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Cythereal posted:Star Trek Online has decided to answer the question "What if the Enterprise-D had a drunken one-night stand with a D'Deridex warbird?" It certainly looks like it was designed in 1987.
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I picked up a couple of new space boats in Star Trek Online. The Pathfinder class is an endgame variant of the Intrepid, and as with many modern STO endgame variants of a ship from the show, it's based on concept art for the shows - this one, with the downswept nacelles trailing behind the ship, I think even made it to the modeling stage. Shame the Pathfinder is lackluster as an actual ship - I may not have liked Voyager much as a show, but in my opinion the Intrepid class was the best looking protagonist ship in Star Trek history.  The Jem'hadar Vanguard Dreadnought is based on the big Dominion battleships from the show, and if you look closely the ship looks very much like a relatively squishy core part of the ship was built first, then a heavily armored exoskeleton built around it like a protective carapace. The other big capital ships from the Jem'hadar Vanguard line share this aesthetic, and it's kind of a shame in my opinion that it wasn't used more often. But no Dominion in Enterprise, Discovery, or Picard, presumably because those shows were repelled by any narrative proximity to an actually good Star Trek show like a vampire fleeing from a strip mall Italian joint.
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Jan 29, 2022 15:04
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Hell yeah purple ships 💜
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Jan 29, 2022 17:10
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All those cool STO ships got me to reinstall and i forgot why i stopped playing was because every mission i had was "fight a Dr'drex" which will gently caress you up big time if you make a single mistake.
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Jan 31, 2022 01:37
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Someone finally made a good looking TIE knockoff in that it actually looks like something you might see in the movies. I really like how chunky the design is. It's a bomber/missile boat and doesn't need any of the delicacy you see in most TIE designs. It's just a loving beast.
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Jan 31, 2022 02:40
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It's like a Vulture Droid and a Tie Bomber had a kid who's now an angsty teenager trying to be edgy 
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Jan 31, 2022 10:26
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Bootcha posted:Lest we forget the one time Valve Software almost made a space game. These are rad
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Feb 1, 2022 08:50
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Someone finally made a good looking TIE knockoff in that it actually looks like something you might see in the movies. I respect your opinion and everything, but personally I hate this thing. It smacks of tacticool, and feels utterly out of place against the rest of it's universe. I can see John Cena flying it in Furious 15.
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Feb 1, 2022 10:34
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Yeah I think it just about works as a droid controlled TIE variant but large fighter-jet style cockpits are a staple of the smaller Star Wars ships.
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Feb 1, 2022 11:16
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TIE fighters are meant to look like wrapped hard candies that the good guys crack open
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Feb 1, 2022 13:24
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Yeah I think it just about works as a droid controlled TIE variant but large fighter-jet style cockpits are a staple of the smaller Star Wars ships. It's not terribly imaginative, but I do have a soft spot for the TIE-D in filling the droid ship niche.  All elegance cut away and it's just a mass produced heap of poo poo they didn't even waste time shaping wing tips for. Eat a face full of these, Wedge.
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Feb 1, 2022 14:18
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That artist has done quite a few Star Wars ships in that style - they don't really look like they fit the universe, but considering how much influence Japanese movies had on the series initially, it kind of makes sense to explore what the series might look like with a more anime/mech-inspired aesthetic.          
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Feb 1, 2022 18:34
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It's definitely influenced by anime designs. I just really love chunky spaceships. Like the quadjumper 
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Feb 1, 2022 18:52
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I like the Necron star destroyer.
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Feb 1, 2022 18:54
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 I've always enjoyed Destiny 1's big boys
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Arc Hammer posted:I like the Necron star destroyer. The particular smooth, semigloss blue-black they use is very attractive.
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Feb 1, 2022 19:00
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Those are rad as hell
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Feb 1, 2022 19:27
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They look like a version of the Empire run by droids. In a good way, that is.
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Feb 2, 2022 00:35
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This one is straight up Mass Effect. Those engines look just like the Normandy’s:
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Feb 2, 2022 15:56
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I am not sure how to embed images but the work of Eric Geusz is pretty neat. He's the guy who turns every day objects into space ships.
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chainchompz posted:I am not sure how to embed images but the work of Eric Geusz is pretty neat. He's the guy who turns every day objects into space ships. This is really nice. Thanks.
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Feb 3, 2022 09:30
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RBA Starblade posted:
Destiny 1 had absolutely amazing spaceship designs and a unique aesthetic to boot. It’s a pity that D2 threw it all away for the most godawful Getty stock images ships possible.
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Feb 3, 2022 10:42
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The_Doctor posted:This one is straight up Mass Effect. Those engines look just like the Normandy’s: I just finished a full playthrough of ME Legendary and like i knew I loved the Normandy before, but drat is it a cool ship. The upgrade from 1 to 2 just improves on it. I love how the interior of the ship makes logical sense for what the outside looks like, also that the inside is a separate pressure hull than the outside. Of course most ships would be like a submarine, its exterior hull would contain interior hulls so if one is punctured the others may not be.
