First Vulture Salvage Contracts | Star Citizen 3.22 4K Gameplay

[@0giwan]

A Vulture salvaging a Vulture? That's CANNIBALISM!

[@Farrister]

Lol

[@LeoBarton]

Fun fact: waaay back when, some of the early concept stuff stated "The Cutter is an announced snub craft to be included with the Reclaimer." Guess it just got completely repurposed. I'm in love with the idea of a salvage snub though -- let it fill up an internal bay then toot on back to a larger base ship to unload, and that base ship can handle printing boxes. Buddy and I had this idea: have it be Argo and it can print some 32scu boxes and it'll work perfectly with the RAFT. Call the big ship the BEAR -- Break Extract Acquire Repurpose, and the snubs are variations of the MPUV. Call 'em cubs.

[@Tyreinn]

You have fleshed out my Argo 2 man salvage ship more than I ever could have thank you very much

[@Farrister]

Bear cubs... Amazing

[@pascalb7023]

Extra tip: When disintegrating, you can get more construction material by being at the right distance from and aiming at the right spot on the ship part you are disintegrating. You can see the % number beside the SCU amount, it goes from -19% to +19%. So by being at the right spot you can get up to 38% more construction materials than if you don't pay attention to it at all.

[@AndrewJens]

Interesting point. Thanks for this.

[@ryudo333]

I had no idea this was a thing. I noticed the % before, but just assumed it was a placeholder for future upgrade stuff. Thank you so much for the tip!

[@Farrister]

Good to know!

[@UnknownMoses]

That makes such a huge difference on a hammerhead in a single operation

[@ryudo333]

Love the more casual talking from you, Farrister. Thanks for showing off more of the Salvage gameplay! It's definitely my favorite right now when I need something to do while listening to podcasts.

[@Farrister]

Good for a more relaxing change of pace

[@UnknownMoses]

Maybe a C2 is spawned and a vulture is used to salvage and move the cargo to it then when the c2 is full take that c2 to sell cargo.

[@Chaffee738]

I only recently got into salvaging and I can absolutely see why it's popular. Especially when I figured out how to use the station pads to spawn a second ship and load the salvage materials to a cargo ship, reducing the trips to and from the planetary spaceport. When I'm not in the mood to seek excitement, I just take a salvage contract on something like MSR or Corsair, turn on the salvage beam and off-center it from the crosshair slightly and let the beam run across the length of the ship while I browse the web or something. Rinse and repeat.

[@Farrister]

How are you using pads for that? That sounds awesome

[@Chaffee738]

@@Farrister Ohh, okay "using the pads to spawn a second ship" isn't entirely accurate, and I might have just confused you and you already know, but let me explain what I meant. I recently learned that space station landing pads are still in the game, just never assigned by ATC. They can still be landed on and, more importantly, they still have elevators. So after finishing a salvaging run, go back to the home station, *do not request landing*, find and land on a vacant landing pad, use the elevator to get back to the lobby just like we used to do back when landing pads were in service, and then spawn a second ship, which you can fly to the same landing pad that you left your Vulture. The existence of pads makes it really easy to have two ships out at the same time to transfer boxes between them. When finished, just get inside each ship and request landing to store them one by one. Repeat till the cargo ship is filled so that you can sell all of them in one single trip to planetside. My mind was blown when I found out this was a thing because otherwise in order to move boxes between ships you'd have to fly the first ship somewhere, somehow get back to the station and spawn a second ship, and fly back to the first one. But with landing pads, we can do all of it right at the station, albeit at risk of having the ships stolen or pad-rammed. Sure, it's also tedious work to spawn the second ship and move the boxes, but moving boxes is a surprisingly fun and satisfying gameplay (especially witb ship-size tractor beam), much more than going to the TDD every salvaging trip. This also makes me really look forward to persistent hangars which will make spawning multiple ships much faster and safer.

[@poposterous236]

@@Chaffee738 Thank you so much for that

[@snaggletoof1927]

Love the gameplay footage, especially of salvaging. Thank you for putting this all together, Farrister!

[@Farrister]

Thanks Snaggletoof

[@raze4789]

few tips. 2x abrade are the best for speed, especially on larger ships. Secondary I have the tractor and a trawler. The largest ships the vulture can handle are Connie's and MSR's. Press G to gimbal your scraping heads, works better than moving the whole ship just to move your scraping heads. Seems the meta is just to hop around and frac/dis ships but I really enjoy scraping. A connie/MSR is enough to fill your cargo hold (21 SCU) and the buffer. You can use your multitool tractor beam in the hangar.

