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We’re excited to reveal the stats, items and abilities for three new Tier 6 starships: the Valiant Class Tactical Escort, the Kor Bird-of-Prey and the Malem Light Warbird. All three of these ships come equipped with a special console and can unlock a new starship trait at level 5 Starship Mastery. Below are the stats for these new Tier 6 starships and their fleet variants that will be released at the same time as the standard Tier 6 versions.
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PEW PEW Pilot escorts still win over.
The pilot maneuvers and the 5/2 layout is what I was hoping for but never mind.
I am so gutted tbh but oh well :-(
Pilot makes perfect sense for this variety of ships, especially looking at how Jadzia used to handle the Defiant. Even those Red Squad punks made her namesake pull some sweet maneuvers...until their confidence evaporated like dry ice on a hot day.
Everything looks pretty much as expected. Well done.
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If the KDF can get a Fleet D7 (that can be upgraded to a T5-U), the Feds should have a Fleet Exeter.
Please enable us to buy a token with Zen to faction change a 25th Century FED to a TOS FED.
If it was the Phantom's Phaser Lance, the beam would be coming from the front center of the ship, i.e. the deflector, and the beam itself would be much thicker that it is in that photo.
C-store version has 4 Tac console slots.
Do I even want to know how much more fleet holding grind will be necessary to unlock this? I already went through that once with the T5 Fleet Defiant, bought it with modules, and I still had to pay more to upgrade it.
I don't know, man. This may no longer be an automatic, no-brainer purchase for me.
Sorry Cryptic, it looks like I won't be buying these at this time.
Btw why 2p set for kling/fed but 3p set for rom? Put in the quad dis/phaser/plas and every faction might be fine
also surprised...or maybe not with the fact they don't get the pilot maneuvers like the pilot ships do, wanted to barrel roll a defiant....
so guess what, no sale..ill stick with the pilot ships I already have since they actually have all the bells and whistles I was looking for.
You're mistaking standard "integrated cloaking" with the "battle cloak". Two different things
If by "equivocal counterparts" you're referring to the Valiant and the Malem and not other KDF BoPs, then yes, of course Kor is "underpowered". The Valiant is an Escort, the Malem is a Warbird with aspects of Escorts and Raiders put together, and the Kor is a Raider.
These ships are not in the same starship family, but they are being sold together. It's the same thing that happened with the last 3-pack, where the Yamato and the Kara were basically Cruiser-type vessels, while the Kolasi is technically classified as a Destroyer. They stats weren't identical because the ships weren't of the same base starship type, and the same thing is happening now.
Compared to the Malem and Valiant, the Kor does appear weaker, but compared to other ships of its type, Raiders, it is a very good ship. The Kor is not "under-powered", it's just being compared to and listed with ships that aren't like it. Don't be fooled into thinking the ship is gimped or something because of the way Cryptic has decided to market it.
Personally, I'm beyond excited for this. I've been waiting for a T6 BoP for a long time, and my Rom and Fed mains have the Defiant and T'varo on their rosters. Can't wait!
pilot maneuvers can stay with pilot ships as can battle cloak but as said before standard cloak might be nice without a cloak
damnit man i was looking forward to the t6 bops, now you had to say this and made me think too much
I'm slightly disappointed they didn't use this chance to bump BoPs a little but well, that was a long shot anyway.
What enrages me though is that now, apparently, KDF gets a quantum torp console instead of the photon one because of some people whining the Defiant should get a quantum one. Seriously, thank you very much! Giving them both photons would make more sense overall.
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
May I ask why? The ships are the same size and come with pilot boff seating...logic dictates that it should follow that they also go the pilot maneuvers...
But as I mentioned above, not spending my money since I cant barrel roll a Defiant. Oh and no 3 piece bonus for using quad cannons...you know the other item the ships come with
CDR and two Lcdr seats plus an lt seat. Best boff seats ever
In essence, a Fleet Valiant costs half as much as a Pilot Escort, although it's bound to only one character.
The Romulan, meh. My Romulan loves her D'Deridex so you can't get her out of that ship.
The BoP. The seating I expected that since the others are like that. So my crew can easily move into that as well. I know you get the flanking bonus so I can see why they didn't add a 3rd rear weapon. Since you need to move to place. I'm not impressed with the looks. Still I'm glad to see the BoP come out. We needed one badly. Its no K'Vort, but I will consider it for a future purchase.
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it is very likely that im wrong but arent the pilot ships even smaller than a defiant? Only the size of a 5 man heavy fighter?
Speak for yourself mate, several of the differences you're complaining about are because the B'rel is a Raider not an Escort. 4/2 layout has been the standard for raiders at T5 since the games launch, personally I would have preferred if they'd made it the same 5/1 the herald raider has but I didn't expect it to happen. The lack of a 5th tac console is again a shame but guess what, its hardly a deal breaker and BoP's with their fragile hulls can still make use of a 4th engi console, you know assuming you're not just chasing the top of the third party DPS charts.
It depends on the which faction's Pilot ships you're talking about. The Starfleet Pilot Escorts are actually larger than the Defiant, while the KDF Pilot Raptors are around the size of a Bird-of-Prey. Not sure about the Pilot Warbirds since I haven't really used them much.
All that aside, what's REALLY stupid is giving it a 2pc bonus of a quicker cloaking cool down when the cloak it has, even with a console, is not a battle cloak. By the time the defiant leaves combat/red alert finally goes off, the normal cloak should be ready to come back up anyway. The t6 defiant should have the special ability (like the vesta or ody's innate enhanced slipstream) that equipping the cloak console to it gives it a battle cloak, or perhaps on top of decreasing cloak cool down it gives battle cloak, or perhaps the fed 2pc is battle cloak, klingon 2pc is reduced cloaking cool down and romulan is... well, whatever all that mess is... it appears to have two separate 2pc bonuses? But yeah, then the feds would have the slowest recast battle cloak, klingons second fastest and romulans would have the fastest. Seems in line to me.