This HUGE Update Is Finally Here - Star Citizen 3.18 PTU

[@fwdcnorac8574]

This persistentance and cargo refactoring is really a game changer in terms of emergent gameplay. Say a player is hauling a caterpillar fully loaded with say something valuable. How many crates are there after pops? What happens when their aggressor gets interrupted in their salvage by some other random players? Could end up being mini Jumptowns all over Stanton and it would be 100% organic.

[@puntmannoor3403]

That sounds fun and all, but I am more interested in the revenge story of players who had the valuable ships salvaged while paked somewhere.

[@stuartbrigham8832]

@@puntmannoor3403 PC1 kills PC2. PC2 then comes back to kill PC1. PC3 kills PC2. PC1 and PC2 show up to kill PC3. And so on… Eventually you just have an orbiting junk pile with angry one uppers.

[@danialharis7990]

Eventually the establishment of entire companies dedicated to salvaging and fighting would appear and it would be awesome

[@buzzfightbeer8023]

Anywhere there are asteroids, you can find salvageable vehicles. I just QT to Yela and head into the belt. TONS of stuff to hull strip. It is such a chill game loop and I enjoy it way more than I thought I would. I have not even gotten to the changes in combat, soft death, racing, etc. yet. This patch is awesome!

[@TheMegalodonGaming]

unfortunatelyYela is also a pvp hot ground i expect some interesting piracy vs griefing fights around it.

[@sphinxoforion7422]

@@TheMegalodonGaming What do you call "Griefing Fights"? Out of curiosity

[@TheMegalodonGaming]

@@sphinxoforion7422 sorry there's a lack of punctuation in the comment. I'm referring to people having fights over whether or not attacking any ship on sight near high concentration salvage areas is griefing or true piracy. Some players will probably consider all non consent pvp griefing but it really just depends on the exact situation.

[@sphinxoforion7422]

@@TheMegalodonGaming I feel like pretty much all pvp is fair game as there is always something to gain from killing another player, whether it be for salvage, gear or cargo. What I would consider as "Griefing" is sitting outside of armistice zones at LZs (A18, MT, Orison, & Lorville) And killing anything that tries to leave the spaceport; Due to the fact there is no gain, you can't recover their gear, cargo, or salvage the ship because they'll fall into a turn around zone. Basically, any form of pvp that is either harassing a single person, and/or preventing another player from playing the game.

[@TheMegalodonGaming]

@sphinxoforion7422 with this update there's definitely always some benefit of killing players but some people want to play magical fairy games in space where everyone is nice and meanies go to jail.

[@TheSpearPoint]

Some of the most concise 3.18 feature coverage I've seen so far!

[@RedHornSSS]

Soft death is really cool in atmosphere. Now the ship wreck will actually carry on with the momentum and fall to the ground

[@iannmichea7061]

imagine when they add the repair system, and you have to try and repair the essentials in your ship to not die in the fall

[@dickduran]

@@iannmichea7061 the first implementation of reparir is up and running in 3.18 but its just hull reparir the same that salvage but in reverse but just with multitool no ship to ship reparing just yet and not internal component repair

[@RedHornSSS]

@@iannmichea7061 Ye, and planet's gravity field is high enough for the victim to have a minute or two of falling time to do their final struggle : )

[@Jeff-ug3up]

How self-aware the devs are of their development cycle

[@B1oHa2ard]

@@RedHornSSS Now CIG needs to add parachutes

[@explodogames2774]

kinda cool that the dead ships help locate the problem on the race track lol

[@HeavyComponent]

I'm looking forward to this update, I just hope the server issues are less punishing. This is the reason why I quit playing in 3.17 when 3.17 was my first play through. I could almost never finish a mission or whatever because something stopped me from finishing. Either server issues or my ship flying away so I was over it and uninstalled it. I hope it's a better experience in 3.18 because it looks really good.

[@acegoat7573]

I love the moving cargo around in the Vulture. It makes me feel way more immersed and like it is a Space Sim. If everything is just done for us then there is no real immersion or fun for me. I hope they keep it and add it to more future systems!

