The new Paranid ships and the tug boat are amazing!

[xWolfzx]

Thanks EGO for these new ships looks so good. I especially love the new Helios, and also the changes to the S/M capacities does help give them more flavor compared to the more copied and paste stats! Also love the tug boat, it kinda have a piraty feel and make me wish that they replaced the pirate M ship instead

[|K.O.S.H.]

can somebody make more screenshots of them please?

[mr.WHO]

I dunno man, new Zeus become the biggest "light carrier" in the series.

I don't thing it's worth to bother with an XL carrier that can hold only 16 fighters + 8 on landing pad.


The way I use carriers it would make it 3 x 8 fighters squads.
One Attack wing, one Intercept wing and one defend wing.

Kinda makes me want to stay with old Zeus.

[Artean]

They all looks great. That's for sure!

Balanced? No idea yet.

[S!rAssassin]

...new Zeus ... can hold only 16 fighters + 8 on landing pad?..

Serious?

[|K.O.S.H.]

the internal capacity is something, that cam be changed easily.

Worst case: mod it

i think with some L-turrets it will be a nice battleship.

[mr.WHO]

the internal capacity is something, that cam be changed easily.

Worst case: mod it

i think with some L-turrets it will be a nice battleship.

Would, should, could.

Except that is has same turret composition as old Zeus.

[adzipp]

Аre this new design ships planed as standalone ships or as a replacement of old ones?

[|K.O.S.H.]

the internal capacity is something, that cam be changed easily.

Worst case: mod it

i think with some L-turrets it will be a nice battleship.

Would, should, could.

Except that is has same turret composition as old Zeus.

i will mod me one
so: WILL

[|K.O.S.H.]

Аre this new design ships planed as standalone ships or as a replacement of old ones?

replacement. The old ships will no more be built and "fade out".

[SirBerrial]

Aye.
Tug boat looks pretty cool.
Ody jumped from the worst destroyer aesthetically to the second best and other caps look pretty sweet too.
Dunno about Zeus.

[mr.WHO]

...new Zeus ... can hold only 16 fighters + 8 on landing pad?..

Serious?

16 fighters internal + 8 on landing pad
8 medium internal + 4 on landing pad
20 drones


It would be so glaring if ALL the ships would get rebalanced, but right now, it's really poor carrier.

[SirConnery]

16 fighters internal + 8 on landing pad
8 medium internal + 4 on landing pad
20 drones

It would be so glaring if ALL the ships would get rebalanced, but right now, it's really poor carrier.

Is it cheaper than the alternatives?

[mr.WHO]

I must say that looking at new and old ships next to eachother I finally realized how butt ugly the old Paranid models are.

I was thinking that Teladi ships are the ugliest, but now, old Paranid ships do seems worse.

[LameFox]

I wonder if that indicates a desire to finally rebalance the ships to be less identical. People have been asking for that since launch.

[Axeface]

I wonder if that indicates a desire to finally rebalance the ships to be less identical. People have been asking for that since launch.

I hope so, and it looks like it might. The announcement says "you will get a first taste of the latest developments and our future vision for the game."
Dev responses about the Zeus capacity mention the intent to make it be fast and able to react fast, I would assume that means the intent will be different for other race carriers (hope teladi next ).

I must say that looking at new and old ships next to eachother I finally realized how butt ugly the old Paranid models are.

I was thinking that Teladi ships are the ugliest, but now, old Paranid ships do seems worse.

Mhmm they were always the worst yes, the quality was totally different to most of the rest of the games ships. Teladi quality is more inline with the rest of the game, even if some might see the designs as a bit boring.

[Holybell]

... X3 Paranit TL. And no more comment.

[NightmareNight91]

I like that they atleast didnt remove the ability to buy the old models and the blueprints, makes my old paranid ships collectibles lol, also i happen to like the old selene and zues better so its nice to have the option to use them.

[Athraku]

With the old model still available in game it really highlights how much better the new ones really look. Great job

Not sure if there's a plan on removing them in the future as they will only confuse anyone who comes into the game in the future by keep old assets in the game not to mention if there are future updates in ship design for other races it would start to clutter up the building menus if this trend continues.

[gorgofdoom]

A Zeus E with 24 torpedo pulsars and a complement of 12 ospreys (x17 drones) makes for a fighter complement of 228 S ships.

The pulsars provide a serious punch for L/XL/S threats while the osprey's + drones can easily handle any S/M threats.

If the pulsars all carry heavy torps that's 24x26x (17,246mj) = 10,761,504 MJ of damage potential in just heavy torpedoes.

If we want to look at ospreys as cluster missile carriers they can each hold 104 cluster missiles at 12,141 mj of damage each. A total addition of 15,151,958MJ of damage.

Moving a whole fleet that can deal 26 million megajoules of damage (while also providing overwhelming fighter swarms) at 5000+m/s is priceless.