u/MrTwisterPister

ye it's a testing ground fight, but should be good enough to display the survivability of it. This makes the aircraft more forgiving to new players imo, even tho the og lightning is great without the addon armor, simple mistakes can make things quickly go sour.

So here I am at 6am unable to get any sleep, until an stupid idea entered my head on how to make the lightning more stupid. BEHOLD the lightning with cope cage armor. During my tests it holds up against quite well against IR missiles and can take quite a beating at the cost lightning's well know mobility. Tough it is still quite maneuverable, the added weight is felt with a bit more of an sluggish feel. I have no idea if perhaps the aluminum hull parts would be better, I have yet to try that.