CORVETTE HYPE EDITION
1.5 update coming in less than an hour.
Patch notes: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=199470
>implying people still care about this game
Playlist with new ships in it:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7glm5rbPHKy9l2W3sv2ilTGwA5lZXELB
Newsletter #99
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=b4a60bc32e
bumping with dank memes
even more menes c'mon
1st for Planetary Landings will be fun and exciting for a few days, afterwards the monotony and routine will set in again.
Have fun with your overpriced 'expansion', forumdads.
>>122206210
Actually forumdads will be the only people happy with Horizons. So many chances to make an epikk screenshot and post it on reddit or make a 30min video of them rolling in a moon buggy through an endless desert..
stop bumping your thread, faggot, this general will become alive for a brief moment after horizons release.
>>122206538
I mean, sure, moon buggies look great. Assaulting a base with ships flying around you or landing next to you will be great. For a couple of weeks. After that you'll still be faced with the shitty mission system, the non-existent weapon balance, the shitty p2p architecture, the abstract nature of powerplay, the static nature of the universe in general.
You'll simply replace a few destinations. Replace space station with planetary station. Drop out of SC, landing permission, land, hand in goods/quests, check the board, undock, SC away. Repeat.
They are utterly wasting this game's potential. Fuck CQC, fuck Horizons. The basic gameplay needs a shitload of work. If they manage to make the universe feel dynamic and alive this game is going to live on for many many years. If they don't it's going to die between expansions.
>>122207181
>bitch mad he ain't got beta access
Price of the imperial cutter?
>>122209242
18 million in the beta, so around 180 million in the base game.
>Cutter doesn't fit through the letterbox
Well done.
>>122206538
forumdads are scared shittless from the space alchemy
>>122218109
cutter turned out to be better than the corvette
and even 1.5 cant revive the /edg/
well shit
The Cutter is looking my kind of ship even though I'm a Fed guy.
2 Huges are nice but the 1 Large and 2 Medium are just lack luster and don't even mention the
>2 smalls
But the two Huges oughta be good for bursting shields down.
Cutter's 1 Huge, 2 Large and 4 Medium seems to be a better hardpoint count IMO. The only downside I can see is the spacing might make it hard to use them like with the clipper.
Cutter looks like Boron ship painted white.
>>122220946C7 power dist
>>122220946
>gee I wonder why the Empire ship is better
not even 20 posts in, ded thread.
Damn where have these threads been?
I have so much rage to vent
2933 MJ
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=70_,7tw7tw7tw7tw5TP5TP7RL0_g0_g0_g0_g0_g0_g0_g0_g,31CgCgB6BaB6Ba9s,7XR0DI16y52216y16y16y15O9rs
>Wait the better half of an eternity for the Corvette
>2 Huge, 1 Large, 2 Mediums, 2 Small hardpoints
>It's shit
I don't have words. I'm experiencing moderate amounts of rage with a distinct tone of disappointment.
But I know not to care anymore. Why even bother.
Why would you ever need two huge hardpoints, why? We have 2 weapons to mount on them that are already pretty much impossible to aim with the slugfests that are the larger ships. It's a fucking downgrade from the Conda
its my baby
did anyone found a place where you can buy a Corvette ?
Fuck me. Grorius Imperial Cutter is Grorius. And all I did was grind Fed rep. FUCK ME, srsly.
WTF is a Bi-Weave shield generator?
>>122239751
Lower capacity shield but higher recharge rate.
Leddit said something like 2-2.4mj/s over the usual 1mj/s.
>>122240048
Oooooh shit, that sounds like fun. Thanks, anon!
I don't understand the need for the corvette. Are there really people who can use the huge PA effectively?
>>122241038
It'll be effective against other large ships that provide fire support and shield tank.
>>122243348
Hmm... That would make sense. Also it feels more manouverable than the Conda or the Cutter. Cutter is going to be best high end trader, not really combat ship.
>>122243718
Or, actually, shield tank. 8A with bunch of boosters sounds nice.
Needs more lube though, hard to fit it through the slot. Harder than the 9.
>fed corvette looks nice but is terrible
>cutter looks like shit but has 2k+ shields on top of great hardpoints and mobility
The only winning move is not to grind
>>122251360
> great hardpoints
Nah. Pretty shitty hardpoints for a ship in its class.
They're never going to put mailbox assistance in are they?
>>122254128
>Pretty shitty hardpoints for a ship in its class.
