Hey folks!
If you’ve followed our development over the past few years you’ll know that the idea of tracking disruptors for missiles has been bouncing around for a long time. Defender missiles are a very poor counter (that should be completely repurposed rather than tweaked) and the inability to impact missiles has always been a major problem for Amarrian Weapon Disruption ships.
We think that adding Missile Disruptors will create some interesting new fitting options, especially for ships with bonuses to weapon disruption.
We’re now planning on releasing these new modules in our December release, and we’re ready to start getting your feedback!
These disruptors would be seperate modules within the same group as Tracking Disruptors.
They will use the same skills and get the same bonuses as Tracking Disurptors (so for example a Pilgrim would automatically get bonuses for these modules).
Pilots will be able to choose what combo of missile and tracking disruptors to fit on their ships, based on what they expect to face.
We’re planning on introducing T1, T2 and named versions with faction options being considered.
We expect that the stats will need extensive tweaking and playtesting, but here’s what we’re working with at the moment:
At the same time, we’re planning on making a slight buff pass on the Missile Guidance modules that were introduced in Aegis. Their range bonuses don’t need any more improvements, but we are currently planning on buffing their explosion radius and explosion velocity bonuses by ~10%. We’d then observe how that change is received on TQ and decide if we want to go farther or not.
We’re really interested in your feedback and we have plenty of time to get these properly adjusted before release. These changes are currently planned for our December release.
Keep an eye out for an announcement later today from CCP Seagull who will be going over some more stuff coming soon, as well as more announcements in the weeks leading up to EVE Vegas.
Let us know what you think!
– CCP Fozzie
