Elite Dangerous Beginner Tutorial - Bounty Hunting Crash Course

Crash Course Bounty Hunting for the new Commander. This video covers everything from undocking your ship, finding a pirate, and cashing in your hard earned bounties.
0:19 Ship Selection
0:57 UI Familiarization (skip this if you already know how to navigate the ship's menus)
1:54 Pre-flight checks (Make sure you have weapons and enough power to run them!!!)
4:30 Undocking
5:17 Entering Supercruise to find our first Pirate
5:46 Different modes of travel around Elite: Dangerous (Normal/Supercruise/Hyperjump)
6:31 How to find a place to bounty hunt
7:54 Hunting and killing pirates
9:25 Return to port
10:27 How to dock and turn in our bounties
12:48 Ending
Thanks to www.elite-dangerous-blog.co.uk for their ship blueprints. Thank you to Shostakovich and Leopold Stokowski leading the Philadelphia Orchestra for my opening music. Thank you for Frontier Development for making Elite: Dangerous and to the great community that surrounds this game.

[@Erilis000]

I know this tutorial is almost two years old but it's been super helpful for me starting out. You make it very clear and easy to understand. When every other resource just leads to more questions, yours answers them clearly.Thanks for this!

[@attrociouz]

Thank you this is the first video that actually helped after struggling with the game for several days!

[@brintabokka1393]

This is BY Far the best beginner tutorial on Elite Dangerous. 07 Commander.

[@markkruszczynski1973]

There are tons of tutorials out there, but as a relatively new player, THIS video has SO MUCH helpful information! Thanks for putting this out there, make more!

[@eugeneschramm6029]

1.Mailslot is safe to approach where green light side is but not at the center. Remember - Belugas are widewingy. 2. 100% thrust in supercruise is good for moving from one interstellar object to another; when in 200Ls or so from the target, switching to 75% thrust, that gives you proper approach speed for a successfull drop down from supercruise at destitation object. 3. Better fighting experience can be acheived at hazRes sites at stellar object's rings; you can also choose the zone that matches your pew-pew experience by Threat Level grades. 4. Lasers are better to take down shields, while kinetic weapons (like multicannons) are to crush the hull. Missiles are mostly used vs ground or static installations like turrets in planetary missions. 5. Hull reinforcements in Optional Internals or Shield boosters in Utility Mounts can increase your ship's durability and survivability dramatically. 6. Engineering ship modules is a cure against almost all ship's congential diseases like snail-like manouverability or low dps / small range lasers e.t.c.. 7. Try never to fly without enough insurance Credits amount on your account. Otherwise - welcome back my Sidewinder beloved! 8.. .. X. Respect your enemy. Small opponent ships can smash your medium Python / large Anaconda at no their shield cost when: a. You did not set and memorized proper buttons to control your ship (Frontier was confident you knew your personal preferences and you set all keyboard buttons up before pew-pew); ) b. You, had total 150 milCred, bought Anaconda for 149 milCred - just because you finally could afford it and got into fight; c. Bigger ship size is not a cure against more experienced smaller enemy. PERSONAL experience, (your personal, not a rank or in-game experience put in brave words) makes real difference when in a battle; personal player's experience predicts who has more chances to win in another pew-pew..

[@solosailorsv8065]

Thanks for adding to an excellent tutorial. Yes, years later, your work is relevant !

[@norntneithernt3919]

This is a gem for beginners. Thanks

[@therealpb674]

One of the most clear info videos I have watched on Elite Dangerous so far. Much appreciated!

[@Screwtxpe.]

Precisely brilliant, thank you for this.

[@polyroguegames5820]

This was so helpful, thank you. I never new nav beacons were so packed like this. I had just been wandering barren RES hoping to find someone.

[@colby4181]

Right! Lol ive been overshooting everyone lol

[@CarlJames10]

I cant wait till im good at this game.. super excited!!

[@colby4181]

Wow straight to the point! I love it.. couldn't figure out why i wasnt finding the pirates. Great quick tutorial!

[@atpjoker6492]

Just got the game 2 weeks ago. Havent touched bounty bcuz didnt really make sense. After this video its on like donkey kong! Thanks man great video^^

[@davidis7]

Great video. I wish would make more of them…

[@traineddumbass2018]

Finally a guide that explains it clearly and precisely big thumbs up

[@tombeach1262]

Thanks for this. Been playing the game for several hours and now tried to improve my combat skills. Found multiple lengthy videos on everything in the book, but nothing basic to get me started.

[@antoniovc]

By far one of the best tutorials I've seen on this game, thanks for the tips!

[@edbattleson]

Woah, tons of great detail! Explains a TON of unexplained details about the game. I knew much of this but I had to learn the hard way. I wish this would have been the first ED video that I watched.

[@Majinga]

very well explained, other videos are long and doesn't provide much help, this one provides lots of info for a newbie like me. thank you

[@aousr]

Easily one of the best explanation I have seen. Great job 👍

[@solosailorsv8065]

Years Later....GREAT presentation and attention to details with an INTRO and all !! Yet just 4 videos.... disappointment. I'm guessing your talent is applied elsewhere or "Life Happens" Good on you, you had it Right, Mate

[@cmdrpsylim1979]

Thanks! I enjoyed doing these videos, but didn't feel like paying for an Adobe Premier subscription to continue producing them. But if people are finding them helpful I might resub to adobe and make more videos - although likely for Eve Online since I haven't played Elite in quite a while.