Well, corvette is the only other ship in its class and cutter has way better hardpoints than it
>>122255216
Conder is kind of in that class, and has better hard points. But the Cutter can outrun it. Fuck, I should have ground more rank with Empire. Going to be months until I get it on proper release.
>>122265135
No one in well it would be that intact, senpai.
>Cutter gets 696 cargo with shields
>Almost same range as anaconda
Shit maybe my new jewboat is here
>>122231498
The real kick in the teeth is the CLASS 6 FSD
I could see using it just forfunbut that jump range is terrible.
>>122266013
For all this time I was taunted by it being better than the Conda. I'm not even rich enough to use it for fun, tried to look for a fun outfit for it and I have like 50mil left over for a basic weapons loadout. Piss. Guess I just give up with the game, finally.
>>122255015
It'll come when you can walk around ships
>>122255015
Considering all the videos of people who can't get the clipper's fat arse through the mail slot and more big ships are coming later, it needs to be added soon.
How's the SCB heat build up working out?
first time playing in months.. how's powerplay?
who should I pledge to?
>>122275126
Oh it's working alright
>>122280430
Holy shit. Somewhere in the official forum thread about this the devs said that they'll 'review' it.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=199575&page=15&p=3096800#post3096800
Neat, I have been itching to get back to the game after my gpu broke a while back. Sothis is no longer a thing now or is it?
>>122282245
i will be loving the corvette
both as short transport and as a...well corvette
>The Cutter's external tron lighting changes from blue to red when you deploy hardpoints
Nnnnnnnnng!
>>122206210
>for a few days
That translates to "for a few years" to forum dads.
They literally take 1 year to play through 1 day's worth of content.
>>122298254
if i buy the beta will i get a discount on beta ships? will they be still stored after beta ends?
>>122300628
Nah m8, nothing in beta carries over
>>122300873
so basically if you buy beta you are just a keked by 10£
>>122301175
keked C U C K E D kek test
>>122301175
Well, you have to wait a week less for >content, but you don't get to keep your beta progress, so it doesn't contribute to the great Grind in the sky.
Anyone tried out the Imperial Fighter in CQC yet?
Also I hear all the new ship variants suck.
>>122203598
Don't you die on me
>tfw grinding for Federation rank
>tfw new rank never
fuck you frontier
fuck you braben
the only hope i had for this game was that the corvette was going to rock
but no, the corvette is going to suck ass
>11 ly jump range
>slower boost than anaconda, only turns slightly faster
GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK
>Ultimate Fed combat ship.
>2 smalls
WHAT THE FUCK
>>122316213
No matter how much we would express our dissatisfaction on the total fuck-up on the concept of 'ultimate combat ship' ftroop won't change anything. It costs like 50mil more than the Conda and the only thing about being more combat-y is the turn rate. Jesus fuck. If the two smalls were mediums and if it was slightly faster it would be justified to get it.
>>122316886
I didn't think it was possible to fuck it up this badly, but then they went ahead and did it. The absolute mad man.
They've never changed anything due to feedback during beta anyways so it's already fucked. Fuck am I pissed.
>>122317401
It just seems like they have no idea what they are doing. Or they have a clear idea but no sense of the effects and no skill in admitting mistakes or errors. There is only unquestionable Vision™.
Remember how the courier was supposed to be a, you know, a courier? Yeah.
>>122317659
How is the courier not able to carry messages? I never understood this meme
>>122317659
It might be explainable if they just have two teams working on the ships separately and they don't share info with each other.
Braben finally sees the results and says okay as long as empire ship is better. They don't even hide their empire bias, fucking makes me sick.
I think it's time to go on another noob rampage.
Space Ireland will be free.
rescue bump
RIP Turreting
I will buy a corvette just because it looks better than the cutter.
>>122323562
>Turreting
Man if I didn't catch that exploit on the ass end, I would have never reached Triple Elite today.
>>122325540
If only I had joined in on the fun earlier. I'm never hitting combat elite, or any elite for that matter.
>>122325376
you can stab a faggot with the front of it and just unload EVERYTHING on him with the corvette
>>122328354
turret beams
plasma
missiles
My nigga, i just hope missiles will be buffed in the future.
>>122329749
large hardpoint had a burst laser mounted, going with full beam turrets and just have the plasma for manual fire on ships like the corvette sounds like a good idea, at least for PvE
still it felt like the plasma and the seeker missiles did shit for damage
How are new cobra and viper?
