Police and those Vipers

[philmo]

I am seriously thinking about getting the Premium beta, it is a big outlay.

I am old enough to remember the hours I spent on the original game, on various platforms - and how much I loved it.

In its current form I am interested to hear if there is an equivalent to the Police and the their Viper swarms ?. I remember in the old versions if you attacked an innocent or more stupidly a space station you would be swamped by loads of Vipers - it was good fun if you had a well armed ship. Does this still happen - or is this maybe later ?.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

This does happen, station has it's own defences plus police rushes in (currently those are Fed fighters, but we will see police Vipers soon enough. It will be also a flyable ship).

 

[Lobstris]

Given the Viper was one of the first ship models that seemed complete ('tis in the early videos with the Anaconda), I do wonder why we haven't seen it in game yet?

 

[Patrick_68000]

If there are the police in the premium beta, we will not can see them with the rear view as in FE2. Memories ...

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Given the Viper was one of the first ship models that seemed complete ('tis in the early videos with the Anaconda), I do wonder why we haven't seen it in game yet?

During KS they demonstrated placeholder models, Cobra for example was very simplistic in those videos comparing to current one. For the game each of them goes trough very careful planning and iterations, almost like in ship design company.

 

[Chazzie]

Hoping that the Viper will turn up soon - I can remember always wanting one of those ships 'back in the day'.

Now I feel old!