3.23 Vulture Salvage Guide, Star Citizen

[@TheMacedon]

Thanks for the shout out!! Nice video!

[@TemplarGuardian]

Thanks for your vid and taking the time to put that together, I know the time that takes I hope folks will check out your guide as you going into more detail with it

[@CharlesDSmith-mv7zi]

Nice video tutorial! I’ve been salvaging since the Vulture was released, and would like to add a tip or two to help the scraping efficiency. I always use two abrade modules. I remove the chinches from my arms so the use only the abrades and I don’t have to play with switching unless I accidentally bump the ship, and have to use the tractor to steady the target. I noticed that you’re scraping at a range of 38 meters. The first thing I do in 3.23.0 is lower my landing gear. This gives me much better control when getting close to scrape. Then, I extend my scraper modules and look at the distance above the two circles. I then inch in closer until I have a distance over the circles of 13 to 18 m from the target. The scraper heads are much faster and more efficient at that range. Again, thank you for taking the time to make this for new salvagers.

[@TemplarGuardian]

Thanks for sharing those tips and watching!

[@supermido2708]

Wow dude! Before this video I knew nothing about salvage other than the fact I wanted to get into it. After this, I know exactly what to do, look for, go, etc. You covered the WHOLE process. Thank you!

[@TemplarGuardian]

Thanks for watching, I know it's a bit long but there are quite a few parts to it, and I hope you enjoy it. It's a fun and chill gameplay loop. Welcome to the salvage life!

[@cptmitch3l829]

Thanks for the amazing guide ! I watched your previous one as well and since some things changed in .23 I immediately searched up your channel to check if you made a new guide and there we are :) Thanks a lot

[@TemplarGuardian]

Thanks for checking it out and returning to take a look at the new one!

[@mem0ryfoam]

Thank you very much for the video, helped me a ton coming back to SC after a long hiatus. Finally cleared the dust off the vulture and took it for it's maiden voyage. Cheers!

[@TemplarGuardian]

Nice, thanks for watching!

[@gravity00x]

Id be lost if it werent for this in depth and detailed video. Exactly right for the new SC player! Thank you very much.

[@TemplarGuardian]

Thanks for that feedback and for watching!

[@RobinHartJones]

The L points are Lagrange points. They are places where the gravity of the surrounding planets, sun etc balance out so putting stations there means they will stay in place without needing to constantly fire your maneuvering jets to stay in one place. It is like you are in the bottom of a dip so whoever you drift sideways, you naturally move back to the centre and this is why asteroids accumulate there. In the real world, not all Lagrange points work that way, some are more like balancing on a ridge where any movement from the perfect spot will make you fly outwards and there would be no asteroids but we will ignore that,😏.

[@gravity00x]

Thats actually cool to know, thanks!

[@commanderroddi7742]

Vulture/SRV conbo (Or reclaimer?) will be useful for salvage & to clean up servers being able to go to graveyards, or the Hercules mountain near landing zones to tow abandoned vehicles and salvaging. THe "L1 are lagrange points. like the zz top song.

[@greynomaduk983]

Many thanks for an informative video. I plan to go down the mining and salvaging route in the game. o7

[@TemplarGuardian]

I definitely need to get into some mining as well, thanks for watching

[@ingeborgsvensson4896]

Great video, very well explained. Thanks!

[@TemplarGuardian]

Thanks for watching and all the comments you post

[@yourdonefor4454]

I REALLY miss the risky salvage. Finding a whole cargo hold full of maze was the good days

[@GuymanGrey]

For the record right now you can scrape ships twice, once before you fracture it and once afterwards. Kinda makes doing the high fee missions more worthwhile. Great video as well .

[@TemplarGuardian]

Thanks and thanks for sharing, not sure if this was fixed in 3.23.1 or not yet

[@GuymanGrey]

@@TemplarGuardianI have been trying to verify and see if it was bug or not but since this last patch my verified salvage missions have disappeared and I haven't a chance to test it anywhere else yet.

