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New Stealth Bombers: Manticore = Hawt. Everything else = ???

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Vito Antonio
Doomheim
#21 - 2012-05-03 08:51:57 UTC
Finally they started making symmetrical ships.
MotherMoon
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2012-05-03 08:56:07 UTC  |  Edited by: MotherMoon
NO WAY , the new hound is the best looking ship in the whole game.

And if you think otherwise, congrats! You just figured out you think your the center of the universe!

This is like people hating on the tempest, it's an awesome ship as well. It's personal taste stop acting all high mighty you smug self centered brat.


Vito Antonio wrote:
Finally they started making symmetrical ships.



FAIL, it's not symmetrical, at all.

The stupid is out today on the forums.

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1206/scimi.jpg

Iksobarg
The Graduates
The Initiative.
#23 - 2012-05-03 09:08:23 UTC
Yes, it looks to be a matter of taste/style.
IMO they all remind me of bugs/beetles of sorts...
I think bugs are neat and all but all four ships look reminiscent of bugs....
c'mon CCP...
and the hound is indeed missing it's solar wings
Ciar Meara
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#24 - 2012-05-03 09:24:34 UTC
Mars Theran wrote:

Also, Amarr need less gold and filigree


GET... OUT

- [img]http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/janus/ceosig.jpg[/img] [yellow]English only please. Zymurgist[/yellow]

Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#25 - 2012-05-03 09:26:23 UTC
Jint Hikaru wrote:
pausing to look all badass


instapopped.

you'll learn very quickly why SBs have cloaks :)
tim tam58
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#26 - 2012-05-03 09:44:34 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Jint Hikaru wrote:
pausing to look all badass


instapopped.

you'll learn very quickly why SBs have cloaks :)


There's always one idiot in the SB gang who straggles Ugh just another excuse.

but hey the new nemesis looks nice.. just PLEASE CCP, i want my nemesis to transform from the fatman into this badass form when i hit the MWD. oh and a skull and crossbones on a wing. Macross Valkyries ftw Pirate
Oraac Ensor
#27 - 2012-05-03 10:25:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Oraac Ensor
My take:

1. Nemesis
2. Purifier
3. Manticore





4. Hound
Katrina Bekers
A Blessed Bean
Pandemic Horde
#28 - 2012-05-03 10:25:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Katrina Bekers
I'll keep flying and adoring them, but strictly from an aesthetic, subjective, lore loving point of view:

1) The Hound isn't rusty/frail enough. It has now lost the Minmatar touch, and got a weird "solid" look, that's contrary to the "in rust we trust" theme I always liked of the republic bros. Also, solar sails seem dulled down from squarely utilitaristic to ethereally cosmetic.

2) The Purifier is... Don't know. Sort of like it, even if the glory days of the golden fleet (in Inferno, it will become the light brown fleet) are clearly past us. Some fool asked for less gold and less chisel work on Amarr hull: it borders blasphemy. Ah, these kids and their disturbing lack of faith...

3) The Manticore: omg, no, please... Caldari is all about 60' angles, prodtruding structures, asymmetry to the extreme. What is this Gundamish (I love Gundam, but, meh!) anime gouged, sleek, ROUND dogfighter? Round edges in my Caldari? Ok, another unique touch lost forever to the Anime God to please WOW players... *sigh*

Last but not least, my own race bomber:

4) The Nemesis.

Whiskey

Tango

Foxtrot

Interrogative

C'mon, the FatMan (if you have to ask what it is, you should seriously consider uninstalling the game) is such a distinctive Gallente ship! You cannot maim it (him?) like that, only to please the gloating crowds who're salivating at its admittedly uber cool but also totally OUT OF PLACE shape and pattern.

It's squareish, it's so dark, you can't even imagine that armor is Crystalline Carbonide anymore or that shade of gloomy swamp green is the once glorious Duvolle Lab yellow trim (I can rant for hours about how the Art Dept darkened to hell and back the Kronos, the Arazu, the Viator, ecc. and how Duvolle light color theme has been blended in the general dark, uniform hue that covers most ships of V3).

I know, I know, they look good. And I agree.

But they don't look in line with lore, with the style of the four races, with the color uniqueness all T2 ships should show. They are all homogeinized, in shape (generally roundish/sleekish) and color (dark, brown, dull).

I will deal with it - so I won't look like just another whiny vitterbet! But I'm very disappointed and I will still miss the unique look of EVE ships, and I'm ready for a wave of anime ships to please new players and accomodate the huge torpedo launchers and bomb devices on these hulls.

