Vulture + Caterpillar Tractor Beam Salvage - LTI ship Giveaway - Star Citizen 3.21.1 gameplay

[@SmokeBigi]

industrial gameplay is chill & theraputic, when the servers don't crash

[@X3105i]

I mean I would like to salvage but my vulture doesn't want to equip it's salvage heads

[@hibana364]

"When the servers don't crash" if when they do, it's horrible and dreadful, it's like : "Hey today I wanna flip a coin ! What will it be CIG ?" (Yes, not everyone rely on this game for their mood aye ? Just a small joke)

[@adammayer8537]

I would agree with this, and I wish devs would spend more time on server stability rather than on events

[@Amrin-05]

I love how Drake ships just work so well together, Caterpillar + Vultures is just perfection and the Cutty Black even has painting on the floor perfectly fitting 2 dragonflies. No other manufacturer has that level of harmony between their ships.

[@AJ-em2rb]

While the Nomad and RAFT are my favorite ships, Drake is my favorite manufacturer by more than a parsec

[@coltonkelly6303]

Then what was the problem with the boxes is this a consistent issue?

[@sillothian4618]

The ship tractor beams have made a massive difference to the effectiveness of group salvage operations like this. Great video.

[@Citizen_Kate]

Yeah it was a surprise hit for me - i was not super excited about the ship based tractor beams beforehand but seeing how much they add to the capability of the ships that have them i think they are an amazing addition to the game :)

[@DayZ-Klips]

​@@Citizen_Kate First I've seen of them being used in game. Great job and thanks for the tips!

[@lilmikers1024]

Dang, this really makes me want to join a salvage crew

[@drksideofthewal]

The Nomad would be pretty convenient to pair with the Vulture for smaller operations, as its tractor beam is operable from the pilot seat.

[@Citizen_Kate]

oooh yeah i didnt know that! i can see that being an excellent choice!

[@lights4bre890]

315P even better - tractor beam accessible from pilot seat and its facing foreward out in front of the nose - so, no having to maneuver to work behind the ship

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@lights4bre890 on paper perhaps, but the 315Ps tractorbeam isnt gimballed and you cant enter its remote turret. And there are cargo guards so you cant just yank the cargo from the front.

[@Skavenblight13]

​@@lights4bre890yes, but Nomad can put the Stuff from the Vulture or the Cargo right on their own 24 SCU grid without leaving the Cockpit. 😊

[@evobsm2328]

​@@CathrineMacNielwhat scu storage?

[@djo5080]

Having multiple vultures on a job just looks right. Actually looks like a true mining job like in real life. Very therapeutic video.

[@mythicalbeast1202]

Agreed

[@Ramvic]

Caterpillar for life!!! Who doesn't want one? I can't wait to have all its features completed, like cockpit detaching and door lifts for ease of loading cargo.

[@Skavenblight13]

When Multicrew Gameplay is finished and the Modules also, I would take it immediately. 😁

[@redshirt49]

Or being able to fit snap 32SCU boxes.

[@nip3004]

I honestly don't think the cockpit will ever detach

[@karateguy8065]

The synergy between the Vulture and Cat is really nice. More manufacturers need that

[@SniperFox32]

Love watching these kinds of operations you guys put together, makes me want to be involved in a large scale salvage operation myself.

[@tehBoxxyMan]

Group salvage gameplay loop is really all coming together now. Good stuff!

[@pezkenin]

I think this may pair well with SRV to bring ships to a deadspace location were the stripping and salvage is done.

[@StephenPengilley]

That's exactly what my org did last night. We setup a chop shop in d eep space. However half the ships towed in were invisible to most of us which caused obvious problems :)

[@grendelprime]

Looking to do exactly this when dragging Hammerheads out of the restricted area it seems a shame to waste so much salvage material.

