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General Discussion / Re: The Dream Battle, Updated: 5 Executors defeating 5 Remnant Ordos video
« on: June 20, 2023, 04:47:27 AM »Well yeah Aurora got buffed, both directly and indirectly, it's good now. But it wasn't for 2 major patches.
To be fair a lot of ships weren't after Safety Overrides was unable to be built-in anymore, that gap took a while to get filled back with..something.
Executor mono-fleet is really good when near-perfectly optimized and microed. The horror.
How's it "near-perfectly optimized and microed" with a single "Defend" waypoint and a couple Kill/Escort orders here and there, while the rest of the battle is AI control only? I'm sure there's more advanced istances to try even coming close to this result, but then again those are not using Executors
4 Ordos without Clean Disengages automatically rules out anything that's not capitals, the sheer amount of chip damage on armor and hull rules out every single Capital without a good shield ratio or absurd armor (Of which only the Invictus Classifies, maybe, but it does have issues Executor does not have), and the amount of enemies also rules out anything using missiles other than Locusts (or Pilums, hah) since they'll just run out halfway through.
The only leaves Executor. And we all know what that means, unless you have yet to have your fun with the thing and want to fiddle with it more before it gets nerfed, then you'll say it's perfectly balanced
Guys no worries. Unlike the Pegasus where it got nerfed immediately after I posted that triple Ordo fleet, this time I've waited out the hotfixes. We're perfectly safe for at least a year.
I think Lawrence's characterisation of it as a mini-Radiant was more apt than mini-Paragon, although both are kind of not it because it has neither a mobility system to charge or escape with nor Paragon level shield tanking ability. Plays quite differently from both of those ships. The speed definitely helps it coordinate fire and do the little dance I do with the ships in the video where the front line falls back and the rear charges. If anything it's kind of like Conquest, though slower but with great shields.
Jokes aside, I'm biased but I hope it won't be nerfed though. It's not at all clear it's stronger than Pegasus or Gryphon under normal sub-3-ordo circumstances where they don't run out of missiles or PPT, it's just that the Executor can keep going longer.
I respect the hustle, you're doing Ludd's work.
You see, the more fun you have with something (the majority of) people are not yet aware is a cut above anything else, the more likely it is to get nerfed sooner. You may not want it, but all roads lead to Rome eventually