@xyntheum@DaPoets That’s a very reasonable take. I suppose the gains be gained mostly through ai neural rendering than brute rasterization and hardware too.
@DaPoets That’s what I was expecting too not going to lie. But I still think having pilot controlled weapons on this ship is pretty niche. I’m still on the fence if it’s worth melting my ICA for it.
I think as these get out in the verse we will soon see this will not be the go to pvp or pve combat ship. It could have 12 size 5’s and they will count for nothing in a real fight. I could be wrong but in my experience pilot controlled weapons on these big ships are overrated. The Starlancer TAC can barely get nose with most of the ships in the game.
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@ThePermaFr0st I think that’s what we were all expecting. Truthfully everyone would have had a direct apples to apples comparison with the MK IV and people would have torn this ship to shreds in all the comments. Making the MK V a larger class of ship was a 4D chess move.