[@SwipeSide19]

Feel like that immersion become cumbersome very quick

[@cayman1021]

Maybe provide an upgrade for those who don't want to manually pile them up. Become an additional content.

[@Mochimatchamocha]

Make a friend do it for u >:3

[@scifrygaming]

I don't mind the moving of boxes when your hull scraping. It breaks up the monotony of sitting in the seat. I like it :)

[@exofalcon9816]

I think it also helps working with friends Sorta cool too

[@seveneternal7988]

exactly, i was about to writte this

[@maxtiberius]

In the defence of the Vulture having to move the crates it does encourage multi-crew gaming. For example - Have a crew mate with the back door open floating out to hull scrape with the hand tool, as soon as you’re close to 2 crates stacking up ask them to jump back in and move the crates so the pilot can carry on, adding to efficiency and more profit to share.

[@MMPK]

From what i understand though, there's only one seat in the vulture? That would make sense if they added a small seat near the cargo area

[@xsvforce3335]

Also, who would want to be cargo stacker? It might be an ok additional side task to more evolved multi crew gameplay like optimizing system power or something. However, by itself it’s just a nuisance.

[@specialcircs]

Exactly, which you don't want with a single player ship! The game is already heavily geared towards multi-crew and orgs.

[@OrlanKrylo]

vulture was built to be a single seater, like the role of the prospector for mining

[@billywashere6965]

@@MMPK You can actually sit on the bed.

[@crispy9175]

7:30 no, you're completely wrong here. This game is meant to require logistics and moving boxes in a ship that generates boxes is 100% what we've been wanting. This fits into that whole pirate thing you were just excited about earlier in the video.

[@EricVidfarne]

Regarding manually placing boxes in the Vulture: the ship will hold other salvage than just RMC in the future (like guns, components, fuel etc) so I imagine that's the reason for you to go down and decide where things should be placed. I hope this is future proofing.

[@ThirsttyRecon]

Youre overthinking it. All that it is, is the devs wanted a way to force multicrew on the reclaimer for more than 2 people and they thought manually stacking boxes is peak gameplay so they designed salvaging around this. Its terrible design and even a remote operated tractor crane system is far more ideal. The reclaimer even hilariously splits the output and the cargo so you are forced to bring 2 extra men to play pass the box

[@EricVidfarne]

@@ThirsttyRecon I was referring to the Vulture in this case but yes, I also believe that was a big part of CIGs reasoning. I'd prefer if they had an "auto-stacker" system in the Reclaimer for up to 20 SCU. The ship has cranes in the cieling of the cargohold after all. After 20 or so you'd have to go back and re-arrange your cargo manually. Either that or they could add a remote station on the bridge that would handle the cargo.

[@sphinxoforion7422]

@@ThirsttyRecon Remember. The handheld tractor beam won't the jack of all trades in the future. Its just a tool that works perfectly fine in the game currently, so they get you to use it for now. The Reclaimer also has a gold standard coming in the future. So the potential for a cargo crane isn't out of the picture. The Reclaimer is also waiting Salvage T1 & T2 To use the claw & mulcher. To the multicrew stuff; Stacking boxes isn't too bad honestly, Its very chill. Slap on some music, or do what I did, and have a laugh with boys; Just joking around, having a drink, havin a time. About the Vulture; I also don't mind that. It prevents ya from getting too idle, instead of sat down staring the screen while you fill the 16SCU, it makes ya be a bit more aware, and keeps the brain from entering autopilot. It also allows for 2 ship operation: The Vulture and another ship with a cargo bay of at least 16scu, fly out someone for salvage like the halo belt, have the pilot of the cargo ship get in the Vulture and be on box duty, then once the ship is full; Fly off to port and sell, split the profit, and fly back out. Keeps the Vulture in the field for longer so you're making more aUEC/hr.

[@psycheisssdelic]

imo the devs shouldve made an automated system in the cargo hold, with robotics that moves all the stuff around automatically. wouldve looked really cool.

