Ahhh okay. I have that one as well.. lol. Very cool. Gonna build this in my current game. I have yet to build a sweet SV too... might have to go with the Grond as well! Thank you!

My Grond SV.

What is that ship that the tank is docked to in that one pic??

That would be a really small controller. The cargo boxes are there for two reasons:
-they are pretty
-can be used to stow excess loot that doesn't have much volume, like weapons or armor boosters. That is relevant if you run into the maximum item count for the main storage controller.

So nope, won't remove them on the workshop version. I mean, just multitool them away if they offend you. ;)

any chance for an update that gets rid of awful cargo boxes in favor of controllers?

@Ente yeah I havn't played vanilla since reforged eden combined haha, im going to test alot before I go out crazy on my survival save, goal is to find the most efficient way im comfortable with of using a HV to bring the shields down

(extra) im no good at building, but I can refit others builds in very efficient ways, im a tightass like that but its how I play, some builds are way too overkill.
This one iv been looking at for a while, its a good price, will most definitely be using this in survival.

Can't comment on Vanilla, I practically play RE exclusively. What I usually do in RE to drop shields is either do a hit (or better burn down the shield) and run with a SV or I try to sneak in with a HV and burn it down from cover. Smaller POIs also tend to be weak enough that you can just soak the damage on shield and out-damage them.

For the most part I prefer the HV nowadays, but that is more a subjective stance than a balancing thing. I feel SV VS HV is pretty balanced in RE right now.

@Ente I think i remember seeing somewhere in updates that they made it so SV and HV are comparable in damage, usually in vanilla the SV would easily beat a HV by double

@Ente yeah, you are right, its just hard to know without a wiki let alone a vanilla wiki. all testing, idk if I can find the files for reforged eden weapons, im just struggling to find a viable way to take down shields currently. c4 tunneling is a no go, it breaks the game, even so, they glitch and shoot through the floor XD

Yes RE does change the HV weapons, like nearly everything else. There aren't even Railguns for HVs in Vanilla.
Generally speaking you can't take any balancing discussions from vanilla directly to RE, as Vermillion did a great deal of rebalancing to fix the issues Vanilla has when it comes to balancing.

@Ente Unless they have changed the damage to shields since the post from last year (https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/383120/discussions/0/2572068116213820917/)
or reforged eden changes those stats, HV are no way comparable to SV and CV in terms of damage, but they may be cheaper for the damage ouput. Sure, you can hold more guns, idk man Ill do some testing sooner or later and let you know, realistically, HV should be more powerful, ment for ground POI. but from statistics and peoples experiences, they are not.

HVs have several advantages over SVs and CVs, on planets:
* More weapons and a lot more firepower (artillery and rocket launchers)
* move close to ground, which makes it easier to get cover
* don't need up and down thrusters, you can invest that cpu in more armor/shields/weapons (note the hover engines are reaally cheap on cpu)

Disadvantages:
* difficult to navigate some terrains, especially with many rocks around
* take longer to deploy, as you need to land them first

As far as damage goes, HVs are strongest damage dealers against POIs that we have. If yours don't do damage against POIs, have a look at the weapons. Use Railguns or artillery when shields are down, use Lasers to bring down shields.

HV advantages are that it can hold more without needing much power to move it right? From what Far as I know, they do barely enough damage to POIs so idk why people use them

This looks like the real deal. First I just need to get me some more cores, then I can't to try it out. Up until now I've tunneled under the really heavy bases, but I've read recently that many consider this to be cheating or an exploit. I know I can play any dam way I want, but it has got me thinking about a more legit solution. Could it be this? :) thanks for sharing.

@Efugee: replace thrusters, add vanilla generators, add vanilla shield, replace landing gear, remove wing connectors (fluff, but forbidden in vanilla). Will require an Advanced Core for CPU.
No idea whether the existing thruster housings will be enough if filled with vanilla thrusters, so may need to add additional thrusters as well.

Reforged Eden and Vanilla are very different when it comes to HVs.

What needs to be done to make it vanilla ready?

This tank is terrifyingly powerful. I love it!

I guess it would help if I read the descriptions first

The description already states you need to add 8 aux cores or some equivalent CPU upgrade. As there are different upgrades available I usually leave those out on all of my bps. If I did add them it would be annoying if you had 10 small quantums laying around and had to modify the bp or farm aux cores just to bring it in. Just add the cores manually after spawning the bp and all are happy.

The thrusters are "blocked" by some quarter-block ramps and shutters, if you are on a server with the thruster free setting you have to remove those or find a different tank I am afraid.

The server setting sadly is somewhat stupid, in that it only checks whether any block at all is in front of a thruster. It should really consider that a thruster is actually round and not square. Most servers I know ignore the setting for that reason.

Nice looking Tank. Unfortunately in its current state the CPU is way over and it has blocked thrusters preventing it from use on one of the most populated servers like the one I play SDG Reforged Eden. If it requires aux, quantum cores might be a good idea to put that into the BP recipe.

It's a massive monster, tested it in Fight against Zirax Bases. And also the Design is very neat.
The anti-infantry turrets that are hidden in the sides also do their job really well

Nah its fine with CPU. It is a Reforged Eden HV and just needs a couple auxillary cores.

I usually don't include those in the bp as you could also use small quantum extenders instead and I don't want to force anyone to farm aux cores if he has quantums laying around.

I am actually a fan of the CPU system of Reforged Eden. It enables a progression after the initial CPU extenders. Without this system there would be no reason to ever use smaller creations.

Beautiful hv, my favorite out of 4 beasts hv's that I subbed to, unfortunately too beast for the game and shame on devs for killing it, all your hard work you put into this and they just killed it with this cpu crap !!!!

Thanks guys, glad you like it!

gg on this beast ente!

Saw this on JR's workshop review today. It looks awesome! Not only does it look tough and like it could easily take down any poi, but the design is very attractive and inventive. Nice job all around

Looks mean!