[@TemplarGuardian]

@@GuymanGrey I haven’t tried to double scrape them yet, but it looks like they broke the fracking progress bar. I’ve been scraping different ships in the different cost categories to see their income

[@prinnybob87]

I hate how they changed the gimbal mode on the scrapers. They used to point where you aim, but now it's kinda rubberband-y where they only move to about half-way between center and where you aim.

[@TemplarGuardian]

Yeah, I haven’t used the gimbal since like 3.20

[@warren3174]

Thanks. Great video. And curse you for making me yawn more than once 😂

[@TemplarGuardian]

Yeah sorry, sometimes I make these past my bedtime. Not enough time in the day sometimes. Thanks for watching!

[@carlhinton4849]

Great content :) Only thing I would suggest is I can find it quite difficult to hone in on the panels in the asteroid fields. They tend to vanish as you get closer in. Something to do with the pierce system in scanning. Great work on this one :)

[@TemplarGuardian]

Yeah, I was searching for them a bit as well once I got close

[@OnitsTV]

you pay for mission 20k and sell 16? .....

[@mvaiks]

The Vulture can return with 39-40 SCU of RMC if you can stack well your boxes.

[@Bingusgingus]

Alright im gonna keep it 100 with you chief, this doesnt need to be a 43 minute long video

[@gravity00x]

IT ABSOLUTELY does. Just because you dont need a video like that, doesnt mean anyone else does. Apart from that you know there is an option to skip through the video? Why are spaghettiheads like that even allowed on youtube.

[@qutatron]

I started the game from scratch, with a starting ship, and I'm wondering whether to save up for Vulture or Cutlass first. Cutlass will allow me to earn money on MRT and HRT, because outside of combat I can collect components and cargo from defeated ships, but I don't know if it's a better option for earning money than salvage with a vulture.

[@TemplarGuardian]

It really depends on what you personally want to do, but you can rent the cutlass to try it out. Alternatively, you can watch my money making guide to try out the cutless black and/or connie for free, actually u'll make money from it. You may need to do it a few time to get a good one, but you can use them in BH missions to try them out. They aren't to keep but you can repair them and do stuff like BH with them.

[@zealousray]

Nice video. Hey man. Do you know what the new buttons for scanning for random salvage peices, like in the yela belt? Ive been scanning with tab to scan, and then using the v button to read the scan points, but it seems awkward.

[@TemplarGuardian]

Ot going to lie, they kinda f$&@ed scanning. I had a challenge even trying to get it to work for this vid. I used the scroll wheel to turn it down all the way to get these to show up. Please also check the link in the description or card, Macedon actually just out out a new guide as well about looking for the plates

[@Essobee]

heads up, when you break the drake, you can scrape the broken parts again. for some reason after fracture, it applies a fresh new skin to the parts L1, L2, etc is a LaGrange gravity well

[@sedrummer4215]

Don’t spread this info too much then it’ll get patched 😢

[@TemplarGuardian]

Auto restoring paint job, nice. Honestly it needs that just to keep up with the Connie scrape job

[@Essobee]

@@sedrummer4215 it should be patched, as it's obviously a bug. Rather, the mission gains/cost should be refined.

[@DJRaffa1000]

Interesting, for me the cargo grid snapping works flawlessly in this patch. I also dont block the eject that easily. But yeah, the outside ladder ist busted. No chance to work it

[@TemplarGuardian]

It sounds like it maybe a new setting on the multi tool after selecting B

[@CharlesDSmith-mv7zi]

It is fixed in 3.23.1 PTU.

[@TheeKevlarDucky]

This may sound stupid but I can't seem to find an answer. Is a Vulture with 2 Abrades faster at scraping than running a Reclaimer with 1 Abrade?

[@TheeKevlarDucky]

If not then no biggie. I'll test later. The other night it just seemed like I was scraping the large panels faster than I was with the Reclaimer.

