the same capability as the other faction bombers, plus a cloak to allow easy escape from a dictor field when hostiles show up.
Most of all, I think Luth dreads are easily countered by using cruisers - something that's always crucial for K'luth gameplay is (usually) being able to close distance quickly, usually via jump drive. K'luth dreads are sitting ducks against cruisers, which explains their general lack of use in the current 'small ship' meta.
TLDR; K'luth dreads are fine, Cruciform is just a better icc/ugto bomber dread.
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Borgie Chief Marshal Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005 Posts: 2256 From: close by
| Posted: 2013-11-19 22:19  
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On 2013-11-19 13:06, Azreal wrote:
So K'LuthSpace is ok being DreadSpace then.....?
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i mostly use my ravenger dessie when i can
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Kenny_Naboo Marshal Pitch Black
Joined: January 11, 2010 Posts: 3823 From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2013-11-19 23:23  
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On 2013-11-19 13:06, Azreal wrote:
So K'LuthSpace is ok being DreadSpace then.....?
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Haven't seen that many dreads as you've said. If anything, Kluth are employing dreads and cruisers equally.
And from what I've seen, people are complaining more about the cruisers, though I can't fathom why as they're still more fragile. Perhaps the cruisers are proving to be TOO mobile for them to handle.
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Alzek15 Admiral
Joined: October 27, 2011 Posts: 75 From: A metaverse far, far away
| Posted: 2013-11-20 12:46  
I am very much liking the new mine system. It seems very fun and I love my new arrestor dessie very much.
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Fluttershy Fleet Admiral
Joined: September 24, 2011 Posts: 778 From: Fluttershy
| Posted: 2013-11-21 13:14  
Most of the K'luth weaknesses are completely or partially offset by other strengths.
The flimsy armor is not so weak as one might say, and is more than made up for by K'Luths far higher average damage output, as well as the very forward oriented layouts which do more damage per point spent, as well as cloak granting them the ability to attack from the best positions and so take less damage. Oh, and the AHR. It's not much, but being able to rep hull on the field is pretty damn powerful.
The high energy demands of the K'Luth are also offset almost entirely.
ELF beams let a beam ship attack for very long if it doesn't go max speed.
ELF Torps bring in a significant amount of energy.
Cannons don't use much energy anyways, so they don't care.
Even when out of energy, Cloak can stay functionally intact for a minute or so, and never break at all if being supplied or in orbit around a depot.
The only significant weakness is the lack of range, and that is only a weakness if you try and have a 1400gu planetary standoff with the ICC who happen to be heavily entrenched with a line station and a couple strike cruisers standing next to it. (That strategy worked out very well)
[ This Message was edited by: Fluttershy on 2013-11-21 13:16 ]
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Sheraton*XO* Chief Marshal Faster than Light
Joined: January 18, 2013 Posts: 482 From: Keel Mountains
| Posted: 2013-11-21 18:19  
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On 2013-11-21 13:14, Fluttershy wrote:
Most of the K'luth weaknesses are completely or partially offset by other strengths.
The flimsy armor is not so weak as one might say, and is more than made up for by K'Luths far higher average damage output, as well as the very forward oriented layouts which do more damage per point spent, as well as cloak granting them the ability to attack from the best positions and so take less damage. Oh, and the AHR. It's not much, but being able to rep hull on the field is pretty damn powerful.
The high energy demands of the K'Luth are also offset almost entirely.
ELF beams let a beam ship attack for very long if it doesn't go max speed.
ELF Torps bring in a significant amount of energy.
Cannons don't use much energy anyways, so they don't care.
Even when out of energy, Cloak can stay functionally intact for a minute or so, and never break at all if being supplied or in orbit around a depot.
The only significant weakness is the lack of range, and that is only a weakness if you try and have a 1400gu planetary standoff with the ICC who happen to be heavily entrenched with a line station and a couple strike cruisers standing next to it. (That strategy worked out very well)
[ This Message was edited by: Fluttershy on 2013-11-21 13:16 ]
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I suppose if someone were to demonstrate through "testing" that these ELF beams and torps helped offset that energy drain, or that the cannons should use more energy that could be a tanglible downside. Personally I am opposed to making the k'luth have to use up anymore energy on the cloak. However, if anyone wants to demonstrate through a test instead of our speculations here that might convince someone, somewhere to change something.
-Sheraton
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Borgie Chief Marshal Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005 Posts: 2256 From: close by
| Posted: 2013-11-21 22:57  
is it possbale at some point to remap the mine key from "b" to another key, its too close my cloak key and i have fat fingers
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Chewy Squirrel Chief Marshal
Joined: January 27, 2003 Posts: 304 From: NYC
| Posted: 2013-11-21 23:24  
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On 2013-11-21 22:57, Borgie wrote:
is it possbale at some point to remap the mine key from "b" to another key, its too close my cloak key and i have fat fingers
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Can't you just assign mines to a # key?
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Borgie Chief Marshal Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005 Posts: 2256 From: close by
| Posted: 2013-11-21 23:51  
yes, but i find it easier to hit the B key since the wyvern only has cannons. so it makes it easier to turn(lol) using the b and space bar vrs number keys and the arrow keys
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