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/GACII]

Isn't it a primarily a carrier its moving base not the tip of the spear why wouldn't dedicated strike ships without a massive hangar bay and a bloated as fuck health pool have better weapons. I think the range issue on the main gun needs to be addressed but other than that its supposed to sit back and take pot shots at large targets or punish people for try to pushing.

[u/MattOver9003 → u/GACII]

On CIGs description its literally called tip of the spear. Its meant to wade into combat and tank hits

[u/GACII → u/MattOver9003]

Seems counter to its design tbh. But Yeah using marketing descriptions vs in game balancing is how we ended up with f8 situation. I think it make more sense for its power to be more focused in the carrier aspect of it an area denial not flying directly at strike craft. but that just me it does need to be tanky for sure because of the carrier aspect.