Yeah, my in-game pricing did not age well for my older videos! In the older builds before they added the ability to move components and vehicle weapons with a tractor beam, you couldn't reload out in the field. You could only reload at a hangar or Platinum Bay location. With the current game build you can throw a bunch of spare missiles in a 4scu crate, haul that in a second vehicle like the new Argo truck (I can't remember the name atm) and reload manually from that. I'm really liking the functionality of these additional vehicles, and how they add to the value of previous vehicles.

@@eyesofheimdall6510 How would you extract the missles from the SCU Container? I filled some S1 missles in a box, I can access the box, but can get them out. Game states, that you can only drop items to the ground if you can carry them :/

@@eyesofheimdall6510 Also how to fire the damn missles of the MT in the first place. Missle mode wont work with or without target lock. Any ideas?

ah, I'll be honest here, I've not been able to play-test some of this. So you are more than likely correct. And to answer your other comment below, I haven't used the Cyclone for combat since 3.19ish so I don't want to speak out of turn with the changes from MM. (I know its a cop out, but I do strive for honesty!) In the pre-MM days, you used the missiles from the passenger seat for the AA version, and from the Turret for the MT.

The Titan is still my all around favorite, tho the C1 Spirit is close behind. It's just got the perfect balance for me. Functionality, looks, and a short claim time. The Corsair is cool, I've been flying it a bit more than usual lately, and I really like the elevator, I know its an odd thing, but I like the short time to the cockpit.

I'm more than willing to admit that it might just be that I'm old and stubborn, and like most people that are old and stubborn, new technology confounds me!

That is a valid complaint. It hasn't been a problem for me yet, but I'm sure at some point it will come up in game. To be honest, for some reason, the C1 just doesn't seem to be targeted by piracy as often as my other cargo moving ships. It might just be luck of the draw, but I haven't been attacked by pirates once in it.

@@eyesofheimdall6510 don’t do drug running lol 😂 they will come after that

I normally do that in a Cutty Black for the speed of loading through all three doors! But, duly noted!

Thanks!

I hadn't messed with that, but that is really good to know!

Your right for sure. After reading this, I went back and watched it on a different screen than I recorded on, and it was very noticeable. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

That is a pretty handy idea, for sure! Hadn't occurred to me to try that. Thanks for sharing!

I wholeheartedly agree with the tractor swap. I haven't ran bounties in it, I use an Andromeda for that, but I could see the issue with durability, especially if ganged up on.

Valid points. I never really noticed it myself, but now that you mention it, I'll have to re-examine it to see how I feel. I do think the empty hallway will have more going for it once engineering is live.

@@eyesofheimdall6510 its honestly just a personal thing for me. I tend to like to live in my ships so if you just treat it like a work truck the interior isnt that big of an issue. I think the hallway isnt a real issue tho as it serves its purpose of being the module room.

My alt account has an Avenger Titan that I do everything out of, so I get the living out of the ship part of it. I'm also fairly oblivious to visual art/purely aesthetic design. Either way, good stuff, and I appreciate the commentary!

It's not a combat dedicated ship, so I don't really see how its still adequate combat stats would result in a 1/10. Everything is about price in the end, and it is hyper competitive with its primary competition in all aspects. Additionally, the flight models aren't static, but consistently evolving, so things that limit it rn, could be strengths in the future. At the end of the day, fly the ships you love, and I just so happen to love this one.

For my playstyle, this ship is the epitome of daily driver. I'm fond of the red paint. (can't remember the official name) The MSR is a great ship as well.

Thank you for the compliments. I do need to go back over my ship reviews now that master modes has released. Everything but the flight and weapon info is still current.

I don't agree, personally. But, I can see the allure for others!

Also, it still looks better than the Starfarer!

I haven't noticed, but I also strive not to look at the ship to much! Not what I would describe as aesthetic!

I hadn't heard about modularity for the Cyclone. It's an interesting idea for sure. I find myself using either the base model or the MT depending on the ship I'm carrying it in, but it would be neat to only need to buy one and then be able to switch turret or rear cab options. I wouldn't mind getting a Cyclone with an extra two seats.

I have to admit that this review is outdated a bit, now that they've added the munching feature, and the ability to change the size of the containers. I like the idea of a movable tractor beam, and it really does look like a rail system would be a great fit riding the ceiling of the salvage deck.