[@TemplarGuardian]

@@TheeKevlarDucky I actually haven't tested that and I think it's worth a look tbh

[@gregbromley152]

Great video. Thanks for sticking with this. Out of curiosity, for anyone using a salvage ship in 3.23, have you seen the mfd's disappear and/or lost mobility/engine control with either the vulture or reclaimer?

[@TemplarGuardian]

I haven't seen that yet, thanks for watching

[@kademmuratdemir8273]

hi there there are some vulture ships floating around grim hex as I see in game . is it possible to get in one of them if it is how ? do you have any idea about it ? cause I want to try salvaging but I cant afford to buy the ship in game for now

[@TemplarGuardian]

Possibly as players have probably Disconnected, however it wouldn’t work the same for you. You would need to put the cargo in another ship

[@CharlesDSmith-mv7zi]

Try to find someone with a Reclaimer that you can crew on for a share of the profits. Then you can earn enough aUEC TO BUY A vulture.

[@David-82]

Is there a bug or something where you cannot sell your construction material at admin? After completing two salvage missions I went to Seraphin to sell and it said I cannot sell it so I tried Orison, same thing.

[@TemplarGuardian]

I don’t think Seraphin will take it tbh, the L5s generally do though, as far as space stations go. I haven’t had an issue with Orison, atleast not this patch, sometimes it can be full

[@adiabeticjedi3278]

That area around the planets that aren't moons or satellites, is called neighborhoods.

[@ABrutalAnimal]

I wish I could salvage. I bought the vulture for this exact situation where there is a wipe. Sadly, I'm a victim of the bug where your ships come with no modules and you can't equip any.

[@TemplarGuardian]

That sounds freaking terrible, sorry to hear u got that bug

[@ABrutalAnimal]

@TemplarGuardian is what it is. Thinking about asking for a full character reset. Kinda what I wanted anyway

[@TemplarGuardian]

@@ABrutalAnimal I guess atleast a better time to do it if any

[@sniper00691]

It’s way easier and faster to just go get panels they give more rmc 1 panel is between 4-8 scu and only takes around 2-3 minutes a panel you can completely fill your vulture in about 20 minutes if your good at stacking the cargo

[@apexgaming5471]

How did you actually get the plates to show up? I go the RS signature but every time I get there the plates are gone. Is it a server issue?

[@TemplarGuardian]

They can be hard to find, that spinning around I was doing was me looking for them. Macedon suggests coming up to them slowly, I have a link to his guide in the description and he covers it in more detail.

[@markkent729]

Someone knows, I can’t change the module to Abrade, after “preserve and apply” he drops to the original

[@TemplarGuardian]

that does appear to be a bug that some are experiencing, Retrieving the ship then re-storing it

[@markkent729]

@TemplarGuardian I've been trying second day, I've probably tried 20 times, nothing. And today I encountered a bug of shields not being restored, I did not receive damage, not in hyper mode, and 100 power in shields, 4 hours and I gave up.

[@olsnapper840]

My drake vulture is bugged right now. The rear ramp is only open halfway at Port Tressler so I can't even access it :( I have tried storing it, taking it back out, server logging, nothing works. Any ideas? I really want to get into this gameloop and not being able to pilot my ship is so frustrating. Great video btw!

[@CharlesDSmith-mv7zi]

Take your daily driver to MicroTech or one of the Mic Lx stations and claim it.

[@CharlesDSmith-mv7zi]

CIG Devs fixed the Vulture ladder bug in 3.23.1 PTU.

[@TheDarkospartan]

Great video. Is this mission always at yela?

[@phenomeenah-yar]

Is there a time limit on the clean up mission before security shows up?

[@TemplarGuardian]

Should be an hour the risky ones are 30 minutes, I think it may mention the time in the mission text. It use to have a timer but they took it away

[@LeiaKuu]

when I type ''V'' to scan my sgnl doesnt go up and stay at 0% and I cant see anythings is it normal?

