You could say the same about paint jobs. There are lots of NPCs running about in ships, with paint jobs that players do not have access to.
Remove Cobra Mk IV NPCs
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But there's a major difference between paintjobs and Cobra Mk IV. The former are cosmetic and purely optional, and if certain paintjobs are used by NPCs only then they are not supposed to be used by players. Cobra Mk IV is the playable content... which is not obtainable in any way.
The problem is the fact NPCs are flying it, with game rubbing that fact "oh look how you can't buy that ship!" into new players' faces. Which does not add up well with the fact that Horizon trailer falsely advertises Cobra Mk IV as the upcoming content - what makes entire situation even worse.
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Just fly a Cobra Mk III and blow up every Mk IV you see.
You'd hate being an Alliance pilot. Mk IVs every-bloody-where.
You'd hate being an Alliance pilot. Mk IVs every-bloody-where.
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As a owner of the cobra MKIV I can say that you really arent missing much.
I understand you "should" have the option to have it. but the cobra MK IV is inferior in overall performance to the cobra MK III
You get higher armor capacity on the MK IV but it is significantly slower than the MKIII and without speed you might as well as be dead in a ship of this size.
I think the main reason why the cobra 4 is so slow is because they knew they would have people complain about a premium ship being so much better but otherwise unobtainable if they didnt nerf the speed so heavily otherwise.
Although im surprised frontier hasnt picked up on the fact that no one wants to use the Cobra Mark 4 due to how bad its speed is and just made it avalible for everyone so it gets use by newcomers.
The cobra mark 4 is otherwise a pointless ship.
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I would dispute the assumption that it is a pointless ship.
I use mine for assassination missions, using two mid beams and three missile launchers and than can change the fitting for passenger missions. This ship paid for and fitted out my FDL, with credits to spare.
I think if new players had access to it, it would be viewed more favourably. For its cost and fitting cost; basically the same as the Cobra III, it offers a good return.
Pre-Horizons LEP owners were Horizons pre-orders though... they couldn't be otherwise.
If you got a LEP now, you would not have pre-ordered, and therefore would still not have a Cobra IV.
Don't let that stop you if they do make the LEP available again though.
Lestat
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I had my LEP before the game was released in Kickstarter. My other two accounts were after Horizon and I don't think they had LEP after that.
so yeah, all LEP had by definition preordered horizons
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If I can't have it, neither should NPCs.
The only time a Cobra4 should be seen is if a player is flying one. It is an "exclusive" ship after all.
(I've thought this for a long while, but it was never important enough to me to make a thread about it.)
So how do you not know that those NPC flying around in Cobra MK IV was around when players got access to this ship?
And what else should we remove from the game that players cannot obtain? Stations? outposts? capital ships? surface bases?
Barely controlled anger on seeing an NPC Mk 4? [woah]
Honestly think OP would be better off learning a life lesson that sometimes circumstances mean we cannot have everything we want.
This should not evoke "barely controlled anger", it is normal, everyone experiences it in one way or another, it is just part of life.
Honestly think OP would be better off learning a life lesson that sometimes circumstances mean we cannot have everything we want.
This should not evoke "barely controlled anger", it is normal, everyone experiences it in one way or another, it is just part of life.
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But won't someone think of the Alliance Enforcers?!
Barely controlled anger? Oh my.
I think it's good that NPC's have it... it reminds me of the late Ted Rogers hosting 3,2,1 "Hard luck guys... here's what you could've won..."
Can we please finally stop arguing if the Cobra IV is a good ship or not and just bloody give it to everyone already to decide for themselves ? I love mine, and it's absolutely the best ship for it's purpose in my fleet. Wing members who have copied the build agree.
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Lestat
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Reminds me of a song. Can't get always get what you want.
It's an asset that is available for use to add more variety to the NPC population. I can understand your frustration at not being able to get one but I'd like to see NPCs flying more non-purchasable ships. If no-one were able to buy the ship an NPC flys would this be less frustrating for you? I'm thinking of all the filler ships from older games like the Gecko etc. The meshes could be created, the ships could be seen even if only as decoration, abandoned or crashed on a planet POI (like Jameson's cobra). Potentially they could be sneak previews of upcoming player flyable ships.
In a similar vein I'd like to see NPCs flying down to ports on atmospheric worlds. Just because we can't do it yet doesn't mean NPC ships need to be similarly restricted. Clearly it can be done otherwise how did we get into space in the first place?