[@WrangleMcDangle]

i believe cg has said they want to add npc's that you can hire to load/unload cargo so i'm sure they can add an npc you can hire to work the salvage units

[@Pantalaimonpan]

Not sure where CIG wants to go with racing, but I think having death looming over the race could be a nice addition, so you have to challenge yourself without pushing too hard. Maybe at the moment with the invisible walls of death this approach would be inconvenient, but I would enjoy serious races where the fear of death might be a good additional factor to consider.

[@billywashere6965]

Yup, that's also kind of how the XGR operate. It's pushing the limits while knowing you could get aced at any moment. When the combat-oriented racing becomes more popular it will create an even more tense environment.

[@tigerchuu2148]

The moving of the boxes make sense to me when salvaging especially in the context of how the game will play in the future. The mining boxes will have to be moved manually in the future as well, the only reason they are not currently is because of the mechanics and tech not being there yet. You will also have NPCs or friends move things for you most likely so it will be less tedious.

[@timothyt.82]

There are no mining boxes when you mine because all your ore gets funneled into a large bag. If you look at a Prospector or MOLE you can see the saddlebags (as they are called in game if I am not mistaken) where all your mined ores go. I think what you're referring to is the processed ore, which will be put into cargo boxes after they are refined.

[@MrMozkoZrout]

Aw damn i am one of those people that are incredibly skeptical about the Star Citizen and i always thought that in the end when it releases it will be very trimmed version of the original ideas and it will be just more polished Elite Dangerous or something. But this update and the tech it brings is huge. The wreckage and persistent models and disabled ships like wow that is big. It allows for scavenging, recycling and repairing. All of those space sim mmo type game keep talking about these and how it could be carriers for players and type of gameplay and it basically never works as well as everybody imagines because so far nobody was able to keep all of the player made wreckage to stay and all that but now ? Maybe all of that player influenced world and all is going to be actually viable which is crazy. Sandboxiness like this is where future of games should be heading. This tech is insane.

[@festersmith8352]

Thats why it is taking so long.

[@CrispyMuffin2]

Something i've been wondering about PES, how will it make sure it doesn't get too cluttered or performance heavy? In a massive multiplayer game, things pile up quickly, like will common fighting locations be filled with corpses and shipwrecks up to your waist after enough time? Hell how will it handle persistence between servers? If someone in your location in a different server crashes their ship in your location, will their wreck pop op infront of you, or will it appear when you leave the area and return? Does it choose what objects from one server to be persistent in another, or is it across every single server? You know, asking myself all these questions makes me understand why it took so long to get this in the game

[@wild5461]

Based on time vs importance. Ships have a far higher importance than the empty water bottles and soda cans we toss away in space stations. Now just because they said that it's based on time and importance, doesn't mean we know the exact intricacies til later. It could be time since the entity was created or time since the last time a player saw it.

[@xsvforce3335]

On your last point about the time to develop the persistent entity streaming, yes, this is mad tech. It required a complete decoupling of various services from a single game server to multiple servers and a database. That would be a pretty incredible feat if this was plan from the start. In this case, it required a complete splitting of the multitude of intertwined and codependent services to be independent while responsively coordinating. I am not a developer or anything but just the basic premise seems like an incredible feat to me. I imagine an incredible amount of code that needed to be sifted through, reverse engineered, and re-engineered to work.

[@billywashere6965]

@@xsvforce3335 To not be a developer you basically nailed it. And yeah, this is literally groundbreaking tech that is a first in the consumer software sector. A lot of people give CIG grief for the time it takes them to R&D, but this is literally groundbreaking. They can license this to scale to any other AAAA-sized MMO out there, since originally they wanted to just license some middleware and call it a day, but now that they created the new middleware, they've paved the way for equally sized MMOs.

[@dvillano4202]

@@billywashere6965 I discovered Star Citizen just a year ago and I immediately could see what this project, if successful, would do to the gaming industry. To build a behemoth, yeah, it takes 10 years, millions of dollars, and most importantly, freedom from dirty publisher scum.

