The ULTIMATE Cobra MK4 solution!- The 'Commodore'!

[Agony_Aunt]

DRINK!

ALWAYS!

 

[myothershipisacobraiv]

Otherwise, the suggestion to offer it in some sort of future pre-order package again is pretty good.

Disagree. The solution to this problem is not just to do it again. Obviously Frontier is not just gonna shut the game down in 2022 after 2020 has sold and the buyers have played it. It's just gonna be the same thing again for players later.

 

[avow555]

You're not getting it OP, that's a fact.
Your multi paragraphs of blah won't change it

 

[lenna]

What gets me about the CM4 detractors is they focus on it in relation to how it handles in combat. Combat is its least viable role, but it can still be a decent combat ship, especially a hull tank. And they say how bad its manouverability and speed are... right, in relation to the CM3? But its a small ship so still fairly nimble compared to larger ships and its still reasonably fast.

Yup - though as a day one CM4 pilot who has used it a fair bit I would say it is better than the CM3 in nominal PvE combat, but worse in circumstances where running away is a prime criteria. The manoeuvrability is more than acceptable especially if you do not insist on hobbling yourself with fixed only weapons.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Yup - though as a day one CM4 pilot who has used it a fair bit I would say it is better than the CM3 in nominal PvE combat, but worse in circumstances where running away is a prime criteria. The manoeuvrability is more than acceptable especially if you do not insist on hobbling yourself with fixed only weapons.

I ran turrets on my combat CM4. Worked fine.

 

[CMDR Cknarf]

“So you guys made a small that handles about as well as a Python— why? “

Fdev:

 

[Jaylem]

That would be the Saud Kruger offering.

Meanwhile, here is a prototype sketch from the Lakon design team for their own version of the Cobra....

Laughed at this one haha, one of the reasons I did not include Lakon, as they have proved to be uninventive copying the same design three times with almost not real changes (being the Chieftain, Challenger and Crusader) at least with Core Dynamics they had the audacity to change the use for each ship (FDS- armed trader, FAS- fast attack ship, FGS- Heavy presence) but with Lakon it's just the same thing with slight firepower changes....

I like your ideas, although I personally think a better example is the current Jeep Renegade, which is a just Fiat Panda with some minor cosmetic changes.

But, I'm a Jeep guy when not in a spaceship, so I'm biased.

That's a good example, hey maybe if the ships were to be added we could have The 'Imperial Commodore' and The 'Federal renegade

I am a Holden guy that's for sure! love my Commo!

As jests go, I didn't quite 'get it'. However, the title 'Commodore' brought back to mind the days of the Commodore Amiga - playing Frontier Elite 2 and First Encounters on the A1200.

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Mind you, I also recall playing Elite on the Spectrum 48k - not sure I'd want a ship named after a Spectrum.

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Some might consider the Cobra MKIV tantamount to the ZX Spectrum of ships in Elite.

It was in refernce to the Holden commodore example I used in the post..

DRINK!

How else does one play Elite?

 

[myothershipisacobraiv]

So what you're implying is, you don't want Frontier to make a solution to this issue, you just want Frontier to make a solution for this issue for you.

So when Pedro gets Elite: Dangerous for Christmas 2020, because it looks really cool that he can punch a Thargoid in the face, and finds out the same way you did he can't actually play this part of the game, that's totally cool. Got it.

 

[CMDR Fingerrod]

I’m a hipster dbag who likes unpopular things, so the CM4 is legitimately my favorite ship in the game. I hope they release it or repackage a clone of it so that I can finally get more paint selections and a ship kit.