I'm not sure why I didn't see this earlier, sorry for the late response! In game you can purchase them at New Deal in Lorville, or you can rent them at Traveler and Vantage Rental kiosks. To fit them into your ship, you need a ship large enough like a Drake Cutlass Black (which you can rent in game) or larger with a cargo bay and doors large enough to load it through. I have a few different videos going over most of the ships in game right now if you would like to check different ones out. The Cyclone is also available to buy with IRL money on the RSI page, though the different variants are not always available. Hope that helps, glhf!

@@eyesofheimdall6510 I purchased the Cutlass Black as my intro into the game and I did purchase some Cyclones. I’m just unsure of how to get them on your ship before you leave station.

Ah, I see. So, in short, you don't. You have to go to a planetary outpost, like the Mining stations on Hurston (the name of the locations on Hurston will start with HDMS-******) Once you have landed, look for a small building with two tiny landing pads next to it. That is the building where you spawn in your ground vehicles.

@@eyesofheimdall6510 ohhhhh ok 👍🏾 thank you.

I forgot to add, at New Babbage and Lorville, there are ground vehicle ASOP terminals but it is usually more of a hassle to get them in your ship in cities than at stations. New Babbage has the ground vehicle ASOPs in the spaceport. Lorville you have to ride the trams to one of the exterior gates to find the ground vehicle ASOPs.

You're not wrong! The biggest thing to update IMHO (other than the pricepoint!) is the pilot guns and another entry for sure.

Glad you like them!

Thank you for the compliment. That is exactly what I am aiming for in my reviews. If you picked up a Titan, enjoy it!

The Aurora LX isn't a bad ship for getting going. Just needs a couple of extra guns and it can do decent at low-tier bounties, which have the chance of dropping cargo. If you're trying to determine if the cargo is worth picking up, use sc-trade.tools/home (a free SC economy site) to check the prices. Hope that helps, o7!

Lol im reading this right now after buying the carrack@@eyesofheimdall6510

Not a terrible plan either way! The only thing to worry about with the Carrack is the upcoming changes to cargo loading will make it a bit of a pain to use with large scu boxes. My org uses my Carrack as a mobile base regularly.

That's where my thought line goes. The upcoming gameplay features will more refine/define what the Lightning is best at. Specifically when ship armor is implemented, the Lightning will not be as capable against larger more heavily armored ships as it is right now. When that comes along, I see the F8C being a good answer against Vanguards and Ares. I wonder also what the full implementation of master modes will mean for its maneuverability.

I think the Cat's design faults should not be reflected negatively on the F8C. I should have worded that line differently. The F8C should, from a lore and cost perspective, be the absolute strongest single seat fighter in the game. Lorewise it is the newest most dangerous fighter in service to the UEE. Costwise, it is the most expensive single seat fighter to pledge and should reflect that. It's also still relatively new and will take some time to balance out to keep it from being a negative addition to the 'verse. With the upcoming additions of ship armor and the reworking of how components function on the horizon, I think it will become more in line with other ships, but still above them in overall capability. I apologize for the long-winded response.

Simply put, it's not a top dog ship by name.... And it was never meant to be average either. Mindsets like yours are literally what creates sub-par ships. You guys want a pecking order that sees each ship arm in arm only. This was Anvils best combat fighter. Instead of saying; oooohh it OP, nerf it!!! Say; I look forward to the other manufacturers making a competitive fighter. That's a much better approach than- NOOOOOO IT BETTER THAN MY LIGHT FIGHTER!!NERF IT TO THE GROUND!!!! Btw, this is supposed to eat most light and medium fighters for breakfast. That's what it was made for....Chess would be a boring game if wvery piece played the same...... Let that last sentence sink in....

No apology necessary, thanks for your thoughtful reply. I think you may be right that in time it will balance out.@@eyesofheimdall6510

This ship is so disproportionally overpowered it has the potential to undermine gameplay. The Lightning has more hull points than a Cat but somehow is still faster than a Mirai dedicated racer and has 50 percent more firepower than a Hurricane (which is another HEAVY FIGHTER btw). To use your term it shouldn't be "eating" other heavy fighters for breakfast. Finally, would you enjoy loosing to an unskilled pilot simply because he had more money to give to CIG?? Also, what prevents CIG from making the Lightning obsolete one day by introducing an even more unbalanced fighter in the future. @@durtyred86

The hull HP is more of an indictment on the Cat than a huge advantage for the F8C. It has a higher max speed than the Fury LX, but isn't even close to it's SCM. (212m/s Lightning, 240m/s Fury LX) Firepower is more complicated to quantify than just DPS numbers. The Hurricane is designed to be a 2 person fighter, and with a half competent gunner is still IMHO the deadliest pure fighter in the game, but I will give you a point there since stock the Lightning has twice the base DPS. As far as CIG's business model, I don't personally have a problem with them introducing a better option at a later date. If the game does well enough to support continual development and updates, I could absolutely see the smart business decision to eventually introduce an even stronger ship down the road.

