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Slamscape's avatar

I know I can't enter twice, but I've done 2 Cobra build videos so far I thought people might enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Clg8BuGvDNw?feature=oembedhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/eWHyb8Du3mE?feature=oembed

Eralm_237's avatar

The Cobra mk 5 is a very versatile little ship - puns intended. For a starting price of about 2,000,000Cr, it is easily configured for just about anything a player wants to do in the game.

While there are many builds around bounty hunting and a good ship for that, or a purpose built ship for Settlements, or even one design for exploration.... the one thought of how to design it for anything comes down to a few tasks, and key modules needed for those tasks. Below is the general list I use, pending on the task, and with the engineering modification in parenthesis.

Core Internals:

  • A-Rate the Frame Shift Drive (SCO is better than regular, and the Tech broker SCO is best)

  • A-Rate the Thrusters (Dirty +Drag Drives), Power Plant (if newer ship: Overcharged +Monstered, else: Armored +Monstered), Power Distributor (Charge Enhanced + Super Conduits)

  • D-Rate the Life Support and Sensors (Long Range)

  • Leave the Lightweight Armor (Heavy Duty +Deep Plating)

For hauling/commodities:

  • cargo racks

  • fuel scoops

  • shield generator (with Shield Boosters)

  • FSD fully engineered with Increased Range + Mass Manager

For combat vs NPCs or low-ranking Players:

  • Shields (larger = better), add Shield Boosters

  • Multicannons with Long Range + Corrosive (on one) with Rails (Long Range + Super Penetrator) or Plasma Accelerators (Efficient +Thermal Conduit), with Beam/Pulse/Burst (Long Range +Overcharged/Thermal Conduit) lasers mixed in.

For Thargoids:

  • No shields

  • Heat sinks

  • Beam laser (Long Range + Thermal Vent)

  • Anti-Thargoid weaponry: AX Multi-Cannons, AX Missile Racks, Guardian Gauss, Guardian Plasma Chargers (Modified), Guardian Shards (Modified)

For Exploration:

  • Auto Field Maintenance unit: 1 for all exploration trips, 2 for long-range or long duration

  • Detailed Surface Scanner

  • Repair Limpet Controller with a minimum size 2 Cargo Rack

  • Guardian Frame Shift Drive Booster (not required, but greatly encouraged)

  • Fuel Scoop

For Settlement Raiding:

  • Shields with Shield Boosters

  • Surface Reconnaissance Vehicle Bay with vehicle

  • Heat Sinks

  • Fuel Scoop (In case the player goes to jail and needs to get back)

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/FlN8DW2ZAc8?feature=oembed

As an AX pilot, what else could I show off other than an AX build!
Video presents the build and a small clip of me killing a Medusa

This is my personal favourite ship for the job, although it struggles a lot against Hydras.

https://s.orbis.zone/qIea

this build in Coriolis is actually slightly different in that it uses lightweight alloy instead, and no GMRPs but it gets the gist

CMDR John Wick's avatar

This build is to do the fallen titans and collect the Titan Drive Component, so the goal of the ship is to be fast.

https://twitter.com/CMDR_JohnWick/status/1907106153915420748

666 m/s boosters are good for that. Its only threat is a targoid spawn that occurs after a while on the fallen Titans. Your goal is to find it before the thargoid spawns, it's a hard task because the drop is low. That's why you need to run as fast as possible. I've been using this build to complete all the FSD V1 SCO modules.

Its shield, booster, and repair are purely optional. I put them just to have something. Its 60 ly jump is enough, although I don't need to jump to do it because I'm using the fallen titan from SOL.

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3gHuhE9MgC0?feature=oembed

Build:

https://edsy.org/s/vhI0xub

Alex Sinclair's avatar

Thanks CMDR John Wick. I noticed that a couple of your recent videos are 'unlisted' on YouTube. Would you mind switching to listed? It's not currently essential for Just rewards, but it's strongly preferred and encouraged.

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What can you do with the Cobra MK V?

What can it do better than other ships?

When thinking about its advantages - small, maneuverable and fast with very good internal equipment and a very good jump range - I had the idea of turning it into a fast attack ship for settlement raids.

Of course also for farming brain trees and all other ground missions.

Small Scavenger - Coriolis Link

The aim was to accommodate the required equipment and to get as much speed, jump range and power as possible to get prismatic shields.

What can I say, the ship positively surprised me!

It's not the best build and it certainly doesn't get everything out of this ship, but it should be solid for looting settlements, small battles over it or for farming.

Have fun

USCSS's avatar

Hello Commanders.

I bring you a build for the Cobra MkV to turn it into an infiltration ship which is used to hack holoscreens in space stations, a task that Power Play 2.0 asks for.

The advantage of this ship is that it is small and very fast which is useful for stealth and also for escaping, if we are detected.

At the end of the video I show a GamePlay of how I hack holoscreens.

(Translated with Google Translate)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z_tF02CEPcs?feature=oembed

LiquidMorkite's avatar

Cobra MkV exobiology

Everytime there's a new multi-purpose ship, I find myself firing up Edsy to make an exploration build. Experimenting to get the max jump range has been quite a passion to me. The Cobra Mk 5 is small, handles pretty well, good heat management, small footprint, and, like all the new-gen ships, has very decent SCO optimization. This makes it a candiate for exploration, and more specifically, exobiology, it is an upgraded Dolphin/Imperial Courier with extra jump range and SCO optimized.

Edsy link is attached above, feel free to slap on an 2G SRV hangar if you don't feel like flying around with your ship's tip above the ground.

RicardosGaming's avatar

The CObra MkV is a great Mutlirole all rounder - whether you outfit it as a hauler, jumper, explorer or combat ship it really has something for you - but outfitted for Jump range - how far can it jump??

https://www.youtube.com/embed/TaKg2r0msc0?feature=oembed

#elitedangerous RicardosGaming @JustAbout__

ENDERS's avatar

You are an inspiration sir. Love it. Keep killin it!

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