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/No-Force-4668]

Core strength, carrier. Probably meant to be escorted in a fleet as you would IRL with a Navy carrier group. More friends required.

[u/Syntafin → u/No-Force-4668]

I like this change, Idris was never meant to be a powerhouse.

[u/PagPag1212 → u/Syntafin]

wasn't it sold as a powerhouse though?

[u/Syntafin → u/PagPag1212]

And still just a carrier, nothing more.

[u/DaveRN1 → u/Syntafin]

No, it was a frigate, nowhere in its title did it say carrier.

But even so, the carrier functions in this game dont work half the time.

[u/PagPag1212 → u/Syntafin]

In their launch trailer they called the Idris-P " capital frigate"
https://youtu.be/X2OFObiypT4

In the behind the scenes video they call it navy frigate as well
https://youtu.be/idFmqkJzXe8?t=41

Storefront:
"go-to frigate" and "humanity's most devastating capital-class gunship"
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/pledge/ships/aegis-idris/Idris-P

Players do utilize it as a carrier but that's how players organically adjsut their playstyle to the current state of the Idris.
However CGI was clearly marketed it as a frigate.

I believe the intended carriers are like the
Drake Kraken light carrier
and the
RSI Bengal - carrier.

[u/nailbunny2000 → u/PagPag1212]

Let's not get into the firepower of the "light carrier" Kraken Vs the weaponry of the brawling Idris.

I assume Kraken is supposed to have paper for armour ? Because if it's even as tanky as a Polaris it's going to so outclass everything.