[@scenenuf]

Imagine Parachutes and Wingsuits after defending a ship freefalling in a soft death state in atmosphere from pirates and bailing just in time to glide away to safety or too another rescue ship chasing your freefalling ship and flying inside the rescue ship. Ahh man this looks insane.

[@GrimGatsby]

would be cool if you could install a server blade into your ship for racing that would create an augmented reality projection onto the race track with big glowing arrows.

[@mosseon3456]

i think the more advanced gameplay for scrapping should be salvaging whole components. The bringing the whole race set up is the point i think. like each racecar driver brings a pit crew, tools spare parts and transportation for their racecars. putting too much convenience in these kinds of games is their slow death.

[@Stephen8454]

I shouldnt be this excited cus I have been following the development fairly closely but this gets me so pumped!

[@JasonVanPatten]

Always fun flying with ya, Charlie. Hopefully we can check out a few more of the sites and activities, assuming the server(s) spawn the missions properly. :-)

[@EmilSosnin]

Level, it might not be for you but there'll be players that will love playing this style.

[@nicholasjaeger3132]

The one thing that makes no sense with the vulture is it is a one man crew, but seems to have the work of 2 people. So if it was a multi crew ship that you had a second person back there moving stuff while you scrapped would be ok. And why is there not a built in crane of some sort to move these things?

[@timothyt.82]

8:05 When drones come into the game, I can see a small personal drone you can sit in the cargo hold that you can either set to automatically move your cargo into place, or you can manually access with the mobiglass to set it yourself while never having to leave the seat. Will CIG do this? Maybe the mobiglass drone, but even that may be something they don't want to do. We'll just have to see.

[@myrchantkobold8268]

They just added that the vulture can make multitools and attachments so if you don't have one you can build them if you already have the material.

[@bart_fox_hero2863]

Is that meant to look almost exactly like the Venture in Eve? It’s super cool, love that design

[@Unmedicated_Moments]

When the Vulture was originally announced, there was a huge controversy on the SC and EVE forums about just how closely they resembled each other in name and especially design lol. Forgot all about it until I read your comment

[@pabstxp]

The Drake reminds me of The mining frigate in EVE .

[@ThePaimChannel]

I see the point in doing boxes by hand for components salvage, but I agree 100% with you vulture shouldn't need this

[@eziiii3536]

Same i can see it for the reclaimer because of its massiv size but comeone for a single ship this is just a burden and annoying. Why cant we have it like the prospector??? Is beyond me.

[@ThePaimChannel]

@@mikehunt8708 the reclaimer would make more by volume, less down time and the second tier of salvage tho

[@unclerennon7042]

This game is truly mind blowing in terms of scale. If it ever comes out I’m gonna have to play this.

[@emrebayram1778]

@@mikehunt8708 laughs in rtx 3060 Ti graphic cards with 25 fps at medium settings

[@ahmaudmuirhead4686]

@@emrebayram1778 apparently it works best on the highest settings. ( I haven't played the game yet, thats just what I've heard in videos)

[@mozambique9113]

@@mikehunt8708 stop spreading lies. its laggy and glitchy as heII. I just refunded my 80$ yesterday

[@justinbryan4998]

The Vulture is supposed to be a multicrew salvage ship. There should be another player down there organizing the stuff themselves.

[@Qbertqueso]

The box mechanic with the Vulture is kinda cool. I like the added step to slow down such an easy task. Gives the multitool added value and encourages multicrew. Industrial work isn't easy all the way through irl so having a taste of that in game is cool.

[@JamesWendellDavis]

Yeah I agree I don't mind it actually! Breaks up the loop a bit also.

[@dickduran]

for me It can be more cool if they make a remote turrent inside the cargo room with a tractor beam that way you can move the cargo in your main seat its very bad the traversal in the vulturemake if the cargo room was close without a labber to get in there can be better but that labber omg dont like it

[@eXponentia]

@@dickduran Yeah this would be a nice compromise. Sitting in the chair feels like "work mode", moving the boxes feels like "chore mode". Having a tractor beam remote turret inside the cargo hold would make the box moving feel more like "work mode" and part of the loop.

