Cobra Mk V

nanothargon

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Made full AX build, heavy duty deep plate. 3.5k hull. Expecting heavy, slow. Clunky.
Jumped in, left station, flipped it around a bit.
"Wow, that's fast"
Realise it only had 2 pips in Engines
Put 4 pips in engines
<BWOOOOSH>
<Face ripped off>

Went to Cocijo. Boosted away from hyperdictions. Thargoids too slow to care about. Make zero effort to stay cool. Too busy flipping and boosting to care. Slapped the Titan around a bit. Lost a few thousand hull, burned up a few modules, good times. Decide to leave. Punch a flaming hole in space while flipping the bird on the way out. Literally zero worries.

New favourite ship. Fitting tribute to the original game. Thank you Frontier for making my inner 8 year old extremely happy.
 

maboleth

maboleth
Where did you get Cobra V? I've searched everywhere and cannot find it, even using Inara?

Actually, I go to the station and there's no CMkV
 

tanner1ie

tanner1ie
maboleth said:
Where did you get Cobra V? I've searched everywhere and cannot find it, even using Inara?

Actually, I go to the station and there's no CMkV
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Is it currently only available in the ARX store, before going on general sale in the game proper, in a few months, as seems to be the model for adding most new ships to the "live" game now? 🤔😯😀 ....

Even if that is the case and you don't want to spend ARX now, you shouldn't have too long to wait to get it as a "regular" ship 😀🤘 ...

(Meanwhile you're lucky that you get ANY new ships at all, which we don't in "legacy"! - Sob! 😯😂🩲😀🤘 .)
 

tanner1ie

tanner1ie
maboleth said:
To be honest, exclusive ARX only ship... doesn't sound good lore wise. But I understand Fdev wants/needs money, so yeah...

As someone that doesn't have enough ARX, I'll have to wait to earn more.
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...Or until they sell it for credits, which shouldn't be too long...

Indeed I only follow the "live" game from afar, but I don't think that there will be any exclusively ARX purchase models of ship...

They're "only" releasing them into "early access" on the ARX store, before they go on general sale in game, as far as I know.

Now pre-built engineered versions of various ships may remain as exclusive ARX only variants, but surely not any full models themselves! 😯😂😀🤘🤞 .
 

tanner1ie

tanner1ie
Robert Maynard said:
Only for those who own Odyssey - Horizons players will still need to pay ARX.
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I feel that you need to qualify that, just a bit , by saying "Horizons players in the Live/4.0 game..." as those of us playing "legacy" Horizons are definitely still Horizons players! 😯😂🩲 ...

Without that, it may give many of us (almost certainly) false hope that we can get such new ships on our platforms of choice, at some coming point in time! 😯😂😀🤘 .

While as you surely know...

Source: https://youtu.be/XDGNsbLayJw
😯😂😀🤘 .
 
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Robert Maynard

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Robert Maynard
tanner1ie said:
I feel that you need to qualify that, just a bit , by saying "Horizons players in the Live/4.0 game..." as those of us playing "legacy" Horizons are definitely still Horizons players! 😯😂🩲 ...

Without that, it may give many of us (almost certainly) false hope that we can get such new ships on our platforms of choice, at some coming point in time! 😯😂😀🤘 .

While as you surely know...

Source: https://youtu.be/XDGNsbLayJw
😯😂😀🤘 .
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It's been very clear for some considerable time that Legacy is not being developed nor will it receive new content - hence the lack of qualification.
 

tanner1ie

tanner1ie
Robert Maynard said:
It's been very clear for some considerable time that Legacy is not being developed nor will it receive new content - hence the lack of qualification.
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Indeed, I know about the "discontinuation of console development", but that doesn't stop "legacy" players on PS4, Xbox One and lower powered PCs, who are still playing the game from being "Horizons players", which indeed I believe, everybody with the base version of the game now is! 😯😂😀🤘 .
 

Cmdr Snuffler

Cmdr Snuffler
nanothargon said:
Made full AX build, heavy duty deep plate. 3.5k hull. Expecting heavy, slow. Clunky.
Jumped in, left station, flipped it around a bit.
"Wow, that's fast"
Realise it only had 2 pips in Engines
Put 4 pips in engines
<BWOOOOSH>
<Face ripped off>

Went to Cocijo. Boosted away from hyperdictions. Thargoids too slow to care about. Make zero effort to stay cool. Too busy flipping and boosting to care. Slapped the Titan around a bit. Lost a few thousand hull, burned up a few modules, good times. Decide to leave. Punch a flaming hole in space while flipping the bird on the way out. Literally zero worries.

New favourite ship. Fitting tribute to the original game. Thank you Frontier for making my inner 8 year old extremely happy.
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I did something similar. Engineered one and when I hit boost I had a "holy mackerel!!!" Moment.
In vr it's amazing. Huge windows and feels like you are doing to die in a crash...zero buffer zone. Love it!
Don't suppose you have a link to your axe build?
 
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Mr Lindsay

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I've seen that the stats are up on EDSY now, so I've been theory-crafting a replacement to my AXCZ Krait II.
I'd have to do quite different things with the weapons, due to both the Power Plant and the Hardpoint Size, but I was impressed with how well it did (on paper) with Armour and Shield despite staying faster and mostly more manoeuvrable, only a small drop in survivability from my current Krait II build for better speed is a decent trade off, and a Sheildless build vs my Chieftain didn't look too shabby either.

I assume in actual use I'd have melted the Power Distributor in seconds, but it definitely has a lot of potential, with tweaking to get the most out of those Power limits.
 
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