[@EddyKorgo]

shipyards or junkyards

[@diegomolinaf]

I've heard somewhere that now the Vulture will be able to hold 14 boxes on the buffer, before you have to go down and starting pulling them out. And the Reclaimer is 700 something and it will produce bigger boxes. This is going to be EXCELLENT for solo gameplay but also for orgs since, as soon as the buffer is emptied and the boxed pilled, the Caterpillar could start retrieving the entire load at once. Also, you may want to try a Connie Taurus, since the tractor beam turret location is so convenient to access the cargo hold.

[@CyrusKazan]

It'd be really awesome to get an operation large enough to tackle Wake of Destruction in this manner, a couple of Cats, a half dozen Vultures and some defenders!

[@Citizen_Kate]

haha yes that sounds like it would be a lot of fun! :)

[@kaollachan]

@@Citizen_Kate wonder how it will go in pyro, with solar flare and such

[@The_Opinion_of_Matt]

@@Citizen_Kate I would love to see it and Skunkworks has the logistics to pull it off!

[@borealisaurora]

Has anyone tried towing the Wake ships away for safer salvage?

[@anonieme_beer9200]

This is the type of content I would like to do a lot more with my friends. Its so amazing how far this game is coming along!

[@SoupcanYT]

Great fun watching the video, just goes to show what an efficient crew can do. It kinda feels like the vultures are eating whats left of a carcus just like the bird irl, makes so much sense naming it the vulture.

[@Citizen_Kate]

haha yes the vulture was certainly named appropriately :D

[@CitizenEsva]

Interesting way of doing as a group, when solo being taking out a vulture to a C2 scrape then drop the boxes off on the C2, when all done come back with a DUR to pick up all the boxes. Might have to try this with a few buddies when I get the chance

[@sethiest]

We are Caterpillar people! Always love seeing them in videos.

[@seldogrif9732]

Btw if you just want to just salvage materials without building rep I noticed that it is more efficient to just pull out your ship and salvage it. Not only you don't need to think about travel time, you can just repair the ship after salvage. The repair costs are also not big, like for 890j i paid around 15k for repair, which is cheaper than the salvage missions

[@phillipa5643]

Thanks for highlighting the bugs and some good collaborative play!

[@pestilencetheprotogen2357]

This is an interesting concept and I could see how it could work with a small fleet of Vultures

[@richardhooper4214]

I love how open ended this game is, I love the way you can come up with crazy ways of doing things like this and even though the profits arent as good as other things playing a game like this with friends makes it more fun :)

[@BullsMahunny]

It's the background track for me though. IT really does elevate these videos You know, as I watch videos like this, I realized that if CIG wanted they could literally just take out sections of the game, slap them in Arena Commander and make little modules out of it. Like for example you're tasked with scraping hulls, cleaning up ships, etc in a module or you're part of a mining outfit and you need to make quotas to keep your job or to keep your contracts, etc. Good way to test the mechanics with different scenarios and a good way to give someone mindless entertainment for a bit.

[@richardweyland2467]

Great Team work. I have been a viewer of your channel for over a year. I finally jumped into Star Citizen partly due to your vids. I am enjoying the experience greatly. Thanks for your vids and God Bles you.

[@demonic75]

I'm one of the few people who loves all of the BIS skins this year and I hope they continue releasing metallic and shiny skins because they look awesome!

[@reckxner]

The Vulture + Caterpillar is so much cooler than a Reclaimer! Thanks for giving us a peak into this chill gameplay loop.

[@beignetsl711]

It's also as munch effective as a reclaimer and needs less crew (3 for this method compared to 4-5 in order to not have the cargo guy going full sweat from the elevator to the cargo bay in the reclaimer) it also costs munch less in game, about 7 millions for 2 Vultures and a caterpillar compared to 15 millions for the reclaimer so twice the price, just need some cohesion but it's very cool

[@ogchubs6194]

The love for the caterpillar on this channel has compelled me to get one. Lol. Great ship.

[@sdman2006]

Great video! Awesome to see the tractor beams progressing into the game.