[@Farrister]

2x Abrade is my preferred too - gimbal doesn't work for me (to do with my control binds for recording video). I also enjoy the scraping!

[@dtsatanfu8673]

You have a relaxing voice, legit almost passed out while watching going to bed. Great video. Visuals were stunning. Loved the nebula in the back from one vulture to the other

[@cardheon6091]

Ive always thought of the Cutter as in it cuts through the air because its easy to fly both in atmosphere and in space and the Vulture because vultures are scavenger birds

[@TheMasterdisaster14]

what a wonderful video to fall asleep to. No hard feelings, love the setting.

[@Farrister]

Haha no worries, glad you enjoyed - sweet dreams!

[@Tango39-SC]

Thanks for another enjoyable video Farrister. It reminded me that that I also needed to regain my salvage rep after the recent patch. Cheers mate! 👍

[@Farrister]

Glad you enjoyed, thankfully a quick and easy job to do!

[@Hotsaucerubbdown23]

You’re the Bob Ross of Star citizen

[@Farrister]

Thank you ( I think? )

[@Hotsaucerubbdown23]

@@Farrister Bob Ross is an absolute legend 🫡

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

on the topic of 'courageous and bold', while doing the current blockade run missions/event, my partner and I stuffed probably close to 150 SCU onto her Corsair. And we survived!

[@stevejamieson1613]

My trouble is that I bought a C2 Starlifter last year. Bloody thing prints money. I can make over 250k in one run from Bajini to Area 18 in 15 minutes!. I did buy a Vulture in game though. I’ll do a couple of cargo runs in the C2 to make some fast big bucks then I’ll spend the rest of my time in the Vulture or just bugger about the place in a Cutter. Another champion video though mate. Cheers.

[@Farrister]

Hercules is awesome too!

[@chrissinclair8705]

I definitely like your gameplay videos. The reason why is because I've had a ship(Avenger) since what? God knows when and have sort off cooled of SC. However I'm still sort of keeping up with the development and having a gentleman such as yourself explain the progress definitely helps with keeping up so I may get back into it when it's in more of a finished design. Thank you. Great video. Makes me want to help give people a lift again...lol.

[@Farrister]

Thanks Chris :)

[@obaniehia]

also, for starting out if you want to skip the first two smaller ships you can just jump in and munch them and it completes.

[@Farrister]

*shudders in completionist* :D

[@Tainted-Soul]

when scraping if you press "G" you dont have to move your ship you can just use the mouse. also if you had used the hangers after the first sale you can use a tractor beam in the hanger to move the box's

[@Farrister]

I should mention this in each video, my bad. But for me it doesn't work, I think it's because I have had to rebind a lot of the view controls for shooting footage in game. But gimbal doesn't work for me.

[@Tainted-Soul]

@@Farrister Oh sorry thats a shame

[@gboogert]

When scanning doesn't want to work right off the bat, try reducing the scan angle from 360 to anything 180 or below. That often triggers it to actually scan the ship in front of you.

[@Farrister]

Haha OK!

[@CyberMage42]

I remember my first time salvaging like it was yesterday… I really should do some more salvage runs, just to revisit some more relaxed game loops…

[@Farrister]

So relaxing!

[@corditeshade]

More of this please Farrister 😊

[@Farrister]

OK!

[@javr0]

you can automate the box creation a bit by ticking the "auto eject" at the bottom of the display

[@Farrister]

Yes, I actually did that for the later boxes in this video. But single box can be a bit more manageable sometimes

[@ohyeah2816]

Been having issues with thr Vulture, including nut being able to refit thr left scraper and the right scraper losing efficiency. Waiting fot 3.23 until I try again. Was really enjoying it following your instructions.

[@SebastiaanSwinkels]

Should've checked what sort of heads were on the other Vulture ;) Also, RMC scraping is slower than it was before 3.22, yield is lower too, but to balance that out (more or less), the value has gone up from 7.699K / SCU to 14K+/SCU

[@Farrister]

Should have done!

[@ophidian1965]

So relaxing thank you

[@Farrister]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lottievixen]

i will say backup from what you are scraping to the furthest you can be and still see well enough, to cover bigger area on the hull. but sweet thanks for another vid

[@Farrister]

Glad you enjoyed - I like my salvaging up close and personal xD

[@lottievixen]

@@Farrister hehe fair, i kept smacking the salvage with the heads but that's a sandbox do as you like it was really nice to watch.

[@basarsurmen2196]

There used to be metal ( parts looking like wings or such ) salvage around n these asteroid fields but no more I guess. they were very profitable to salvage.

[@Farrister]

I haven't seen any for a while!

