I'm just waiting for them to copy and paste the Chieftain's body two or three times and bolt them together, front-to-back, Human Centipede-style, and call it the Alliance answer to the Big Three.
Lets not forget the Krait phantom, can only imagine what will look like, hmm krait with Spoiler, Erm Krait with no fighter bay, eeeerrr Krait with something sticking out of it....bring it on frontier we are ready and expect shit.
CMDR Exigeous nice earth relics at Algol system there persistent spawns 4 or 5 it’s planet a 3 there is a signal Source there it shows in normal space and a lone cobra relics sell for around 17k near by statiion remines only 78ls
I say the alliance ships are the equivalent of the federal ships like Assault ship, Drop ship and Gun ship, which is why they look the same, is like Jets in real life some of them may look similar to one another but that doesn't mean they are the same performance wise
Churchill Cat exactly. That made me realize the main "pleasure" of these ships for me has been a piloting school, learned a lot in combat flying and outfitting. Agile and tanky, the chieftain is also quite fast. The challenger is slower, but could be a good pirate or hacker. The crusader is same with fighter bay. There was the engineering, the outfitting, at the end of the day you are better off with a FAS. A big Allinace ship would have been nice. The med combat ship fleet is crowded. Maybe the paint job and stuff is the reason. Playing doll.
Samuel Griffin for real. So many ships in this game are almost direct copies with some extra spoilers. Hell AX advanced weapons don’t even look different. It’s abhorrent how lazy frontier is.
Another visual difference is that they had to expand the ship’s frame to accommodate a fighter bay. And by the way, if you are one of those people who acually read Galnet, you will find that the Alliance Chieftain article actually states that the Chieftain’s maneuverability is designed to counter the renowned agility of the Thargoid Intecepters and Scouts.
Frontier has basically through mass produced, minimally upgraded and poor QA, taken one of the most interesting and fresh ships to be added to the game and turned it into something boring. This is the worst way they could possibly release this line. Even releasing all 3 at the same time would avoid us having space blueballs. Good job frontier., you made something great mediocre again. Don't you always you hacks... "Sigh"
What will they have in patch 3.1 if they presented all alliance ships to you in 3.0? (LOL). You know they need to distribute their little new contents evenly through this year, at the same time nerfing chapter four update.
I knew something was wrong when I heard it was a "middle ground" between the chieftan and challenger. With more seats and a fighter bay, what business did it have being anything other than the biggest ship of the 3? I was hoping the crusader would be on par with the federal gunship. We already had the chieftan as an equivalent to the assault ship Time for a conspiracy theory: 4:44 The challenger and the crusader weren't planned for months. They are early alpha models of the chieftan. FDev is so desperate to release content on little money, that they dug up the old broken discarded models from the cutting room floor, slapped extra shit on them and turned them into the challenger and the crusader. That's why the models are unpolished and the awkward fighter bay doesn't look like it belongs on the model
You remember that Tencent bought a big part of Frontier right ? Elite is at this point. 1-Take a ship 2-Copy paste it 3-Release stupid skins and spoilers 4-??? 5-Use the money you made to develop Jurassic Park and repeat
@South Paw This aint real life where you have to make sure the car platform is paid for over multiple year. This is a game, copy pasta of ship design is just fucking lazy. Also Ill complain if I feel like it, you can enjoy these lazy design and encourage these bad habits if you want more of this garbage.
If FDevs were doing a good job, it would be a game. However, FDevs are not doing a good job - they might lose their jobs because of this. That is not a game, that's life. FDevs should go into work from now on feeling like this is a fight for their survival. If they don't, they might be dead men walking
Remember kids don't do drugs and you can get 15% off all ship modules in Li Yong-Rui space. We currently do not have the Chieftain at this point that will be remedied soon Save credits , play better , Li Yong-Rui..
I always assumed the cockpit hud were integrated into the chair (of the pilots helmet) because it's the same in every manufacturers ship. But the chair is always the same, in the SRV, SLF or main ships. So it follows the hud is somehow projected from there. Or the helmets visor as i said.
It might seem lazy but it’s realistic, militaries today do the same thing, they will use the same chassis of future upgrades of tanks and other military vehicles. So they will have a similar look but they’ll be different. It makes since also because the point of they type 10 and these models were rushed into production after the Thargoids invaded, so the type 10 was developed on an existing chassis. It’s the way it’s been since ww2
I used to love this game. Played / Streamed it every day. The lack of effort being put into it these days is why I haven't played in months. Great video as always Yamiks. Really hope things in Elite start improving.
