That is very nice to see the Hornet getting an extra boost.

Hopefully, the flares get tone down a bit too. Since the flare and blaster valks have been shown to be pretty lethal recently :). (Well, I believe the flares are pretty lethal in general. Put one on any ship and the ship suddenly becomes good, even the quad flare hornet is good despite the hornet being generally a terrible ship to fly in.)

The only thing about flares I don't understand is why they have so much ammo.

The thing I'd ask for for any sort of ammo-based weapon (besides the Rails) is that ships themselves have ammo capacities, and that the ammo itself adds mass to the ship rather than the launcher.

So, what I'm saying is the Rag III would be able to hold 16 Sunflares per port, and the IBG might only be able to hold 2, or 4 or something simply because the Rag III has more room inside it for missiles. I think that this could play in nicely with my suggestion here: http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/10585

And yes, it is nice to see this update. :)

Useful hogs? Matters not, the Corvus Vulturius now has FC capability! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

Between MSC for light ships, and CV for proms, the next few weeks for those nasty serco should be filled with "Smittens" in red letters accross the middle of the screen, followed by an explosion.

Hehehehe....go get a guide to change your name to "Smitten" so the red letters show what's really going on. :P

Was the Hornet tweaked? It is by far the most useless fighter in the game.
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The hornet is good, especially with 2x Rail II's and 2x Sunflares.

As far as rocket ammo goes, it makes sense to give the smaller/lighter rockets more ammo, and the heavier/more powerful ones less. I.E. give the ice/star 16 or 20, and the sunflare 8 - 12. And yes, giving specific ships ammo capabilities would be another step in the right direction.

So... when's this happening? I'm confused...

20 stars, yes please =)))

Rogue, the first post says that it'll be later this afternoon. And it was posted VERY early in the morning today. So I'm guessing very soon now, if not by tonight.

Maybe this is a cover up for something big. And it'll contain the hive bot update! And they're puting the finishing touches on it! WOOOO!

I can dream can't I?

Leber, I hope you've got the tranq's for Macguy ready...

Snap, my Gaussy cent won't be as potent. I guess I'll just fly Corvus Vults with smittens...

Ok, sorry everyone, Andy thought he'd be able to do the release tonight. But, something cropped up, and he wouldn't have had time to baby-sit the server the way we like to after releases. So, you should be able to expect it tomorrow (Fri).

doh!

better tomorrow than never!

GO DEVS!

Friday's a better day to test it anyway. More people on. More victims to shoot at with the tweaked ships. Should be fun!

We'll have to start a new thread AFTER the release. This one is all over the map.

ion the hands of somebody who knew what he was doing, a valk is a scary ship. It could dismantle people without a problem, even 90% of all the ibgs...

The only way how that people were able to beat a valk was by staying at 400 m and taking potshots. And even then if the ibg made 1 tiny mistake he was gone...

so really there is no real need to buff the valk, its already fearsome enough. You just can't see it as a dogfighter since its to damn big to act as one. It would be the same as saying that a hornet is a dogfighter...

The changes to the prom were long overdue, so i won't say anything about them just yet.

I disagree, it took a much more skilled pilot in a Valk to kill a less skilled pilot in an IBG. Equally skilled, the IBG wins 9 times out of 10.

Try it: do 10 fights between a Valk & an IBG, 5 with pilot 1 in the Valk, 5 with pilot 2 in the Valk, see what happens.

Fly up a valks ass and its toast, it spins like a centaur.

Valk is good

1)If devs upgrade Valk only i could imagine :

Valk (itani)> IBG (itani) > Orion Rev C > Vulturius > SVG (serco)

So Itani will own (totaly)the best light ships once again if the valk is upgraded.

PS : Prometheus is going to be nerfed. ATM it req no skill to play with it with AGT + Sunflares. the fix/nerf should resolve it only.

2) if Devs upgrade the valk so they should nerf the IBG to have

Valk (itani)> Vulturius > Orion Rev C > SVG (serco)> IBG (itani) (upgrade the vulture)

I don't know Nya, I've seen people in AGT+Flares proms do little next to nothing. Yes, the armor and agilty are a big help, but if you can't aim you'll die in the long run. Still, the prom was in big need of nerfing.

Now to see how the Hornet performs with the added thrust.