What do you guys think?
It looks slimmed down, a little sleeker than the original concept.
It looks slimmed down, a little sleeker than the original concept.
Latest whitebox of the Corsair
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Ploeperpengel
Space Marshal
The Corsair mainframe sure seems alittler wider in this concept. The engines are in relation clearly further apart from the main body in the whitebox.
What did they do to the wings?!?!?!
I guess they decided the original design looked too sturdy for Drake wings, had to change them to have an over-long exceedingly spindly connection point for them.
I guess they decided the original design looked too sturdy for Drake wings, had to change them to have an over-long exceedingly spindly connection point for them.
It is sleeker, but unfortunately that has had the knock-on effect of making things like the side guns, or the wings, look more bulbous and project out further.
The smaller wings mounting needs to be brought in, bringing it's engines closer to the main hull. And for the love of god, they need to delete those freaking side guns. Not only are they useless, but now theyre even more ugly.
The smaller wings mounting needs to be brought in, bringing it's engines closer to the main hull. And for the love of god, they need to delete those freaking side guns. Not only are they useless, but now theyre even more ugly.
Yeah the single wing looks a bit shorter, I like it better.
By the looks of the main wing and top wing I'm not sure the ship is going to have fully folding side wings any more - here is what I see with the wings in landed configuration in my head:
The upper wing could even fold down rather than up - in fact that would be much better in regard to hight in hangars as it would make the top wing as tall as the long wing folded, rather than taller:
To me, the above explains the longer lower wing support strut. Needs that length to keep it parallel with the upper wing.
The upper wing could even fold down rather than up - in fact that would be much better in regard to hight in hangars as it would make the top wing as tall as the long wing folded, rather than taller:
To me, the above explains the longer lower wing support strut. Needs that length to keep it parallel with the upper wing.
The entire large wing folds up.
The smaller wings will fold up fine, too. That's why there is an arm between the bottom wing, and the engine. See below as an example:
Ah, yes I was aware of this from the original concept. It just strikes me as odd they'd want to make the ship 3x taller landed, with the offset cockpit it's already going to be different to land in a side loading hanger like those at Grim Hex, but with that mast it's going to be difficult too, going from 3 stories tall at the roof of the ship with its landing struts on the ground to 9 stories tall at the top of the wing in landed position.
Part of me suspects this is why the large wing got downsized haha. Someone finally took the whitebox model to test it and found out it'd hit the door on the way in.
Mind you, hangars are getting overhauls anyway, especially with persistent hangars coming, so it may not be as big an issue as we'd imagine.
We'll have to see how it compares to something truly big, like an 890, or Reclaimer, to see how insane it is.
Corsair looks good. I still like it a lot.
Smaller wings, no problem, this means smaller hitbox.
Smaller wings, no problem, this means smaller hitbox.
Looking good. MSR is my daily driver at the moment but the Corsair looks like it'll be much better in combat!
If solo, yeah it will be way better. MSR can put out decent damage if it's fully crewed, though. Still less than the Corsair but the MSR Turrets are pretty badass IMO
How maneuverable are people expecting the Corsair to be? I'm guessing it will be noticably worse than a Connie.
It's Drake, so I'm expecting it to handle like a Carrack...maybe worse. Drake can't have nice things, after all xD
Before my EAC excitement I had one in inventory but chose a functional redeemer. Will be interesting to fly it about and see what it offers 
ShadowtehGreat
Commander
Its Drake.
I dont expect amazing defenses, but its going to ... cough... punch above its weight class.
It's kind of funny how many SC ships punch above their weight class. Then you land a C2 or M2 on a small moon like Clio and it blows away in the wind...but you don't. So much for weight class.
bedoinitusa
Space Marshal
Is it a perspective view that maybe the colors make it look slimer?