[@slyblood85]

I got huge gains at 1440p this part of Gen12 was just addressing CPU side of things so up there at 4K you're not gonna see much cause you're GPU bound. Ethier way should just keep getting better from every patch going forward!!!

[@merclord]

I agree the Vulture salvage mechanic should not require leaving the seat. But I also feel like this is all a temporary solution that allows us to play right now. This is after all the Tier 0 implementation, and we've seen CIG make improvements to games systems before. Furthermore, they are planning to allow us to CRAFT a multitool and all attachments from the salvage panel inside the Vulture and Reclaimer so we don't have to waste time looking for one if we forget to bring it on a salvage run. I feel like this is something that will come with the release of 3.18 to LIVE or sooner.

[@sc_mercilios6780]

Again Salvage is for a niche group the people it was created for will appreciate the stacking of the boxes and having to deal with that, I'm pretty the industrial orgs and group aren't the ones complaining about the stack of cargo and ejecting the salvage material.

[@specialcircs]

I wish CIG would give us an in-atmo level for Arena Commander to practice racing, tooling around, etc

[@dickduran]

you cant compare a jet to a space ship these space ship have thrusters every where maybe they can simulate it with the new tech that is in actual develomenent (control surface) but dont space a brinck to fly like a jet just a few ship will be capable of that

[@fwdcnorac8574]

It's coming down the road. It's all being prioritized. It's coming though. Several have already spoken about atmospheric flight. Needs to happen before we get more diverse planetary bodies. Some planets will have insane gravitational properties and/or weather patterns. They need to get atmosphere mechanics in prior otherwise they'll be smashing tons of bugs with each planet in every new system.

[@Hypnobong]

@@dickduran that’s exactly why it’d be useful- get attuned to your brick in atmo combat

[@Libertas_P77]

Great video and thank you for the continued Star Citizen coverage LevelCap! I completely agree with you: inserting a pointless manual step moving cargo boxes around on both the salvage ships is ridiculous: they’re specialist salvage ships, so it makes complete sense it’s all automated including stacking. I can see the unload then being needed to be manually handled with cargo refactor later, but this isn’t the situation. I’m just therefore left thinking CIG wanted to show off the cargo grid snapping etc, and didn’t consider this was ridiculous or sacrificing fun for a pointless grind. It’s even more absurd on a factory ship like the Reclaimer, forcing them to also mess around dropping boxes and tractoring them all over the place for low UEC. As if any human players would long term volunteer to be the box mover boy as crew on a Reclaimer. This is 100% an area CIG will need to address. The general principle should be that if a ship specializes in something, it does it well (eg mining, salvage), and if it’s a generalist that also handles that area (think the ships with cargo space that aren’t dedicated cargo with RAFT modularity or Caterpillar tractor beams), then there it’s more manual. So if we have some ships with some basic salvage or hull scraping capabilities as an extra feature later, sure have at it making it manual like this. But not the Vulture and Reclaimer, that’s silly.

[@bryanthegoalie5692]

7:18 I feel like this is why it is a crew effort. So that is more of a plus than the complaint.

[@BizzMRK]

the vulture is a solo ship though.

[@doraxil]

I wonder will we ever be able to create our own Derelict sites in terms of survival mechanics, with our own ship. Imagine your ship is downed to a soft death and you crashed into a mountain or a forest and somehow survived. Then you're trying to use your functioning ships parts or make it function with multi tool etc. in order to survive from the Hazard, planetary environment and so on. Or maybe with the littlebit electricity in the ship we could make our Radar function again so we can send a SOS to poeple. Or maybe even it can become our lifestyle, not just surviving but choosing to live a life like this. But you know, what do I know :)

[@fatfreddyfreekowtski6896]

Cool idea

[@carver5.56]

8:00 it was made for muilty crew gameplay, they are trying to lean on it more, which is good, get a buddy to help move the eject, or hire a random

[@TwstedTV]

6:22 Chris took a spitting image copy of the famous Eve Online mining ship called the Venture. He thought no one would notice, but we did. 😂

[@ThatGuy-Jai]

I just came up with a new gameplay opportunity that might make the game run smoother!... They could add a job to the game that revolves around scrapping or disintegrating all these new shipwrecks that occur so people can make money while reducing stress on the servers plus more immersion since there would no longer be a need for sneaky design where an instance can't be found anymore or after an unknown amount of time something disappears. As it stands now the despawn timer is immersive but it's just making the game work harder to force your computer to work harder. There's a fix but it doesn't have to shitty and immersion breaking

[@billywashere6965]

They actually have plans for that.

