X4 - 6.00 - BETA Guppy Light Carrier! | Kingdom End | First of its kind!

X4 - 6.00 - BETA Guppy Light Carrier! | Kingdom's End | First of its kind!
This video was recorded during the private 6.00 beta, pre release. Some parts may change before release!
In this video, we check out the Guppy Light Carrier, new to Kingdom's End!
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[@rubyismycatman7335]

Beautiful ship design bravo Egosoft

[@johnmartin8733]

Carriers are my favorite ships irl, and the Boron seem very carrier focused. Get enough of the right kind of fighters, and those carriers will never need to shoot their guns.

[@jackmion]

I would use it as a plunderer-hunting carrier.

[@Carrier-06]

How many drones can it hold? I like to use drone carriers before can afford fighter wings.

[@TheRuggedGamer]

Thats actually one bit I missed, Im sorry about that!

[@ingrimmschboindil1302]

This one is just awesome and it fits the boron fleet way better than the ray destroyer. I would choose this one over the ray all day

[@TheRuggedGamer]

I love this ship

[@fatalvenomX]

The Ray fits well with boron tactics though. It’s not a main stay L class like the rattlesnake but serves its purpose as part of a larger fleet. Its main gun cripples the movement of anything it hits and it’s also the only ship of the boron’s that can mount L turrets which also offer powerful movement restricting effects outside of just damage. It’s basically there to turn any larger ship into easy prey for the fleet.

[@ingrimmschboindil1302]

@@fatalvenomX That doesnt make any sence, there is no need to slow down enemy L/XL ships for a boron fleet. There damage comes from M/S ships. And on top of that all L/XL Boron ships are tanky and fast, no point covering them. The Ray main gun is pretty cool but it lacks dps and the AI will have a hard time to use it. Right now the only use for the Ray is to kill stations and its pretty bad at that. For everything else the Gubby is simply the better choice. I imagine a big XL battleship for the Borons so you can kill stations then your point is fitting but for now i dont see a spot for the Ray.

[@fatalvenomX]

@@ingrimmschboindil1302 I do agree they could tweak it more but I don’t think that there’s no point in building one. With high preset the Ray is the same price as a guppy and 65% of a rattlesnake. The ray’s value is self contained where as you need to add on the cost of fighters for a guppy which makes the guppy about 12 mil more with high presets in mind. While the big selling point of the ray’s large turrets and main gun is it can slow L/XL ships when the rest of the fleet can’t it can also assist with smaller targets. It’s main gun is a 10km range laser with not the long of a cool down. It also has two disabling area of affect weapons options for its large slots. Each having a long range with the higher dps and turn rate emp flak at 5.8km and the extremely wide area and projectile speed Ion net at 10km. It can leave a pack of ships dead in the water before it even reaches the fleet. It’s no main player but it’s helpful for supporting a fleet in any scenario. Especially if you pair it with a shark which at twice the cost for 5x the fighter compliment is a better dedicated carrier than the guppy but having the same number of guns spread out across its massive frame can’t defend itself as well.

[@ingrimmschboindil1302]

@@fatalvenomX Well all in all you are not wrong. I mean for a fleet you dont need destroyers anyway, fighters are just too strong. And well i guess borons wont have to deal with stations that much anyway. I tried to kill a xenon station with a ray and well yeah no way 🤣 But overall i prefer VRO balance anyway and i think borons will get a nice battleship there

[@wolftooth6678]

Compared the Guppy (strong and numerous shields) to a Split Destroyer(weakest and fewest shields in game. I would have rather seen it compared to a Zeus E and Terran Destroyer.

[@TheRuggedGamer]

It was a bare comparison to see how it holds against a ship in that category, compare it to something else and youll get different results, it would take much longer to compare against the numerous vessels under destroyer, it was more an idea. But.. that being said, in the future I may compare ship to ship for fleet building

[@wolftooth6678]

Can you tell us how much the Guppy costs in game? For a ship light this the thing I'm most curious about is how it costs. If it costs too much you may as well buy a Carrier. Too cheap and it makes certain ships (Zeus E) completely worthless.

[@TheRuggedGamer]

Problem with cost is that its directly in relation to your economy. Higher hull parts, higher cost, higher boron specific parts would bump the price up again, etc. Its a good idea to think of mind you, if your looking to build per cost value

[@tovoklore6356]

@@TheRuggedGamer I think you misunderstood what they where asking. They wanted to know what the average price of the Guppy is at a Boron owned shipyard.

[@TheRuggedGamer]

@@tovoklore6356 and the same answer applies, economy effects all prices in the game

[@tovoklore6356]

@@TheRuggedGamer That's why I specified average. I.E. the Rattlesnake tends to be around 10-15M Cr for just the hull. Anyway we'll find out Wednesday.

[@fatalvenomX]

This is likely pointless as you probably already have your answer but a fully kitted out guppy is about half the price of a fully kitted out shark not taking into account the cost for all the fighters. At 5 times the fighter capacity and the ability to carry medium ships the shark seems like the obvious choice there are advantages to the guppy over the shark. The guppy is built more like and assault carrier. It has the same number of guns as the shark for half the price and they’re more tightly packed compared to the shark that has them spread all over its massive frame for defense. This results in the guppy have higher individual firepower than the shark. On top of that the guppy is not only faster & more maneuverable than the shark but it has about a 14% container storage to fighter ration at 500 per fighter compared to the shark’s 437.5. It’s not much but it helps it maintain its compliment of fighter slightly better, especially with its higher speed and higher number of docks to fighters allowing it more quickly pull back to rearm before returning to the fight. TLDR It overall depends on what your looking for with the shark being a pure carrier with a large compliment and extreme durability but pathetic firepower only good enough for self defense against fighters making it well suited to large scale battles. While the guppy offers a middling amount compliment even when accounting for price difference but offers the same individual fire power with higher density at half the price allowing it to directly be a part of the fight on top of its higher speed & maneuverability making it well suited to handling various skirmishes happening all over the place.

[@liammorris1018]

Funny how it holds 8 ships but my behemoth can hold 40. Egosoft really need to balance the game. :D

[@TheRuggedGamer]

You have to remember, boron are predominantly defensive in nature

[@Nephale]

they have to rebalance vanilla ships eventually.

[@liammorris1018]

@@TheRuggedGamer it’s not just boron, ships in general need balanced.

[@TheRuggedGamer]

@Liam Morris they often dont change previous stuff so that peoples saves (where some people have thousands of hours saved) arnt effected in a massive way.

[@liammorris1018]

@@TheRuggedGamer That's their excuse and why not much has changed since launch, other than copy/pasting factions. Thank god for modders.