RSI Scorpius - New heavy fighter!

Patrick Spaceman

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House market is a mess here in Holland. We have a website (funda.nl) that lists all the houses that are for sale. If you dont react within 10 minutes when a new house is listed you can forget about it. Then you have to compete with people that overbid ridiculous amounts (like 40k more). Having said that, we got lucky and only had to bid 11k more. Because we could do it without reservation of funding (is this a thing over there too?) we got the house. Which we physically visited for 15 minutes... Ah well at least the mortgage is low, 1.5% 20 years fixed.

Great house though! Bit like me. Ugly on the outside, very spacious on the inside ;)

It doesnt have a turret that can also fire behind tho so I hate it.
We just sold a house recently in Australia, we did the listing paperwork on a Friday, and it sold sight unseen on Sunday to a cash buyer for more than double our original purchase price..


So anyway I bought a near new .Jpeg ............I meanWRX for cash last week.

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Montoya

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We just sold a house recently in Australia, we did the listing paperwork on a Friday, and it sold sight unseen on Sunday to a cash buyer for more than double our original purchase price..


So anyway I bought a near new .Jpeg ............I meanWRX for cash last week.
Sold sight unseen for cash, for double... yup sounds about right.

Congrats on the cool car!
 

Richard Bong

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Prob mostly solo, but as both are made for 2, I'd want to have an extra as much as I could when using either.
The Hornet series is likely more maneuverable and at least as durable.

Now here comes the fun part. The turret in the Scorpius has been hinted that it requires a gunner. It certainly requires a gunner to properly use the turret to its full capability. If that is true the Hornet also has more firepower when flying solo.
 

Cugino83

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Now I don't know if I should keep my Super Hornet Heartseeker (love the nose art, and its the OG heavy hitter) or this (new and sexy).
Keep the Hornet, first and foremost it does have a unique paint art that is missing in the scorpion, second is a more flexible: you can use the full firepower even when soloing, and the variety of hardpoint and turret option alllow wider configuration (and I don't even count proper modularity...)
 

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Keep the Hornet, first and foremost it does have a unique paint art that is missing in the scorpion, second is a more flexible: you can use the full firepower even when soloing, and the variety of hardpoint and turret option alllow wider configuration (and I don't even count proper modularity...)
The Stinger paint for the Scorpius is only being sold to Concierge members during this event. Thus its special paint will be more unique / limited.
 

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@NaffNaffBobFace , you incredible TESTie, I'm reading that Scorpius Q&A that you posted & I'm so loving most of the answers. Great catch & thanks for posting that.
I was in two minds about keeping it but the info on the turret being slaveable to the pilot at some point in the future with a computer Blade has tipped this into becoming a keeper.
 

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I was in two minds about keeping it but the info on the turret being slaveable to the pilot at some point in the future with a computer Blade has tipped this into becoming a keeper.
Just bear in mind I bought ships 5+ years ago for that exact reason and.....well...yeh I am still waiting for the turrets to become saveable to the pilot.

It's like an abusive partner that promises they can change.....it will better...next time
 

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Just bear in mind I bought ships 5+ years ago for that exact reason and.....well...yeh I am still waiting for the turrets to become saveable to the pilot.

It's like an abusive partner that promises they can change.....it will better...next time
Ooooh, yes I'm very aware of that too. I'm an Endeavour captain, that thing isn't scheduled to come out until after the game has been made.
 

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Q&A fo all of yo A's and Q's, yo:

What size of ships does it fit into?

We designed the landed state to make sure it fits the metrics for ‘extra small’ or Size 2 landing pads. This is in line with the majority of our other fighters and allows it to fit inside a Polaris.

YAY !!!


So this implicitly confirms Mantis CAN also fit in a Polaris, Scorpius being longer and wider when in landed configuration, well not for the height, so we'll see :)
 
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