Engineers update 2.1

[Gibbon]

Apart from the latest bunch of bug fixes and some much needed new content, one of the things Frontier Developments or FD for short managed to do, was to ramp up the difficulty of the NPC ships.

Side effect of this is really simple, you now die in 3 or 4 seconds with no idea who or what killed you. Great job FD. I'm seeing months of trading wiped out in a blink of an eye. If this is their idea of a joke, i'm not laughing.

The subtleties involved in AI coding are numerous, take it from someone who knows due to modding Freelancer for years. I get that some people want harder AI while others don't and you have to strike a balance but going from one extreme to the other regarding difficulty just smacks of total incompetence.

I hope they sort it out as anyone other than a hardcore player is doomed to never play this otherwise excellent game.

[Gibbon]

Well there has been some improvement, although i've had to downgrade to a Cobra for now until more permanent changes come in. Some of the uber weapons have disappeared from the npc's which is something, although there are still random instances of Elite ranked ships popping up and slaughtering players