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Behind the Ships: RSI Apollo (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 days ago by QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world to c/starcitizen@lemmy.world
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A ~6 min video of CIG discussing the new RSI Apollo.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Now elongate the lower section and scale it up by 24x and we have the intrepid class from star Trek.

I love the Apollos shape!!

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm gonna be honest, nothing they've shown justifies how much the ship grew since concept. There's a ton of empty space that could be utilised or removed without losing anything. It just makes it look even more empty than it is.

Looks like I'll be sticking with Cutty Red and smaller ships in the future. Looks pretty at least.

Edit: Oh, another thing! It's a medical ship not a combat one. It's suppose to pick up patients (possibly from dangerous situations) and that's it - so what does CIG do? Do they improve its shields or armour? Nope, bigger guns. Cool.

[–] Master@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think they increases a bunch of walk areas for gurney movement in the future.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That would make sense if gurneys had any actual use. The only thing were that might be the case are NPC patients because players are pretty much always in a state where they can walk there on their own (or can be popped up with a med gun). I don't really see CIG forcing players into situations where they'd have to lay passively even longer then they already do waiting on medics just so we can have our fun - people already scream enough about other recently announced changes.

Besides, this increase in size also includes places where gurneys don't make any sense, like the pilot section or bathrooms. Maybe they overcompensated for NPC navigation, I don't know. I wish they talked a bit more about their design decisions.

[–] Master@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea, but I think the problem is they wanted to maintain the profile. So if they increase the back they have to find ways to increase the front too. Could have been used better for sure. They always have weird design decisions for their ships though.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That could be a reason, for sure. I saw like two pictures from people clipping inside which showed A LOT of waste space that could potentially allow them to make it smaller but they weren't taken in a way that would make me 100% convinced that's the case so I'm not going to argue about it (not like there's a point anyway).

I hope people who bought and waited for it are happy with what they got, that's more important than some random yelling at clouds.