I love the PDS, on normal with missions it simply clears a spawn at commander looks amazing when you fly through with 3 explosions going of behind/beside you in short order

Fighters well yeah they are in even bigger trouble, which begs to wonder will it work on the fighter? if it does this be the tool to use in the vault

Already tried escorts only, I think also dread aughts but not at home to verify, used in conjunction with either rapid fire or scatter volley, and Borg bop's in the cure on Trible are gone in about 3 seconds 2 at a time.
Mind you my defiant-r on trible has 3 heavy anti Borg cannons (phaser) mk xi, and 3 360 antiborg turrets(2 mk x, 1 mk xi) all weapons purple.

somebody have a Day when this Ship came to Testshard???

Supposedly the Sao Paulo and other Defiant related stuff (interior for sure, maybe the shuttle they rumored months ago) is being held for FE4 in February, so late January is probably a fair guess for testing.

Defiant shuttle?

Type 10 (chaffee) Shuttle

I really have to see this with my own eyes. They do not seem totally willing to give users more options on higher tiers with ... for instance the new lower tier raptor. The skin isnt even available on the Tier 5 raptor, and then I ask myself. Why?

Same goes for the BoP's and stuff. I know they are the same ship types, they might be different 'classes' but a BoP is a BoP imo. Unless they deviate too much from a BoP model why not letting them be used on Tier 5 ships.

Stupid Cryptic.

I agree with this exactly, I discovered this on tribble with the bop and assumed it would be the same for the raptor, so I did not buy it on holodeck.

Except you're wrong. The T4 Venture skin is usable on the T5 Exploration Cruiser Retrofit. The T4 Belerophon skin is usable on the T5 Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit. The T4 Vor'kang skin is usable on the T5 Vor'cha Refit.

The T4 Raptor skin isn't usable on any T5 Raptors because there's no Pach Raptor Refit/Retrofit. The T5 Raptor is a *completely different class*. I don't understand why anyone would think it would be usable on a T5 raptor since there isn't an upgraded T5 Pach currently.