Thanks, that was a good moment. Some work and writing too! The point about the lack of real purpose of these variants is spot on. It is a pity because Id want to love my Alliance ships. Fact is however the Chieftain is good for pvp, fast but lacks modules slots, the Challenger is tankier, slower and more polyvalent, and the Crusader is awfully slow, few modules, and if you are into SLF, you are better off with a Gunship. If you do xeno combat you are better off in a FAS, though the Challenger has great lateral movement. Anyway, keep applying your knowledge and eloquence to sharp and constructive reviews.
I wish the engines rotated when deploying landing gear. It looks like they’re designed to be VTOL engines, but they don’t move. Except the back ones to deploy frog legs.
I do like that I can buy stuff that helps support the ongoing development of the game without it being pay to win, BUT I’m really tired of my only option to buy the same paint jobs for every ship rather than buying one type of paint job for all ships, and now it’s gotten about 5x more expensive (or less valuable) because they’re doing more and more “special” paintjobs that are similarly priced, but you only get 1 paintjob for 1 ship. Kinda ridiculous. Especially when we get 3 of the same ship but the paintjobs still only apply to one.
that whas a fun review, but i remember one thing, first Chieftain whas anounced everyone whas like "it should has a fighter bay" on the forums, or "a fighter bay would be cool" no they got what they want....
I'm on a hiatus since about 9 months. Nothing so far has made me jump back in and if Q4 doesn't shake things up a lot i guessed i won't be coming back. That's really a shame, i was so damn excited for Beyond..
What's surprising. Is people being surprised. Frontier are just pumping out content because they can. Because people keep playing even though everything is intolerable. They do this, because you LET THEM and then congratulate yourself for seeing through all the lies. But keep playing. Frontier are no less cynical than their players. Ironic really. But what can you do. Stop? lol of course not.
boycotting would not really work... the game is old enough and had its lifespan big enough to just put it aside and forget about it already (thou you could say that that's already a thing). Solution in this case is to rise a stink about it and pushing for a change and thou it seems futile...there always is some kind of hope. I stick around almost exclusively for the community : that's how it was for planetside and that's ho it is for elite!
@@TheYamiks for sure. There is a sense of "how is this possible?" still, as though people are surprised. Elite is great, like anything tho, it's the execution. Frontier deliver the ordinary at times because people just accept it. Well horse beaters aside! ;)
Funny thing is : if you take a look as to the history... the gme came out : it was really impressive technically and nothing like it existed.... then with every new patch and update the lazy and horrible things just kept appearing and here we are today... with suck incompetence it;s disgusting sometimes! I even struggle to call the development of it now acceptable!
I play it because I love it, even though I hate it. Is hard to explain but is the overall feeling of many of us. I think they work hard and listen to the players but only for minor things like nerfing some mining aspect or a weapon. They don't listen about major aspects like a story mode, or way more ships than 38 ugly bricks. Even ship interiors, which I am not a fan because without a purpose, to me is absurd, is what everybody seem to want and Frontier just don't listen.
I dunno seems to me like this could be used to make one mean ship, tooled for hull tank with a fighter and all fragmentation cannons I'de be will to bet it could tear most things apart easily enough. while letting your friend come along and fly with you in a fighter or two friends if you drop some tank/shield could have seriously used with a new model however...
Yeah... I'ma... I'ma just stick with Keelback... thanks... Seriously, it's sad when the most basic medium fighter carrier is more appealing than this thing.
Gotta have em all! (Damn you, cobra mk 4) that being said, this ship has been the absolute least satisfied I 've been with pissing out the credits for collection sake to add the ship in my fleet that I don't believe I will have reason to fly again.
Yeah lazy AF! Do you remember those antenas that the Krait has on top of the cocpit? Well you only can see them from the free camera perspective. Looking from cocpit view they were not there! They said in the patch notes that they have "FIXED" it.......... You know what they did???? THEY HAVE F#UCKING REMOVED THEM!!!!!!! This is BEYOND lazy! 😐😌
Haha I know I actually vented by anger at that in the forum thread, that it seemed like the only fix out of all the fixes they SAY? they did was that one thing. Always seems strange to me but does anyone else feel that each time to bug fixes come out that A, i've never heard of them and B, you never notice these in game any How???!! perhaps they are lying about the whole list of bug fixes as well, after all I never see any difference each time I play?
