Ive been playing these guys in nex and really enjoying it. However, the faction really seems to putter out on the power curve at the upper end. Like, both the cruisers are good and solid, if equipped properly the missile cruiser is pretty terrifying. Give it a bunch of kinetic weapons and 4x harpoons and it can murder things really fast. However, there are no real hard-hitters in the lineup that can take out heavy cruisers or caps without a pretty big numbers advantage. The only thing that comes close is the missile sunder, but its a sunder variant and thus the AI likes to explode in it without doing much. I guess the issue is that the Vritra "heavy" cruiser feels more like a standard cruiser. Its highly effective vs other sized cruisers and anything smaller, but it can't punch above its weight, mostly because of the limited slot size. It doesn't matter how many tactical lasers or privateer pulses I put on this thing, it won't stand up to a dominator or eagle, or any of those top end cruisers.
I am not saying any of the current lineup is bad, its just, there is a clear cut off where GKsec can't escalate but every other faction can, so its near impossible to keep using GKsec indefinitely, you have to swap to other faction to get heavy cruisers and up.
I am honestly not sure what I would expect in a heavy cruiser or cap, either beamspam or multiple heavy missiles, its just that the gap is definitely felt.
Also, unrelated to that, the carrier feels kind of soft. I feel like it gets itself killed more than a condor. Maybe a wider shield or something similar?
