"First combat freighter" The Keelback and Type 10 would like a word.

Maybe they listened to everyone complain about the Clipper. SHOULD be a medium pad but wings just barely too big to fit. Retracting wing/engine pods would solve that problem & (hopefully) have the Clipper's cargo space..

It's funny that the Corvette guide comes out about a month after I finally unlock mine.

me playing on ps5 sad because we don’t have any more update :(

Next things: - Military Drives - Cloaking devices

Commander signman is a piece of....

Would be nice for a fat console update. 🙄

While a new non-combat ship is definitely appreciated, when will we start getting new small ships? Medium ships are cool and all, but given that every new ship added since the T10 has been a medium ship.

OK NOW I JUST WOKE UP!!! Now if they could fix the game-within-the-game situation… Weird that they went with SCOFSD instead of just saying that someone figured out how to make all existing FSDs faster? Why add a teir split or go for a change of terms for what is ultimately just a video game widget, is it because that would highlight it's a Live Service game?

Im so excited for the T8. And im saying this as someone who pretty exclusive flies the Krait Mk2. It had everything I love: Cool looking engines. Low hanging cockpit thats basically under the ship, and PYLONS

I was meh about the Python mk2 because I don't do combat but this has me very excited, I am planning to buy this when it comes out.

T-8 is a little bigger version of Star Citizen's (salvager) Drake Vulture. Nothing really outstanding, it's just copy paste.

Please let the Type 8 come with a fighter bay...

There's no way I'm going to cheat on my type 9.... I might at a push go out for drinks tho 😂😂

The Type 8 is basically the lovechild of the Millennium Falcon and an X-Wing

i am in the process of hunting for the Federial corvette yes i noticed the tweet about the t8 engines and that i liked and looked very interesting cant wait to see more about the T8

First, the Python Mark 2 now they unveil a Type 8, I could use it for mining or Exploration, maybe trade running

Meanwhile...console is forgotten. So highly bittersweet for me. Peace all.

I unlocked the corvette several years ago. I've never gained top rank with the feds or imperials though; I only ranked up high enough to get the two ships and that was it. The retracting nacelles on the Type-8 remind of me how, in Elite II, the one imperial ship with 3 engines would raise the two lower ones as it landed. It's nice to see the ships with more animated parts. I like the smaller freighter which rotates the side nacelles into a VTOL position, for example.

Yet the black adder error when trying to sell anything to other cmdrs on their fleet carrier still exists

The render showed 4 hardpoints firing. Maybe they will give us 2L and 2M hardpoints like the phantom or clipper(4 large seems unlikely, right?). With a good power distributor that would be deadly enough. I also hope they will give it 6 utility slots. That would allow for some great shield resistances.

Engine nacelles move out when in flight ---> Means switching S-foils into attack position

My first thought when i saw it was a blockade runner for power play. Punch you way through any system defense to deliver the cargo

Nice, I operate a fairly extensive fleet carrier and will be happy to add the modern xenology modules and SCO drives to it! And if the Type 8 is a combat-capable hauler I will probably use it for hauling 2.0 Powerplay items, piracy, and evading rival pirates who want my ill-gotten cargo.

I wish ships were more role specific, The type 8 looks like a nice freighter/mining ship, not a combat ship at all. Although ships like that need heavy duty and able to take a beating when attacked by pirates.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but I think the T8 will have LESS cargo space than the T7. My reasoning? Well, the P2 looks bigger than the P1, but has fewer internal spaces, apparently to accommodate the FSD SCO better and have more hard points (so I heard anyway). Also, look at the scale of the T8. Compare the size of the cockpit to that of the T7. It's practically the same, which would make the overall volume of space in the T8 less than the T7. The T8 engines are bigger, taking up more of that space too, regardless if they extend or retract. The 'arms' that will hold the weapons, wont be able to also take cargo space, so you're kinds left with very little in the way of cargo space in the rest of the hull. I'd go with this being a combat freighter fighter, but at the expense of overall cargo space. I think that will be its downside.

maybe the type 8 will be good for mining if the forward hard points.