[@thomasswindler9832]

I usually like to switch the second module's mode, but turn on both salvage beams at the same time (cinch on the left, abrade on the right). It'd be nice if there was the option to have a tractor/abrade module on the left. I have seen someone steal a salvage head from a reclaimer and put it on a vulture, I wonder if that still works with the 3.22 PU release.

[@Farrister]

Oh interesting idea

[@luvit579]

you can buy the Trawler modules and put them on the Vulture. They are at dumpers depot.

[@party4lifedude]

I think the name of the cutter comes from old sailing ships were smaller and more agile than something like a Corsair sailing ships, with the hull type designated "cutter". I'm pretty sure they were used by pirates often, so it would fall neatly into the rest of Drake's aesthetic. There is a more modern ship that has the "cutter" hull designation, but it's a modern Coast Guard patrol ship. I don't think the inspiration came from that one, given Drake's whole pirate theme and ship names like Corsair.

[@Farrister]

Yeah it is, I was just making an interesting observation on nomenclature ;-)

[@phillipscott9736]

Cutters were used be the revenue cutter service. Which turned into the coast guard. We still use the term cutter on our ships 65 feet and larger.

[@ItzTheCattman]

Not my van-life ship thing! I love the cutter.

[@ConceptART-Dagas]

Just got the vulture some days ago, so im here to learn a bit 😛. I salvaged one ship, still havent gone and sell anything, so thanks, now i see how. Cos i did found it odd i went to a place to sell, and no option to do it. Now i realized some places wont buy certain things, while others will 🤗. Also, cool location, with that train ride, dont think ive been there yet. But i think its New Babage? The place i avoided cos i kept freezing and stuttering (ok i was there once, just didnt explore cos of that). Meanwhile received extra 16gb ram, game ran awesome last time, so i will pay a visit there soon :D

[@Farrister]

New Babbage is one of my favourite places in game!

[@MidKnight2142]

Quick question, hopefully, did they ever fix the "bug" where if you salvaged something (with the vulture or reclaimer) and move the cargo from said salvage ship to another ship (for cargo transport), does it still count as stolen? It was something my friends and I enjoyed doing, salvaging with multiple vultures and filling up a large cargo ship, but it was always a massive pain to sell, and didn't like taking the pay cut to sell stolen goods.

[@Farrister]

You know, I'm not sure - I need to go try it now lol

[@photogasm5]

As with the Carrack, the Cutter is named after a kind of naval ship. It has nothing to do with cutting.

[@Farrister]

I'm aware, just thought it was an interesting observation!

[@migtin688]

I find it hard to scrape with the lights on. When it is pitch black, I will flash the light on then off to get an idea of the geometry since the back sides like to highlight you cannot get to unles you move around the ship. Good video, thanks.

[@Farrister]

Interesting, I'll give it a try!

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

Ores can be sold at Area18 by the way, Farrister

[@Farrister]

Good to know

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

Littering Planetary Space means adding hazards to space navigation Farrister!!

[@Farrister]

>:)

[@UnknownMoses]

A cutter is a naval term for a small ship, not that it cuts anything

[@Farrister]

I'm aware, I was just making a name-based observation :)

[@AndreasMadsen]

A bit late to the party, but I didn't get around to watch your video until now. I've always thought that the name "cutter" refers to a class of smaller ships (I believe originally with 1 mast) that often is used for patrol or SAR duty in navies coast guard etc. Probably also by pirates back in the day 🤔😆

[@corditeshade]

Are the modules something you can buy? Also how do you activate the tractor beam? I don’t half love salvaging but anything to make life easier 😊

[@Farrister]

Yes, you can buy. The tractor beam is activated by activating the salvage head it's on.

[@dpawtows]

​@@Farristeris there a way to activate only one head on one side of a Vulture? I only know how to trigger both sides at once.

[@Farrister]

@@dpawtows yes, I don't remember from memory, but it's alt and then something around WASD

[@sadpluslonely2775]

I haven't brought this game yet, but salvaging makes me think of "Powerwash Simulator," with some extra steps, which I think is honestly quite funny

[@party4lifedude]

If the tractor beam had the same controls and behavior as the physgun from Garry's Mod, it would be pretty nice.

[@Farrister]

I don't know that one

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

Notice you didn't check to see if that Vulture had any RMC or Construction Material in it's buffer???

[@Farrister]

I didn't, is that a thing?!

[@obaniehia]

so for the vulture i try to ge1t double abrade and double tractor beams on the salvage heads but this patch it's being wonky

[@Farrister]

Double abrade is my preferred too

[@heysitsyamez3801]

I just wanna know how you used your ship tractor beam on the other vulture WITHOUT GETTING A CRIMESTAT. Literally every time I've done it I get slapped with a cs2

[@Farrister]

Oh, I don't know, never got a crimestat for that!

