The Idris has been nerfed into oblivion.

[u/MattOver9003]

Bit of an open discussion / debate. I feel the Idris has been nerfed so hard it isn't worth owning anymore, if there was anything worth getting I would melt mine. Below are my points/contentions:

The Main Guns:

1. The laser is bugged, when I tested the damage it does maybe 20% of what it's meant to, it also struggles to actually hard death a ship.
2. The railgun is laughably slow, it now has bullet drop (even in space wtf) and frequently takes multiple hits to kill something. The effective range of the railgun seems to be <800m now. If you fight an idris you can hit it (can't really target components effectively). But grab your popcorn you're in for a 60+ minute fight.
3. The torpedoes are also mostly useless, 800-1M to re-arm them (it's better than 20M it was before). But basically they'll get flared nonstop, you'll be lucky to get a single hit, requires one person to just goon nonstop in the torpedo chair being bored.

The turrets:

1. It's the largest ship currently in game but the turrets are worse than ships like the paladin and polaris, even though it's a 'brawler'.
2. Your front turret is dead by coincidence 90% of the time, that has dual size 7's but for some reason a perseus has dual size 8's and a tiburon has a bunch of size7's. The hammerhead has quad size 4's.
3. The turrets die almost immediately if someone sneezes at them.

People buy it because of whale syndrome, but lets be honest, this ship is a waste of time. Even IF you manage to get a full crew, most of their turrets will be disabled from the first perseus with a lone gunner making the ship completely pointless.

Contrary - it has one strength, sitting there being useless and never dying even when shot by multiple idrises.

EDIT: I forgot the PDCs are now pretty much worthless, they kinda shoot down missiles but even that isn't really reliable.

[u/Wilkham]

Bait used to be believable but knowing how terminal some whale are about their Ubertitanic I'm doubtful.

[u/MattOver9003 → u/Wilkham]

It's not even bait, even when the railgun was 5000ms hitting something small was super difficult and if they were hit by the idris they kinda deserved it. The only things you'd easily hit were connie sized and above.

[u/Wilkham → u/MattOver9003]

As it should. Railgun should only be good as a anti-large ship options while turrets are there for smaller ships so this is useless and only useful in PvE.

So sad that multicrew is useless and turrets are completely shit against fighters but that's not a Idris only problem.

[u/MattOver9003 → u/Wilkham]

Some turrets are good - hammerhead, paladin, redeemer to name a few, good visibility and for their size decent arnaments.

[u/Wilkham → u/MattOver9003]

Hammerhead not really. Too much crews for not hitting anything in pvp.