When they showed those 3 designs I assumed they were finalising the Chieftain design, not that they were gonna give us 3 very slightly different versions of the same ship. At least the Federation ship's have their own roles, these Alliance ship's all do the same thing but in slightly different ways. I hope this copy and paste isn't the shape of things to come now with Frontier and fingers crossed this isn't a taster of what we'll get Q4.
Fighters don't do much damage but they're great at being a distraction. Shields get a chance to recharge, you can power down/up, emergency jumps are easier. And you have access to flying the incredibly fun and highly maneuverable fighters when you want. It's all win for me, Crusader > Challenger or Chieftain.
@Yamiks How far would your stream of bile and vomit reach, if the next thing we see would be Gutamaya creating a similar triplet, via copy and paste, for the imps?
I don't really begrudge the devs on this, from a lore perspective these ships were /rushed/. 3 whole new models in a matter of months would be an engineering nightmare, which is why I like that it uses keelback and diamondback parts (The central body and cockpit, respectively).
Was fun working with Yamiks on this one....I hope you enjoy it guys.
Nice job, commander!
"The Cheiftan was never designed to fight Thargoids. Neither was the Mentally Challenged one." BRB Dying.
Lmao
I'm just waiting for them to copy and paste the Chieftain's body two or three times and bolt them together, front-to-back, Human Centipede-style, and call it the Alliance answer to the Big Three.
Hilarious though
Lets not forget the Krait phantom, can only imagine what will look like, hmm krait with Spoiler, Erm Krait with no fighter bay, eeeerrr Krait with something sticking out of it....bring it on frontier we are ready and expect shit.
The alliance chuchu XD
XD
It's the Alliance, so that sounds about right.
"Whats the point of this" - great question my friend, great question
CMDR Exigeous nice earth relics at Algol system there persistent spawns 4 or 5 it’s planet a 3 there is a signal
Source there it shows in normal space and a lone cobra relics sell for around 17k near by statiion remines only 78ls
I say the alliance ships are the equivalent of the federal ships like Assault ship, Drop ship and Gun ship, which is why they look the same, is like Jets in real life some of them may look similar to one another but that doesn't mean they are the same performance wise
"Can't wait to get my hands of a chieftain Mk.III
Sorry the Challenger Mk.II
Oh wait the Crusader"
Churchill Cat exactly. That made me realize the main "pleasure" of these ships for me has been a piloting school, learned a lot in combat flying and outfitting. Agile and tanky, the chieftain is also quite fast. The challenger is slower, but could be a good pirate or hacker. The crusader is same with fighter bay. There was the engineering, the outfitting, at the end of the day you are better off with a FAS. A big Allinace ship would have been nice. The med combat ship fleet is crowded. Maybe the paint job and stuff is the reason. Playing doll.
Something I never knew I needed: Yamiks yelling "PURGE THE HERESY"
i need it as a ringtone now
Frontier are getting lazier and lazier and it shows more and more
Samuel Griffin for real. So many ships in this game are almost direct copies with some extra spoilers. Hell AX advanced weapons don’t even look different. It’s abhorrent how lazy frontier is.
Another visual difference is that they had to expand the ship’s frame to accommodate a fighter bay. And by the way, if you are one of those people who acually read Galnet, you will find that the Alliance Chieftain article actually states that the Chieftain’s maneuverability is designed to counter the renowned agility of the Thargoid Intecepters and Scouts.
Frontier has basically through mass produced, minimally upgraded and poor QA, taken one of the most interesting and fresh ships to be added to the game and turned it into something boring. This is the worst way they could possibly release this line. Even releasing all 3 at the same time would avoid us having space blueballs. Good job frontier., you made something great mediocre again. Don't you always you hacks... "Sigh"
What will they have in patch 3.1 if they presented all alliance ships to you in 3.0? (LOL). You know they need to distribute their little new contents evenly through this year, at the same time nerfing chapter four update.
@@flarestar2124 2 updates of something would be better than 2 updates of less something and 2 of nothing.
