The Federal Corvette - A Small Warship... [Elite Dangerous Ship Review]

The Federal Corvette from Core Dynamics in Elite Dangerous is the largest Federation ship that's available to Commanders in the Elite galaxy, boasting more huge hardpoints than anything else, but having a few disadvantages too.
Is it worth the grind? Is it worth the credits? Let's have a look.
All content taken from Elite Dangerous: Odyssey.
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[@Minimeister317]

It's stuff like this that makes me want to play ED again...

[@shinrapresident7010]

The Federal Corvette is my chosen warship and totally worth the rep grind to obtain, the hours of engineering and hundreds of millions of credits invested. Put a Guardian FSD Booster in one of the class 5 compartments, you'll need the extra 10.5 light year jump boost.

[@WarpRulez]

You don't need the extra jump range on a warship. You won't be flying to the other side of the galaxy with it. You are going bounty or thargoid hunting, not on long expeditions. Put a fully engineered hull reinforcement package in that class 5 compartment instead. It will give you significantly more value.

[@shinrapresident7010]

@@WarpRulez Bi weave shield, shield cell banks, shield boosters and chaff, I can fight Anacondas in a Hazrez until I run out of multicannon ammo and my shields never break. I have a fuel scoop, 2 cargo racks and the guardian booster. I didn't really see a point to adding more armor. The Corvette is so good.

[@Neo-vz8nh]

​@@WarpRulezmaybe not a G5, but a G3 or G4 FSD booster is good. Yea it is not neccessery, but a good quality of life.

[@WarpRulez]

@@Neo-vz8nh Better quality of life when you don't get destroyed...

[@Neo-vz8nh]

@@WarpRulez destroyed? Lol, first the Corvette should be a shield tank. The hull should be the last resolt. And the FSD booster does not reduce shield. And probably that G3 hull RP won't save you if you down to that point. I have played hunreds of hours with Corvette, never lost it. But there was many time when that +7 or +10 ly jumprange was a blessing.

[@adrien_iller]

excellent as always! I love all your reviews and look forward to new releases!

[@R1chbloke8]

Great video, my first watch. I've come to thoroughly enjoy the Corvette, as my multi-purpose heavy mission runner, my go-to for squadron CZ ops. Mucho fun.

[@Nafresreom]

This is the ship we all look up to! Badass, feared and... versatile? I have a friend that flys this thing as a main ship for everything, we went exploring on my carrier and hopped onto fighters to blast around. Then we got beauty shots in front of a black hole. This ship does everything with precision and power. I love it Great video, this ship deserves a special place in every hangar

[@Datan0de]

My first AX ship was a Corvette, and I've never much time and effort into a single goal in a video game as I did with Thunder Child (the name is a War of the World reference). It took 8 months to unlock engineers, gain Fed rank, earn money, unlock system permits, collect materials, and unlock Guardian modules, during which I constantly refined the design and watched hours and hours of AX combat vids. I actually built three other ships during the process that i needed to further the final goal. It was worth it, and taking the completed ship out for the first time was immensely satisfying. And as a bonus, the things I unlocked and strategies I learned have made every ship I've built since then SO much easier! She was built in the Bubble, but with the intention of being stationed in the Pleiades, so i actually engineered two separate FSDs - one with the range to get there (but with power requirements that wouldn't allow full use of weapons), and the permanent FSD for use in combat one i got there. That's how precisely optimized for combat she is/was. There's nothing wasted. I could've flown out there in a different ship and paid the small fortune (by my standards back then) to have her shipped, but there was no way i want going to take her out there myself. I have a special bond with that ship. She's definitely not the best AX ship (though i did bag a Cyclops with her just past night), and new modules that have come out since then would require a full redesign to implement, but she introduced me to AX combat while opening up the galaxy to me. Plus, she looks absolutely badass... 😎

[@Lupinicus1664]

Excellent video as always. I like the Vette, but most often as a decent earning target in assassination missions in my Python. It's a bit dodgy in PvP too as you can't bug out if the going gets tough. Cutter can at least run for it. But in PvE it is a fun ship and as you say it can be outfitted in so many different ways to vaporise enemies...hours of fun.

[@tiberiusdave252]

Happy New Year Commander! Glad you are continuing your very enjoyable videos. I do like my Corvette: it is my BGS war ship.

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Happy new year to you chap - glad you're enjoying them - it really is a decent ship, despite the drawbacks.

[@tundralwhisper7345]

A lot of ships can do the whole "Shoot first, ask questions later" routine. Not the corvette. Pilots of a corvette, and any crew members along for the ride, only shoot. No point asking questions. The target can't answer fast enough before they are dust, and dust won't answer, either.

[@dosentmatter1593]

just engineering this beast has taken me forever. theres so much to tweak and optimize that i had to sit down in excel and inara and plot out the mats needed. turns out i need to do it in 3 phases. Core internals, defenses/internal reinforcements and lastly weapons. i have no doubt itll be an absolute monster once its done but my god is it a lot.

