Explanation:

Dead 5s will eventually put damage to shields, but only if the shields are at 55% health or lower.

Dead 4s, with how high the shield resistances are, will NEVER damage the shield, even at 1% shield health.

With a full M80 loadout of deads, you will never damage the shields. Someone else will have to damage the shields FOR YOU, or you have to run a mixed loadout.

With a mixed loadout, of Ms and Deads, you will run out of dead ammo (does NOT matter if its a 5 or 4) almost as you drop ONE shield face. In the case of dead 5s, if you wait till they can pen the shields, you will expend tremendous amounts of ammo.

The only way to hurt a HH now, with an M80, something the M80 is supposedly supposed to kill, with decent difficulty mind you, as it is a heavy fighter, or other ships like Ions and Infernos, or other subcap killers, without torpedos, are entirely large laser loadouts

All heavy fighters that cannot utilize heavy lasers are now obsolete, should these changes hit live.

Edit: Look at the deadbold 4 stats. You can see it has an infinity symbol for shields. That means in SPViewer it does no damage if an infinity symbol is there. Dead 4s, even at 1% still have that symbol. This is datamined statistics and algorithms from the game itself.

This does not just apply to hammerheads. I used it as an example. This is across all shields in general. That means connies or corsairs are all but immune to M80s. Meaning large ship solo spam is the meta now. Which is something this subreddit frequently complains about. It also means even smaller ballistics against ANY shield will also not work. It scales this way down to the bottom. Across the board ALL BALLISTICS are invalidated, even going against same size ship against same size ship.

The benefit to ballistics was that you traded infinite ammo for shield pen. The point of ballistics for a LONG time was to penetrate shields. CIG has expressly stated this. This isnt star trek where shields block all physical attack.

Edit: An M80 already struggles against a hammerhead. It takes a few minutes to kill one solo. If a hammerhead cannot kill an M80 on its own, its more a fault on the HH than the M80 by a huge margin. EG, this change only benefits solo/undercrewed ships, rather than actually balance the game.

Made with photoshop.

For those who don't know, in October:

You have to designate a purchase as a gift FIRST upon purchase, and it cannot be upgraded or used by the original account purchasing it, it has to be sent as a gift before it can be upgraded OR used.

A couple of months back, someone made a post claiming they made an IC post for duping and was permanently banned for it. Hilariously, they were recognized by the community as a known griefer/exploiter, and I will not detail the username, but they were a known griefer, and oft discussed on this subreddit.

https://i.vgy.me/WCTKse.png

In response, CIG responded to that post of various exploits etc they did, and did not trust they made the IC post in good faith, but unbanned them anyway, and said this is your final warning.

Shortly after, it was discovered by the community they were liquidating their account.

While the Grey Market was hit in this endeavor, I bet it was to get rid of people who get banned a few times, and then realize they are probably on their last legs, and get a new account.

I will miss getting ships for cheap though.

Guys, I used post on spectrum a lot. (Have since ceased because I just dont want to keep up with 38.563 forums) I actually have a famous critique, that for some reason, still gets upvotes. Even OVER a year later. It was not removed. (Last upvote was JUNE this year, for some reason, despite post being made Jan 2025)

Image of my post

But this is the kind of shit I see on spectrum that gets people nuked, and this particular guy goes straight to the refunds sub and claims he was banned for liking PvP, and really tried to spin it that way. Even the refunds sub tore him a new asshole for his... "Joke".

The message that got him nuked?

"CR will ban anyone who pirates and personally go to their house and shoot their family dog!"

Also calling people douches.

Which is funny, because here is a quote from Zyloh himself:

"We're not here to protect players from aggressors, pirates, and PvPers. A big part of Star Citizen is about that dichotomy." - Zyloh

CIG is literally in his corner, but swears that they are not.

He claims on reddit to "like the game" but literally all of his posts and comments are bashing the game, and he literally cannot do anything else and has over 1000 comments and posts spanning only two MONTHS. Dude cannot resist trashing the game at any possible opportunity. Which normally would be fine, if he didnt continuously argue in bad faith, especially after the above ban.

On top of the above issue, he is also the first to call people shills, CIG plants/staff, or marketing firms trying to better CIGs name. And this is literally his response to his dogshit takes and critique.

This is the kind of shit I see that gets people nuked from spectrum, and they come here to complain without showing exactly what got them banned.

