WipEout 2048 Ships

[Jonny]

I like them, because they are much smaller than every other craft in the series.

[Amaroq Dricaldari]

I like the fact that they are much smaller than the HD ships, and some of them do look pretty cool... But the weapon restrictions, weak stats, and forgettable thruster trails make me shoot for the HD and Fury ships a lot more.

If you were to take the HD and Fury ships, shrink them and then allow them to be used in 2048... The Triakis HD would dominate every fighter ship, the Icarus HD would dominate every speed ship, and the FEISAR HD would dominate every agility ship.

[Jonny]

Also their sound is very cool

[Amaroq Dricaldari]

Yeah, I guess.

I still want to use my Icarus HD and AG-Systems Fury in 2048 though ;-;

[Snakenator1]

You know the 2048 ships also have gears? You can hear it change (engine sound gets louder and drops) followed by the screen shaking.
It also seems the 2048 ships have an infinite number of gears as well. They just keep going

[Jonny]

Like in 2Fast 2Furios

[Amaroq Dricaldari]

You know the 2048 ships also have gears? You can hear it change (engine sound gets louder and drops) followed by the screen shaking.
It also seems the 2048 ships have an infinite number of gears as well. They just keep going

I think that is what those five bars represent, now that I think about it. And also note that it never stays at the very top, it sometimes goes back down if you turn too sharply. Or if you let go of the thruster or get hit or something.

[Snakenator1]

Actually those five bars is your speedometer believe it or not and the one underneath is thrust (but you probably knew that one)
Its weird and a impractical way of displaying your speed, but its the case. But who knows I may be wrong like I always am

[Xpand]

You know the 2048 ships also have gears? You can hear it change (engine sound gets louder and drops) followed by the screen shaking.
It also seems the 2048 ships have an infinite number of gears as well. They just keep going

It's actually something that makes no sense. They're obviously using jet engines or some other kind of rocket/jet propulsion engine. Gears are only used when you want to convert high rpm and low torque to high torque but low rpm (or vice versa, depending on the usage), like for moving a car or rotating a big propeller in turboprop aircraft. They are unwanted in jet engines and really do nothing at all because the thrust is proportional to the rpm of the jet engine so having gears is the last thing you want, they're just dead weight and can actually reduce engine performance.

[Jonny]

It's future stuff, maybe there is something in the future that would make sense