Alright.

I do...so your moot

Alright.

I'm honestly pretty content with the gun selection. I'd rather have the deeper magazines of sz2 than the tiny DPS bump of sz3s.

I feel the Valkyrie is a mini-hammerhead if you can fully man it's turrets. Back in April I did a couple of ERT runs in a fully manned Valkyrie and it went pretty well. I can't agree with you about the Vanguard tho. It is a vastly superior combat ship compared to any variant of the MIS. The only use the MIS has is as a missile throwing ape. The Vanguard flies circles around the MIS, I know cuz I do it in my Harbinger all the time.

I'll be honest, it's been so long since I shot that, I don't fully remember what I said. I did fly a Freelancer for a bit last week, and still hated every second of it. It's strange, since I'm really starting to like the other MISC/MIRAI ships, but I still just hate the Freelancer. I think it's the cockpit.

I think until the Galaxy or Polaris comes out, this will remain my personal home-away ship as well. It really is a great one, I just with it wasn't as prohibitively expensive, tho I do understand the rationale.

The Connie just has a special place in SC. It fills a wide variety of roles, looks good, doesn't fly terribly, and has some great in game lore behind it and its manufacturer.

Which elevator? To avoid issues with the front elevator (to the bridge) I just stand perfectly still when I hit the button. It's a habit I picked up back in 3.18 when the Reclaimer was much worse. The rear elevator I haven't had any issues with in a couple of patches. If the front elevator is the one giving you issues, there is a ladder on the opposite wall.

@eyesofheimdall6510 the inside one at the front of the reclaimer. I use the ladder but sometimes the stuck on the ladder glitch hits me. Apart from some little things the game is running better and more stable.

Gotcha, there is a ladder on the opposite wall from that elevator. I'd use that if the shake is giving you problems. Only caveat, do not, I repeat, do not, use the ladder while in quantum! It won't happen every time, but randomly it can kick you outta the ship when it's in quantum.

@eyesofheimdall6510 cheers mate have a safe holidays

I guess. I've heard a few different theories about what makes a good explorer, and this does fit a couple of them. I get the speed to safety idea, I'm just not sure if that is going to be as applicable when master mode flight is implemented. Still a flex ship to me, and nothing is going to change my mind on that part tho!

@@eyesofheimdall6510 Master modes will negate her shields when she's running, but by the same token, attackers will have to slow to SCM speeds to fire their weapons, and the 400i has quite a bit of armor (currently health) as well as a ton of subsystem redundancy. Would need quite a few very lucky shots in a very short period of time to stop her in her tracks. Though yes, she's a flex ship currently, which is sort of Origin's bread and butter, lol. If someone wanted function over form, they'd get a Drake ship ;) I'm genuinely curious what exploration mechanics will come into play, and especially how radar size, radar count, top scanning range, and scanning tables like the 400i has in the back will actually work within that gameplay loop.

I've got a feeling that exploration is going to have a few different sub-loops, kind of like bunkers currently have a few different loop options. I think that there will be long range true explorers like the Carrack or 600i, and then there will be basically scanner ships ie. the 400i, Terrapin. I've got no hard evidence, (I don't dig through Spectrum or Reddit for possible nuggets) but just looking at the design choices of the ships, and what has been actually confirmed by CIG for different ships. At the end of the day, I don't judge anyone for how they spend their money in a game. For me, the price of the 400i will almost never equal the benefit of owning it. I tried to like it, but in it's current state and the foreseeable changes, it just doesn't fit me. Honestly, I don't like the way it looks, I hate the way it handles, it has no cargo cap worth speaking of, and it costs 4x what a Cutlass Black does, and I'm sure it's gonna be at least 2x the price of a C1. I know that a good chunk of that is the specialization tax, but another good chunk is just because it says Origin on it. I do apologize for the rant. I got through that last paragraph and realized neither of us is going to convince the other. To close I'll say that I am glad you seem to like the ship. p.s. Crusader and RSI are my go to brands for cost-benefit, not Drake. I'm a redneck, not a hillbilly!

I won't lie to you and say that it is perfectly smooth. I will say that when it runs poorly, it normally is fixed in a few days. There are bugs, but they are consistently squashing the ones that actually affect gameplay the most, (IMO). I've been playing for over a year now, quite regularly, and have seen nothing but progress from development, quality, and overall enjoyability perspectives. To be fair, I do really enjoy the game, and that may color over things for me. I will say you need a decent machine to really enjoy the game. Not a beast, but a decent machine. 16+gbs of decent speed ram. Solid video card, (tho I ran it for most of last year with a 1650ti) and a SSD.