Edit 2: Even funnier, he is banned till 2034 for additional misconduct.

Cutlass, delete west.

Deleting west.

Brace yourselves for angry people for not getting a free ship and/or releasing a MK + 1 Variant without goldpassing or goldpassing properly first

EDIT: I forgot shocked pikachu for aurora mk2 as well. Lmao

For those who dont know, a ship schedule was leaked:

Per pipeline:

New ships in the next couple of month We've obtained detail about the "final pass deadline" for a number of ships in the next few months. Mind you, this doesn't mean the ship will release at that day exactly, just that CIG want them done by then, to release them shortly after

Anvil Auxilia Deadline end of August

Greycat MFC Deadline end of August

Origin M60 Deadline 22nd September

GATAC Hyun Deadline 30th September

RSI Skylark Deadline mid September

RSI Constellations Series Constellations getting a Mk5

Mk4 (Current models) getting gold standard Deadline 13th october

Drake Marauder Deadline 19th October

Liberator Deadline scheduled for 26th February 2027, currently behind schedule

Kraken Deadline by end of March 2027

Just be aware all. Everything on reddit is visible and searchable. Even if you hide your post history it is incredibly easy to find.

The same account was used in all of his links/comments and screenshots I provided. He wasnt using an alt like he claimed.

An exchange I remember from years ago. Always gets me a laugh when the topic of piracy comes up in my org or others.

Edit: This was the persons response on how I formerly pirated in 3.22 when reclaimers made 10m UEC every 45 minutes.

Summary:

1. I hail them and ask for 10% of their haul in UEC because unloading a reclaimer is annoying and they had 10m in UEC onboard.
2. Talk in global, ask the same.
3. Get out of my ship and float against their cockpit and talk in proximity chat, ask the same.
4. No one ever took up the offer via silence or insults at my group.
5. Softdead them and board.
6. Kill them and then bring in C2 for loading.

Thats it. No other chats or voice comms.

This person accused me of harrasment and other really heinous IRL crimes and was hoping I was on a watchlist because I haggled as a pirate and actually tried to do exactly what this subreddit wants a pirate to do, eg, reach out and negotiate portion of the hauls instead of just shooting and moving on.

Edit 2: If you accuse me of harassment/stalking etc in here I will report you to the mods and they will ban you just like they did on that thread and the screenshotted person above. Just a heads up.

All, this subreddit has been in a poor state for a long time, and despite insistence from the mods to keep it reigned in, and in the wake of the Bruno situation, which you can find if you are uninformed, this subreddit has become a nearly untenable mess.

The mod team wants a change, and we've settled on it. This post is to purely keep the community informed and nothing else.

The old guard, by and large, is stepping away. /u/RainDasher will be taking charge from here on out, I will remain head mod, but at this moment in time, its only to prevent rogue moderation, my day to day moderation will likely cease in the near future. None of this is a punitive measure. The reasons given in order of biggest to smallest reasons:

1. This sub is a toxic platform now. Place blame where you will, but odds are its a ton of factors all mixing together in a huge storm, and really you could point in just about any direction and find an issue. And as mentioned, in the wake of bruno, nothing has changed in any form, aside from this subreddit still furious at an apparent lack of change and genuine official comment.

2. We don't play anymore. We don't have interest in the game, or interest in maintaining the community anymore.

3. We cannot be expected to continuously babysit the sub anymore. We have lives, and in my case, this subreddit is bleeding into everything else now.

4. Inactivity (for select mods)

With the above in mind, we are opening moderator applications. We are looking for 4 moderators. We really want people who want to be active, watch the queues, respond to modmails, at least once a day.

That said, the requirements/information for moderator are as follows:

1. At least some activity/contributions to the sub. (Preferred)
2. Former moderator actions can, and may, be counted against your application. (Depending on severity.)
3. Absolutely must be 21 years old or older.
4. Must check queues/modmail at least once daily, if you want to be super active and do more, or peruse new/comments at your leisure, that is encouraged.
5. Inactive mods will be removed
6. Expect this to be a long haul thing, don't wear this as a badge of honor or like you're a hero. Being a moderator honestly sucks, especially now. You must understand you are realistically a janitor. Know that you do this because you want to help the community, and you will get shit thrown at you.

Application Link

Good luck, and fair seas.