Elite Dangerous | Cobra MK V Update - 12 December 2024

Mersozz

Mersozz
Cmdr. Numa said:
For exobiology the ship can't be small enough. It actually turned my Sidewinder into one of my most flown ships.
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Yeah, I use my DBS regularly as a lander. Small ships also excel at courier runs, whereas medium ships can get docking-throttled waiting for a medium pad to open up on an orbital outpost. They also make good ships for data retrieval missions.
 

Ixen Dalmore

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the100thmonkey said:
I'm not so sure that's true. Certainly, some players will spend their time in one ship. I've spent a lot of my time in a Python Mk. II recently, but this has been due to a combination of circumstances that don't often arise; I'm not always chasing the PvE combat meta. Sometimes I like to take breaks from maximising my in-game 'work' and do ground combat and settlement raids. Small ships are excellent for this. Then there's exobiology, also known as "how to get a fleet carrier in a week", for which small ships are the meta.

The Cobra Mk. V should boost to well over 600m/s with a standard build, haul over 80t, jump over 50LY and be quite handy in combat with its 5 hardpoints. I expect it to be better than lower-end medium ships like the T6 and Asp Explorer for most tasks.

The more ships the better.
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Well I stand corrected. Though I still imagine the part of the community that uses small ships mainly is probably a minority compared to the others. Again I might be wrong. I guess to me with the advent of engineering and Horizons medium ships got so ludicrously maneuverable there isn't a lot of point to being even more maneuverable. I guess if someone is in the scenario of needing to trade at odyssey posts then that is different. To be frank once I realized Odyssey didn't correlate to ship game play I never did much with it because I play ED and space games to fly the ships so not my jam. But to each their own.
 

hitchhiker54

hitchhiker54
Thanks for the heads up on the extension. On a side note - any advance on the currently disabled Powerplay merit activities? Penny for your feedback on the trade merits problem caused by logarithmic merit reduction per ton sold? Sell 1 t making say 12 merits for the ton, sell 2t and get 16 merits making 8 for the ton and down the cargo merit value goes :(
 

Mersozz

Mersozz
the100thmonkey said:
.... The Cobra Mk. V should boost to well over 600m/s with a standard build, haul over 80t, jump over 50LY and be quite handy in combat with its 5 hardpoints. I expect it to be better than lower-end medium ships like the T6 and Asp Explorer for most tasks....
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We will find out soon, but I'm expecting this to be a strong contender as the favorite ship for many players, especially if the SCO is as smooth as the Mandalay's.
 

imski

imski
the100thmonkey said:
I'm not so sure that's true. Certainly, some players will spend their time in one ship. I've spent a lot of my time in a Python Mk. II recently, but this has been due to a combination of circumstances that don't often arise; I'm not always chasing the PvE combat meta. Sometimes I like to take breaks from maximising my in-game 'work' and do ground combat and settlement raids. Small ships are excellent for this. Then there's exobiology, also known as "how to get a fleet carrier in a week", for which small ships are the meta.

The Cobra Mk. V should boost to well over 600m/s with a standard build, haul over 80t, jump over 50LY and be quite handy in combat with its 5 hardpoints. I expect it to be better than lower-end medium ships like the T6 and Asp Explorer for most tasks.

The more ships the better.
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Has to be said that an A rated Sidewinder is immensely fun to fly.
 

Tifu

Tifu
Speaking of Cocijo, somebody better check Ross 154 as soon as the servers are up just in case the Titan pulled a fast one.
 

the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
Mersozz said:
We will find out soon, but I'm expecting this to be a strong contender as the favorite ship for many players, especially if the SCO is as smooth as the Mandalay's.
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I'd forgotten about the integrated SCO.

I fully expect to spend a lot of time in it, although I'm not sure if it can ever replace the DBS.
 
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