[@avian12311]

Thank you SO much! Just starting out; this REALLY helped! 😃

[@bilbo_skywalker]

Great quality video

[@headbanger1977]

Great video. Perfectly explained. Thank you!!

[@TheBiohazard3179]

Amazing video!

[@falanfilan9852]

straightforward and informative. thanks man.

[@simonpotter7534]

That was nice a clear. thanks. I have saved up for a Vulture for bounty hunting im looking forward to seeing what it can do.

[@slayedbyquilegaming]

Well done. I am now a master pilot.

[@dotdenton]

Thanks for the video, very helpful

[@jakestirling5226]

Very helpful, thank you

[@toppernimble2710]

The video was very, very helpful... I thought you had to have a scanner to hunt wanted people... I am playing in VR and I appreciate your video!!!

[@chuck2703]

Well done

[@randomperson9672]

Thanks loads I'm new and u helped me a lot earned a sub

[@happymoisteel7541]

I've been pulling my hair all this time how to disable the comms panel input due too using trackIR.. THANK YOU!

[@Blazeww]

Tip for noobs from experience. Don't use a Hauler. I did and 30 seconds in the canopy was toast and had to FSD out blind using the white dot.... Tho I did kill one and make it to a station..

[@Tixsi11]

Thanks !

[@jonathanmiller8131]

Iv been playing this for awhile i have altered my ship to jump 25 ly but every time i try to add new weapons my modules get messed up and cant engage in combat or mineing without loseing oxygen just trying to rank up and get my sol permit

[@Queltamas]

I've killed the same pirate I've got a contract one 3 times already and the mission just won't update

[@b1vantage45]

Goood vid . This is my question though. I accepted a bounty mission and was told to go this this settlement access a computer, to find out where the pirate is. When I got there I was fined for trespassing ? What did I do wrong, what am I missing?

[@quiet1027]

one question from a new player when u fly to a nav beacon does it have to be scanned? or do u fly there than start looking for ur bounty

[@Bionic8J]

How do you not die so easily in these missions, it seems impossible not to

[@Mickeymouse7727]

I noticed after coming back after almost a year, that when I look and find a wanted ship I used to look to my right panel and I could see the ships factions allegiance. For may be nothing more than roleplaying purposes, I never attacked federation aligned ships because I wanted my rep to be as high as possible. But now I can't find out how to quickly view affections allegiance anymore. Can someone help me with this?

[@marshingo5262]

In the left panel where they are wanted It will say what faction not major power (major power is fed, alliance, empire) factions are like states within them. Although if they're wanted they probably committed crimes against the federation ;)

[@kennikia2234]

When I started the game, the tutorial gave me a kinetic weapon and a lazer weapon. My kinetic weapon is now gone and I have two laser weapons and cannot afford a new one. Was this supposed to happen?

[@TrangleC]

Great tutorial. Bummer you apparently only made 3 videos.

[@theleggend27]

All my bounties jump into supercruise or just perform a hyperscpace jump to another system and i can't follow then cuz they can travel further than me.. i guess they use fsd when they are low on health, and it's a pain in the ass cuz i spend almost all my rockets and ammo just for them to escape... i spent 60,000cr of ammo on 1 dude that escaped from me 3 times alredy and the reward for him is 180,000cr.... how do i stop this from hapening ?

[@akmaru]

Target their subsystems either the Power Plant or FSD

[@ianh1010]

You talk about shifting "pips" - what are you doing when you say that?

[@samposey522]

That's power management, SYS/ENG/WEAP it's bound to the arrows on keyboard and it allows you to allocate more power to systems at the sake of starving the others. Say you need to move quickly, put power to engines and loop around, divert power to weapons and blast away, then switch to systems for shield Regen. Down arrow resets to balanced distribution.

[@izawa9211]

But how to do Bounty Hunter missions

[@Castodas]

Sorry, I thumbed it down because too much of the video was about navigation and distracted from bounty hunting- which was the reason I searched for videos on bounty hunting. You could have gone into more detail about power usage or talked a little about techniques. Or otherwise chop out everything that was purely navigation. Just for reference, all that stuff I am referring to could be useful for mining/trading/exploring but is not really about mining/trading... But probably most suitable for a video about exploration. I thought you did a very good job on your presentation and as many have mentioned you were very clear in your explanations. Sorry, I apologize if that sounds patronizing.

[@searchbug]

Bounty hunters have several techniques at their disposal to track down and bring fugitives to justice. It's important to remember that the mix of tools, tricks, and methods are only useful if you know how to use them. -IP Address Locator -Skip Tracing -Background Check & Criminal Records Search -Performing Tricks -Good Network and Connections For bounty hunters, data is intelligence. Arm yourself with lots of it.

[@mdk1000]

Your intro says 'CMDR PYSLIM"

[@cmdrpsylim1979]

Ah so it does, lol have to redo it everytime, thanks for pointing it out

[@littletweeter1327]

Is this how to fly or how to do bounties?? Too much how to do tutorial stuff

[@astra2144]

i have a anaconda and i'm still harmless in combat :/