Devs? When are you going to buff us weak defenders?

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Doesnt seem to be a priority. Wish it was. In need of a major buff. Many multiple forum post on great ideas how to balance and buff the Defender boat. Community awaits the buff.

Real question is When?

@Miika @Zeus @The Grim Repair

 

4th duplicate thread FFS....

 

Well it took enfos half a year, so...

 

What @Help I Cant Swim said. Even in our guild we have a few defenders rocking their solid builds within ace 1. Having said that, most defenders in ace 1 are still troubled by suicidal tendencies.

 

Defenders need only a passive skill buff not more. They are boats of blue items so that problem should be solve with passives. Also i think defender should be slightly bigger, at least it must be able to be a living shield for teammates.

 

We are bigger than you realize. We get hit by torps, cannon balls, missles and stun pulses that are very clearly wide of our ship by a margin. The hit box extends beyond the bounds of our models.

Either that or we are so fat we warp the space time continuum creating our own gravity well.

 

Our boat is dumbed down and made for 3rd graders to easily hit it.
This is suppossed to be a fighting game...
My point to devs. With the Hit box being much larger than the actual boat. Why?

Do we really need to make it easier for torpedoes and mines, and every weapon on the bay to hit the Defender boat?

We now easily have legendary 2 thru Legendary 5 weapons. Putting out massive damage. They dont need to be easier to use.

Fix and shrink the hit box size to be exact to the ship and stop allowing phantom shots from every weapon to hit a defender boat.
If you cant do this. Shrink the boat size by 10 percent.


Next up attribute or passive attributes of the ship. Turret, turn radius, defense points, hp. Speed. Buff it the same way enforcers got buffed in passive attributes.

Meta is factual. Defender is the least used nitemare boat. Enforcers before their buff, was used even more than Big blue.

Its time to fix this. Over 4+ forum post threads on this subject. Community has spoken. And given input after input on valuable fix ideas. We might not all share the same cure.
But we all see a problem. Underused boat. Easy to hit. Imballanced with other nitemate boats.

A fix is neccessary. And should be a top priority. How many more players must quit the boat or the game? Till it happens?

Jaws
@Miika

 

Weak? Next time I come across a 12k defender with bandages and explosive cannons I'll remember how weak they are.

 

Lol. No 12k defender has broken 4.2k ever.

Please do look at league standings. U will understand

Even further. No defender only at all regardless of h.p. 18k. Or 21k has even broken into top 25 in 6months.

Massive Hp. Doesnt make the boat. Weapons are stronger than the highest h.p figure you can muster.

3 total defenders made top 200 nitemare. Every other boat had at least 10 or more.

Please research meta. Its always there. Facts

 

I have still seeing some very powerful defenders and yes, you are one of them. Really i can't see the defenders so weak as all of you saying everytime. Just needed some passive skills buff but you are talking like defender has nothing right now. That’s wrong i am sure you too seeing some matches(not much i aggee) that defenders are carrying the whole team.

 

Anyone can point to any boat winning and carrying a battle.

Yes I am one of the strong ones.

Thanks.

Never broken 5.3k. Ever. There is a cap to highest infamy a Defender can go.

Every other ship in the bay has been top 10. And top 1. Speeder, enforcer, shooter and fixer. 8 months. NO Defender.

Please stop arguing community about us boats that are doing well with this limitation.

Its not enough. The boat is limited. We just make the best of it.

The boat isnt competitive with the other 5 boats. My stats prove this.

League data proves this.

Not circumstantial evidence. Concrete numbers. Meta data. Months on months.

Why do less players use this boat?

Why are the other boats easier to be number 1 in the game?

What makes this boat less playable?

Buff is the solution.

Jaws

 

Maybe they're weak in nightmare league but I'm in Ace ii facing Ace i ships and they're certainly not weak.
Considering how terrible the Devs have been at nerfing everything to address issues in nightmare I'd hate to see a Defender buff. The only thing worst than Defenders are fixers at Ace level.

 

They dont need to buff mk1 thru mk5. Its a mk6 and mk7 issue.

 

20k health! Us speeders need someone to follow into battle! And give Shooter some health too! However, to combat this health overload, boost all ships defense and hp.

 

No, no, no, no, no, no, and no. Shooters do not need a buff.

 

This 12K big booty take me to nightmare and slightly above 4.2K back in October... =)
but yes, I moved to speeder soon after because was so frustrating playing it in the middle of yellow ocean

 

Check out my new post, how hp should be