[@shingshongshamalama]

The Corvette is a corvette. Literally. It's the smallest thing short of a capital ship. It's what the Federation sends when they really want a problem to go away but all the big girls are busy.

[@wstavis3135]

I do love my Vette for PvE pirate combat. Set up with 3 beam lasers and 4 multicannons, it absolutely shreds opponents with amazing rapidity. Plus, it just looks like it's ready to fight.

[@RRC6490]

Love that paint scheme! Looks like a pissed off wasp

[@JG27Korny]

Just to add the placement of the huge hardpoints is unique. Being behid you are able to stay in the turn at very close range with them pointed at the opponent. The Conda and the Cutter both have got the huge hardpoint below main deck, that makes it impossible to point it in a turn at close range. The only way to do that for them is in reverse with pitch up. While the corvette can go forward and pith up and devastate at very close range. The way to exploit that feature is as shown in the video two multicannons specially engineered for the purpous either supercharged or fast fire. For the big and the 2 mediums are recommended lasers either long range to compensate for low speed or efficient. Or if you intend to fight only at short range frags lol. The small hardpoints are generally used for their special effects not for their fire power.

[@mrexists5400]

Mehrune, best corvette pilot imo, has a turreted pulse laser in one of the smalls to prevent people from fabricating ammo or other things when he can't get his fixed weapons on target

[@JG27Korny]

On the small the most important is the secondary effect. So using a turreted makes a lot of sense. It really depends what is PVE or PVP. On pvp i have seen also long range rails with feedback cascade. For pve I like to use small turreted gun engineered with high capacity with secondary effect Dispersal Field. It works like chaff against NPC really helping. On the other small i like also to get a turreted frags engineered with high capacirty with either Dazzle Shell or Drag Munitions. I find dazzle shell and dispersel field to work as a combo quite well offering a layer of active defense that gives the shields a lot of rest. @@mrexists5400

[@JG27Korny]

Much higher chaff capacity lol. It really helps the shields when engaging a wing of engineered NPC. @@shinrapresident7010

[@Neo-vz8nh]

​@@mrexists5400long range turreted pulse with emmissive rounds. Emmisive make the gimball better.

[@SaintMaxxi]

Just got my Corvette today, and without engineering, those two huge hard points make a fat difference in firepower. Definitely not disappointed

[@AMaidenlessRunt]

This is the ship you use to give everyone in the haz res the finger. Lol I named mine The Middle Finger

[@mikehawk5492]

1:32 the dropship is one of the coolest looking ships in the game, it looks like an F117 Nighthawk with a forward swept wing design.

[@JG27Korny]

I think to buy one for roleplaying as real drop ship for ground assault missions.

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Oh I respect that if that's your opinion - beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that 😁. Do wish that the Dropship could be used as an actual *dropship* for ground based combat zones though.

[@morebagels]

the corvette isn't for getting into fights. it's for stopping them before they even get their hopes up

[@powerline4564]

Yo Valk what's up

[@Majima_Nowhere]

I like the kraits more for any given task, but my Vette "Wild Blue Yonder" is the pride of my fleet. It's the ship I go to when I want to just brain-off a haz res or high intensity combat zone, or solo a wing assassination mission. Hell, I even have a second one for mining. Fill it with Painite once and my carrier is paid for until next year.

[@Underb00t]

My favorite combat sluggers, I got two: one for hazrez fragging and one for long duration piracy expeditions. But outfitting those two really cost me a quite a lot of credits and materials.

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Oh it can get insanely expensive - but on the flipside, it can make those credits back fairly quickly if you get a system with a decent amount of combat missions around (my usual is dipping between Abrocmii and Seleru Bao)

[@amdtje8282]

imagine engineering a whole fleet of it lol. I am still doing that :-) Its my ship. Sounds good and looks so good.

[@Dr_Tripper]

I earned the last 4 ranks to Rear Admi solely in combat. I figured if I was to fly one of the most powerful ships, I may as well know how.! It flies like a fluter in the wind. I can stay on most targets with FAoff and what is too fast my SLF gets.

[@s7ai]

Beautifully made and entertaining! 👍👌 But: Type7 isn't medium, it's large 🤓☝️

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

I far prefer the Python but when it is time to clean house. It's the Corvette for the win. Happy New Year, Chap. o7

[@JG27Korny]

I even feel Corvette is more maneuverable than python. The rear hard poits make it easier to track with gimballes weopons.

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Happy New Year to you too bud. Despite the initial outlay, the Corvette does have the ability to keep those credits rolling in. o7

[@ericanker9049]

Love that paint job. Is it avaliable in the store? (Not some special one obtained i CG or something). Good video!

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Glad you liked it - skin is called "Precision Yellow" and from memory it's one of the standard skins out there

[@dudeistpriestman]

0:25 absolute bonklord

[@tmseh]

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." *~President Teddy Roosevelt*

[@BannorPhil]

As nice a combat ship the Corvette is, there's no Corvette that will worry me in my FDL....

