New Yellow Item: Standard Cannon

Every fixer would trade one weapon slot point for +one yellow slot point. Then you would have fixers with tesla shields... Nightmare fuel...

 

I think the hybrid spot would have to be limited to 1 pt items and the pt can’t be pulled over to a regular spot of that color or it would cause imbalance issues.

 

And I think I would want a green for double pulse/double bolt.

And that’s the fun of a hybrid spot - everyone will have their own ideas to play with

 

Just to clarify, it wasnt a Speeder and an Enforcer versus me. It was an almost dead Speeder which I killed, and then I rounded a corner and happened to run into an Enforcer (quite far away from where I killed the Speeder, but obviously I cover ground very quickly).

So the actual situation is full hp Speeder, versus damaged Enforcer. And he didn’t just win the fight, there was no ‘fight’, he basically got a free kill, and I wasn’t able to fight back.

A shooter or enforcer (for example) would have no trouble killing a 1hp ship, and then instantly engaging another ship with his other weapons.

I can’t do that anymore. Even if I just kill a low hp ship, it means I’m out of the game for 10-15 seconds. I can’t move on and engage someone else. That’s extremely frustrating, and also quite difficult on a crowded battlefield. So I’m just running around getting shot at for 10 seconds, watching my items cooldown, which takes absolutely bloody ages.

I agree that 16 seconds for the t5 leggy is too long. They should have just reduced the duration down to 10 seconds. I’d have no problem with my Rare Tesla Bolt only stunning for 6 seconds. That’s plenty of time for me to run away a bit, and let my Nitro and Weapons cooldown. But it needs to be ready when I need it, like when an unexpected ship appears out of the mist, and I’m not able to reverse.

20 seconds just leaves you bored and vulnerable for far too long.

If you don’t like being stunned for 13 seconds, then imagine what it’s like for me not being able to do anything for 15-20, and then imagine that happens after every other shot.

 

So you were just unlucky ,for being in the wrong place at the wrong time , and he had 3 loaded weapons vs 2 unload weapons , and that enforcer had a better chance because now speeder got nerfed

 

Yes. In my old ship I would have tore that guy a new one. Now I can’t fight at all. It’s like one extreme to the other.

Remember, the ‘wrong place’ is actually quite a lot of places on a crowded battlefield, and the ‘wrong time’ is pretty much all the time when you’ve got 20 second cooldowns to manage.

 

I've proposed flex slots that act like this.... where you could choose either a yellow or a red item in a given slot, probably limited to a subset of items.

The current boat designs already do this... let's take the MK5 Enforcer's 3R/2Y slots vs the Speeder's 2Y/3Y slots. All you are doing is swapping a Red and a Yellow... it's basically what the OP is suggesting, but instead of being limited to these 2 boats based on whether you want more guns or support items, each boat becomes more flexible based on player preference.

 

Standard Cannon no, that thing is worse than any yellow item you would consider equipping.

 

Because we would get recked by that fixer