The Imperial Cutter - The Empire's Crowning Jewel [Elite Dangerous Ship Review]

[@spaceman022]

Love flying my cutter despite drifting like a semi on ice haha

[@ChessArmyCommander]

The drifting is amazing during ring mining, while using the pulse wave. You can boost up away from the rocks, turn back towards the rocks to pulse wave, and you'll continue drifting up away from the rocks while pulse waving. Which is nice, because you need to keep your distance from the rocks while pulse waving. The drifting makes it a lot easier to do that. I love mining in a Cutter!

[@martintownley5803]

I use mine as a lightweight unshielded fast cargo runner with 784t cargo space

[@timbotron02]

That's one of the best names I've seen for this ship! 😂

[@torquaymouse2236]

The remark about buying the Frame shift drive, LMAO.

[@Byssbod]

Yet the power plant is like eight times more expensive

[@CMDR_CWolfxUK]

I do love the cutter. Great for using as a fighter carrier too! Looks gorgeous with the metallic red metal paintjob I have.

[@mrmalcolm]

Problem with the cutter is the powerplant is in the "neck" of the ship, behind cockpit and before the ship proper. It doesn't have nearly enough armor surrounding it, once you've managed to chew through the shields, just sub-target the PP and 'plant 'em. Gutamaya needs to stop building pretty and follow in Core Dynamics footsteps.

[@kellyobrien1387]

I have done a LOT of mining (Back when it was more lucrative) in my Cutter. I was able to fly it like a fighter around spinning asteroids with no problem. Love using it that way. Tons of Limpets, so much cargo capacity, LOTS of mining tools with Good guns for toasting nosey Pirates. Of course the right ship kit makes it even more beautiful. I will never sell my first Cutter, though I did sell my second that was only for mining. The TYPE-8 will likely be my new miner though.

[@brian_belmont87]

The in cockpit FoV is always set to 60 so it looks flat. But you can edit this in the config file using notepad. I have mine set to 90 because anything higher causes the letters and images on the panels lose digital integrity so you cannot read them. But it adds so much depth to the cockpit itself and makes it have a much rounder appealing look instead of a flat boring surface.

[@stevealexander5344]

It's a pretty good thargoid killer, especially in planetary CZs and with GPCs. You can do the double-tap instakill on interceptors if you get the timing right.

[@Pflanzenturio]

It is a royal ship, and it can do a lot of things well while the pilot looks like money is not an issue anymore. But in the end I tend to play way more Anaconda and the Cutter is the hauler the Type 9 should be. Great video as always, hope you saw the new really good looking ship. I will buy it as soon as possible and the bubble won't see me for a year xD

[@DoomOfConviction]

I rank up so fast transporting passengers in my anaconda, that I can’t keep up with the special rank up missions.

[@prisonerofthehighway1059]

Huge gimbal beam laser with thermal vent, 4 Imperial Hammers and Packhounds on the wings makes a pretty solid pve ship with FA off and she has virtually impenetrable shields outside of pvp. She is absolutely the best laser miner in the game though maneuverability and size are a bit rough for core mining. I’m getting ready to take my Explorer Cutter to Beagle Point later in the year after the Thargoid war wraps up. I’m such a simp for this ship lol.

[@chrisgardiner6771]

I maneuver my Cutter more as though she is the USS Enterprise rather than the Millennium Falcon, so she handles just fine.

[@dainishauka7205]

it does have a snout of a snake though.... but regarding the price of internals. i presume it is like with Bentley as it at least used to not have fuel consumption stated in its documentation. it was implied, that if you can afford the car, you ought to be able to afford the fuel.....

[@ccib00]

The cutter... It's truly majestic in my eyes, and she can be a mighty miner and hauler. Maybe one day I might get her. But the rank grind put me off.

[@larkshadow5317]

Just discovered you, love the video.

[@howardxu8050]

Well it does have one very good advantage: it has the highest innate shield HP multiplier, allowing the cutter to reach the *highest shield value* in the game, 10,000 HP if you go with reinforced prismo with all heavy duty boosters on all ultitiy points

[@adrianwilliams6577]

I've made about 72 billion credits with my Cutter and counting, still waiting for FDEV to come up with a worthy competitor to the ship.

[@mmario2979]

1:16 it just looks out of scale and weird, but the style is nice

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

I got one for mining but quickly it became too tedious to fill up. It is also a pig to fly. I still have it but prefer my mining Python. One hour toaster rack to toaster rack. My trading Cutter does come out for Community Goals with shields that enable me to stroll away from would be pirates. Again, it is a pig to fly so if I do want to just chill and do a little trading... As a tramp steamer captain plying my trade, it's the Anaconda for me. A joy to fly. I do have a Type 9 for loading/ofloading my Carrier but that very quickly felt like work. A stevedore rather than an adventure crossing the high seas of space.

[@ChessArmyCommander]

Do you have G5 dirty drives ? Makes a big difference to both the T9 and Cutter, flight experiences. With respect to top speeds and maneuverability.

[@andrewmiller4753]

I just didn't like the engine sounds - I think when yawing - if I remember correctly. And I just preferred the T9 for trading. Great reviews! o7

[@ChessArmyCommander]

The T9 is awesome with G5 dirty drives. Get those if you don't have it yet. I can boost to WAY over 300 m per second in my T9. And it turns soo much better!

[@JohnnyJazZzZz]

Only use my cutter for laser mining, once you get used to her phat ass it's quite a fun ship to fly😁 Engineering this lady is a must though.

[@JV-NY987]

WHY ALL THE HATE

[@luker2693]

I think the Cutter is second only to the Courier in the Gutamaya lineup in terms of looks And, I don't care who yells at me for saying this, but the T10 is just a pathetic Cutter wannabe

[@martintownley5803]

Yeah, love my Courier too. Got my boosted speed up to around 850

[@caligarner6953]

Do the type 8 bruv

[@Sir-Complains-a-Lot]

Most broken ship in the game. Having highest shield multiplier is fine by me, but to add to that the fastest acceleration and top speed of any big ship is just broken a.f. and many cmdrs with big skill issue end up relying on them. Best cutter moments in my book is when they go boooooooooooom.

[@DvdV1337]

Listen to yourself at 1.5 speed. You talk so slow.