What's been done to make the Idris more capable than it was previously at Invictus? During Invictus, people were pushing these things around and dragging them down planetside. How has the Idris experience changed since then?
TL;DRThe Idris has received tuning to shields, railgun and armor, plus AI changes to its movement, distance-keeping and target and incoming missile or torpedo prioritisation.
We've done a lot of capship gameplay. There's been a lot of tuning on the ship side, so shields, the railgun, the armor, et cetera. Then from there, there's been a lot of tuning on the AI behaviors, so updating the way it moves, how it prioritizes ships, how it prioritizes targets and threats coming at it, and then also the overall distance that it goes to, how it tries to keep its distance from the targets. So if it's going up against a ship that's stronger than it, then how does it maneuver around? Since its main threat is the railgun, it doesn't want to broadside you like some of our other capital ships. So that work has been going on in the background. And then from there, there's obviously the missile changes and the combat changes that have happened on that side and how it prioritizes those. And so if people are shooting missiles or torpedoes at it, then it'll be taking those out, and it'll be basically going through, and if a torpedo comes into its range, then it targets the torpedo first and then from there goes back to its previous targets, kind of thing. So there's been a lot of work that's been done there.