[@Jaeih]

There is something incredibly satisfying about scraping the hull off a ship. It's a bit like the powerwash simulator, if you get what I mean? Also: Caterpillar gang for life! The Cat has so much more personality than the C2 imho

[@jamescrash4776]

That is cool, i am glad they fixed that bug, I'll have to talk my friends into trying this.

[@MountainGamer-od2bi]

These videos make me want to get a Caterpillar. Also that multicrew aspect of the game is something that my ORG does not always have enough people online to do but still looks fun

[@tonyguerra136]

Good job. It is nice watching you working on salvaging.

[@yodinator]

Caterpillar is one of my favorite ships too. I'd love to see them develop a larger inter-system version with 3-5K SCU, in the realm of the Hull-C.

[@chrisp.2544]

I'm looking forward to the next steps in salvage with the hull munching. It's going to be epic.

[@zazzrazzamatazz9970]

Would be cool to see you all doing a “Living aboard a reclaimer” series though.

[@snowyismeh]

I think the C1 would be useful for this sort of salvaging too with it's conveniently places tractor beam

[@Tevionus]

The vulture cargo small cargo ship are how me and a friend have been doing the job, a cat and multiple vulture is great

[@dfexone]

Team work making the dream work!! Loved watching the problem solving and as a brand new player one of my fav parts of the game. Great vid

[@justendgame1238]

the salvage with 2 or more vulture and a cargo ship make the things more enjoyable and fun

[@Zin.Renegade]

I'm glad to see salvage might actually be worthwhile!!!

[@TakoyaKyono]

I love just going off deep into space to salvage and mine in peace. Looking forward to the new RSI mining ship which is the bridge between the MOLE and the Aurora. On board refinery. 500+ SCU of external storage. Just go off into space on your own with a bag full of food and water and never return to society until your cargo is full!

[@Aniqiewan]

Love the Caterpillar, looking forward to modularity for it too 🙏

[@unfairbullet]

This is definitely going to be something I try out, gotta get those reclaimer heads on my vulture

[@Baleur]

You can also just buy the Trawler salvage heads, and yes they're much better. (Not objectively, they have lower efficency, but effectively they are better since there's less faff with tiny scraped details). The Reclaimer turrets only have 1, but the Vulture can have 2...

[@Starach]

I’d love to see if it’s possible to have and use a bunch of Storm AA in a Cat for space combat. You come under attack and the starboard doors open up to unleash an absolute barrage of rockets. Like cannons on old time pirate ship. Edit: Literally the next video you post is about this! Shame it doesn't work ):

[@TheRealFreakaros]

i wonder when CIG will release the concept for vultures bigger sister ship that fits the slot between the vulture and the reclaimer. Vulture alone gets pretty small pretty fast so i think a salvager in the $250+ range would be extremely nice (maybe a 2 seater)

[@Dracounguis]

Seems like you chose your Caterpillar's quantum drive poorly if you cannot cross the system without refueling! 😆 Stopping to refuel takes longer than just using a slower drive that's more fuel efficient.

[@SeriousTable]

The implementation of shipboard tractor beams is honestly causing me to re-evaluate how valuable certain ships are as cargo ships, now. They've proven so useful that taking a cargo ship without them feels silly.

[@andymartin6084]

The zen and the art of hull scraping.

[@Ghstyyy]

I gotta try this with my friends :D Thank you for the content

[@Dracounguis]

The last couple times I tried my vulture it was not collecting material. Luckily I didn't care because I was just trying to get to the juicier salvage / cargo pinata jobs. 😆

[@sertkiran]

Really nice iae fair I enjoyed it so much, I feel star citizen is taking pace.

[@TwoWheeledWander]

Cat really needs tractor beams over the cargo holds like the C1 has. Would make it way easier to load cargo.

[@Dracounguis]

The Caterpillar needs a tractor beam on a rail above each side of the cargo bays. That way you can position over each bay as needed. Just hit alt 1,2,3,4 to reposition.

