Let's talk about weapon balance

[Buzz2005]

no and no, there is some buffs for ships regarding OOS combat

[Angsaar]

Shuulo, your VRO mod is so much better than vanilla, in terms of weapons, I would love it if the devs took inspiration from the changes you made. I love the ranges, speed, impact effect, and sound effect of weapons for capital ship fights. It just looks. so. much. more. epic.

Some one please pin these words to the top of the forum and pour this person a pint

[csaba]

[Buzz2005]

XR after 3 years of development if we are going to compare

[csaba]

XR after 3 years of development if we are going to compare

Agreeing on anything XR related to be better is an achievement tbh.

[Buzz2005]

XR after 3 years of development if we are going to compare

Agreeing on anything XR related to be better is an achievement tbh.

image x4 after some years under the belt

[csaba]

XR after 3 years of development if we are going to compare

Agreeing on anything XR related to be better is an achievement tbh.

image x4 after some years under the belt

The amount that's missing from Capships (weapon rebalance/new weapons, particle effects, AI improvements, pathing issues, fleet formation logic, XL battleships) is enough for a whole DLC so right now I'm not very positive on its future, since old-new races will have priority over these as per community demand.

XR capital combat (when they actually decided to fight )was already amazing at release compared to X4, they changed some weapons, gave some commands, added ship shields and made subsystems targetable for fighters and that's about it. Pathing was, is still horrendous but it didn't matter there cause you could bail out any ship with bad positioning, here once in combat they are on their own with their terrible AI and short range weaponry.

EDIT:

Just for the sake of comparison this was vanilla XR combat 6 years ago:

https://youtu.be/aWY45kBGcIM?t=494

Notice how even the missile explosions are better than the white haze we are getting now.

[Kpla Keltak]

well Egosoft just announced the following.


We also need to inform you that the previously announced expansion X4: Split Vendetta and the associated big 3.0 update for X4: Foundations won’t, unfortunately, hit their original targeted release timeframe of Q4 2019. We're now targeting a new release date within the first quarter of 2020 for both the X4: Split Vendetta expansion and the 3.0 update. Once we get a little closer, we will be able to announce a more specific date.

and......2.6 is out

[csaba]

There was no mention of weapon balance in either of those updates as of yet so I'd stay on the cautious side.