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What about sub-capital [ships, like the Perseus, Polaris and Hammerhead]?

TL;DRSub-capital ships vary by role and loadout, with the Hammerhead having a specific role and needing fighter cover, and the bigger the ship the more combat becomes naval-style, with no formal categories yet.

Yogi KlattPrincipal Vehicle Programmer

They're interesting, yeah. So it depends on the ship, right? For example, if you take a look at the Constellation, the Constellation...

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Let's go bigger than the Constellation. Let's look at the Polaris. Let's assume there's the Javelin up here. Now let's get smaller: Perseus, Polaris, Hammerhead, those kind of things.

Yogi KlattPrincipal Vehicle Programmer

It depends on the ships and what kind of roles they have. I can't talk too much about the Polaris, but for example, the Hammerhead has a specific role in such a big capital ship battle. So it has a specific role, right? And the other ships... it would care about the fighter cover. It would not fare well against similar-sized opponents that are purposely built to take down similar-sized ships. So it depends always on the ship. Some ships rely a lot on turrets. Other ships, I wanted to say the Constellation here, because the Constellation is very forward-centric. It has these massive size five mounts which face forward. So a ship like that is obviously not relying much on the turrets to do the alpha damage against larger enemies. So there will be a transition period between the size of the ships and how they maneuver. But that's all combat details. But the bigger the ship, the more it turns into this naval-style gameplay.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Even when I said it, I realized there's going to be arguments about what is a capital ship and what isn't a capital ship, and how big. I said sub-capital and I just meant smaller than a Javelin.

Yogi KlattPrincipal Vehicle Programmer

We had some categories, like what is a sloop or something like that. But the thing is, we do not have too many ships of these categories. So at the moment, building a category about that is probably not that useful. We'll see how it all plays out.

Star Citizen Live›Ask the Devs - FPS and Flight Teams·
Published on this date.17 Nov 2023
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