Krait Mk2 is absolutely OP.

[a sentient mcnugget]

Does it have any down sides?

[Khloros]

It gets melted by a conda, corvette, and or a FDR?

Krait Mk2 is the best thargoid hunter but not OP.

[d[-_-]b]

There's two downsides. Not sure of the exact angle but if you look at it in external camera mode you can see them.

[Mr Robert House]

It’s not OP, the FDL and corvette exist

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by R3D2:

There's two downsides. Not sure of the exact angle but if you look at it in external camera mode you can see them.

Two? I only saw one downside and one upside. And a few side-sides.

[H34VY_R41N]

Vette: here, hold my beer, son.

[ScottyPippin]

Originally posted by put dispenser here:

Does it have any down sides?

If you're an explorer the Phantom is a much better choice, combat, I'd rather pick an FDL or Conda

[Pctechnik]

K2 shields, in my experience are... lacking.

[Sighman]

My fed corvette combat ship has shields of 2000 and armour of 1329 (plus 2 x 7A SCB)

My Krait Mk II Anti-Xeno build has shields of 0 and armour of 3786.

It gets by.

[Agony_Aunt]

Its a damn good ship that can fill many roles. Not necessarily the best at any of those roles, but up there.

Its most certainly not OP.

[Sighman]

Also one of the best ships for Odyssey (3 team members, 3 srvs, 2 x SLF)

[<Caeris↝]

A good ship is always that one which you can handle the best.

If you can for example take out a Corvette with a Viper Mk III and with a Python not, then that´s your best ship.
Bigger is not always better.

[Crimson Echo]

If i had to nit pick:

Lack of utility slots. 2 more utility slots would make it more practical to carry scanners and a strong defense.

Pure Shield tanking is less practical than a corvette or conda.

The top 3 hardpoints are slightly too far apart to make module sniping with the outer 2 hardpoints practical when using fixed weapons.

The internal optional modules slots are not ideal. if the 2 size 3s were converted into a single size 4 plus another size 1 or 2 slot (or splitting the size 2 into 2 size 1s) it would be more flexible.

Heat is more of an issue than some ships. If the ship ran even a little bit cooler it would be better and more flexible.


That said the Krait MK II is a lot of fun, and very well balanced overall. It is what i tend to fly most of the time.

[ShelLuser]

I love my Krait Mk2 as well, was the first ship I got which could fit a fighter bay.

[Erei]

Originally posted by Khloros:

It gets melted by a conda, corvette, and or a FDR?

Krait Mk2 is the best thargoid hunter but not OP.

Anaconda has a weak spot on it's belly, and bad convergence. Can be exploited by a more nimble ship like the krait.
FDR is considered "better" for PVP, but in PvE krait is usually considered better. Manoeuvrability and speed matters less in PVE, since every enemy is running turrets, and you can outrun them in krait anyway.
Vette is a straight up upgrade in PvE, no arguments. But it's also much more expensive and need a large pad to dock. Making it more clunky to deploy around.


I use my krait for bounty hunting, since most of it is done in M pad station, and the vette would be a PITA to use there. I use my vette for CZ and CG stuff, since I have the pad, and the extra firepower/tank is always welcome.

[Princess Pilfer]

It's not OP, but it is very flexible. Compared to a specialist ship of the same size it's almost always worse at whatever you're doing, but also you can just refit the krait in like 10 minutes and do the kind of stuff you want with *considerably* less investment than getting a fully specced specialist ship for whatever you're doing.