I knew something was wrong when I heard it was a "middle ground" between the chieftan and challenger. With more seats and a fighter bay, what business did it have being anything other than the biggest ship of the 3? I was hoping the crusader would be on par with the federal gunship. We already had the chieftan as an equivalent to the assault ship
Time for a conspiracy theory: 4:44 The challenger and the crusader weren't planned for months. They are early alpha models of the chieftan. FDev is so desperate to release content on little money, that they dug up the old broken discarded models from the cutting room floor, slapped extra shit on them and turned them into the challenger and the crusader. That's why the models are unpolished and the awkward fighter bay doesn't look like it belongs on the model
Little money, are they a indie company?
@@mrstxx2048 by little money I meant low budget. I didn't mean they were low on funds, but rather they are avoiding spending
I can't see outside of my ships. I'm usually busy with the outsides of other ships.
I know this one is good against thargoids.
You remember that Tencent bought a big part of Frontier right ?
Elite is at this point.
1-Take a ship
2-Copy paste it
3-Release stupid skins and spoilers
4-???
5-Use the money you made to develop Jurassic Park and repeat
Oh yea they do have control
You dont just buy a percent of a company and ask nothing
South Paw true, those guys just buy everything.
If only they were using the money to fund JWE, but nah they botched that too
The frog bit at the start and the "Good for: NOTHING"... omg I lost it...
These ships designs are a joke, copy pasta as usual.
@South Paw This aint real life where you have to make sure the car platform is paid for over multiple year. This is a game, copy pasta of ship design is just fucking lazy.
Also Ill complain if I feel like it, you can enjoy these lazy design and encourage these bad habits if you want more of this garbage.
triggered FD defending fanboy alert
THIS IS A GAME
If FDevs were doing a good job, it would be a game. However, FDevs are not doing a good job - they might lose their jobs because of this. That is not a game, that's life. FDevs should go into work from now on feeling like this is a fight for their survival. If they don't, they might be dead men walking
I was litterally looking for this review earlier on and long and behold ITS HERE
Does anyone else get the feeling that Fdev stopped trying (a while ago)?
Next up - Alliance Corsa. Now featuring double spoiler!
I give the review a 9.5 out of 10. I give the bloopers 11 out of 10.
Remember kids don't do drugs and you can get 15% off all ship modules in Li Yong-Rui space. We currently do not have the Chieftain at this point that will be remedied soon Save credits , play better , Li Yong-Rui..
Seems like Yamiks is on a *CRUSADE*
ba dum pssshhhh
Errr...yeah, I see what you did there
Would be nice to see small, large and capital alliance ships. Definitely a large to potentially challenge the corvette and cutter and anaconda
I always assumed the cockpit hud were integrated into the chair (of the pilots helmet) because it's the same in every manufacturers ship.
But the chair is always the same, in the SRV, SLF or main ships. So it follows the hud is somehow projected from there.
Or the helmets visor as i said.
I wonder when the thargoid motherships become active and start attacking
If you think about it is a practical design since you could make the thrusters vectored
In fact they could have used that to give to the unique way to fly
i use the crusader for bounty hunting and the challenger for mining. great ships.
It might seem lazy but it’s realistic, militaries today do the same thing, they will use the same chassis of future upgrades of tanks and other military vehicles. So they will have a similar look but they’ll be different. It makes since also because the point of they type 10 and these models were rushed into production after the Thargoids invaded, so the type 10 was developed on an existing chassis. It’s the way it’s been since ww2
Chieftain and Crusader are (or were) both British tanks.
True story .
I used to love this game. Played / Streamed it every day. The lack of effort being put into it these days is why I haven't played in months.
Great video as always Yamiks. Really hope things in Elite start improving.
Holy shit, I am laughing so hard after these bloopers again^^
Yamiks just never change.
Nobody shyts on a ship like Yamiks & friends. I wanna VO one of his videos one day
That opening was FANTASTIC!
Big part of me wishes you had just reposted the chieftan review.
The tongue at the beginning was hilarious :D Cheers guys.
That intro was so unexpecting, now I have to clean my screen from coffe
LOL I do believe this is myfavourite review to date - awesome job guys! =D
Turjan Starstone your turn next...😉
Thanks, that was a good moment. Some work and writing too! The point about the lack of real purpose of these variants is spot on. It is a pity because Id want to love my Alliance ships. Fact is however the Chieftain is good for pvp, fast but lacks modules slots, the Challenger is tankier, slower and more polyvalent, and the Crusader is awfully slow, few modules, and if you are into SLF, you are better off with a Gunship. If you do xeno combat you are better off in a FAS, though the Challenger has great lateral movement. Anyway, keep applying your knowledge and eloquence to sharp and constructive reviews.
