Yeah this weapon does need to be tweaked quite a bit so as not to be so situational.
On one hand, it’s great for waves like Dazzling Coordination, Squawk Block, Honeycomb Conjecture, etc where multiple enemies are in the players line of fire, but it’s meh against bosses and even worse against fast enemies in waves like High-Speed Chase, Sweeping swoop, etc cause of it’s slow and weak uncharged firerate.
Overdrive could be a way to fix the insufficient DPS and meh firerate but overdrive should be disabled once it overheats and fires popcorn. Another fix corn needs is it’s bullet spread which creates gaps that chickens don’t take damage in, making it an unreliable weapon for multikills, since people think a uniform bullet spread would be too boring, I settled for the compromise of having 3 bullets have a fixed spread at the middle with other bullets being RNG.
As for the Photon Swarm problem, trying to move forward as you fire (use overdrive for this) and creating a lot of bullets all bunched up together could be a way to counter the feathers.
This guy’s rather challenging and ram happy, bombers really need some speed buffs in order to avoid rams from bosses.
It’s hard, but the absurdly challenging part comes when you have the V29 chicken breeds, a guaranteed attack is really hard to dodge in such a confined space, toxic chickens are even more cancerous as their area denial can really screw you over with no way of crossing the toxic cloud with bombers and challenging even for normal speed fighters. And don’t even get me started on slobs and their 12 bullet ring O death, it’s basically impossible to dodge such an attack with most ships if you’re in the same row as the slob.
Yeah, they need more advantages compared to H&C’s in order to justify the price and bigger hitboxes. Some people considered removing Max (
20) power for H&C’s so that only Mullers and BX’s have them, but IMO the only weapon where it would justify such a massive increase in price would be Lightning Fryer.
There are several topics that discuss spacecraft rebalancing with this one being one of the best: About the current state of spacecraft in the game
Can’t say anything other than I agree 100%. League really needs a rework after multiplayer is refined cause it’s has no rewards other than league points which give no benefit. Reworking it will need its own topic however.
The game and dare I say a small portion of the community have a hard time deciphering fair from challenging. Most waves are fine, and I see the novelty of having harder epic waves, but honestly, I feel like epic waves need change as well.
Overall, very good points and I do wish iA made more changes based on detailed opinions like these.