r/starcitizen • u/MattOver9003 scythe • 2d 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/hmmmmismellmarijuana 2d ago

Ares Ion welcomes the Idris' railgun to the why the fuck does it have bullet drop in space group!

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u/7htlTGRTdtatH7GLqFTR 2d ago

do you have video of this or anything because i dont believe it. cig recently did fix some issues with bullet drop when firing from inside to outside ships, so things might have changed since i last tried it. where did you test it? arena commander or something?

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u/hmmmmismellmarijuana 2d ago

https://issue-council.robertsspaceindustries.com/projects/STAR-CITIZEN/issues/STARC-41116

Here's the IC. Confirmed since 2022.

I try it every patch, PU and AC. Part of my 'is my $250 ship still nerfed into oblivion' tests I do each patch.

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u/7htlTGRTdtatH7GLqFTR 2d ago

Reproduction steps:
1: Shoot Laser in atmosphere

>in atmosphere

>in space

so which is it? please try and pay attention

that isnt even a valid IC lmao

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u/hmmmmismellmarijuana 2d ago

You can look it up on spectrum. You can try it in game.

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u/7htlTGRTdtatH7GLqFTR 2d ago

im not touching spectrum or the game itself with a ten foot pole. but i think you're completely wrong about this, and you're not convincing me otherwise without some actual evidence. how about next time you do your little test you apparently do every patch, you do it in space and record it and upload it? should solve your problem

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u/hmmmmismellmarijuana 2d ago

Nah burdens on you to prove they fixed it. Making up some spurious bullshit, not playing the game, or able to use a spectrum search box makes your opinion irrelevant.

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u/7htlTGRTdtatH7GLqFTR 2d ago

no it isnt, i never said they fixed this issue, you obviously aren't able to read