The video evaluates the Aegis Tiburon as a solo player’s heavy gunship, finding its powerful Supremacy laser effective in certain close-range combat scenarios but limited by short range, maneuverability challenges, and difficulties against agile fighters and escorted capital ships. While the Tiburon shows promise for solo bounty hunting and bunker missions, it ultimately falls short of being a perfect solo ship compared to its fully crewed potential.
The video begins with the host introducing the Aegis Tiburon (TBR) as a ship designed primarily for solo players, highlighting its heavy gunship capabilities intended for one-person operation rather than full crew use. While fully crewed TBRs demonstrate devastating power in PvE combat missions, the focus here is on testing the ship’s solo potential, particularly its pilot-controlled weapons. The TBR features three main arsenals: a size 10 Supremacy laser, missiles (configurable in various sizes), and the ship itself. The video concentrates mainly on the Supremacy laser, comparing it to the Idris Exodus laser to understand its effectiveness for solo pilots.
A detailed comparison between the TBR’s Supremacy laser and the Idris Exodus laser reveals mixed results. While the Supremacy laser has a higher burst DPS (18,000 vs. 15,000), its sustained DPS over 60 seconds is significantly lower (9,000 vs. 14,500), making the Idris laser better suited for prolonged engagements. Additionally, the Idris laser has a much longer effective range, with a full damage range of 4 km compared to just 1 km for the Supremacy laser, which limits the TBR laser’s utility to close-range combat. Other factors such as power consumption, cooldown times, ammo penetration, and repair times are also analyzed, with the TBR laser showing some potential bugs or imbalances, such as unusually high health and lengthy repair times likely copied from larger ships.
The host then tests the TBR’s laser in various combat scenarios, starting with bunker missions where the laser proves effective against enemies and turrets, showcasing the ship’s capability as a solo bunker runner. However, when facing light fighters and more agile ships like the Anvil Hawk and Gladius, the laser’s short range and lack of gimbals make targeting difficult, forcing the pilot to rely on ship maneuvering and precision aiming. The challenges increase with more mobile targets, and the laser alone struggles to keep up, highlighting limitations in solo combat against smaller, faster enemies.
In engagements against larger ships such as the Constellation and Polaris, the TBR laser can inflict damage, particularly when targeting turrets and critical components like engines and the power plant. However, the pilot faces difficulties with maneuverability, overheating, and shield depletion, especially when the enemy ship has escorts or aggressive AI behavior. The host attempts multiple missions, sometimes resorting to missiles and ramming tactics to compensate for the laser’s shortcomings. While the TBR can eventually take down large targets solo, it requires skill and patience, and the experience is described as challenging rather than seamless.
In conclusion, the video finds that while the Aegis Tiburon has potential as a solo heavy gunship, it falls short of being the perfect solo player’s dream. The ship’s strengths lie in certain scenarios such as bounty hunting against single medium to large ships, but it struggles against swarms of light fighters and capital ships with escorts due to limited defensive capabilities and weapon range. The fully crewed TBR remains far more powerful and versatile. Thus, the host’s initial hope that the TBR could revolutionize solo play is tempered by practical testing results, though the ship still holds value for specific solo missions.