[@johnokean8216]

I could see CIG adding in tiny drones that do tasks such as organize cargo hold, salvage or repair ships, act as a sentry/turret.

[@festersmith8352]

Its planned already.

[@mcrked]

Leaving your ship for a bunker mission and returning to it being stripped by a vulture

[@PerfectCode]

Only if shields on the ship are off (or ya know, if ship is "destroyed").

[@vamperic]

They'd have to knock your shields off first

[@LoiteringReaper]

11:49 Mad Max vibes. Omg imagine leaving your ship for a few days and end up seeing a salvaged ship...

[@fuentessetneuf]

I didn’t think I was going to enjoy salvage as much I have been. Now I’m kicking myself for not picking up a Vulture.

[@CaptianInternet]

Great Content! Thank you for this! The soft death mechanics will surely be amazing in org gameplay. When a ship with 10+ players gets a soft death and will soon be boarded, One player might be able to revive other members on the ship to prepare the defense. If the defense is successful, these players can board another allied ship. Or board a hostile ship. Over all, the range of possible situations increases dramatically the more players are in the situation.

[@Raelhenn]

I'm tired of people complaining about having to get out of their seat to move the salvage crates. Just have an extra person dedicated to organizing the crates. These same people have been advocating for crew gameplay, but the moment they get something that needs multiple people to be efficient they complain cuz they want to do it alone

[@Hemebean]

Fantastic video !

[@SkySharkX2]

@LevelCapGaming Great video however one correction JadeStarwatcher isn't a guy, she's a woman.

[@skyfox585]

Soft death needs to be paired with the high probability that destroying a ship will tarnish most of its loot. That creates a huge incentive to boarding and also increases the risk for pirates in a very healthy way. Also dont forget that mining ship inventories are destroyable, unlike the scrapers.

[@Eneov]

Fair point to the vulture, but I think the need to get out of the seat, or have someone with you in the back to handle boxes as you fill up, feels very DRAKE. No frills, no automated process.

[@HollowBagel]

Take a shot for every time this guy makes a video about Star Citizen with a title like "This Will Change Everything".

[@pzkfpwagen]

No one talking about the random discord ping at 3:19? great video btw, at the time of me posting this its in the live.

[@red_cloud_o7]

Nice update! Really hyped to see some performance gains when 3.18 is live and it being patched a few times next year!

[@AdmiralCox]

if you are anoyed now by moving 12 scu around wait till you have to load your 600 scu cargoship manualy ( i doubt that npcs loading your ship will make it to the t0 implementation when cargo lifts in hangars apear )

[@TheWasd1234]

lol heard the discord notif at 3:20 and checked my disc XD

[@WhoIsOlton]

7:56 Well i think is a good addition. it makes it more realistic that they would cut cost and weight by not putting in a auto crate offloader, and not care if it makes the salvage worker have to get up and move them. might as well go ahead and build a bigger ship with more storage for said crates.

[@4jup4ter4]

The Vulture is the Space John Deere Combine. @11:15 Yes spare dev time. I'm just imagining what else they have completed that's not announced yet.

[@mozambique9113]

nah, thats all they can do while waiting for "jesus tech" to save the core game. people needs something to watch or be done, just like space toilets, ugly river and wiping helmet feature

[@gungriffen]

I'm fine with the Salvage boxes IF they make it more coop friendly allowing a crewman to stack and organize salvage as the pilot works.

[@festersmith8352]

Yes you can now.

[@me1cago1en1you1tube]

Bro i dont know if somebody mentioned it to you but just next to the crate spawn in the salvage ship u got a crafting menu screen that creates a muilti gun from scratch within your ship.

