Seems we've got some new ships/classes on the horizon!
Apparently the ship that looks like an Excelsior, is actually a whole new class according to someone who works on LD. New Vulcan design as well.
The model in the 1st picture, apparently called the "Endurance Class" is a complete mystery atm.
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I have little reason to be excited then. I don't really care for Vulcan designs and the other one looks like a ship that already has too many variants to be added as a separate ship.
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As for the Vulcan ship... could be used as a T6 for the D'kyr, enabling some customization for that ship.
...and the aft section has been shorten...by a lot.
Not only the ship itself, that shuttle is gorgeous!
Also, making the whole name with lights instead of using one projector light to make it visible. Take that 32nd century ships!
From a tweet i saw from one of the Lower Decks show people. The 'Excelsior' seen in the promo for the last episode of Lower Decks is a completely new ship and not a retrofit of the Excelsior.
Trying to find the tweet in question
Found it,
I think they would treat it as a new class personally. One reason is depending on the ships size she might be 'significiantly' bigger than the Excelsior trying to kitbash those parts might be a nightmare.
Second, it allows Cryptic to use a exact likeness in BOFF Layout and specialisation for the ship that a previous Excelsior might already have. Example another 'Miracle worker' ship. Basically saying one copy for the price of two without the playerbase going "But Excelsior Y already has BOFF Layout Z, or it is better'
I hope it's a skin, unlockable for the LExcelsior. I don't think they can make a better version of it.
The version shown in LD looks much like the "Excelsior II-class" from the Fleet Operations mod for Armada II, IMO (which was also a completely new class despite name and basic layout; conceived as a light cruiser sister to the Sovereign).
They've already set a precident of not retroactively adding parts to Legendaries when a new variant is released after the fact. They reneg on that with the Excelsior, we'll have a firestorm over the Crossfield and DSC Connie.
If it unlocks parts for that class... it would have to be obtained to unlock just like the Mirror Warship and Crossfield Refit.
Frankly, it looks a lot like the Avenger-class (T5) with the fleet-version's pylons. The saucer is round and the nacelles have slightly TOSified bussards, but the overall silhouette is extremely similar.
Definitely need that Cerritos Vanity Shield.
Still plenty of differences, as opposed to being a oversized Excelsior with Sovereign nacelles
I was thinking the same thing! I wonder if that would be more a challenge than the smoother textures the other vanity shields present? Regardless, I'd like to have it.
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Oh, definitely.