[@Draco_Arcane]

Cutter as in the naval ships. Drake is a very naval in naming space ships. Don't ask me about the vulture, caterpillar, or mule. 😂

[@Farrister]

I know, I was making a bad dad joke comment xD

[@stonerhino83]

It's wild to me that the spaceports of the future are designed so inefficiently. What is the logic behind forcing pilots to wander around the local mall to sell their materials.

[@Farrister]

Haha so true

[@Thefuzzyspoons]

Pro tip, don't try and land on the ship at the side door. Open the door and click to sit in chair as you EVA.

[@Farrister]

I find that chair quite sticky to grab, sometimes easier to just land first!

[@Thefuzzyspoons]

@Farrister ya but if you are grabbing in zero G it can be easy to float near the door rather then try and stand. Then you can sit without the spin, crash thing the game does.

[@Nordorf]

I've not played this game, only been looking at ships and specs etc. for now.. Personally, i'm not that into the whole PVP thing, so how likely are you to get jumped doing these contracts?

[@SubiSnax]

I have been playing since around 2017. Between mining, cargo hauling and salvage I think I've been jumped maybe 3 times. It's not as prevalent as some make it seem. It also helps to learn where the safer areas are to operate out of.

[@Farrister]

Not likely. It does happen, and when it happens, it's widely discussed. But for an experienced player who knows when to make a run for it, it's really not a big issue right now.

[@LittleTed2]

Need to select target first before scanning?

[@Farrister]

It was just a slow server - the later scans worked!

[@yossakornkangthong5681]

Fyi dont go down ladder when QT. You can fall off the ship

[@Farrister]

I barely ever move in QT, I'm so scarred by previous patches lol

[@Stony5438]

this is a super late comment. but the ores could potentially sold at one of the space stations at the refinery

[@mrrook3631]

Double tapping V can help with the scan not working

[@Farrister]

Good to know!

[@slipshft1]

This is the way...

[@Farrister]

This is the way

[@mr.j3751]

“Let’s strip it and rip it.” 😉

[@Farrister]

oh my

[@mackxzs]

God damn... that's actually a lot of money for such a small ship

[@Farrister]

Yeah, not bad!

[@MrMinas88]

I love doing these also but isnt the most profitable. The crate u too called placeholder cant be sold , i think its like a bugged cargo.

[@AnthoNyFr215]

Cool

[@Farrister]

o7

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

Not Nebulae, just Gas / Dust Clouds.

[@Farrister]

Just gas

[@_Mezzanine]

I really hope they rework the salvage, hull munching is really boring right now [insert beam citizen joke]

[@Farrister]

I don't mind it

[@EdadTace]

Nope, scanning was user error. While scanning is kinda hit and miss, you should have been changing the size of the scan until it started working.

[@Farrister]

Got it working on the later ships :)

[@99_sam]

Did the game wipe?

[@Farrister]

No, but sometimes the mission progress does

[@usmcpound]

10 years later and this still ain't done somehow.

[@Farrister]

Nope, still not done. But pretty good nonetheless!

[@Chacesumica]

Disappointed, portraying a starting out savager and not taking the guns and modulus out of the first ship XD

[@Farrister]

I dunno, I don't think it's worth it in the Vulture Vs having extra storage space?

[@Chacesumica]

@@Farrister size one weapons fit nicely on the bed and can stack plenty of size one systems in the shittershower. If you base out of cruL5 you can sell everything you salvage at one station. Even RMC if you are willing to be payed less for it at the NQA termnal.

[@Farrister]

@@Chacesumica that's awesome, I didn't know that about the bed!

[@sneakyfildy]

Spent 2 hours of salvaging this evening. Got a vulture FULL of rmc and cm plus full station. Got a disconnect near New Babbage and lost everything. God, how I love your videos and hate this piece of shit which some call a game 😅

[@Farrister]

Oh no, that's awful! I've been quite fortunate that even crashes lately have kept all my stuff

[@theack777]

this vid says first salvaging mission but you dont tell us what keys to push to do anything. I just bought my vulture and know nothing so I came to your vid to learn because your title says FIRST mission which is what a noob would do but no instruction!! I now leave after a thumbs down and find a real tutorial!!!

[@Farrister]

Ah sorry, this was intended as a gameplay mission rather than a tutorial. But I have got a salvage tutorial here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5WlpntrfbOYna8 if it's helpful

[@robertcasey966]

what a noob