[@SoundlessAir]

I'm a big fan of salvage ops, So I'm excited for more of your salvage videos. I need to do it again myself, It's been a while.

[@Dracounguis]

Now that they have determined how big cargo boxes are _(other than stacks of 1 SCU ones)_ many ships need to be redesigned to fit them.

[@joshuaring6841]

2024 is looking like it’s going to be a promising year for this game

[@Dracounguis]

Is hull stripping even worth the effort if you're interested in maximizing aUEC/hr?

[@jeffofbread]

Always fun to fly around in the Cat, really hope they go over it with a gold standard pass sometimes soon, it could use it

[@zir3ael811]

Really cool to have team gameplay like this

[@Dahaka27]

I love doing salvaging. Its extremely relaxing

[@Salacnar]

I love your commentary throughout the video.

[@Cogzed]

*Why people don’t go into decoupled mode and kill the engines to reserve fuel is beyond me. Learn to drift people!*

[@maxw2210]

Can't wait till the caterpillar cockpit detaches

[@TheFiendish138]

I like the idea of swarming Vultures and a Caterpillar =)

[@eric.c.bullock]

Awesome video! Proof that a couple good friends working together can make anything that much better! Thank you for this! Oh! And VERY interesting at the end for the question about salvage after stripping and destruction!

[@camboxgaming3419]

Learned a lot from this video still new to star citizen

[@Alex_A7]

Always funny to watch Kate cutting thru all her missions & misadventures with the crew while being severely dehydrated 😄

[@VonSpud]

Saw that 17% and was wondering if it was noticed by Kate 🤔 Had many close calls myself with hydration going unchecked 😊

[@FuzzyHuman]

Salvaging is my favorite game play loop.

[@avalenty]

Just starting playing, brother got me into. Loved your gunship pvp videos, and these fun looks at the PTU. Gotta say I'm hooked on getting to merc work and salvaging. I'll stay tuned for sure!!!!! Thanks for the content

[@beeleaveme]

As always, amazing video with your storytelling. Would be awesome to win the giveaway

[@xSKOOBSx]

You can also do ERTs with a few people then salvage all the ships you put into soft death. Often you will find drugs and can make millions if you do. I really like the Cat but its hard to justify unless you are going out as a group specifically to salvage. C1 has tractor beams and space for cargo but you can also put ground vehicles in it in its current state so it is more compelling when you are ship limited and don't always have people to play with. but boy do I love the cat.

[@evanelevan]

That shot of the caterpillar coming in to Area 18 gave late night trucker vibes and it’s something to behold. Good luck in the give away everyone!

[@NERDPotion]

Great VID as always! keep it up :P I love the design of the spirit! Always liked the herc but they were a bit too big for me so the smaller spirits are right up my alley :)

[@terodiac195]

I love the swarm of vultures idea, every patch it becomes more smooth so one day we will be able to complete a game loop without it bugging out and us having to jump trough hoops to fix it haha!

[@Em.P14]

i simply need to ask this: can you change the skin of the pirate caterpillar back to the normal one without purchasing the original ship again `?

[@Citizen_Kate]

yes you can do this - in fact i run the white paint usually :) in the next video you'll see ;)

[@Em.P14]

@@Citizen_Kate only bad thing is that my car got upgraded from an lti token and upgrade to a pirate cat seems not possible

[@Tom-pu8ty]

Great video! This is what I hope will be the best way of salvaging in the future! Love the workflow. Keep up the great videos

[@forsakendoe]

Good video, Ive collected some tips from your experience, ty!

[@ddavis5442]

Question, sorry if it hasnt already been asked... why just not bring a reclaimer? Then you have the cargo and still 2 people salvaging. And 1 person can handle the extractors?

