The Vulture Review : A Tough Little Ship? [Elite Dangerous]

The Vulture from Core Dynamics in Elite Dangerous, is a small, combat focused ship, packing big firepower in a tiny frame with only a few problems.
In this video, I go through my personal impressions on this ship.
All content taken from Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
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[@JazzRadioFfm]

as somebody commented a long time ago on the pilot's vulture video: it's called the vulture, because whatever it targets, is already dead.

[@vincore2845]

Great review! This definitely conveys the Vulture experience to any new pilot and sets the expectations extremely well. Love how you did a comparison to the other small combat ships. o7 CMDR.

[@anomalouspirate5392]

Great video! I have a hard time flying other ships and end up going back to my vulture. I rock two rapid fire pulse lasers and pop power plants in the CZ's

[@Datan0de]

While it's not charming like some of the other small ships, I think the Vulture does have a very distinct personality. It's a pit bull - a scrappy little beast that punches way above its weight class and doesn't think twice about attacking something far larger than itself. It wants to fight, and it wants you to win. I completely agree that power is its big shortcoming, but heat can also be a problem even in a reasonable build. It's not just you.

[@cwolfxuk-other]

I love the Vulture, used to be scared of it when I started! I have all the ships but I regularly take my Vulture out. I also have the ship kit setup, with Midnight Black paint job that makes it look like Batman would fly it! My daughter loves it for combat too. Awesome review as always.

[@cc29350]

Have had one of these in the hangar for a bit now, but didn't have the credits or mats to really polish it up. This was a good wakeup call to try it out again.

[@JGreen-le8xx]

You're not wrong, I love going out in my Eagle, getting on an enemy's 6 and having my way with them all the while trying NOT to screw up and be dead VS the Vulture which let's be honest is a ship "That WANTS you to win."

[@zachg6805]

I did a blind play of elite for a long time. I ended up going sidewinder>cobra from there I was just flying around doing bounty in high res. After a while I decided it was time to go from a small to a medium ship. So I'm looking at the asp scout I see it has the same hard points, but I figured it was bigger and better then I see the vulture for 5 mil. I was like 2 large hard points so I buy this instead of asp scout. Now I'm flying around with more shields armor speed firepower. I was able to actually beat other ships 1 v 1. Then I vultured my way into an anaconda. That blew up 20 mins later, luckily I had rebuy. Got back in the vulture and A rates the conda. The vulture was my favorite bounty hunting ship.

[@mrmalcolm]

Being a core dynamics ship, me and my boys consider this the lost Federal ship. It covers the combat gulf between the Eagle and Dropship

[@adithyaoscar9826]

For me it covered the gulf between eagle and corvette, i would not take any FDL over my vulture its engineered to death and i love it

[@gizmo104drives7]

Lave radio sent me here. Love the videos

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Glad you like them - do love a bit of Lave Radio, although I'm a few episodes behind at the moment.

[@VerticalBlank]

I remember flying it before engineering and then it truly was a balancing act but with one multicannon and one burst laser it could still punch above its weight. Add even a little bit of engineering and it becomes a beast.

[@spamhere1123]

The Vulture is the honey badger of the Elite ship roster. Will bite the face off a lion four times its size, and the lion will back down. And if the lion does bite the honey badger, it's in for a surprise when the thing doesn't seem to care and twists around in its own skin to tear at the lion's nose. Problem is, this honey badger hasn't been eating well or something, because holy moley is it low on power. The good news is that engineering the powerplant largely fixes the issue, but it's borderline unusable without it. A base powerplant severely limits your builds, and just to run it at all, you're going to have to get fancy with module shutdown priorities. And even then, if your powerplant takes a single nick and its output drops even a fraction, you'll find yourself shut down and pure Newtonian floating dead stick in space. I highly recommend maxing Overcharged on your powerplant, then having at least one heat sink launcher, and possibly a beam laser with thermal vent to help mitigate the extra heat. I don't recommend using the Guardian power plant, as it has less power output and worse heat efficiency than a max Overcharged human power plant, along with being heavier.

[@markentwistle5915]

I adore my Vulture. It takes time and effort, but get it fully engineered with two frag cannons and you will have hours of fun. The need to be very up close and personal for the frag cannons to be effective gives a different take on combat. When you get it right I do agree that this ship can be a little overpowered. I seek out missions where I know the target ships will be heavily armoured and gunned or focus only on the big ships in hazres. When I am in this ship I am grinning from ear to ear and keep coming back to it time after time

[@theplague4u]

It's definitely a ship that needs the power to be engineered to get the full potential.

[@docrock3234]

Hey mate, i saw you had to poasma acc on the vulture… how ya pull that off?

[@potteryjoe]

I'm definitely a sub-par combat pilot, so I definitely appreciate the fact that my Vulture allows me to get in a few combat missions without me ending up on the rebuy screen half a dozen times. It's ugly, & the sound is obnoxious, but if I just need to go ☠️ something, I'll usually take the Vulture.

[@Tamburello_1994]

Come at me Holmes. I'll mess you up. You don't want this smoke.

[@evilsteve8915]

Sir, I took an unengineered vulture to Colonia. 😂

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Sir, I doff my cap to you - you're a braver man than I - stripped back exploration loadout, or full combat loadout?

[@evilsteve8915]

@@gamingsnipsandbits I definitely stripped it down for exploration. Didn't have much of anything on it at all. Lmao.

[@nahsonnn2573]

I have the opposite view of why this ship IS charismatic. There's nothing like pulling up to an NPC anaconda and out tanking it in something the size of a thimble 😂

[@Modighen]

A David and Goliath boxing match and the big guy takes a KO without landing a solid hit.

[@pville_piper5125]

I love the vulture, but I can't stand to fly it due to the engine noise... Drives me crazy in about 10 minutes and all I want to is self destruct so I don't have to listen to that noise on the way back to the station!

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

Best solution I've found is simply to drown the engines out with a hail of fire 🔥. That or selective hearing.

[@cwolfxuk-other]

Or good battle music

[@isidroj.pineiro5558]

Your vulture needs a mechanic. That engine sound like shaking a screw in a pot...

[@gamingsnipsandbits]

My Vulture has a screw loose? Guess I'm in good company when I fly it 😉