all the complaints have been about the downsizing of the polaris turrets and im super exited to see them reverting that change

@SpaceDad42

2 ай бұрын

They are going to sell the larger gun package as a kit, like the Idris. Scummy scammers.

@yikes3049

2 ай бұрын

they never downsized the guns?

@chalky042

2 ай бұрын

I’m really hoping the nose gets at least a dual size 6, I know it’s a torpedo ship but it’s still a capital and should be formidable

@angerskarin9222

2 ай бұрын

they talked about making the guns bigger not smaller.

"Pirates Dream" Indeed. I can imagine a comboi of Ironclads escorted by a Kraken with its loadout of Buccaneers and Vanguards. 😊

They took 3 cats side by side and said, yep, that's it, we did it!

I hope you feel better. Thank you for the great vid! I'm definitely interested in the two variants of this ship.

Aaaaaaaaand another ship that I probably won’t see before I die! 🤣 I’m going to have to add my SC account to my will.

@SpaceDad42

2 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t. Why would you place a burden on those you left behind?

@PharSyde6ix

2 ай бұрын

@@SpaceDad42 🤣 I know right. Maybe I’ll find someone I don’t like.

I see an important (and very legal) use for the top hangar on the Fatapillar: Hull C/D/E can't land on plannets with cargo, SO, you'd fly up to one in a station like Everus or the like, fly close to the Hull, have some of those MPUV tractor move container (via roof entrance) to the Drake ship, and have the Fatapillar fly it to a surface trading port like loreville or New ABabage, and so on. You can do it the other way around, where if you have a buddy with a hull series (C or higher) the Fattypillar can fly from the land port, and fly a few rounds (it would take about 3 or so) to load a Hull C, and have a tractor ship to move cargo onto the Hull. If the economy works as they say it will, there will be need to transport cargo fromthe big ships (like the larger MISC ships) onto land bases, and this is one of the sips that will do it. Armies of sips like Argo RAFT will too since it can go to a Hull and load the container itself, but ships that load quickkly will be better at this than somethign where you have to load carefully like a C2. I would like to see a MUCH LARGER RAFT type ship from Argo, but not sure if they will make that. I think It'd be cool to have an Argo RAFT like Hull competitor.

I think it would be very interesting if the Cat and Ironclad had the same command module. That would make for an interesting set of options, if they created a series of ships that all could use the same command module.

Get better soon! man i love the Faterpillars design. Got some ships to melt so might get this one "for free"

will be looking at the Ironclad Assault version do to the repair function

I kinda think they should keep the two sized turrets and the tail turret as quad S3, and give those particular turrets a very high track speed to help swat fighters. Can upsize the three front turrets for the anti large/capital firepower. This would give it a chance vs other caps in a gunfight, but not overly-so while also giving it some fighter screening. Naturally the counter argument is they could upsize the side turrets too, citing that it should rely on its fighter in bay for screening and/or an escort ship.

Love the idea of the military variant, so i can repair my ground vehicles.

Im so happy they are making ships for small orgs. You could easily run a 12 man op with a few fighters and heavy gunship like the corsair for some extra muscle which can be run by a solo player.

@malarke7677

2 ай бұрын

Just my org Shadow Guardians have 100k in SC lol we All deserve it S2

They need to add ship navigation to the Ironclads overhead bridge. It’s just common sense.

That casge (Secure cargo area) is where the ppirats will stow the crew when they manage to board this ship :) or a place to stick pirates who failed to board your ship? :)

Polaris looks great especially with better turrets. It desperately needs more remote turrets toward side rear and rear. I would love to see Scorpius turret railing on each rear sides to give awesome polaris broadside views from rear remote turrets or views of rear combat as well

This ship is going to be very popular with orgs.

What I like about the new RSI design is that you can see the ground when you fly over planets. Because with the 400i or cutlass you have to put your nose down to see what's below you

Im patiently waiting for my apollo and my Galaxy (med module.) Yeah im just interested in the medical gameplay, but i just fly around in my loaner Carrack with my NURSA and C8 reacue and just answer med beacons by the unlucky bunker mission guy

@SpaceDad42

2 ай бұрын

Medical gameplay is gone now.