[@DevinBidwell]

Well, I'm moving in Feb so all my SC stuff is packed up. Looking forward to trying it out after we are all settled in in Feb though!

[@emaritimonds9417]

@levelcapgaming Just a heads up that JadeStarwatcher is a woman. It's important since we're a minority in the game's community.

[@skyfirefly76]

I really want to play this game, but, bugs, and glitches ruin the immersion, and this game is all about immersion. It would really drive me crazy. If they ever get to a stable version, I would jump in

[@purpleyeti705]

It's not really that bad. Maybe twice a day. The main problem is that negativity always gets around more then positivity. Maybe look up some SC long streams 8 plus hrs. You'll see they crash 2 maybe 3 times. The 3.17 branch has been the most stable branch ever. Remember CIG has a very generous refund policy, so maybe try it and make your own call. Atleast you won't have that nagging feeling at the back of your mind of "what if".

[@skitsnack1]

You can always try it during one of the free-fly events that happen about 4 times every year

[@dvillano4202]

@@purpleyeti705 I think 3.15 was the most stable ever. At least for me

[@purpleyeti705]

@@dvillano4202 really? That's interesting. Maybe i just had a string of bad servers. Definitely more the possible lol

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

@@purpleyeti705 its fucking terrible.

[@rasgotiriebud]

Damn i thought the game patch dropped! One of the last vids was about it coming to PTE and didnt expect ANOTHER PTE video lol

[@Zerlunar]

It be cool to like hit a button or something before soft death to like shield the cockpit area or some other areas where the crew might have a higher chance to live, if soft death becomes really hard to survive. Idk just an idea

[@lga9046]

Manipulating the cargo should be something that you could hire another player to do at a major hub (like a bar) in some kind of process similar to join party, that way it encourages community co-op. Kinda related to how I wish they'd make an incentive to crowd bars and mingle with other players to do just this sort of thing, generating some kind of cred XP mingling, overhearing the need for a 'cargo hand' for example at a nearby table, and bingo, Hired.

[@ElShotte]

In regards to getting back to the server instance you were in - not sure if you can invite your friends to join your session, but if you could, technically it should be possible to have group of friends play 24/7 and just keep re-inviting each other, no?

[@festersmith8352]

Yes that is possible.

[@RavenStorm332]

I like the features though I think the devs could add an automation upgrade that could added to ships

[@ReyconArcane]

The features are amazing, been looking forward to this patch for months, i refused to play PTU so i live release would be refreshing. After the long wait in can now finaly get out of that hangar and crash every 15min without any error message. Gotta love them 'known issues' :D Here's to hoping for a ton of hotfixes in the upcoming days. This is why CIG should just work till it's finished and clean for PU instead of listening to those crying because it's been in PTU for +6 months. Back to the waiting game.

[@fjdkfdfjdf33]

looks like goat simulator

[@Kerenos93]

Don't insult goat simulator, that game was actually finished

[@JethroDyx]

@@Kerenos93 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@J_Medlin]

@@Kerenos93 Agreed.

[@Joseph-wh5of]

How?

[@fwdcnorac8574]

Nice bait🐟

[@DJWilliams777]

You forget that you can now craft a multi tool at that panel.

[@davidgregory4208]

The new Drake Vulture salvage ship looks suspiciously like the Eve Online Venture.

[@SkabPix]

Hey it's me, the PowerWash Simulator comparison maker!

[@SaintBiggums]

Assuming this sort of thing is planned, I would imagine just upgrading what could fit per cube would make it less tedious. I think this current take on it makes the most sense and has way more potential gameplay wise. A Vulture filling up to 100% while you just sit there, leaving, selling, coming back, repeat I'd argue is way more boring and lackluster in gameplay, and the potential for interesting encounters.

[@KOLLOQ]

100% agree with you on the moving of cargo boxes in salvage. I've been saying the same thing since evo testing

[@brycesmcintyre8725]

I'd love to see an org war above a planet and their later being ship graveyards under where they were fighting it'd looks so cool.