<< THE RABBLE BRIGADE >>

Oraac Ensor
#29 - 2012-05-03 10:32:44 UTC
Katrina Bekers wrote:
3) The Manticore: omg, no, please... Caldari is all about 60' angles, prodtruding structures, asymmetry to the extreme. What is this Gundamish (I love Gundam, but, meh!) anime gouged, sleek, ROUND dogfighter? Round edges in my Caldari? Ok, another unique touch lost forever to the Anime God to please WOW players... *sigh*

This is what I thought when I first saw the new designs, but they seem to have addressed the over-curvy issue if this is the latest rendering: Manticore
Corbin Blair
Doomheim
#30 - 2012-05-03 11:02:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Corbin Blair
Opertone wrote:
http://www.evenews24.com/2012/04/26/video-revamped-stealth-bombers-unofficial-preview/

IF you are talking about this - manticore omg!


Fuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Old manti rocked. New looks like zerg hatchling. Or some lamborgini scarabei hybrid. Color scheme is ridiculous. No this type of art isn't my flavour.

Purifier is bland.

Hound is an improvement.

Tristan - total reshape. Imho not bad.


Posted by david
"Now it really is the shiny roach of death"

they all look like roaches - bugs, scarabei whatnot

That isn't the real texture or the final model dumbass. Read the video description next time.
Lord Jedah
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#31 - 2012-05-03 11:40:45 UTC
At the moment the Purifier is my Favorite. Shocked

Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
BombDust
Doomheim
#32 - 2012-05-03 12:26:56 UTC
Lord Jedah wrote:
At the moment the Purifier is my Favorite. Shocked

Pic 1 ]



Woow, that is really bad ass. Great looking ship! For me the Nemesis is by far the coolest, and sure its dark but its a stealth bomber so that kind of make sense. I also love the alien high tech look of it, ok here is my list:

1.Nemesis, most bad ass bomber seen in any sci-fi game! Pirate
2.Manticore, good looking especially from the rear P
3.Purifier, I mean see the pic above, he means buisness Twisted
4. Hound, doesen´t look like a stealth bomber at all. Blink
Aracimia Wolfe
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#33 - 2012-05-03 12:30:08 UTC
Purifier
Nemesis
Manticore





Hound.


I know that in rust we trust, but compared to the others it's not even worth looking at.

Putting looks before useability erryday

Kill it with Fire!

DarkAegix
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#34 - 2012-05-03 12:50:13 UTC
Nemesis is badass.
That is all.
Aethlyn
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#35 - 2012-05-03 13:20:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Aethlyn
Still not sure about the hound. It's been the first bomber I had the skills to fly and I really liked that "let's glue some torpedo launchers, engines and a few rods together" approach. The new one is definitely missing some more solar panels at the back (similar to old design). It's not bad at all, it just feels a bit too simple... but still huge. Maybe it's just me, but autocannons appear to be sooo small compared to the other stealth bombers? Anyone had a chance to put it next to one of the other frigates?

Edit: Regarding the Hound's windows/lights - I'm rather sure it's unfinished and somehow lacking the proper texture map. The new V3 stuff allows interesting (and more advanced) animations, e.g. look at the Amarr Command Ships' "sensor animationed" bird eye windows. :)

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Heimdallofasgard
Ministry of Furious Retribution
Insidious.
#36 - 2012-05-03 13:33:46 UTC
Does the nemesis still have the duvolle colour scheme + logo on it? the colour scheme update was one of my favourite things about crucible as I spend a lot... and I mean a LOT of time in a nemesis.
Aiwha
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#37 - 2012-05-03 13:42:23 UTC
The Nemesis is the sexiest vessel to ever come out of the federation.

Sanity is fun leaving the body.

Jint Hikaru
OffWorld Exploration Inc
#38 - 2012-05-03 14:00:58 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Jint Hikaru wrote:
pausing to look all badass


instapopped.

you'll learn very quickly why SBs have cloaks :)



Yeah, the 'pausing to look all badass' would just be in my head really....

Jint Hikaru - Miner / Salvager / Explorer / SpaceBum In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#39 - 2012-05-03 14:19:15 UTC
Katrina Bekers wrote:

I will deal with it - so I won't look like just another whiny vitterbet!


Half an essay too late there.

The skins are not final yet, they will be tweaked and finalized as tier 3 BC had been during their testing. Yet the models are done and they are better.
I'll break it down further.
1. Nemesis, better
2. Manticore, better
3. Purifier, better
4. Hound, better
marVLs
#40 - 2012-05-03 14:30:33 UTC
I think:

1. Manticore without launchers/ Purifier with launchers
2. One from those above
3. Nemesis
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4. Hound - really poor, dark one color texture, ****** imo
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