Fuck
That squeaky sound gets me every time, god damnit!
That camera idea sounds actually cool. At least unique.
This is the perfect ship for making ridiculous experiments, like an all top engineered cannons, as mine.
Is absolutely rtarded, and I love it.
You sound exactly like Ulfrik Stormcloak from Skyrim
I enjoyed that intro much more than I should've.
I wish the engines rotated when deploying landing gear. It looks like they’re designed to be VTOL engines, but they don’t move. Except the back ones to deploy frog legs.
Not going to lie, the intro sorta spooked me. Haha, great job.
The Chiefchallsader.
“...have the child support agency hunt me down” oh brother, i feel your pain🤣
The C and V keys on FDevs keyboards must really be worn by now. How many copypasted ships are we at?
Viper 3-4, cobra 3-4, fed piggies, imperial ships, t10, krait, alliance ships
14?
I lol’d hard at you saying you’d be waiting smugly!
I do like that I can buy stuff that helps support the ongoing development of the game without it being pay to win, BUT I’m really tired of my only option to buy the same paint jobs for every ship rather than buying one type of paint job for all ships, and now it’s gotten about 5x more expensive (or less valuable) because they’re doing more and more “special” paintjobs that are similarly priced, but you only get 1 paintjob for 1 ship. Kinda ridiculous. Especially when we get 3 of the same ship but the paintjobs still only apply to one.
Freaking Quality Yamiks, well played Sir
6:43 I died.
that whas a fun review, but i remember one thing, first Chieftain whas anounced everyone whas like "it should has a fighter bay" on the forums, or "a fighter bay would be cool" no they got what they want....
Well for the Moment i Quit Elite, the Gnosis Dilemma gave me the rest. Maby sometime later i will come back but for now, im gone.
Every argument about it can be also applied to fds fas and fgs. I think devs followed the same idea but for the alliance.
Assaultship, Dropship, Gunship, they pretty much look the same as well
The bloopers are just gold 😂
The front looks like a pelican from halo
This ships only hope of leaving the shipyard is if frontier makes the show storage wars to shipyard wars lol
I'm on a hiatus since about 9 months. Nothing so far has made me jump back in and if Q4 doesn't shake things up a lot i guessed i won't be coming back. That's really a shame, i was so damn excited for Beyond..
What's surprising. Is people being surprised. Frontier are just pumping out content because they can. Because people keep playing even though everything is intolerable. They do this, because you LET THEM and then congratulate yourself for seeing through all the lies. But keep playing. Frontier are no less cynical than their players. Ironic really. But what can you do. Stop? lol of course not.
boycotting would not really work... the game is old enough and had its lifespan big enough to just put it aside and forget about it already (thou you could say that that's already a thing). Solution in this case is to rise a stink about it and pushing for a change and thou it seems futile...there always is some kind of hope. I stick around almost exclusively for the community : that's how it was for planetside and that's ho it is for elite!
@@TheYamiks for sure. There is a sense of "how is this possible?" still, as though people are surprised. Elite is great, like anything tho, it's the execution. Frontier deliver the ordinary at times because people just accept it. Well horse beaters aside! ;)
Funny thing is : if you take a look as to the history... the gme came out : it was really impressive technically and nothing like it existed.... then with every new patch and update the lazy and horrible things just kept appearing and here we are today... with suck incompetence it;s disgusting sometimes! I even struggle to call the development of it now acceptable!
I play it because I love it, even though I hate it. Is hard to explain but is the overall feeling of many of us. I think they work hard and listen to the players but only for minor things like nerfing some mining aspect or a weapon. They don't listen about major aspects like a story mode, or way more ships than 38 ugly bricks. Even ship interiors, which I am not a fan because without a purpose, to me is absurd, is what everybody seem to want and Frontier just don't listen.
This ship is the Jan of the Brady Bunch. Challenger, Challenger, Challenger!
I dunno seems to me like this could be used to make one mean ship, tooled for hull tank with a fighter and all fragmentation cannons I'de be will to bet it could tear most things apart easily enough. while letting your friend come along and fly with you in a fighter or two friends if you drop some tank/shield
could have seriously used with a new model however...
