What are the plans for reintroducing cannons into dogfighting?
TL;DRCannons are still in and can technically be used to dogfight; after a weapons rebalance giving each weapon type a purpose, they suit heavier targets, and balance is still being learned.
They're still in. You can technically dogfight with them at the moment. Technically.
Is 'technically' what we're looking for here?
Yeah. So again, it comes back to the big rebalance of weapons that we did. We tried to give a specific purpose to weapon sizes and types of weapons, to give reasons for choosing that weapon depending on your purpose. If you want to destroy a light fighter, you want quick, sharp weapons. But if you want to destroy something like a medium to heavy starship, you need something more impactful, like a cannon, for example. So yep, we are still learning lots with the weapon balance and how we can redefine the different styles of weapons we have in the game, and what it means for the different ships you can fit these on as well. Because you can have certain weapons that work well on a certain ship, but then you can fit that weapon on pretty much every other ship as well, if it's got the right loadout and stuff. It's quite tricky getting the balance right. But we'll start opening that up as a battle in the future.