Tyrant - Tier 2 Transport

"The front half of an Orca submarine crudely welded to a Typhon in an attempt to create a long range transport vessel for a fraction of the cost. The shipyard responsible for the creation of design shared their blueprints to allow anyone to manufacture it. This resulted in a variety of slightly different, yet all resilient hunks of metal known as the Tyrant series."

QUICK LORE ///

Argos Shipyards proudly bring you the Tyrant class submarines. An affordable solution for anyone looking to safely transport civilians, prisoners and VIPs on long and treacherous routes. Built by welding a Typhon to an Orca 2, this simple design was licensed to other shipyards in an attempt to dethrone the competition through sheer numbers.

This T2 transport submarine is a hefty lump of steel, at a staggering 69 meters (nice). Heavy armor, 6 ballasts and a powerful drainage system make this submarine a force to be reckoned with, at the cost of extreme maintenance in the case of a critical failure. Requires an experienced and cool-headed crew.

FEATURES ///

• 1 Large hardpoint
• 3 Small hardpoints (1 empty when bought)
• 2 Large engines
• 3 Searchlights
• 2 Depth charge launchers
• Top & Bottom automatic discharge coil systems
• Top & Bottom docks/airlocks
• Fabricator, Deconstructor, Medfab
• Moderate cargo load (36 crates)
• A very large amount of item storage
• 6 Ballasts (yes, I know)
• A large brig (with twice the O2 supply)
• NOW! with pipes and valves!

NOTES ///

This submarine is a fixer-upper submarine. It will underperform if bought with minimal upgrades but will overperform with power and mobility upgrades maxed out. The power grid remains largely unchanged from the typhon 1, but with a lot more load added onto it. This can be a double-edged sword as power may be short when just buying the submarine. Discharge-coils are automatic and cover the top bow and whole bottom of the ship by zapping anything in range repeatedly till the target dies or gets out of range. Divers WILL be affected, this can be a death sentence if not disabled (especially since the bottom airlock sits right next to a coil). The rear of the sub is lightly armored and is essentially a huge blindspot, it is ill-advised to try to steer past enemies - you will never outrun them. Abyssals are not fun to deal with, avoid them unless prepared - you will be breached heavily.

HOW TO FARM MONEY WITH THIS ///

The small cargo load might seem like a let-down at first glance, but the ability to transport civilians and prisoners safely more than makes up for it. With large dedicated rooms than can be welded shut without bothering the crew, I advise to attempt all transport missions (but Cultist transport, I tried, it's not great, sub too big lmao).

Tyrant is also fantastic at dealing with swarms, killing any crawler, raptor, etc. in mere seconds thanks to automatic discharge coils. Your ideal mission run looks like "1 Cargo mission, 1 Escort mission, 1 Swarm hunt".

I also advise playing with the following mods: Real sonar (simply a matter of taste, but it will teach the captain to stop hitting icebergs), Barotraumatic (or any mod that makes encounters more dangerous/complex/risky), Baroverhaul (essentially for submarine upgrades, especially sonar range).

FINAL WORD ///

This submarine has been thouroughly tested in campaign BUT if you encounter any bug I'd be glad to fix it ASAP. I also just added the pipes before release, they've been working well in testing but I'm not 100% sure, let me know if something breaks too much for example, thank you!