I'm enjoying the new CZ mechanic !

[GunnerBill]

Pre-update I'd more or less stopped doing CZ as they were samey and easy.

I jumped into a Medium CZ to do some BGS work last night and loved it.

You get information on the factions involved when you select the CZ from the Nav Panel, which makes BGS work much easier.

Choosing who you are fighting for is easier now with a message and option appearing in your comm's tab.

But the fighting is excellent. NPC ships are much much tougher, definitely using engineered weapons, shields and armour. They also employ better tactics.

Also the "round" system is engaging, it's nice to see how your side is doing along the way and being rewarded (or otherwise) with a victory is of course excellent.

Highlights:

SPEC OP's squadrons of enemy ships are a serious game changer when they arrive. Very tough hombres!

You may want to bring your PvP ship. I pitched up in my PvE Vette and was struggling a little to start until I got a bit more tactically aware.

These guys can chaff like crazy, but they do run out. I'm thinking my choice of Gimballed weapons might be revised though. Exciting times!

Bugs:

Wing men become wanted.
Occasionally unable to select side in comm's panel.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

+1
I like the new mechanics too!

I still bring my PvE Anaconda though, High CZs don't feel any more difficult than before.

My only 2 gripes are;
1) Payouts are dismal. 47k for a captain! A pirate of similar soecwoukd pay 250k~ or more.
2) Battle won. There's no indication if you should stick around for the 'next wave' or if you should go elsewhere.

Other than that, brilliant!

 

[Stigbob]

They seem to have hit the sweet spot on round time I usually have just enough ammo left to safely pop off for reloads at the end of a match.

 

[ebbrell]

I'm loving them when they work, harder ship cool. Once bugs gone it will be great

 

[GunnerBill]

I'm loving them when they work, harder ship cool. Once bugs gone it will be great

Yes.

We came across the wingmen becoming wanted bug and also found it was occasionally not possible to select a side from the comm's panel. Are there others?

 

[ebbrell]

Yes, empty zones
Empty zone but reporters appear
Spec ops turn up clean
Options to pick a side not appearing
And random crashes just as you are about to win when attacking captain last

 

[GunnerBill]

Yes, empty zones
Empty zone but reporters appear

About that... I've seen that. Does the activity in the zone always start fresh from a players arrival OR when the zone is empty have you simply arrived in between rounds?

I ask this because after clearing one round I left the instance then my buddy jumped in to find the instance pretty much as I had left it.

 

[B1rdy]

Yes, empty zones
Empty zone but reporters appear
Spec ops turn up clean
Options to pick a side not appearing
And random crashes just as you are about to win when attacking captain last

Hasn't this been reported in beta?

@OP: A challenge is always good, but bullet sponge enemies being the main challenge here, is not so great.

 

[ebbrell]

prob yes, I didn't, I lost 2 weeks trying to connect with adjudication errors in BETA...
funny thing was, I kept saying to support, this cannot go live the adjudication errors are not caused by my PC. if this goes live we will all have problem.

they didn't sort of listen, even though the same PC stayed connected to LIVE fine, and the problem was with BETA

we know how that turned out don't we.... I guess I was right.