when I was super new didn't even know how to use a Fuel scoop and the rats saved me I was a decent way out too looking for some engineer They have a live chat room I was surprised how fast they made contact
@@tristanbreen Everyone has the potential to explore... But it's the Fuel Rats that truly make it available to everyone. Think about it being irl; so many people's journeys would end shortly after they began if there weren't just a bunch of hydrazine-soaked daredevils sleeping with one ear on the comm, waiting to hear someone in need. Kinda fucking cool this came out of a game.
I think it's so cool that the game has gravity effects like that so that a dead ship will fall toward the planet. Awesome rescue, you guys are the best!
Jeremy Hyde it is! I’ve actually specifically targeted ships engines while fighting within a few KM of a planets surface, just so I can watch them fall to their doom
@@Minon157 Easy manual way to do it is just check your CONTACT tab on your left panel. There's a sub-menu attached to your target with all of his/her modules listed.
This is what they enjoy, it IS their free time. Fuel Rats usually have all that they need in the game so they help people. It's also why they don't need payment.
@BMO If you go under your inventory tab, the second or third row from the bottom is called "Synthesis" in there, you can make a variety of useful things using materials gather from mining!
Not entirely true... I have had tons of support getting into the game by fellow commanders! (New commander here) they gave a damn about me and plenty others.
"The universe pays us." One of their quotes. These guys are nuts and I was holding my breath during that entire free fall and shit got serious when that first limpet from above didnt connect
That TRULY fit perfectly! From finding the commander in the scanner, dropping out, reaching 10km, hitting the first boost, and the limpet connecting with the ASP!
Jonne Steen Redeker I just started about a week ago as well. A lot to learn. I’ve been on solo play but am thinking about switching to open once I learn enough
Anthony Anderson you have pretty much nothing to fear in open, unless you go to specific high player populated areas. It’s a large galaxy, and 99% of players you run into will just greet you, because meeting another player is still rare.
I’m new in ED, but you guys saved my life. I have been out of fuel in the middle of nowhere and your fast reaction was amazing. For me personally this was really special and because of that love this game even more!
OMG I was on the edge of my sofa rooting for this guy to get supplies to this pilot in time, I was like...come on! come on!! actually punched the air with a YES!!!! when it was successful. Fantastic mission, nice one commander. I could watch this again and again than rather sit and watch The Last Jedi lol.
@@Krystalmyth As a matter of fact, I can. The Last Jedi is one of the best movies in the entire saga, right there with A New Hope. AND It's the most visually literate and thematically brilliant of them all. How could you not see it?
other people playing elite: diving towards the planet at high speeds to launch a limpet drone at a stranded commander running out of oxygen me playing elite: haha space rock goes kaboom-boom
I tried that kinda maneuver going into a space station with a type 9. IMAGINE how cool it COULD have been, and immediately after let your imagination show you what likely happened.
This is like watching Matt's offroad recovery. A lot of little technical things to watch and it's pretty enjoyable watching someone who knows what they are doing really well.
This got recommended, I don't know what this is, I don't know what he's doing I don't even know why I'm watching this. But I know one thing - I'm not complaining lmfao
Elite: Dangerous. If you run out of fuel to keep the lights on, emergency power will go to a limited life support. Fuel Rats will answer a call on their IRC for help to give fuel and keep you from dying and having to rebuy your entire ship and Loadout for 5% the original costs as well as being sent back with none of your stuff to the nearest station.
@@xavierrodriguez2463 Yelp I lost alot of data and all last night my first time visiting guarding sites and some fucking asshole player greifeld me and killed me i uninstalled as i had died 3 times by him and refuse to restart in a sidewinder again. Over 800hrs wasted, Yeah done with it to grindy and I have a job and can't play this anymore like I used to when I was still in highschool. Never did engineering either though.
The fuel rats are the best thing about this game. This is the true "player created events". Now I even appreciate how its not just a case of getting to the system, there's a lot that the number 1 emergency service has to get right to save you.
They do. Regular rescues are routine, because the commander can just log out and with even just a little fuel remaining, the ship has power. But as soon as there's "code red" in chat, things get a lot more serious. I'm not a fuel rat, but I know how they operate and benefited from their rescue service once. They are very well organised and extremely efficient.
Wow. Just Wow. Watching this in January 2023 and its just amazing that volunteers do this for people in a video game. Many blessings to EVERY Fuel Rat. !! This was an awesome save. And as a new player, I just learned something from this video, and from an actual Fuel rat. Always have materials to Synthesize Emergency Oxygen. Such an awesome thing to learn from a Fuel Rat. ❤
I love that in a wide open game like Elite dangerous there are groups of people that just literally play to help other people. A fantastic study of the good side of humanity.