@kazzix83

2 ай бұрын

@@SpaceDad42 how is it gone when they have ships and vehicles designed specifically for it

Doesnt the command module detach, beeing an escape capsule, enable every other fully modelled escape pod in the game to detach ? I suppose there might be some more animation work left with breakaway-armor panels opening and such since a lot of the escape pods in game are covered.

I wonder If the military version of the IronClad will still be viable for cargo-running.

I think I'm more interested in the Military version it could replace my M2 or Liberator but I'm not expecting the military one to be on sale only the cargo one

Might upgrade my liberator to Ironclad Assault

@SpaceDad42

2 ай бұрын

You’ll never see either.

@51ghardy

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, ok

Finished my Liberator CCU Chain tuesday, so im very interested in both the IC's and variants development and potential . Price i don't really care much about, i'll have one or both either way - $450/525, me like them. Star Citizen is my toybox, and i want all the toys

Another cargo ship, i was hoping for a smaller kraken type corvette, the ground support seems like a good idea but why would something that big support troops on the ground, i just hope there is a variant with a flight deck instead of the tanks to support ships in space a hanger for example. Unless "onboard repair facility means can that it can repair both tanks and ships???

Get well bro!

@LawlessBaron

2 ай бұрын

Thanks brother o7

nice

Its the Fattapillar :O

"Somewhat boarded" is like "a little bit pregnant." 😄 Edit: I wonder if the 'evidence room' storage areas will be shielded from scans? Ought to be.

I've got mixed feeling about the Polaris having bigger guns that can stand up to other capitals. On one hand, yes, give me bigger guns! Always!!! On the other, it's purpose is to be torpedo corvette. Launch 4 torpedoes at a capital class vessel, destroy it. If you fail to get a kill, run like hell to reposition for another salvo. It's the ultimate capital ship sucker puncher! I'd rather have the guns onboard being designed to take out annoying fighters, and the size 10 torpedoes for capital ships. But once again, I'll never complain about having bigger guns. lol

Looks great. But what that also need to do prior to this. Get all previous ship up to gold standard and update those (ie 600i). Great to see new ships development, we know that help bring in revenue, BUT, if you refine existing ship, update those to the current levels of the game, you'd also see increase is revenue as new and even existing player would want these new updates and capabilities.

@dawnfire82

2 ай бұрын

There is not going to a be a tsunami of Cutlass Black sales if they Gold Standard it.

I really wish you could fly the ironclad from the top bridge. I don't like the off-centered bridge on the cat and this is going to be so much more offset.

@jmcnear6688

2 ай бұрын

I'm afraid its placement will impact the pilots ability to see much to the right. It is slightly above the cargo area but then the bridge may be in the way.

I was SO happy about the Polaris finally being close to flight ready. Been waiting for it since 2016. And CIG goes to show the concept of THE ship I was waiting all along since I backed Star Citizen. So my Polaris is getting melted, on the verge of being released, for this concept that I will have again years to wait for... If you look carefully at the comand module, it is the exact same as the Caterpillar. (I should know, I daily drive the Pirate Caterpillar). it is the exact same. There is as well 2 doors on the Caterpillar. One up, one down. it means that once the Ironclad will be implemented, there's a good chance for the Caterpillar to be reworked for it'c command to work too (and JC DID say that, if I remember the video correctly). The ship itself it much bigger though.

@Mk_IX_Hawk5690

2 ай бұрын

If the Ironclad is possible as an upgrade. You could buy the upgrade /CCU, from the next lowest priced released ship, for like $30-100 (whatever is least), to lock the Ironclad price in. Then hold onto Polaris, then could melt on the Ironclad release and apply your CCU obtain at concept price.