3:16 SHOTS FIRED
Yeah... I'ma... I'ma just stick with Keelback... thanks...
Seriously, it's sad when the most basic medium fighter carrier is more appealing than this thing.
Cmon, Kellback can't fight against anything
Bloopers get me laughting every time
i think they wanted to name it after british tanks but the RAF got jealous and forced them to use the bombardier's view port from the Halifax.
Okay that opening made me laugh.
There was a moment I decided not to own any alliance ship. It started with the chieftain.
Gotta have em all! (Damn you, cobra mk 4) that being said, this ship has been the absolute least satisfied I 've been with pissing out the credits for collection sake to add the ship in my fleet that I don't believe I will have reason to fly again.
Thanks yamiks!
Wish they'd let me design some ships ... can't be that hard; I've got a pulse.
Maybe these alliance ships are just different variations of the same ship. Some have abilities the others dont but its generally the same ship.
the toad intro killed me! XD
The bloopers were the best part
Total lazy development, esp: after 6mths and released with bugs, just goes to show frontier are going down faster than the titanic.
Yeah lazy AF! Do you remember those antenas that the Krait has on top of the cocpit? Well you only can see them from the free camera perspective. Looking from cocpit view they were not there! They said in the patch notes that they have "FIXED" it.......... You know what they did???? THEY HAVE F#UCKING REMOVED THEM!!!!!!! This is BEYOND lazy! 😐😌
Haha I know I actually vented by anger at that in the forum thread, that it seemed like the only fix out of all the fixes they SAY? they did was that one thing. Always seems strange to me but does anyone else feel that each time to bug fixes come out that A, i've never heard of them and B, you never notice these in game any How???!! perhaps they are lying about the whole list of bug fixes as well, after all I never see any difference each time I play?
I feel really fucking bad for the devs, this man actually shits on every aspect of the game every video and i love it
i want a large ship ver of the krait .... like type 10 but better handling/internals ;)
When they showed those 3 designs I assumed they were finalising the Chieftain design, not that they were gonna give us 3 very slightly different versions of the same ship. At least the Federation ship's have their own roles, these Alliance ship's all do the same thing but in slightly different ways. I hope this copy and paste isn't the shape of things to come now with Frontier and fingers crossed this isn't a taster of what we'll get Q4.
Easily the most accurate ship review to date!
I want it, only because it looks like the galaxy from planetside 2.
Guys you better grind those imp/fed ranks while you can board-hop. They are remowing board-hops next patch.
The weirdest thing is the fact the ships are way slower than they look.
Remember, they still haven't fixed the heal beam effects!
You should try Frontier pilot sim
Agree
"After some weeks they changed both Type 10 and Type 9 to differentiate them and give each one of them a unique setup." FDev please.
The hard points on the Krait are the same way. They clip all over the place.
So, the only thing they've really changed are hardpoints and also hardpoints are the thing they fucked up. Truly amazing.
Yamiks - making shipporn since 2k18
14:50 do the guardian fighters not cast shadows? The guardians have much to teach us.
How are these ships 3 years old and im Just realizing they exist ...
Fighters don't do much damage but they're great at being a distraction.
Shields get a chance to recharge, you can power down/up, emergency jumps are easier.
And you have access to flying the incredibly fun and highly maneuverable fighters when you want.
It's all win for me, Crusader > Challenger or Chieftain.
@Yamiks How far would your stream of bile and vomit reach, if the next thing we see would be Gutamaya creating a similar triplet, via copy and paste, for the imps?
I think this thing looks a bit like the Qin-Jets.
Elite Dangerous is one of those games you take serious, but you still goof off while doing it😂
Reason to buy all 3 alliance ships is to name all of them "The Chieftain". That is it.
No Man’s Sky is actually starting to look the better proposition than ED now 😱
hahahha great review! loved the batman references
Had to be done....lol
At lest i can distinguish federal ships at a glance.... from the outside
But the real question is, can we buy a ship kit that puts another spoiler on the spoiler?
I cant believe they added 100 tons to the ship just to add the option for a fighter bay. This thing handles so badly.
I don't really begrudge the devs on this, from a lore perspective these ships were /rushed/. 3 whole new models in a matter of months would be an engineering nightmare, which is why I like that it uses keelback and diamondback parts (The central body and cockpit, respectively).
What is the heck is the black dragon/unicorn holding? Haha