Loved the details of the game I purchased it and played it a little. Till i got into combat felt like I was just doing brief nose to nose passed to flip around and repeat. Totally killed it for me.
Ah having fun with jousing are we? It's a common plroblem for new comabt pilots don't worry. The trick is to use your up and down thrust to break the joust, when other ship is comming at you boost and imediatly use the vertical thrusters while rotating your ship to face the enemy. This will cause him to pass your ship at a high speed so it'll take longer to turn back around for another pass and the mean time you flip off Flight Assist to get a fater turn rate then engauge it again to stablise your ship one your on the other ships tail. Also keep that throttle in the blue zone as much as possible, agility is more important than speed in combat.
I remember when I started I ran out of fuel (like 30 min in I still had a sidewinder) luckily my friend came and helped me. He told me that if nobody was online that I would have to contact the fuel rats and get a lecture on refueling at stars and planning my route. Guess who hasn't ever called the fuel rats after 6 months of play
Lecture is a bit hard. We would just inform you politely of all the weays to get fuel and all thew tips and tricks availabel to provide you with a safe journey. Good luck out there CMDR
When you're out in deep space more thank 10k away from a habitated System it's easy to forget things when jumping and refueling process' gets monotone. Players (like myself) could take the L and self destruct if that happens but that could mean: 1) losing your ship entirely if you are out of creds, 2) losing ALL of the exploration data you have on your ship's computer which can hurt not just financially but you are probably lose the first explored status on stellar objects. Some explorer do this not just for fun but to mark their name in Elite's Galaxy. That's when the fuel rats come in to picture: players who are willing to spend HOURS to rescue said players in specificaly fitted and engieneered ships - and you can't just have a fully kitted Conda to do the job, you must know the game like the commander in the video: how to execute rescue missions on time, fighting with ingame mechanics and other unfortunate circumstances.
Now this is what I love in a game. A great community that takes the time to make everyone else's experience in the game that much better. The Fuel Rats are the best player faction I've ever seen
I'm not badass enough to join, and haven't needed you yet. Good to know your group could be there. Even when it will be my fault I'm in trouble in the first place.
This game needs more stuff like this, human interaction is scarce and the social tools are sorely lacking.... but it has the best space flight mechanics of any sim i have played. SC doesn’t count until it works.
Has anyone ever tried exploring in a convoy? Like several high jump range ships, and one ship has nothing but fuel tanks and fuel limpets, and it can refuel ships and repair damage, and that’s basically the “tanker”, while everyone else is the escort. Maybe if there’s ever an event again like the colonia ones way back, I could outfit a type 9 or something to do that, and just go around repairing and refueling allies.
it would be good for nuetron star emergencies (provided they get out otherwise that ship is toast) other than that it isnt hard for people to put a good fuel scoop on.
My partner and I work as a pair, I have a higher jump range and cargo capacity, so I run the fuel limpets, but as far as I've seen that isn't terribly common.
I could see this working if exploration data and credit for first discovery could be split between wing mates. In this situation one ship would discover planets, one would surface scan them, and one would scoop the star for fuel to give to the others. And in the end they could all get fairly paid for their contribution.
o7 and great work! Really cool to see how you had to maneuver ahead of the fall to get the limpet to him. I only started playing E:D a couple of months ago but things like this make me glad I did!
@@jonneexplorer Thanks for the offer! I've learned a lot about the game, but I'm sure there's always something else I could learn. That's one of the great things about E:D--so much of the content is left hidden unless you seek it out! I just recently spent a little time learning how Guardian ruins work, which was a lot of fun. I think I might go hunting for the remaining beacons that Canonn thinks are still missing next! My name in game is "Richard Korun". I don't spend a huge amount of time in-game, but maybe I'll see you on there sometime! BTW, nice video on Sagittarius A*!
@Anonymous Anonymous In reality the requirements aren't that bad. I had a lot of fun my first couple of months on a very basic setup: Intel i5-2400, 16 GB RAM, and an old GT 710. Enough to play the game at 720p with moderate detail levels. I mean, it's a space sim, so you're not rendering lush forests or whatever. I saw a little slowdown inside stations and on planet surfaces with that rig, but all in all it was still a lot of fun, and totally playable. The game itself runs about $70 for the current version, and there's no monthly fee as yet, though I've seen some videos by Frontier that they might be introducing a monthly fee in a future update. I highly recommend a flightstick. I have an old Thrustmaster with 12 buttons, a 4-direction hat, and 4 axes (pitch, roll, yaw, throttle) that does the trick. Another $30-$40, if you don't already have one. Of note is that you can still play the original game and the second "season", so it's likely that you'll be able to play the versions up to the point where the monthly fee is introduced without subscribing to that. Hope this helps!