[@TemplarGuardian]

@@LeiaKuu it starts at zero but you can use your mouse wheel to change it

[@LeiaKuu]

@@TemplarGuardian ty now I can't sell my rmc anywhere been doing 5 stations and planet and none of them want to buy it from me im desperate now

[@trikkimick]

Did they fix where you could just sit in the pilot seat and not get a crimestat?

[@TemplarGuardian]

That should still wok for tractor beams

[@kjmagnon]

Lagrange points, natural gravity well between planets

[@scanjett]

i learned that the multitool has 2 modes now, one for traversal and other for tractor beaming. just hit B to swap the modes then the grid works.

[@VoodooMcVee]

It already had these modes in the old patch, it just defaulted to cargo handling before.

[@luciusthegod]

How do you turn on the keys in the bottom right?

[@Arkathtoo]

It’s in the settings, Show Control Hints

[@TemplarGuardian]

The tips? It should be on by default but if not it’s in options>game setting> then something like tooltip hints or something like that

[@afshin1082]

Please explain the Reclaimer as well. My claw doesn't come out

[@TemplarGuardian]

Same issue with master modes, hop in the pilot seat and put it in scm gun mode, out of nav mode, the try the claw again. Also Powering it on came be wonky, but my best guess is u left it in navy mode.

[@SpaceDad42]

@@TemplarGuardian That and also the claw power needs to be turned on twice right now. Bugged.

[@TemplarGuardian]

@@SpaceDad42 yeah, it’s been like that for awhile but it’s worse now because it will show power off after u hit it once in the new UI. I generally try to send out the claw after powering it on once, then it will say not powered and let u hit F on the left to power it on the 2nd time.

[@viper5955]

👍

[@ExileLTU]

does it feel any better to do salvage missions?

[@TemplarGuardian]

The only mission worth taking for the vulture seems to really be the cleanup mission. The salvage claim missions have very lower margins do to their cost and the size of the ships available

[@SpaceDad42]

Worse. Much worse.

[@CharlesDSmith-mv7zi]

I haven’t done a 50K Connie salvage mission in 3.23.0 yet, but based on the increase in RMC and having done many in 3.22, I would expect a Connie to have a net return of more than 100K, even after deducting the 50K cost.

[@alexc9434]

I have an M2 so I take it out backspace and come back with my vulture. I get about 25 boxes in the vulture and 13 in the queue. All together it’s about 500,000 every hour or less. If you don’t have an M2 you can just go find panels and fill up that way. It’s a great way to make money.

[@kiwioz01]

They need seperate axis to the turrets

[@lordanubis5965]

Hopefully now the cargo dupe is fixed RMC should be easier to sell now it's not the meta

[@TemplarGuardian]

Is it fixed? I’ve seen a few folks say that over the last day but haven’t seen that yet in game. They really need to stop selling RMC

[@lordanubis5965]

@@TemplarGuardian not sure if the ability to dupe was gone. But the need was 100% gone. Cargo grids were worming properly without dupe/claim as of Drakecon. So anyone still doing it is just being a piece of sh.... exploiter.

[@sebastiankold5403]

Nice video! Your speaking way to fast for me and a bit more structure would help your video.

[@TemplarGuardian]

noted, thanks for checking it out

[@tomschuelke7955]

I think its a nice video... not totaly sure, because i am not a native speaker.. so maybe next time just talk a bit slower.. or... german.... ;-)

[@TemplarGuardian]

Learn German, got it, thanks for watching

[@SpaceDad42]

Those were player ships.

[@TemplarGuardian]

The A2 and stuff, probably that would make sense too. That area looks like one of the Red box explorer zones. Atleast, that’s what I consider exploration in SC at this point. Going to the uncharted wrecks that have pledge store red box loot

[@mr.bossman8935]

Proof that nerfing isn't the answer. Thank god they nerfed the missions but left every other thing useless. Legit and other unlegit missions are useless. Realistically they only "fixed it" because it's cutting into their profits since people can afford to buy stuff in game.

[@TemplarGuardian]

Yeah this needs to be reevaluated