[@BizzMRK]

I really don't get why people complain so much about the RCM box mechanic. Moving the boxes is the only real player input that is required with salvaging, everything else is pretty hands off. The system scales pretty poorly if they stick with 1x1 SCU boxes though in the Reclaimer. CIG made pretty clear that they don't want gameplay loops that play themselves, like mining in Eve Online for example, but want player input. With mining you have to manage laser intensity, usage of mining gadgets etc and the risk of blowing up. None of that is present with hull scrapping. Later down the road when mining ships get another pass you will need to manage the ore distribution on the refinery console as well and detatch and manually move them just like the RCM boxes. The layout of the Vulture is annoying though with the 2 level layout broken up by the annoying ladder.

[@tophatvideosinc.5858]

As far as manually moving the boxes go. Sure, cig could have done it different. They could have added a robot arm to move the boxes for you, which means having to implement an entirely new system into the game and you'll never see it while in the cockpit anyway. They could have also foregone any movement and have the boxes just... Appear. But not only is that not how cig rolls usually but it also makes the hull scraping loop MASSIVELY bland. The decision to implement the tractor tool as the means to move boxes around is a practical choice that add a break to the monotony of just holding down the laser button for ages only to move to the next area, scan and repeat. It also helps players who don't often make the effort to always be equipped with one get more familiar with the tool and more consistently use one, as demonstrated by you perfectly. In general, the multi tool should always be equipped and it's the first thing besides water you should by in bulk and store at your Regen locations along with it's associated attachments. Anyway, I'm glad that the vulture requires it and it makes sense for an entry level scrap ship to be more hands on than it's larger, and far more expensive uncle the reclaimer.

[@_lepvs_]

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[@colin1235421]

This is the first iteration of salvaging - more enhancements and complexity will probably be added over time.

[@itsdibbles]

luckily they are adding the ability to create a multitool and tractor attachment.

[@CarolPanda304]

The need to make an optional robot arm you can buy for your ship for a price so It automatically moves the boxes

[@DarkGott15]

That salvage ship is identical to eve online's mining frigate

[@DerKilianist]

What are your settings for steering the ship? How do you not have that deadzone etc?

[@mangotapu]

It is looking good! I am looking forward to release, but I can't get too hyped because it's probably still kind of far away.

[@vincentneidiver864]

How is all objects staying forever even possible? Wouldnt it make areas around events like jumptown run horribly?

[@0Metatron]

Can anyone link that post with the salvaged vulture? Looks funny as hell but I can’t find it

[@brandonpick1486]

We should be able to tale over the solar system. Like some kind of star wars empire type of thing.

[@IcyDawn887]

what was the firey thing about 45 seconds into the video

[@cs94]

Looking like a promising future

[@glypheye]

It’s the gaming version of the Kessler Effect!! 😂

[@olololba7904]

I disagree with medical and vehicle spawns in race locations, if you want to practice you can go to arena commander

[@Equitine]

"find a pile of wreckage somewhere or dead bodies chances are there is something wonkey going on" me crashing in the same spot for science "no nothing weird here i just realized im making more money crashing my ship and salvaging it then i am flying it and nothing says persistant salvage then seeing how much this server can take" Also i love that the vulture ship looks like the one from EVE

[@damienlee1165]

I thought things were changing a week ago when you said things were going to change.

[@samflinn1723]

What Ship is he using for the race mission area at 1:47?

[@Podokodo23]

A Gladius

[@SteffenAgermannChristiansen]

what is that ship in the beginning that rotates its wings to vertical??

[@festersmith8352]

MISC Reliant. There are 4 variants.

[@jugaming3808]

Vulture kinda looks like a copypasta of the Venture from Eve.

[@AKARazorback]

SUPER AGAINST having respawn locations at race tracks, or even vehicle spawn locations - that's bad, bad bad and doesn't at all match the vision for the game at all

[@Toutvids]

Do you think race drivers in the real world drive their cars to the track? Nope. Learning the track is part of the fun, we don't need race lines and crap like that, however they could improve some of the markers from what I have seen and maybe delineate the track better with edge boundary markers.