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Feb 3, 2022 21:42
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twistedmentat posted:I just finished a full playthrough of ME Legendary and like i knew I loved the Normandy before, but drat is it a cool ship. The upgrade from 1 to 2 just improves on it. I love how the interior of the ship makes logical sense for what the outside looks like, also that the inside is a separate pressure hull than the outside. Of course most ships would be like a submarine, its exterior hull would contain interior hulls so if one is punctured the others may not be. I appreciated how ME3 has the SR-2 retrofitted to the SR-1's military standards (and it's incomplete at that)
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Feb 3, 2022 21:58
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RBA Starblade posted:I appreciated how ME3 has the SR-2 retrofitted to the SR-1's military standards (and it's incomplete at that) I love that there’s trailing cables everywhere, giving it a real sense of being a rush job.
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Feb 3, 2022 22:02
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RBA Starblade posted:I appreciated how ME3 has the SR-2 retrofitted to the SR-1's military standards (and it's incomplete at that) The_Doctor posted:I love that there’s trailing cables everywhere, giving it a real sense of being a rush job. Yea, this is probably my ME3's Normandy is my favorite. I also like how its very clear that the crew is just people who were working on the retrofit and therefor are out of their depth.
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galagazombie posted:Destiny 1 had absolutely amazing spaceship designs and a unique aesthetic to boot. It’s a pity that D2 threw it all away for the most godawful Getty stock images ships possible. They've been adding in better ships (and armor) recently, but still nothing as good as Birth of History or the other Iron Banner ship, Hebridean Thoughtcrime:  Callisto Lancer in D2 is pretty good, though: 
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chainchompz posted:I am not sure how to embed images but the work of Eric Geusz is pretty neat. He's the guy who turns every day objects into space ships. Not embedding any images here made me curious and I tracked down his gallery. So thanks!
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lol it's such a Starfury knockoff that it's even titled the Fury 
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I for one am not a big fan of the Normandy redesign. It removed the awesome moving wings and a lot of the curves and chrome that gave the SR1 (and ME1’s art design in general) that golden age sci fi look. 2&3 made everything too modern and boxy looking and lost 1’s throwback charm. Like Shepards armor goes from wearing some form fitting body glove to generic “space marine” armor.
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galagazombie posted:I for one am not a big fan of the Normandy redesign. It removed the awesome moving wings and a lot of the curves and chrome that gave the SR1 (and ME1’s art design in general) that golden age sci fi look. 2&3 made everything too modern and boxy looking and lost 1’s throwback charm. Like Shepards armor goes from wearing some form fitting body glove to generic “space marine” armor. But making the armor modular was a good idea. When i play as a class that can only were light armor, which most of the interesting classes, you can only wear light armor and you end up wearing the same armor for most of the game until you can find a colossus.
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Polaron posted:They've been adding in better ships (and armor) recently, but still nothing as good as Birth of History or the other Iron Banner ship, Hebridean Thoughtcrime: Most of the Destiny 1 ships were assembled from generic components, in Destiny 2 almost all the ships worth a second look are fully unique models because they're paid cosmetics now. There are some neat ones:      They also pulled in the best unique ship model from Destiny 1 a few years ago: 
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twistedmentat posted:But making the armor modular was a good idea. When i play as a class that can only were light armor, which most of the interesting classes, you can only wear light armor and you end up wearing the same armor for most of the game until you can find a colossus. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive though. Ones art design and ones gameplay. They could have totally made versions of ME1's armor that swapped out pieces and such. Back to Destiny ship chat, nothing beats the Kestrel CX0 aka the Vic Viper from Gradius, my most used ship in the game.  Second place goes to the aforementioned Hebredian Thoughtcrime and Agonarch Karve, as well as The Ceres Galliot  The BKR Blockade Runner  The Phaeton 2.1 
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This is me being incredibly angry that the ships in Destiny 2 are all absolute trash by comparison to this day, with very few exceptions
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galagazombie posted:
This thing was always my favorite in D1 and I am still angry that it's only available covered in weird red veins in D2 as a spooky Halloween ship.
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Polaron posted:This thing was always my favorite in D1 and I am still angry that it's only available covered in weird red veins in D2 as a spooky Halloween ship. The red vine stuff is supposed to be a nanomachine plague thing It reminded me of The Beast from Homeworld Cataclysm lol
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Is that a reference to Red Weed from War of the Worlds?
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Maybe? This is the ship: The nanomachine plague looked more plastic and artificial
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MikeJF posted:Is that a reference to Red Weed from War of the Worlds. In both cases probably but that didn't occur to me before lol
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RBA Starblade posted:The red vine stuff is supposed to be a nanomachine plague thing It would remind you of something from Homeworld  And I know it's supposed to be SIVA-y, but I don't really like SIVA's aesthetics for Guardian equipment, just bad guy stuff.
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