Hey everyone, it is me. Fast few words before first CQ from CQ Rework patch: Every ship has its counter against each other, even Chromian on Tau (if we talk about 1v1). It can be beaten there even by Marlstone, Hunter and Locust. Give me a name of the ship and I will tell you which ship you should use to beat it. However I guess it was not a topic about the Chromian itself but a Magnet, right?
On Public Test Realm, people (me included) tested that the MT itself is too powerful on CQs, as putting only 1 magnet between opposing people made them completely excluded from the fight if they didn't use Ab or did not kill the magnet. The second option could be already deadly to them as the magnet was a lot more powerful than a ship itself. That leaded to the situations when both sides (mostly Askone vs Korell, as rest didnt really participated much) were choosing only Chromians as the ships to use. I guess that it was not the thing Developers wanted to achieve - to favourise one of the ships and leave others behind. That is why the nerf had to come and I am glad they nerfed it. It will be harder to do TC3 missions? But they are still completable and I guess it is still not so hard, however I must admit here that we cannot have the same difficulty level all the time. Personally I would not like to play Vega system difficulty every time I reach new introduced story planet...
Going more off-top as some of previous speakers did. RDX or other Prototype ships were never nerfed excepting Emperor (I had a break that time and good, because I would not like to play the game when Emperor was in such state) and Chromian now. And I really like that, because it was really overpowered ship that you completely did not have to think how to drive, especially on Tau Ceti with DR Speed (issue with higher level speed on lower level armor). Hoping the speeds will be fixed with TC4 introduction.
Assuming, get over the things, think please about every case that might happen in the game and not only those that you are doing. If you do not like specific ship after the nerf, you can always grind and buy the new ones. You got Ring 5, where you can grind enormous amounts of cryonite, and Conquests after CQ Rework, where you can gain even more than while grinding. The choice is yours.
Greetings, RavenPL
P. S. If you do not trust some words like what can beat what, you can always test yourself, or watch my videos.