I'm an Origin fanboy, I had a 300i since kickstarter, love the little 100i and M50, want a 400 and an 890 one day. Let's not speak of the used bar of soap that is the 600i, that's an outlier but I know it has it's fans, and even that fits way better into Origins lineup than this generic Slop. Because it is Slop. Looks like something an AI would generate when the Marketing Team asked for a spacefighter...
By far the laziest ship design I've seen from them since that contest winner gunboat/dropship thing no one even remembers anymore (for good reason).
The interior is really just there so you have space to stand up and drink/eat/logout, and to force the engineer gameplay on you, it's an ugly tube of blinding ligths with some holes in the walls. It's cramped and claustrophobic, at the same time it feels like a waste of space. The 100i feels more spacious... It is the opposite of Origin's luxury design.
It's secondary use is that they placed components in plain sight like in a Drake ship so you can repair them I guess, something that shouldn't be a thing on the inside of such a small ship aynways. I doN't know if it is the same size or smaller than a 300i, but it sure feels like it. The "ramp" that takes up the whole length almost, makes the space useless for anything else, meanwhile I wonder if it's wide enough to get the components through it, which is a real issue with a bunch of ships with components on the inside. (if you ever tried removing a powerplant from a Vanguard you know what I mean).
The outside, while a masterful piece of 3D modeling for the intern that made it, is just uninspiring to the highest level. It's just a bent flat cone with nothing Origin about it. It takes none of the important design cues from any previous models. No shark nose, no color breaks in the shape, no double wings with multi connections, no top inlet, no flat nose, no wings to speak of really as it's just too fat and rounded, no nothing that would pass for an Origin ship. It looks and feels half finished. Hell, the Wolf looks more Origin than this with it's cockpit in the rear and boat shape! This is curved in a way that I couldn't find a single angle from where it had a compelling silhouette, looked interesting or elegant or anything other than small, insignificant and overall MEH.
It's a spaceship alright, but not a Star Citizen ship, especially not an Origin ship.
11 out of 10 on my Hate meter, well done marketing interns! I'm sure it's gonna sell really well being this overly generic with high performance. (until the inevitable nerf. Remeber the Wolf? and teh Ares? yeah...)
