AFM cannot repair canopies.

I just can't bring myself to log in and out for benefits, so doing completely breaks my suspension of disbelief.

Excellent! I only use my T10 for mining, even though I got the ship kit! I am going to try out your guide when I get time to grab the mats needed. o7

Hey, do you mind if I share this on the ED forums in a SCO science thread? its a great overview. There appears to be ship constants that affect SCO use, with the Type-Xs and P2 being some examples. P2 seems to benefit from a lower ship constant (0.60) than others.

07, great explanation cmdr!

"Zero grind AX build" *Costs 80m credits*

any plans of doing more plane reviews for nuclear option? :D

I do love my packhounds but barely ever use them... you have inspired me to try them again!

Virgin status confirmation @4:52

I can’t be the only one who doesn’t know where to find Sirius Corp megaships

I tried running these on the Python Mk 2 with 2 Large Thermal Vent Beam Lasers, 2 Medium and 2 Large Shock Cannons; It's fairly successful, I can't stay in combat forever with it but it can kill 5-10 elite ships at a compromised nav beacon before needing to rearm, which considering the resistances on some of those large ships is not terrible. Being able to hug the belly of your target on the large ships makes these quite effective for deleting hull, point blank and in quick sets of rapid fire, it'll go through a Type 10 or an Anaconda in no time. They really are satisfying to use, and I do wish there was some limited engineering that could be done to them to make them last a little longer, even if all you can do is add ammo reserves with the engineering that would be great.

Weren't this 7 heatsinks before instead of 5?

New player here, do I want to place SCO in basically everything? I have just got my asp explorer upgraded to the Sirius pre engineered FSD but I’m wondering if it’s best to just engineer my own SCO

I like to climb to max altitude, giving the bombs more "range" when dropped

If you select targets as the pilot, your gunner will prioritize those first if they are in range.

7:31 ouch so theres multipleways for griefers to buggers up these events.

huh, all the ax guides say you cant do ax unless you are engineered. But clearly you can.

3 years later i ask: Would you still suggest normal FSD for explorer builds? Or is the SCO just better?

what is the laser bean for ? take his shield or keep heat low ?

I hate the damn thing am happy with the old FSD

:p

A note about the double engineered drives, for the current set of stats for the drives the class 6 and 7 SCO drives will fall behind a double engineered normal drive at max jump range. There was no size 7 CG drive released so that figure ends up not mattering though. *All* of the drives (except size 2), however, are worse at *fuel economy* than the double engineered drives, at varying amounts depending on the size. What I mean by that is for jumps costing the *same* amount of fuel, the double engineered drive can go further. It’s only jumps at the absolute max range that start to win out over the double engineered drive, at the cost of a bit more fuel. Of course, in exchange you get the SCO feature, so that’s not saying the double engineered drives are all secretly better still. But it’s not entirely true that for all use cases the SCO drives completely out do the double engineered ones.

Thargoids gangster till the no shield full shard cannon Corvette shows up.

Excellent information! Thank You!

I noticed on your way to a HGE at the 7:30 mark, that you use the Supercruise Assist module, but do not use the 'trick' of rolling throttle past the 5 second eta (while in manual throttle control) and back to 50% throttle before overshoot... effectively snagging your fsd in a poi lock. Im sure you know this.. but just forgot or chose not to use it for demonstration purposes. Congratulations on yet another excellent reveal of the gameplay mechanics of Elite Dangerous!

I would say the SCO is one of the biggest game changers ever by Frontier

Great vid. A few notes about the fuel draw and jump range, The SCO Overcharge fuel usage is dependent on the stock fuel tank size of the ship not the size of SCO module, so ships with undersized tanks like the Clipper tend to do well while the Beluga is uniquely bad for overcharging because of its 128T tank, it can get up to almost 15kT/h. While the 5A SCO beats the V1 FSD by +0.28ly, the class 3, 4 and 6 CG FSDs still win by roughly +0.27ly over the SCO variants. o7

i would get an SCO Drive. buuuuut Ps5 Player here. so u know wee dont get the new fun stuffs o7 :c

So, I know this has been up for a while, but I'll pass off my favorite use for the Flechette Launcher: They are great to clear out pirates and scavengers when you are doing base power-up / restart missions. Pair this with a missile rack and you can clear most bases in a minute. Makes doing the base restart missions a lot easier. Where the on-foot soldiers can hide from exploding missiles, flechettes are a better 'area of effect' weapon. It clears out the little areas where the NPCs like to hide.

My question is how are you following the missiles

I want to hook up my genetic sampler to the ship or SRV sensors so that I don't have to randomly fly a hundred kilometers until I find the next sample of Osseus or whatever 😂

"With the deployment of a new more agressive funding model..." Yeah hopefully they spend it on the game that earnt the money and not another one of the failed speculatory projects!

Great video, as always. Keep it up and thank you Cmdr!

100% Would like to know when my cold mining ship is detectable...

Great Video! I personally would like to see ALL the information on a contact while selected in the contact panel without having to target the contact in order to get the additional information.

The one question I need to ask is...what is the minimum arming distance? I remember being told once that under 400 m, the missiles will impact but not actually detonate. Torpedos I was told, had...something like a 900 m arming distance. I think. I cannot find sources for this information but I remember seeing this discussed by many

I am less than impressed when I select, Most Hostile Target and it selects a Hatch Breaker Limpet instead of the ship that is laying fire into me.

Another improvement could be to make the detailed surface scanner display a real heat map showing the true hotspots of raw materials. Or another - display station facilities (repairs, outfitting, trading, ...) landing pad size on the left navigation panel so that you don't have to open the system map.

There are tons of possible QoL improvements like these that could dramatically reduce the tediousness of the gameplay. But none of them will ever happen because the product manager will never be able to justify spending time on them to the top management or share holders, because there is no direct money income from it.

Can you synth ammo for it? That might be the only single advantage of it (premium ammo). They should just make all of the experimental line of weapons able to be synthed for human and thargoid ammunition, like the multis and missiles.

Strongly Agreed!

Completely agree. The ability to recycle any tech for some of the mats back would be great. More than 200 units of storage at stations would be nice too. I still miss that in Elite 2 and Elite 3 (Frontier First Encounters) you could buy a Used Spaceship for reduced cost (but work needed on them).

I find myself buying spare type 10's and loading them up with all the modules and weapons I've engineered and never us red d.

is anaconda better in every way than python

i would also consider for hardpoints 1 medium turreted beam laser 3 small missiles and large shard cannons

amf cant even repair canopy

Coriolis shows APA has a higher rate of fire compared to PA. This is advantageous in multiple ship PVP engagements lol……if you are not in an FDL.

Nothing quite like playing this in VR :)

Hang on... Turrets don't act like Fixed without a crew... you set the mode in the right hand display, then you select a target, pull trigger and the Turrets aim and fire themselves whilst the lock is on. Means you can shoot things behind you! They are the weakest option though. Fixed has higher damage, then gymbals then turret. For total madness you can choose Fire At Will.

So I’ve been taking a break from the game and thought the SCO drives were just C rated. You’re telling me they now have higher jump ranges, all classes, and all sizes? I don’t think I’m coming back to the game. Frontier is literally just trying to rope people into spending countess hours into grinding and re-engineering all their drives. That’s just disgusting. It could have been interesting if they made trade offs with the SCO drive, but there practically none. The game needs an expansion of gameplay mechanics and the removal of some gameplay blocks (I.e. I can’t enter the gunner station on my own ship in single or multi crew). This is the exact opposite.