3 things I look for in a Mining ship - good weapon placement, decent Power Distro and lots of optional internals.... This could be an interesting ship for that.

My carrier is almost always at the frontline, defo gonna stock it with the better AX weapons for any nearby CMDRs :D

The perfect smuggling ship.

I hope this "moving parts" feature paves the way for an Imperial ship inspired by the FE2 Courier, or perhaps even revised Imperial Explorer, with a vaguely Starfleet-esque profile and Voyager-style articulated nacelles. On the topic of new ships, while im sure the next will be the Panther LX, I think we're long overdue some ships from First Encounters like the Saker and Osprey, (especially the Osprey-X, because every space game needs its resident X-Wing impersonator)

The Keelback is still my fav early combat freighter.. old and not very ascetic but made me millions in the early game

Depending on the size and number of hardpoints I already had plans to make it a fighter. Being a cargo ship it's sure to have lots of internal space for making it capable of fighting, or if not lots of slots at least a few good large sized ones; I've always enjoyed being able to see my hardpoints firing and gimballing(Krait Mk2, Anaconda, Viper 3, Cobra 3 specifically)

I still hope to make an exploration build out of it. It’s just too cool.

Freighter Fighter. We already have the Keelback for that. And lets not forget: The clipper, the courier, the cutter, Dropship, Python MK1and even the Krait MK2

Thanks for this. Always love the fly-by footage you put in these videos!

I think we might have a new "mining" ship 👀 limpets and lasers are going to look so good coming in and out

It won't make any sense for the type 8 to be able to carry more cargo that the type 7 given that it is physically smaller and half the ship's size is taken up by engines and forks lol

The T8 has a more industrial look to me, so the hardpoint talk is making me think it may be the next best mining vessel.

It's a good time to be a Commander!

Type Eight Freighter Type Eighter Tater Spud?

Thank you for all the details I have missed in the FDEV Unlocked. Awesome news, keep up the great work and reporting. Have a great weekend Cmdr Buur and Cmdr Rheeney. o7 all.

Hope not. But it would be cool if we just let them run in and that triggers a video.

I spotted the adjusting engine nacelles right away. Looks like my next new ship is coming soon o7 Cmdr Arrok Trarr

Already have 2 corvettes... a very costly investment but love em to bits

In my experience, Arf doesn't mix up his words, everything he says has weight and intent, so if he's saying something, he's saying something. In my opinion, him saying "No mic drop this month, but you should probably tune in next month" was clearly a mic drop worthy statement. I'm so excited for Elite, what an absolutely stunning game. 2024 is turning out to be a wonderful rebirth for Elite and I'm here for it. What a time to be a dedicated superfan. Amazing video Buurs as always! Much much love to you both.

Frontier have for a short moment hold our attention saying they will launch new ships. But sadly many of us, who have been supporting them for years, can not spend more money to get this new vessels.I can undertsand the need for fresh cash to keep the game runing, but Im afraid this strategy wont last longer. If we can't put our virtual hands on a new ship soon (don't make us wait 3 months for it), Im afraid many will lose intertest again, take a break/pause (who knows how long?) and move on to another game as we did back in 2021. 3 months is to long for 2024, specially when you launched the Oddysey fiasco back in may 2021. We have been waiting for something, new and usefull since then, its been 3 years Frontier, 3 freaking years.

Great video- it really is a very interesting time in Elite Dangerous. And I have to say I really like the look of the Type 8 and it does look like a fighter freighter. I really enjoy Dituris videos- they are great guides and it is really great how you share the fab work of other channels.

I've had no problems not getting interdicted in my T9 against NPC pirates so a combat cargo freighter isn't needed, but a medium size freighter between the T6 and the T7 would be useful so long as it can haul more than a Python.

having weapons on such forward extend structure also allows for wider arc rotation thus better targeting capability