@@eyesofheimdall6510 Thank you for replying. My pc was able to run the game last month during the free flight so I should be fine. I had like 40-45 fps in new babage, surely the game isn't optimized yet, my gpu wasn't running at 99% for unknown reasons neither was my cpu (rx 6700xt, ryzen 5 7500f with 32gb of ddr5 on SSD). I genuinely enjoyed the game during the free flight despite the numerous bugs. If the servers are more stable outside IAE free flight, I might buy it. I frankly was astonished how I could fly from a city to the space and moons without a single loading screen.

Oh yeah, that first flight out to orbit really can take the breath away! The game as a whole is "usually" more stable during non-peak times. So, American holidays tend to be rough for any server. If you're US based, you can always play on the other server sets (EU, AUS, ASI) to get around the peak time overload. But it's usually not all that problematic with the exception of American holidays and the special events tend to overload a bit.

The M2 is definitely my favorite of the bunch. I'm not much into bombing things, and the C2 is great, but the M2 is the perfect blend of firepower and utility.

I have thought about the ways that the Cutlass line could be expanded. I just don't know that it has the fuel cap to really be an explorer for its size. I love the idea. I'm just not sure that it would fit within the "realism" aspect that CIG is striving for with ship design/function.

@@eyesofheimdall6510 they could do a cutlass mk.2 series like the anvil hornet

True, tho I don't see that happening in the near future. One of the best things about the Cutlass is the versatility that the base design has. It could easily be retrofitted (from a design perspective) to quite a few different things. The mid-range exploration bracket is already pretty full tho, with the Freelancer DUR, 315p, Terrapin, even the Aquila could fall in that range. Honestly, I'm more interested in getting some variety in the industrial ships. I could see the stub wings on the Cutlass being retrofitted with salvage heads, or even a cheap mining variant. Pure fantasy, but I could definitely see it.

Sounds like a well thought-out plan for its use. I actually rolled all of ships into store credit this past week and moved up to a Polaris, so no more industrial ships in my pledge fleet. I do think I'll use my C1 to earn up til I get a Vulture, then earn up to a Reclaimer. Mining for w/e reason just isn't doing it for me anymore, but salvage is still a great way to unwind after a long day.

I'd say the Eclipse is an even bigger threat than the Ares Inferno.

it all just depends, an Eclipse is a more pressing threat if the pilot knows how to use it well. With stealth not being implemented, the Eclipse has to hope for a good splash. The Ares ships do not. They can engage and stay engaged to down a Reclaimer. Also, if an Eclipse gets ya, it's not really a skill issue on the Reclaimer's part. Personally, using an Eclipse for PvP is not impressive at all.

I feel ya on the cargo cap! I enjoy salvage in general, I find it cathartic almost.

Yes, exactly why I bought a Reclaimer instead of a Vulture. And I solo too.

Thanks for the info. I messed around with it a bit later in the day and figured some of the stuff out, but I never did check the weapon racks. It's a pretty slick ship, I like it a lot. Thanks for the feedback!

Thank you for watching! I strive to just be real. I'm not paid for any of this, but when I started SC last IAE, I had a hard time finding realistic budget friendly reviews. So I decided to make my own. Stay tuned, big things are coming for the channel, and it keeps growing every day!

It certainly is hard to come by and the honesty goes a long way. I'm excited to see where this channel goes!

thanks for the info! Great little ship. Hopefully it's embraced by the community so we can get some more interesting starter/early game ships like it!

@@eyesofheimdall6510 I love it so much I got 4 to share the wealth

Nice. I don't think I'll pledge it myself, but that's more cuz I'm trying to save for a Galaxy. But it's the first starter ship that I've flown in a while that I really would consider against a Titan. Still prefer a Titan, but I'm not sure how much of that is familiarity.

Yeah, I thought I had heard it, but for some reason it still showed 48 on starcitizen.tools, so I went with that. Learned my lesson!

it takes a bit of thought the first few times you take off in it, but it flies like a dream. And with a lil practice the lift off becomes more natural.

Thank you! I'm still a bit nervous when I can't give a "perfect ship for everything" type of review, but I'd rather be honest than not. Glad you enjoyed it!

@@eyesofheimdall6510 The approach you have is perfect

Thank you! I'm glad to know the videos are enjoyable! I do hope to be able to be a bit more cinematic soon, give the vids a bit more pop!