@FoxVelox222

2 ай бұрын

The command module was said to be for 6. The cats is for 4. This one is larger. So not the same. Just a heads up.

@captainharlock3998

2 ай бұрын

@@FoxVelox222 Nah, the CREW is a max of 6. They didn't say the command module is for 6.

@FoxVelox222

2 ай бұрын

John crew literally says seats for the crew in the command module within the first 4 minutes. Just watch the video again. It's fine if you don't believe me but maybe belive the words the dude who's making the ship actually says out of his own mouth. 😊

@Libertas_P77

2 ай бұрын

Why not Polaris AND Ironclad?

We are so far in tech to make this ships playable

im wondering how much the IC will cost any ideas?

@littlefoot2869

2 ай бұрын

at least 500

@IamAlpharius30k

2 ай бұрын

@@littlefoot2869 drake getting spendy🤣🤣

"its an armored freighter, Not a ship that competes as a carrier transport like a liberator (whichis ore expensive, likely less armored, and smaller, DON'T COMPARE THOSE TWO! THIS IS S A FREIGHTER PEOPLE!!!!" LOL :) Me Likey! Hopefully won't take as long as the poor Polaris to come out. I like regular version (not sure if the Assault has the tractor beans (which are important for..cargo, Yeah... cargo loading... That what it is. nothing else :) Sounds like they're trying to limit expectations for the command module on this ship and the Cat... Like, they were (when the cat came out) you can park your ship somewhere, and fly around with the command module, and use it as a transport" to this ship "oh, you ONLY want to use this as an escape pod when all went wrong" LOL

I think we get the new drake ship as loner for the BMM because the BMM has only 600scu more Cargo.

@SpaceDad42

2 ай бұрын

This ship will not begin work for at least 5 years or more. The BMM will come before that most likely.

@LunaMoon0

2 ай бұрын

@@SpaceDad42 the BMM come With the Kraken because it have Same mechanics. And IT was Said the new Drake ship is to train for the Kraken so the new ship Most come before the kraken

I think you are way Off in Terms of Cargo on the Ironclad As Proof the Hercules C2 boosting about 696 SCU can take 2 Nova Tanks in a Line When looking at the Ironclad Assault we can See 2 novas Front to Back but also 2 rows meaning 4 in total in the Cargo size reduced Ironclad Assault which also fits a onboard repair Station If take those visual clues into consideration WE can expect somewhere between 1500-2000 SCU of Cargo roughly

Press F for all the C2s and M2s that are going to be melted for the Ironclad

@davewills6121

2 ай бұрын

Null and void, mine are all Loaners, but yeah....evolution rules!.

I think the Ironclad stole the show from the Polaris since overall, I think more people will prefer having an Ironclad.

hot and sour soup will fix you asap. get better and thanks!

@LawlessBaron

2 ай бұрын

Thanks mate, damn I haven't had a soup in atleast 10 years maybe it's time to break that streak

60% of it will be bugged, and they'll not fix it for years, ships i have from 2013 are still bugged

Get better bud

@LawlessBaron

2 ай бұрын

Thanks mate

2025 shall be the year of Drake

@rybuds47

2 ай бұрын

That would be nice.

@CopperRavenProductions

2 ай бұрын

Nevah!!! Lol jking

@charliemcawesome5012

2 ай бұрын

No doubt!! Maybe I’ll get ME KRAKEN!!!! Also I wanna point these 2 things out. Looking at the interior pics of the cargo area, and measuring the 32SCU boxes that are there. I would submit you can fit MINIMUM 12 in the row on that side. Thats 384 scu of cargo. Double that for the top row. Thats 768 scu. Double again for the other side. That’s 1536scu. So that’s a CONSERVATIVE amount. From other internals I would suggest you may get a third layer…. If so…. 2304 scu. Holy crap. NOW! The big one. No one has mentioned this anywhere…. But this lands planetside. BOOM! That’s HUGE for gameplay. No Hull’s do that…. Only the Banu and Kraken can. This ship will be golden.

until i get my ship that shelled out money for i not putting another penny in this game it cool ship nope cig not giving you more money until you put in the stuff that i already paid for.

