Will in-game bought ships be reset? All the ships I own I bought in game as I only bought the aurora to get into the game. I will lose years of progress if this is the case...

Star citizen will be abandoned far before it is ever finished. Now is about as good as it gets

So, when they put into the brochure for the Polaris that, "Designed to be a self-sustaining combat platform." and then give a story on how one destroyed 3 Tevarin cap ships...they possibly forgot to mention that not only do you need to fill all the roles in the ship, you need to field multiple SQUARDONS of other players in support ships to use one. It made sense to me that one day we could fill our bigger ships with AI crew\blades. But the thought that we also have to field squadrons outside of that...good luck I guess.

A day will come when you can say to your AI. "Make me a game like star citizen" and it will create a completely new game from scratch in less than 1 hour.

Easiest way to take out a turret is to damage it from a distance right now, with good enough aim you can hit a turret from 600-1200m out and they have a hell of a time hitting you if you keep moving and changing directions

Chris Roberts wants to make Star Wars, and he's trying to do it through games. The majority of backers don't want MM. The previous flight model was better. But Chris wants swooping TIE fighters and trench runs. He loves his cinematic, bullshit dust clouds in space. The SQ42 intro tells you all you need to know about where this game is headed. I'm with Nick. This is not the game advertised. This is not the game I want to play. Not even after they fix the poorly implemented features of 2024, or base building, or engineering, or TtD, et al. I don't want to play Chris' terrible movie. The disheartening part is the wasted potential. There's nothing like SC; despite other games doing aspects of it better in less time. I hope I'm wrong, but I see this game circling the drain.

I like your ethiopien poisonous caterpillar

The Airwolf homage really got me

Geez dude! So negative! It’s not pointless. It’s simply practice.

I don't know what's more unbelievable about the space stations than the ground bases. It's all prefab structures fitted together.

Fighters take out turrets. Just overwhelm the turret with fire superiority. If the turret turns to fire on you, then disengage!

Intrepid (wtf) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Back in Wing Commander, didn't we always get sent in as fighters to take the turrets and enemy fighters, out on cap ships, so the bombers could get in?

Good work, Mike. Keep up the skepticism. Keep calling them on talking big and delivering small. I'm like you and many others: we want this game to be great, but we're sick of hearing empty promises. They're just dreams.

I think a better ship for that role would be medium fighters or heavy if we still want fighters, or and bear with me on this. Gunships! take the shields down and have gunships go in real quick and start cleaning up pdc and other important parts and clear the way for boarding parties.

Funny how they try to make entire new shows, yet the only thing I care about they relegate to a timed based Q&A, and not even feature it in this episode :/

I didnt realise it when I was watching myself but you raise a good point. CIG really dont jnow what to do with light fighters. I said this before as well but dogfighting should be the only thing light fighters are good at. And I mean that in terms of manueverability and maybe acceleration. Their top speeds should be lower than that of a heavy fighter with bigger engines. Like there's no need to reinvent the wheel, you can just look at fighters and their classifications and strengths over the last century.

Took out idrid pdc with intrepid

Interpreting Devs: Capital (S6+) cannons are good at taking down capital shields. Some... Heavy Fighter weapons (named Inferno) are good at taking down turrets. Lesser fighters are for defending or defending against the Heavy Fighters (with heavy weaponry) *They didn't indicate the Harbinger's guns would be enough but I'm hopeful. Hercules and Scorpius are seemingly just for punching down now? Retaliators are for if you want to destroy the ship but don't have a capital ship. Eclipse is now redundant (since PDCs do in fact target unlocked torpedoes), and why do you need stealth if you've taken out turrets and shields?) I don't like the RIch era. I don't like taking realism back to fun and THEN back to 'believable', because his definition of believable is really heavily inspired by Michael Bay, and I don't like it. I hope they let us have modding to make a worthy game out of this engine we've funded.

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“what do fighters do against a capital ship?” CIG: “they target subsystems. for example, PDCs and turrets.” “what can the capital ship do to stop them?” CIG: “well it has weapons specifically designed to shoot down fighters: its PDCs and turrets.” “the ones you want the fighters to attack.” CIG: “yes. but you’ll need to take down the shields first; that’s where your own capital ship comes in.” “so I use big guns to soften up the ship and then use small guns to destroy it.” CIG: “whoops, we’re out of time.”

In regards to the Idris mission phase 3 mission, people trying to board it via this mission is annoying. I was in a server where we had a ton of people doing the mission to destroy it but one party of people thought it smart to board during this fleet combat… Here I am the torp operator in one of the attacking Polaris ships and of course this rouge boarding party was getting killed by incoming fire from everyone else on the server trying to complete the mission. Of course these morons EVAing into a giant fleet battle were pissed because they got killed by the giant torp explosions and reported the crimes. Lucky me, I get a crime stat, auto abounded this mission I spent like two hours getting to that point and the rest of my play session that night is over because I am now KOS crime stat. Dumb people + bad game mechanics.

I love the idea of allowing players to effectively become raid bosses. No expectation that I will ever see it, but the concept is not like anything I have ever seen.

You're not just gonna be sat there shooting at a turret. There will be 4 of you in your flight and 2 of you will dance in there as the other two dance out. You'll be making call outs complete different to what you hear in PUBG/COD or something. It'll drive the use of team work through disabling certain hardpoints of a ship or certain functions of a ship - both of which are a chink in the armor that is a Capital ship. SIDEBAR. THE POLARIS IS NOT ONE. OKAY? GREAT. It's the tip of the spear for a capital ship's fleet. A Polaris is unique because it will be able to conduct first contact operations for fleets headed up with Javelins or Krakens etc. The idea being the Polaris (ideally with a Perseus attached to her) will walk you into your business venture with the aforementioned CAPITAL ships. Anyway. Someone said it best. We're still theory crafting 13 years later. I'm tired.