[@AJ-em2rb]

also, after seeing you depart the work site around 28:00 i now want a salvage snub ship. imagine the Caterpillar with a crew of four with three bays holding a Mirai and 2 Mirai-sized 1SCU salvage snubs. the fourth bay is where the salvage goes, and the nose bay holds crew supplies and a speeder. would be so cool for a small crew operation

[@explorer47422]

Hope you reported the incorpeal cargo boxes bug, sounds like you had an amazing idea of using the tractor to offload the vultures but a good idea never goes unpunished in SC, so game physics was just like nah you can't it that easy

[@zeropercentprogress]

I absolutely love the salvaging in this game. Once munching is in things are going to be even better with a swarm of vultures literally picking a ship apart

[@Havak37]

Sorry about the 890 jump mission. As I understand it if someone is already doing it you wont get the option. and it was prolly me slow hand looting the ship cause its my favorite armor. :D But atleast they increased it from one pair of clash legs per mission to two sets of clash legs per mission. Love you videos as always! gunna go back to watching - A Fellow Drake enthusiast

[@sclavak]

looked really chill, nice video.

[@Inditorias]

Did this with my friends a while ago, we gear up the Catapillar for war, pilot + 2 turrets + snub and then have a vulture clean up the reck from HVTs. Haven't done it since we've gotten 3 more vultures in the group though I think we're out of people to run all that.

[@orbitalpotato9940]

You can buy the reclaimer trawler salvage heads directly at Port tressler instead of yoinking them off a ship. They're 1600 aUEC each. Just swap them out in the vehicle load out manager

[@hypertion]

The caterpillar..its too big for me to consider to buy as a plege, but i love its design. It shows its age ingame and not being able to hold 32scu crates really hurt it for piracy. I hope it fulfills all its promises in the future. I hope is becomes the mini endeavor its often touted to be. The truest pirate ship in the game, and more. I need more excuses to use my favorite paintjob, ghoulish green!

[@nyforandring]

I've wondered for some time how efficient one could become at hull scraping. This is super interesting and looks quite fun: :) I've always loved salvaging. It's sorta soothing

[@LordWukits]

Golly I'm late to the party, Just saw the Salvage(towing) video, I love that Idea! Perhaps a HRT EHRT mission with soft deaths? Hope the contest is still going on!

[@cloroi71826]

Awesome vid! What are your PC's specs? I used to play this game with 16gb of ram, an i5 9400f processor and a 1660 ti gpu, but recently gave that away to a friend and built a new PC with a 7800x3d, 7800xt and 32gbs, and the game is a much more enjoyable experience, solid 75 (capped for screen res) in space stations and around 40-75 on planets, cities and moons

[@StepIntoTheLight]

I love your camera angles, and smooth transitions. Totally doesn't really have to do with the subject of the video, but I can't help but mention it. However, on the subject, I've found salvaging to be relaxing. With the vulture as well as other ships now being rentable (for a little while for free thanks to IAE), I've been able to make a little money off it as well. Pulling weapons and loading them onto a C2, then stacking up my Vulture with as many as 12 SCU and doing a little running back and forth. I can usually make about 120k credits with a Hammerhead salvage, plus a little extra from all of the size 4 & 5 weapons I can pull off.

[@Tirak117]

Can't wait for catapillar modules to finally get into the game so we can tweak the ship more. Im really hoping for some offensive modules to make the Caterpillar a pocket warship.

[@CMDR_Taffer]

New Org goal unlocked: full on multi-discipline attempt at Wake of Destruction. Vultures to strip, with a dedicated Cat for every few, and a Cat with extra crew dedicated to pulling out cargo containers. An SRV or two to move things to a central location. All with a fighter screen. Field an A2/C2/M2 with a mix of Ballistas and Storms to deploy, to anchor the operation providing C&C, and just to see how they work together (and in space) for extra science points. Bonus test deployment - just have an SRV drag an Storm around in space, firing missiles off at anyone that gets too close.

