Talk:Retrieve/@comment-24802462-20160229033750/@comment-142.161.236.124-20160414141616

Well that's easy. The kubrow could still be useful right now because it has a potentially infinite number of lives; allowing you to revive it indefinitely if it dies. As well, due to link health and link armor you can get some pretty good stats on your kubrow dependent on your frame. I'm also under the impression that kubrows can tend to do more damage overall than carriers. They also usually have some ability to either do more damage or disable opponents in some form on top of being able to use mods that allow them to dig up items or open locked lockers.

So currently there are still a number of reasons why using a kubrow could be a good idea over a carrier, especially in higher level missions where the carrier will get 1 hit killed by some eximus bombard that appeared out of nowhere. Whereas if the kubrow became at picking up items than the carrier there would be no reason to use the carrier since the kubrow has so many more thing to it.