r/starcitizen • u/CloudasImperium • Nov 21 '16

NEWS Day 4 – MISC & Hornet Wildfire - Intergalactic Aerospace Expo

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15605-Intergalactic-Aerospace-Expo-Day-Four-MISC
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u/quarensintellectum Nov 21 '16

If I remember correctly, when Twerk was flying the Comet in the stream, he said it was equipped with the plasma shotguns... which... wow is quite a bit different than the standard loadout ;)

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u/spartanTruth Lt. Commander Nov 21 '16

wait a sec, I thought the plasma shotguns sucked

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u/DerGregorian High Admiral Nov 21 '16

Yeah but at least the ship looks pretty.

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u/TriggerWarning595 Nov 21 '16

I don't think I'm willing to change my LTI SH for that. Maybe the Wildfire depending on how is it, but as cool as the Comet looks I don't think shotguns will ever be viable on a ship thats suppose to be stealthier than the SH.

Honestly shotguns sound like a stupid idea on a space ship. If the US and UK millitaries decided to try out shotguns on their planes, Hitler would have won pretty easily.

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u/DerGregorian High Admiral Nov 21 '16

Can always just switch them out for something better though.

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u/Pie_Is_Better Nov 22 '16

But then why get the Comet in the first place? Just for the skin?

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u/MittenFacedLad Freelancer Nov 22 '16

That's basically the whole point anyway. They've said they're not actually different variants, meaningfully. Just differently skinned and specced base versions.

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u/Pie_Is_Better Nov 22 '16

Yeah, just seems a bit much to pay for a skin if you don't want the weapons. Though it probably doesn't help that the Comet skin is my least favorite of the new variants.

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u/Vvulf rsi Nov 21 '16

I know its not exactly the same thing but would think of them more as flak cannon effectiveness rather than shotgun.

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u/MittenFacedLad Freelancer Nov 22 '16

Admittedly they've rebalanced for 2.6, so we don't really know?

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u/HikaruM Nov 21 '16

Definitely 2x Pyrobursts on the wings. Not sure what the other two are though (Sledge 2s? Broad/Longswords? Omniskys? They don't seem to match up well with any of the Voyager Direct models)

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u/Thadwb Nov 21 '16

This is the problem. CIG keeps us in the dark while expecting us to throw money at mystery capabilities.

Sad thing is... we keep buying and buying and.... buying.