New Tigron Ship Revealed for WipEout Omega Collection

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced some new additions coming in the upcoming WipEout Omega Collection.

A new “Tigron K-VSR” ship was revealed alongside the confirmation that classic WipEout team Tigron is returning. Featured above, you can view a new trailer showcasing the new Tigron ship.

Here’s a brief rundown on the ship, via the PlayStation Blog:


The design philosophy of the Tigron K-VSR is ‘sheer brute force’. It eschews advanced tech and handling in favour of high speed and pure aggression.

The shape and layout of the craft consists of a central chassis and cockpit with two longer outer arms that have two design functions. They allow for aggressive ramming and shunting while keeping the central chassis and pilot safe from collisions. This design feature makes the ship very heavy, hindering its acceleration and handling but does work in its favour when it reaches higher speeds, turning it into a juggernaut.

Due to the size and weight of the craft, it needs a very large engine to push the ship to the desired speed. Having a pulse ram jet of this size proved to be highly unstable, so the design team got around this by using one large turbo pump that that feeds the thrust into four smaller chambers, allowing for a safer distribution of force and also giving it its distinctive ‘cluster thruster’ design.

WipEout Omega Collection is launching for PlayStation 4 on June 6th in North America and June 7th in Europe.

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