Ships new ship ? F63 Condor from trailer

Starender

Starender
This ship is beautiful, reminds me of a tie fighter but even better, we can see 2 hardpoints, but the rest is a mystery i wonder if this ship will be better than a simple sindwinder

the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5J5hCAC4c

the ship: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/F63_Condor

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Confirmed playable new ship, we see the cockpit in this video :) :
http://gfycat.com/GreatFlippantDwarfrabbit
 
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Vertexico

V
I'd say it's likely to be playable in the arena, but maybe not outside. Don't know if the ship will be equipped with an FSD.

Look at 0:43 in the trailer, it is in the cockpit of the Condor.
 

Rod05

Rod05
I think your comparison to the TIE fighter is a good one. Not for the looks, but for the nature of the ship.

Short-range, expendable, lightly armed.

Looks really nimble in the trailer.
 

CMDR Hagglebeard

CMDR Hagglebeard
I saw those flying around in Supercruise in force during the battle for Lugh, but never anywhere else. If you check their subsystems, they do have Frameshift Drives, but I think they're either very short-ranged (hopefully 4-6 Ly, 9 Ly max), or only able to fly around within the system.
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
I just can't see any use for these brittle ships for individual players.
I do like the looks of them, but they are inferior to everything else out there including an unarmed sidewinder and a T9 heavy trader with a single F1 turret.


Starender said:
Maybe the CMDR version of the F63 Condor will be stronger than the ones of NPCs
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It will have to be.
I have encountered the F63's Imperial counterpart many times in combat zones and these useless ships tend to break up and explode if you just fart in their general direction.
You are also free to ignore them completely, because they can't do anything against an average commander ship in a Combat zone. Your shields won't even notice them.
I really question their role in the game other than being cannon fodder.
 
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Xeonyx

Xeonyx
Iskariot said:
I really question their role in the game other than being cannon fodder.
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Well, they are nothing but cannon fodder even in the lore. They are basically designed to be as cheap and compact as possible so that they can be produced in great numbers and easily stored aboard the capital ships. Their real strength is supposed to be their overwhelming number ... sadly we rarely see more than two or three at a time in game ^^"

See the description in this picture.
 

Futuristic Kung Fu

Futuristic Kung Fu
You can also see the imperial fighter (?) at 0:15
edit: it seems like empire fighter is one of the options for prefixes but F63 Condor is not. Why?
 
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