There needs to be dedicated ships for you guys, equipped with bomb bays to dump fuel, oxygen, and any other supplies on target, bombers aren't just fir destruction if you use a little ingenuity and initiative
@@fl4shblade You're right, it won't simply continue in the direction it is pushed, but on a vector that is a combination of the direction the ship was moving at the time the item was released and the direction it was pushed out of the bomb/cargo bay. Unless you have a better explanation of a moving object in effectively zero gravity?
i stumbled across a video explaining what the fuel rats were. prior to that i had never even heard of this game. im buying it this week and i want to become a fuel rat now. this is fucking awesome
there is something so organic about the way ships move in this game . The second I plugged in a joystick was like ohhhhh... and then hooked for 800 hrs o far
Wow that was epic lol. I used the fuel rats once, got caught whilst exploring in my Asp. I cocked up my flight plan and jumped to a system I thought I could scoop from but realised I couldn't. The rat who came to my assistance must've jumped for ages to get to me in deep space. Absolute legends, would happily buy them a beer!
I remember one time years ago I got stuck in deeeeeep space and thought there was o hope. Did so much googling to figure out what I could do and found the Fuel Rats. This is truly an amazing group of people, you don’t see this kind of dedication in most games. Long love the Fuel Rats!
Tried to jump way too far in a little eagle and had one of these fellas coming to rescue me, flew up on mic and everything, was quite the interaction in what I thought was a game where you were mostly alone.
And here I was thinking that Fuel Rats were pirates who stole your fuel. Now, this video shows it's otherwise. Nice rescue. I guess the take away here is that what you classify people and organizations in EVE Online is with a far different meaning in this game of Elite Dangerous.
Nice save I like how his demise was either falling and crashing into the planet cause caught in gravity or running out of Oxygen and dieing. You was his obi wan Kenobi and you was his only hope.
You guys are heroes. I've never needed to call in the fuel rats, but the fact that you guys are out there is a great comfort. The resources you guys drop about fuel scooping and route plotting are a HUGE part of the reason I've never had to call.
can you imagine this from his point of view though he's just barreling towards the planet, watching the group marker get closer and closer, another ship appears and all he sees is a little light fly from it, as he's just about to accept he's screwed, his panels say he has fuel.
I've been saved by a fuel rat before back when I started. The guy taught me all about fuel scopes and how to effectivly plot routes. I greatly respect people who act as Fuel Rats
These guys are awesome and have helped me out a number of times. Ive also assisted a fuel rat who was being attacked. Dont fuck with these guys if u value ur in game health
Saved by them once, after a targoid pulled me out, from reaching a star i could use to fuel, barely any left could not jump more anywhere, star was so "close" 3 hours away at maks speed fuel reserves.. 15 min with all non important stuff off, Fuel rats are gods for saving me 20k from anywhere
The Fuel Rats... They have fuel and you don't. Any questions? Anyway, these guys are great. They come from far and wide to help all who need it and don't ask for anything in return.
This needs the interstellar soundtrack to make it the perfect fuel rat advertisement! "The limpets can't keep up! It's not possible!" "No. It's necessary."
Only played public a few times and got griefed out of existence leaving me bankrupt. Never played public again. If only there were more players like this I’d be back. Great job!
This is awesome. Got goose bumps. Amazing what the fuel rats do and how amazing people can be. Not even playing Elite... just watched a video about the rats and got this one as a suggestion... Even though no comparison in any way: I used to fly helis in Battlefield 2. Especially on the largest maps, my main "thing" was picking up and transport players. I was specialized in transporting snipers to perfect positions. Amazing feeling....
Holy shit that is a terrifying sight. You're out of fuel, falling like a brick towards a planet, and you're on emergency oxygen. 1 minute from ending, he could hear his pilot choking and the oxygen running low. Glad he had refills
I just started playing last month. learned my lesson with fuel when I ran out literally 8 METERS from the landing pad. I didnt know about Fuel Rats then or much about the game.
For some reason, I had Quinton Tarantino's line from Sin City in my head watching this. "Ooooo, those hookers let you down! What're you gonna do when you run out of gas, call AAA?"
