the low profile is what interests me the most and what i love about the cobra. but it will be hard to part ways with my python. we've been through so much
Krait Mk. II, it's now a Python analog
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the low profile is what interests me the most and what i love about the cobra. but it will be hard to part ways with my python. we've been through so much
I had already signed up for that with the Krait. Looking forward to it and I will certainly be bringing along a SLF for canyon running.
Yup, or maybe missile racks, that could look pretty epic too. Decisions, decisions.
I'm extremely disappointed that the trailer shows a very poor example of courtesy and control when leaving the slot. It teaches young up-coming commanders that speeding is acceptable. Disgraceful !
If you aren't hitting the slot at max speed and boosting - you are doing it wrong.
I agree on the utility slots. I find it amusing the the utility ships have 4 while a pure combat (therefore, not utility) FDL has 6.
Just give this one and the challenger 5 or 6.
Lazy commanders!
I will most definitely try it out and see if I like it better than my "Kermit" (name of my Python). It might. Yet to see.
The Python hull mass is 350t, did anyone get the Krait's hull mass?
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"Honey! I'm going into my Krait to do some combat in Elite. Okay?"
[WIFE] Stop being lazy Fred and use your spacelegs!
My Python will stay what it is: An icy cold smuggler with generous cargo space for contraband. My Krait will be almost as icy cold but with a more active transfer of property in mind.
I wouldn't take the pitch rate as a single value; the Python might look amazing on paper but it's a ship that has one of the largest variations between blue zone and outside the blue zone. Under the stresses of combat, you'll likely be spending a lot of time in "boost recovery" between boosts and outside the blue zone - and the Python really isn't great in that situation.
If the Krait is better behaved outside the blue zone than the Python, that's a huge - perhaps the single biggest - advantage it will have over the Python and it will not show up in a stats comparison.
My biggest hope for the Krait is that it doesn't drift too much.
The Krait is a better looking Python that gives up a class 6 optional slot for the ability to launch fighters. It's a tiny bit faster with basically the same manoeuvrability. Not sure how it handles in supercruise compared to the Python.
I'll be keeping my Python, but I like the Krait and will be getting one. If you ignore the fighter hanger you can probably get the same jump range as a Python with a better cockpit view. So I will most likely turn my exploration Python in to a trader and making the Krait my exploration ship(assuming decent supercruise handling).
I'll be keeping my Python, but I like the Krait and will be getting one. If you ignore the fighter hanger you can probably get the same jump range as a Python with a better cockpit view. So I will most likely turn my exploration Python in to a trader and making the Krait my exploration ship(assuming decent supercruise handling).
How do you know it's OP? It can have some real issues, in the beginning lol. It could be UP, instead lol.
Yeah I can see what you mean. I also have a fully engineered Cobra III (slightly more jump range), and Python. I mostly fly the Cobra. Easy for planetary, quick/ agile...hearty.
No, but it may become more dedicated than multi-role, and I will be parting out my filthy federation gunship for a brand new fully G5 engineered* Krait!
*Hull & PP excluded.
Depends if it gives a comparable hull tank or not for me. The SLF bay makes it quite attractive, as the FGS just didn't work for me.
You lost me.
The Krait looks like it combines the features I liked best about the AspX and the FGS , the ships I used the most before I moved on to the cutter. I miss the freer canopy view of the AspX and the FGS' ability to use an SLF as a medium ship. The python didn't survive well enough in a CZ for me like the FGS did and I probably have less than 75 hours total in a python. (also realizing having to generally contend with Kraits, Challengers, T-10's and newer ships in a CZ!) So I'm interested to trying the Krait out and I wonder if it'll beat the Challenger for me as my favorite medium ship (currently chieftan). The Krait also seems like a decent outpost mission runner and could be intentionally somewhat favorably geared for newer players progressing in ED for the first time such as it could perhaps be easier to be credit financially survivable for a newer player in a krait than a python. And it has that more general sleek fighter-like low-profile look and feel for those who prefer it. The surprising limit of only four utility slots I can only guess is that FDev did so to not have the Krait considered overpowered over the python.
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The more I look at it (and I've now seen it in the livestream) the more I think you are right ...it's like some kind of escalator.
In which case, why build it in .... unless Legs are intended further down the line