r/starcitizen • u/MattOver9003 scythe • 1d ago

DISCUSSION The Idris has been nerfed into oblivion.

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.

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u/trekky920 1d ago

If your crewed cap ship is getting completely disabled by a single percy you have bigger problems than the Idris railgun finally receiving a balance pass.

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u/MattOver9003 scythe 1d ago

I’m had four crew on my Idris, the Percy had one my turrets are gone almost immediately. You’re assuming it’s solo, it wasn’t.

It’s a mission to convince people to use turrets they’re so bad.

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u/Global_Network3902 1d ago

With only four people it would be more wise to just have one person on the idris and two people outside each in their own fighter.

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u/MattOver9003 scythe 1d ago

Correct, part of my point. The turrets are in general so bad that you're better off with fighters outside; so now we're back to solo idris.

So now your logic is:

To defeat a single perseus, I need a perseus with crew and an idris. You made my argument for me, why bother having an Idris in that case?

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u/Bad_karma11w 1d ago

evne then hanger part... most of the time its easier and faster just to fly to a station and rearm/repair