The Python MK2 - Worthy of the Name "Python"? [Elite Dangerous Ship Review] 

I'm hoping the Type-8 maxes out a medium pad to give the Python MK1 some competition in the medium trade area. That way we get the T6 as an entry medium trader, the T7 as an entry large trader, a T8 as the medium trade powerhouse and the T9 as the large trade powerhouse. Then they'll go and release the Panther Clipper LX that'll just dominate large pad trading 😁

@@gamingsnipsandbits We called it, Bits. I'm looking at around 300-350t on a medpad -- thoughts?

I reckon about 300T - if it's higher than the Type-7 and on a medium pad, it'll make the Type-7 absolutely pointless, as it'll be able to carry more cargo and land at outposts and smaller ground facilities. I'll give FDev something - they've managed to make the T8 look bloody good in the previews - even if it doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the Lakon Transporter range (although it DOES still have the massive glass bulleye at the front)

I find it funny how limited we have become in this game. It just has to be another ship and we are happy... I'd rather see new roles to be honest, new gameplay. Revamp smuggling, rework combat zones, introduce proper salvaging, then provide ships with those roles in mind. The type-8 would be a great salvaging ship. Improve the ship wrecks, to provide gameplay for salvaging, with different methods doing it from the ship and also allowing to leave it and go for a manual job with dedicated tools. Who need another transport?! We have plenty, it would be just a different shape and skin. But again, as long as we get something we are content, we have come this far, asking anything in this game "would bee too complicated for those poor guys to implement" so let be happy with wathever bone they throw at us.

@@ShinigamiAnger FFS. I'm for one tired of the constant bitching at Fdev for not doing this, or that. And thrilled, and am highly looking forward to the next offering and beyond. Imma wait until it available before I piss all over the effort. Worst player base in gaming with the constant crying.

i have 3 mk1s a miner a bounty hunter a transporter i do have a mk2 and its ... ok i suppose

Fdev themselves have said it was designed as a combat ship (and particularly to be used in PVP)

Agreed there are plenty of use cases for both ships - and the MK1 isn't made obsolete by the MK2 - but I do wonder if it would be better as a standalone, entirely new model of ship - a "Copperhead" as it were (assuming we'd still be running snake names) - that way the inevitable comparisons wouldn't need to be drawn in the first place 🙂

Having a lifeless elite dangerous npc next to me with strange facial expressions would greatly lessen immersion for me and for most I imagine. The apex shuttles arent exactly an immersive experience

@@tflp1950 - Um, they don't have to have strange facial expressions, bro. They are NPC models in the co-pilot seat with piloting animations and voice dialogue during combat and handling functions on the ship.

@@parawill7074 Have you seen odyssey npcs?

@@tflp1950 - The NPCs would be specifically for the ship. Ships with multiple seats should have NPC co-pilots for immersion if you hired crew for solo play.

Credits are easy, but for me at least, it's a simple way of benchmarking a ship's worth compared to its rivals - so for example, going off Coriolis, the Mamba is valued at 56mil, compared to the 51mil of the FDL - both are designed for combat, but is the Mamba worth the extra 5 mil? Not really given it's handling, and other shortcomings (despite the increased DPS) so IMO it's on the more expensive end of reasonable. If that makes any sense 😆

It used to be a bit of a pain to make money yeah (even having a billion credits was a lot in like 2015 or so) but currently it's almost trivial. For most players ship and module cost, and rebuy cost, are pretty irrelevant.

Thanks for that, I'll check it out. I did have a play with a frag cannon build - seemed to work pretty well, but I've never got on on with "regular" cannons - frags work for close up shotgun fun and multis work well for laying into a target repeatedly - but I've never found a good spot for standard cannons that can't be done better by something else.

mechan propaganda, please use your head

The original plan was to wait until August and see what it's like then - but since hitting 1000 subs, RU-vid tells me that I've done enough for the £9 for the Arx - so figured I'd put it back into the channel 🙂

The SCO integration really is the selling point of the ship. Everyone is so busy shitting on it because "muh prebuilts", so very few people talk about how much better its handling is in overdrive.

With the SCO boost, I'm slowly getting the hang of using it as a pirate interceptor - spotting a viable target in Supercruise, boosting to get a bit closer, then pulling it out for some looting and scrapping

@@gamingsnipsandbitsthe SCO is also the best anti pirate module to get you out of trouble.

They care now because FDEV f’ed up. The lack of care, we as a community for Elite Dangerous have witnessed, also happened in all of their games across the board. FDEV lost, I think, $750 mil in stock valuation slowly after the release of Odyssey but they messed all of their games up. Due to the massive failure they have decided to work on and support their core games in which Elite is one of those core games. They cannot continue to do what they were doing before or they will be out of business. So naturally we are now getting support for Elite.

After naming the MK1 after LeChuck, it felt fitting. Just need more ships to name them after the rest of the characters - like "Murray's Talking Skull" or "Elaine's Island Booty" 😁

Yes Fdev literally said that themselves my man. You shouldn't have expected a hauling ship

how is the asp scout so good at it? genuinely curious

Yeah i think the Sidewinder has something to say here ​@airodgdt3442

The Krait Phantom is the master of all material gathering

Personally I'd drop the auto-loader and replace with corrosive to help drag the hull down quicker if you're after a mix of multis and beams. Or swap it so the Class 4 is a Long Range Thermal Vent Beam and then fill the other slots with corrosive and incendiary overcharged MCs. I was originally going to mention the Sidewinder at the start, but felt that it gets more use than the AspS - not mocking it at all, just wanted to remind people it exists 😉

Krait Phantom is my exploration powerhouse at the moment - decent range, internals and yet doesn't handle like a drunken beached whale in Supercruise

Python mk2 isn't anything special. It can't take a beating. At all. You're dead within seconds once your shields go down, it's lack luster with heat generation. It's power modules are underwhelming by a long, long shot. It doesn't really have the power to be a shield tank. Weapon placement isn't ideal, if you can get to the fact that it's under powered and under gunned, and under shielded. The mk1 will completely outlast the mk2 in any kind of combat, thargoid included. I actually moved on to the conda for combat like I had originally intended. Kinda want my money back tbh.

Easier than waiting in line at Hutton Orbital for a free Anaconda.

@@Tamburello_1994 I'd rather wait there than wait 3 months to try it for free for couple hours till I get bored from grind again

Why do you grind if you don't want to? Just play the game and have fun! ​@@DmytroBogdan

@@DmytroBogdan Elite is not for the lazy.

@@Tamburello_1994 yeah, right, because people play games to feel they're still at their jobs

That’s exactly the situation I’m in with my Mamba. I’m waiting till August for the P MK II. We’ll see…

Nah it's not that bad - it's just not the multirole beast that the MK1 is - unless you mean the audio quality in the video, which is probably the weakest link in anything I've uploaded to here (it's slowly getting better - learning on the job and all that)