Heavy Fighters take out capital ship assets (PDC, Turrets, Shield Gens), heavy bombers, and large support ships. Light Fighters take out Fighters and Bombers Medium Fighters can do both the Heavy and Light fighter jobs, but not nearly as well as either in their respective roles.

Combined arms, like Theater of War which they pushed years ago and were saying which would come soon? Maybe to bring down a capital ship you need the branded joystick so you can evade the turrets and PDC efficiently.

Hey Mike! Im the senior video editor over at Bellular. I can tell you that me and Bell are pretty huge fans of Star Citizen in general, not just SQ42. So much so that during my interview 5 years ago we geeked out over Star Citizen and the fact we own the exact same ship (Freelancer DUR). Bell even bought a T16000m HOTAS setup specifically for SC. Funny to hear youve watched our channel too as ive watched you and other SC creators for some time.

If you notice with PTUs, on the first iteration, spend your 15 mil on showroom ships. Then on the next PTU iteration, the aUEC ships are gone, but your money is still spent. Every PTU does this, and should be a clue of what's going to happen when it goes live. The same will happen, your aUEC ships disappear, and you still lose your grind money. I quit grinding over a year ago, too frustrating. I ignore live and only play test builds. Currently we are on EPTU 4.0 wave one. Let's see how the aUEC ship status ends up with the next iteration.?

Maybe after the shields are down, you have to bring in heavy fighter? Or the turrets have as good as no health?

If you watch the SQ42 first chapter play through again, you'll see what they mean by 'fighters' taking out PDCs and turrets. You can see the different waves of Vanduul ships and what they are targeting.

Will this include ships bought in game as well?

So there's absolutely no point in playing before 4.0

Do they even KNOW what they did to the Ion? It is easily the most boring, ineffective shield "hunter" ever. Too slow, even decent aimed shots can miss when an idris rolls, u less you shoot from 2km max, shoots so slow all that damage simply gets regenerated, charge mechanic with cooldown is also stupid. I want it to be fun, but it's not. If I need to attack shields I'd rather take a glaive or constellation.

I think Todd Papy was keeping the game on track. I think 2024 is a result of his loss. Rich strikes me as a Kool-Aid man. Since he moved up we've had broken features, rushed patches, and more scope creep.

'Do they want it to be perfect? Yes, because otherwise the game is cooked'. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good is solid advice that someone should have been beating CR over the head with for the past 6-7 years. In my opinion. I just feel bad for the lovers of this game. The people investing so much money, emotion and time. Its so sad.

So now there is even less of a reason to play SC.

Lol Mike u dont expect to bring 5 light fighters + support(idris, retaliator, etc) against an Polaris and expect all yout light fighters will be fine.....

Ah, the Prospector, I do like that ship. They deleted it to bring me the IAE patch, in which I can rent to back for free, yay.

Editig has been hella hecktick from them for the past 3 videos i feel like

So, I watch both you and Asmon, usually in the background while I'm in some space game or another. I've always thought you two had similar voices. This auto-played and I was so confused for a while.

It’s easy to take out turrets with a light fighter, you just sub target. But you have to be good at holding distance, evading and aiming. Once the shields are brought down it should absolutely be a job for a light fighter to sub target and destroy turrets since they are a similar size or smaller compared to a LF

Looks like they are parodying AirWolf in the intro.

loved the airwolf ref at the beginning ... tells you how old i am

These are the exclusive group of super important people... the PAID testers... and their job is to make sure that no bug ever gets reported so that the UNPAID testers get the gameplay of being able to report bugs so they can be ignored! Go Paid Tester Group! You can't call this group QA because QA stands for Quality Assurance... which, well doesn't exist at CIG for the last 13 years.

19:33 while ""fun"", backers money was used to make all this nonsense instead of, you know, making the actual fucking game. But anyway, let's *talk* about the future.

With regard to fighters, I think they are going to be used more to screen for your Ares Ions, Infernos, maybe Tali's and Eclipse even, as those ships are susceptible to fighters, but dangerous to capitals. Heavy fighters will maybe help attack hardpoints, but light and medium are more likely going to be protecting the heavy damage dealers from enemy fighters, or trying to kill the enemy Ares and torp bombers.

CIG: so this show is focused on capital ships combat, right ? Marketing: yes, so let's intro the show with a fat fury video to tease backers. CIG: you guys are geniuses ! Marketing: and they wont be able to pledge for the ship at this IAE. CIG: geniuses! But what if they complain? Marketing: we'll say the ship is not ready for purchase yet. CIG: but they can and have purchased concept before Marketing: that was only speculative 😅😅😅

It's funny, I managed to do multiple iterations of the Save Stanton: Phase 3 mission, and I was like...holy shit the Idris seems like it has way, way more health than it used to, and when it finally went down each time it was after multiple engines and other components had been sub-targeted and blown off. After maybe two completions I watched this episode...and I thought about it, and that fight actually feels like what they were describing (albeit an early form). The boarding completions are currently bugging the mission unfortunately, but the ship lasts so long in a fight that boarding is actually viable when they fix it so the next mission works correctly.

Seeing videos of PDCs/PDS it looks like they can be overwhelmed (Rattlers) or I suspect a combo of standard missiles (size 2+) and ballistic fire also may work? ;-) I keep thinking how coordination (between turrets), communication (between turrets and CIC), planning (see communication, coordination and tactics) and especially situational awareness in the 3D Self-explanatory), needs to be practiced.

that video presentation of the Mirai is dediacted to TV serie "Airwolf " ( 90's) :)