[@DeadlyInsite]

Thanks for the video Kate. Just last night I was looking at the Caterpillar vs either a C2 or M2. While the C2 and M2 have those huge ramps and huge cargo bays, making them efficient and easy to use for vehicle and cargo transport, at heart, I am a Drake Man. It may be more difficult to accomplish the same things in a CAT, but I can't help it, I love the CAT and have wanted to own one since they first came out, even though they were so broken. Watching your videos and fantastic videography, I find myself nodding and smiling every time you bring her out 😊 I'm sold. I have a very very rare opportunity to purchase one ship in this high price range and I'm going with my heart... Sailing the stars and seeking adventures with my Baby, the CAT.

[@xichronix8090]

We did Something very similar Just with way more people and the new SRV So we took 4 Vultures Mannes with 2 people one Pilot and one stuffing the Cargo Grit of the Vulture We Had 1 Cater pillar with 2 people helping to unload the Vultures and managing the Boxes inside the Caterpillar And an SRV whos Task was simple Look for contract salvages of big ships in the Same Part where we Set Up which was MIC L1 and pull the contract ships over to our Setup We Had a constant flow of Ships to salvage and did Not need to Reposition The Vultures would fill their 12 SCU grid and cone over to the Caterpillar to unload than resume Work We filled the Caterpillar in 2 Hours Sometimes faster and did 5 runs Like that one this day we did millions and Had a blast

[@juanmanuelpascualon911]

Comment on any video It's unusual to me, but thanks for the great content! You are the best role-play content creator in the Star Citizen community. Many of your videos give me hope for what Star Citizen may become one day. Your industrial gameplays are relaxing, but I think the best ones are the 'Living On' series or the pure role-play episodes with a thematic focus. Sorry for my English; I'm not a native speaker.

[@Starach]

Love seeing the unique designs of the ships become part of the gameplay. All cargo ships aren’t just generically interchangeable they are unique in their own right. Part of the reason I love the Cat so much. Your vids really keep me coming back to SC even when I get burned out. ❤

[@Capum5]

A friend and I salvaging last weekend managed to park my vulture in the front opening of his C2 so he'd just grab each box immediately. It was great until the A2 I was salvaging ran out of hull material I could see and had to start moving around. It's such a calm, simple and relaxing loop. Super excited for the additions in 3.22, hull munching will be great even if a bit simplified, and a storage buffer is such a good QoL thing so you don't need to hit the latter every other box when solo. Great video though, it's nice to see someone using the ship tractor beams, I've only used the vulture one so far to stop ships that I've bumped.

[@little-wytch]

Loved this video. Question: Can the SRV tow ships through Quantum yet? If so, you could set up a full-scale salvage operation in some random Lagrange point or even between a planet and moon since you can jump to party members. I think using a random Lagrange point (the stop before the last jump to the station) would be best though so it's just a quick jump to/from a station so you can use the station as a home base and then use a Reclaimer and a small fleet of vultures as a forward operations center. Then you can have one or two people in SRVs snagging personal salvage jobs worth 80k - 250k and pulling those ships right to the salvage fleet. If you try that, make sure the person doing the towing gets in the pilot seat of the to-be-towed ship for a moment beforehand so they don't get a crime stat lol. Probably a good idea to have another SRV waiting at the forward location too for grabbing and stabilizing the towed craft after it's been released lol.

[@Grathew]

My org and I did a test, in theory a vulture should be able to create 74 boxes an hour, we did this with two man teams one pilot and one box stacker. We then offloaded into various cargo ships (corsair, MSR, C2). We think if the cargo ship went to the vulture, and if it could keep salvaging while being unloaded we could get close to 80 or 90 boxes from a stock vulture.

[@Phantom089680]

I am kinda excited for the Odyssey in a way, it's basically the mining version of what you did there right? Odyssey as the mothership, surrounded by Prospectors giving their unrefined materials to her, that getting refined and then transported by a Freelancer is something i really hope for, it would give me a reason to play a family of ships i dont usually like playing. That said there are really good ccu chains possible right know, but I'm hesitant on if I should get an Odyssey... There is too little information on it... but the deal is tempting... damn you CIG!