[@clockwork6966]

nice video as always though i would say the t10 is definitely larger than the corvette

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

From memory, I think the Corvette is longer, but the T-10 is fatter and deeper - there's a reason that a few of us call the T-10 "The Chonk" 😁

[@mk3ferret]

The corvette is my daily driver, i will fly nothing else, now gimme my legs so i can walk around in it ya bastards

[@FURIOUSAM31]

Whats top speed on one of those fully laden ?

[@powerline4564]

370, maybe 380

[@malkindav]

btw Type 7 is Large size

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

You're absolutely right - it's wishful thinking on my part taking over reality (think I've previously moaned how the Type-7 should be the trading beast of the medium ship builds). I'll put it down to either too much, or too little sleep - that's the excuse I'm using and I'm sticking to it 😁. o7

[@noble_draconian]

What's the skin on the corvette in the video?

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

That would be the "Precision Yellow" paintjob that you're after 🙂. o7

[@noble_draconian]

Thanks@@gamingsnipsandbits !

[@hibiscus779]

Best Hazrez/conflict zone/PVE ship. Don't PVP, you get whacked, ship is too slow and too fat of a target, but for PVE, it's epic.

[@Neo-vz8nh]

It is good for PvP, just don't pirate with it, because the target can outrun you.

[@powerline4564]

It's probably the best large 1v1 ship in pvp. Sounds like someone can't fly or has a shitty build...

[@bikemessenger7]

this ship can do anything yet here is what it feels like. spend a few game hours getting to where you want to be. spend a short time winning. then a few game hours getting back to where you were. its so painful to go anywhere. you can mine a massive amount, kill everyone who tries to rob you, then spend a REALLY long time going to a station to sell your goods. oh well, whats the rush?

[@Alex-hv2zu]

I don't have that problem in my conda! 3k shields, 5.5k armor, jump range of 39ly with the guardian booster. It's a fantastic pve ship. I fly in open because it's at least survivable unless i were to get jumped by a wing.

[@bikemessenger7]

yes, I think the Jump a conda is the way to go.@@Alex-hv2zu

[@ericklecorbeau8341]

I hate the federation, so I wont get this ship, but I have to admit it's pretty. I'd rather get my huge Imperial Cutter still, long live the Empire !

[@CaptainBrash]

What about the smiley face on the roof? Edit: first and subbed

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Thanks for the sub - and I hadn't noticed the MASSIVE SMILEY on the roof until you mentioned it 😁

[@CaptainBrash]

​@@gamingsnipsandbitsyeah it's funny because I noticed it just as you said "there is nothing about the looks of the federal corvette that says 'hey there, we come in peace!'" But then it's probably a maniacal grin of destructive joy rather than a friendly smile.

[@virtuallyglace]

fdl review?:)

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Soon hopefully - Got the Type-10 in the works at the moment, then was thinking of doing an exploration ship - after that I'll really need to think about getting some credits in the bank as I've just paid up my carrier for the next 6 months, so the FDL will need to come out to do what it does best - hunt, seek and earn many, many credits.

[@virtuallyglace]

@@gamingsnipsandbits ;D

[@Omni-Man]

Are turreted beams viable on it then?

[@Neo-vz8nh]

Gimball is better, but if you dont go for the fastest kill, then turrets are viable.

[@powerline4564]

Turreted weapons aren't viable at all in the game, at least not for dealing damage.

[@Neo-vz8nh]

@@powerline4564 they are viable, just not optimal, as their dps is relativly low, but consistant

[@powerline4564]

@@Neo-vz8nh I suppose, yea. But they're not viable for pvp and for pve you'd want to kill stuff as fast as possible, which isn't possible with turrets so I don't understand why anyone would use them

[@Neo-vz8nh]

@@powerline4564 for fun? Or for utility propuse? Not everybody go for most kill in PvE. And for appling special effects (corrosion, emmision, so on) the turrets are the best.

[@powerline4564]

Isolating pitch and roll from other ships is pretty unfair, doesn't say anything about how a ship flies. The t7 has the best yaw in the game but it's not exactly a good Combat ship. And the mamba has one of the best flight models in the game, pitch rate outside of boost is pretty irrelevant

[@Kaethena]

Never understood the appeal of this ship. In terms of firepower, the Type 10 and Anaconda have it beat. Huge hardpoints look cool, and yes they're very clearly overcompensating for something, but in terms of actual destructive capability... they come up short in almost all loadouts other than heavily engineered Plasma Accelerators. No actually I do understand the appeal of the ship. She's far too agile for her size, in terms of manoeuvrability. Considering the guts of the ship are basically identical to an Anaconda, flying this ship is like having the arsenal of a heavy ship with the agility of a medium ship. Which is kind of... I dunno, a bit of a cheat.

[@mikeenslin3009]

Full plasma is better on Conda. But it's an excellent gun platform because of how it flies and because of the internals. Conda and t10 don't have great hp

[@amdtje8282]

the best there is! I go to BP and a bit around it. 13000 jumps 🙂 I did the grind twice for my second free account 🙂

[@Dukenukem]

"Is expensive" - Well, looking at my nearly 4 Billions of credits nothing seems like "very expensive" anymore. except for a Carrier maintnance...