@LawlessBaron

2 ай бұрын

Ummm ok

@S1L3NTSNA1L

2 ай бұрын

Damn i'll be sure to tell them to get right on that

@charliemcawesome5012

2 ай бұрын

Yup. 100%. Demanding always works…. Especially since you didn’t “pay” for anything. You donated a pledge. They gave you something because you donated. With no promise of delivery. You agreed when you clicked.

@jusmac1704

2 ай бұрын

Jus melt and get something else dude 😢

So mana yes men ^^ Polaris took them 8 years. They dont have a clue on how to implement AI blades or NPC gunners. All those big ships are going to be a nightmare, as it was promised you could operate even the biggest ships alone, just not as effective as with real players. I would highly recommend people to wait with their money, until CIG has a clue on what they want to achieve with bigger ships. Perseus is 3+ years and not even started, i guess this will be 5 years + until it arrives.

@davewills6121

2 ай бұрын

CIG are currently working on the RSI ''Polaris/Perseus/Galaxy'', sharing assets/tech and features across the ships, perseus could be very late 2024 early 2025. Your thinking pre-2016, ship concepts then, were just that, they needed the game to be in a certain place, tech/features/components/gameplay and staffing, 70% were working on SQ42. Ironclad will be possibly 2/3 yrs, could be sooner with the current staffing level and CIG being more focused and organized.

@Thor_Asgard_

2 ай бұрын

@@davewills6121 The latest QnA clearly stated, that only ships are worked on that are named, and the Perseus is clearly not one of them. Also it makes no sense for them, to work on a ship, that hast features, that they dont even know how to implement, like the 2 Auto turrets on the Perseus. I believe what i can see and the pipeline doesent work properly at this point in time for ships that are bigger than a fighter.

@davewills6121

2 ай бұрын

Your thinking is locked in the 2015 mindset, ships/features/components and development has advanced nearly a decade beyond that limbo period. There'll be no NPC Crew/AI Blades for yrs, although its on the roadmap, CIG is and has always pushed for Group/Org gameplay, nothing in that respect has changed, beyond CIG making it so. Wake up, smell the fresh roses.......and stop reading that feckin LORE.

@dawnfire82

2 ай бұрын

You think you're being grounded and reasonable in the face of fanboyism, but you're not. You're an armchair quarterback who has never touched a football, acting like your ignorant cynicism is a badge of wisdom. What you described is not at all how projects work. 'It took them 5 years to build X, therefore it'll take 5 years to build X*!' Nope. Simple example from history: It took Ford about a year and 10 months to design and built the Model T car. Thereafter, it took them days to produce, eventually reduced to hours. Then they had multiple plants producing in parallel, producing 15 million cars in 19 years. Obvious, right? You'd think so... CIG has developed custom tools for virtually the entire length of the project (once they increased the scope of the game and decided existing engines couldn't handle what they wanted to do). They've built from scratch or heavily modified existing tools for their physics engine, their ship design process, their planetary body design process, buildings and settlements, server meshing (which is straight up new technology), and so on. They had to build a motion capture studio. It took them several years to build out their first system but then only a few months to build out others, (e.g. those for Sq42) because the tools were completed. It took them >1 year to make and implement the first planetary river, but then built out others in the next year as a side project because they'd finished the river-making tool (which doubles as a road-laying tool, and probably could be adapted for chasms, as well). Now they're adjusting how water works. It's all reasonable assignment of finite resources to different aspects of the project to make it easier as they go. All major game studios do this. Only here, it's a transparent project with a participative public (who complain about **everything**). They've described it as "building the railroad tracks while the train is already going." And I'd add, 'pulling cars of spoiled hobos who want to know why they haven't reached their favorite vista, yet.'

@davewills6121

2 ай бұрын

@@dawnfire82 Your off your meds again Simon, what was the understanding?