Richard Towler · Lead Game Designer, Vehicle Experience

Yeah, that's all my fault. So that's one of those ones where we've taken the Sabre and we've gone, right, we think the Sabre fits here. But again, that's not final balance. I could have pushed it too far into that bad zone where it doesn't fit quite right. But that's where we can react to this and we can work on that in the future. But it would just move back to a baseline that we thought would work for the ship. But it's been one of the ships that hasn't quite fitted where we thought it would fit. So we can definitely look at some changes, because I think it's got quite a weak yaw compared to where it should be. But that's also a consequence of the way the ship is as well. But we can work with that, and we can definitely improve it.

Mark Abent · Lead Vehicle Engineer

One thing also to indicate, too, is if the Sabre is bad, it would also be really, really nice to know why it's bad. We see this a lot on the forums. Someone says, this is broken, this is bad. If you can provide an extra bit of detail, that would actually really help us understand why you think it's bad. Any bit of context other than the words 'it's bad'. Now, granted, there might be a chance that there's a bug and it's bad in the case that it doesn't fly; that I get. But any extra input on why you think it's bad, please put it in there. Because when we scroll through the forums, any extra bit of information helps us gather and build why a certain thing is the way it is.

Richard Towler · Lead Game Designer, Vehicle Experience

And also, it's not just a question of it being bad in flight, because as a comparison, it could maybe have worse flight than a similar ship, but the Sabre could excel in a different area. So that's definitely something we've looked at, where we've tried to give ships different reasons for being what those ships are. And there's some ships where that's not possible right now, that they fulfill their complete role, I would say. But it's coming.

Yogi Klatt · Senior Gameplay Programmer, Vehicle Experience

I mean, the ships are not being tuned without some context. So specifically for 3.14, we added a couple of measures that tell us, hey, what is the rough dogfight performance we can expect from that ship? And the Sabre is actually not that bad if we look at the raw numbers, but I get why players don't like it that much. But this is also because the role that the Sabre is supposed to excel at is not very well developed yet. So don't melt them down. They will play their role and they will have their proper space in the combat environment going forward.