NO SHIP Starter Pack Challenge | Star Citizen 

Really cool. Love that your game start relied on other players to do exactly what Chris Roberts the game designer dreamed. Player picks you up, you get attacked by pirates, you had to crew a turret and actually saved the ship Flew down to a planet, got dropped off Explored Found loot Mined rocks Made a living This is the dream of any MMO player I think you just sold the game , well done

Honestly this is such an interesting concept, I hope CIG flesh out more on ground missions and FPS earnings, it could be really good fun.

Great idea, great video! Once passengers liners are in the game and players can travel on NPC-controlled ships, CIG should offer game packages that start you off just like this.

This would be awesome as a free-to-play method.

Great that even with the 30k, all wasn't lost. Such a big improvement over how it used to be.

The concept is pretty good. I like how you re-enacting how this no-ship start would go and by pure chance you get into your first random encounter with pirates and need to help out the stranger giving you a lift by mounting a turret and fending off. Like a proper space adventure. I can hear Han Solo's "Dont get cocky" in the background.

11:50 it IS a feature. it's the 30k recovery system. when a server 30k's your ship will be at the station as it was before the 30k. it makes a snapshot of the state of your ship every 2 minutes or so.

Honestly, I would really want a variant of this: You start out in a city, without a ship. You have just yourself, but luckily for you, there are lots of ship captains who need turret gunners, or marines for missions. Maybe their ship needs a copilot or an engineer or whatever. You get introduced to the core mechanics of spaceship play by serving as a crewman aboard someone else’s ship, or hopping from ship to ship on a per-mission basis. It’s a perfect introduction to the game’s systems and multi-crew, and would ensure that the cheapest way to get into the game provides a steady stream of new players to serve as crew for the experienced guys who have a big ship.

He just mobs thru the cave comfortably, I can't wait till creatures get implemented and we are all walking thru caves like it's dead space! Hahaha

If i could start without a ship on this game i would play instantly, i love the idea of earning your first ship

Yeah, I’ve been wanting a $30 “Star Marine” pack for years. You could ride in your friend’s ships, or do ground missions once there’s more content, until you buy your first ship.

Great video as usual Berks. I'm just so happy that my favorite moment of you leaned into your screen looking at the map only to state "we're lost" made it into the video!

That was cool :D I always thought how neat it would be if we could work inside factories in cities or make delivery or maintenance jobs in landing zones to make some cash before buying vehicles and spaceships. Slowly opening up the game, like a real star citizen :D

I have a starter alt account with just a Titan and I love it. That edge of your seat make it or break it feeling. It's hard to do right now with the bugs but, in future, a no ship start would be sweet to do. ♥

No-ship and MPUV packages make sense now, more than ever. Everybody’s going to need crew up once Pyro drops. Thanks for this great video!

I watched this on the chromecast so I couldn't comment, but I wanted to come back and say how satisfying this video was to watch. I was happy to see how exactly you found a way to truly complete the challenge, and, perhaps exceptional for star citizen gameplay content, I wasn't bored for a second while still being able to tell exactly what was going on. I noticed and appreciated the condensing of the context information down from live video to strategic, easy-on-the-ears narration. The video inspires me to try it myself to see if I could achieve a decent farm with that career path and tells me what I need to know to do so as an admittedly sporadic but enduring player over the past decade. Banger.

I am an old time baker, and i remember clearly that devs stated that the default player progression was indeed without any ship, working on ground or as a crew for other players, this was what drew me into pledging the game. Thank you so much for bringing this up!

Hitchhiking in this game is just so wholesome Love the players of this community

While this is an awesome way to play right now, I do think ships will be a lot harder to get closer to launch when they don't need people to have access and test all the ships. That's just a hunch, but would be cool to see missions added where you don't need to leave the city maybe box delivery where you take the shuttles or even missions where you are part of a small group on a drop ship about to infiltrate an area, tons of opportunities for no ship missions.

Duuude i have been wanting this for years, this would open so many possibilities for new gameplay loops, you could start on the ground at one of the many landing zones with just your clothes and pocket money and get a simple job where yo can start saving money or maybe help another player, then jump to something else and such until you have enough money to buy the first ship. Great video btw.

This was fantastic. I would like to see more like this.

You could also just start on a planet, rent / have an ursa, drive out to a bunker, do the bunker mission. Fill the Ursa with the bunker loot and drive back to sell. Requiring zero other players :)

I don't play this game, since I wish to play a more polished version and by lack of time, but that kind of beginning story, to grind your first ship or better equipments through jobs looks a total banger. I can totally imagine a start would be in a cabin in a space station, or a moon or a remote planet, with nothing but clothes and a little amounts of credits. Your first task would be to select a starting job accessible via a short training (aka tutorial). You would have to pay for this training, leaving you only a handfull of credits. With this training, you would get a licence, that licence allows you to get equipments and stuff that will help you perform the fonction. These jobs could be different depending on where you start: miner, guard, coursier, pest control (in the city or in a station)... and so on. Once you have gathered enough money you can join the training for pilots (aka how to pilot your ship without crashing it) and then acquire your first ship, or attend a more evoluted training, leading you to more elaborated licences, each one giving you access to a whole new kinds of missions (bounty hunter, space debris recycler, etc...).

Congratz for your patience Berks :) . If they implement small questing around outposts for repair, chores etc, i can see myself start like this no problem, more immersion and better feeling when you actually earn the 1st ship in game like this rather than have it on your garage.

Awesome effort! The only problem is that you have to be a pretty experienced player to get that done (or even have a chance) BUT This is a great idea for a future tutorial, starter walk through upon entering the game for the first time!

Legit if was possible to do your first concept of starting on foot with just armor and a multitool I would try it but as you pointed out navigation and some matter of distance make it fairly impossible. It would be cool if/when you can do missions and jobs within a major landing zone on foot. Would be cool to spawn at like Area 18 and do small jobs and missions for various mission givers building rep and uec until you can afford your own ship. Would add a whole new layer of depth to the game and create a lot more appreciation for ships like the Aurora. It's considered a third rate ship now but it's all you could hope for when you have nothing, it has a bed, some cargo capacity, 4 weapon hardpoints and an interior you can put boxes in.

Great video. I always wanted to see how this would work, thank you. I always liked the idea of some on foot missions in each of the main starting cities for a few hundred to a couple thousand credits. like a delivery with a cart like the ones that are still in development, or something like using an URSA to pick up and deliver goods to another part of the city. Or even pick up a part and take somewhere else to make a repair in something random.

This is an awesome video!!! Just started playing this week! Love seein the community aspect

This was an impressive version of emergent gameplay. Well done, sir.

It is an interesting thought, I believe CIG has mentioned future plans for jobs to be found at landingzones and other location that do not require ships. Later the whole insurance process and reclaiming of ships may not be as quick as today. Someone playing solo wouldnt have to just stand idle and wait for the ship to get reclaimed. Would also be cool if CIG could offer a budget starter pack by removing the starter ship.

I love the idea of this. I’m hoping other loops fit in to this concept as well, like maybe cargo delivery around the cities or something. The game focuses so quickly on ships, it would be awesome to really build up earning your first ship.

This was awesome to watch! I was playing during the initial Laranite fixed price bug, then when it was finally fixed, and then the release of the ROC. Being able to get out in SOMETHING that can take you to a cave, is big. It's time consuming. It can be dangerous. But it's such a fun way of starting off with a whole lot of exploring. ANOTHER alternative, if you don't want to stress upper end mining, you can rent a Prospector and use radar to track down Hadanite on the surface and carefully tap-mine it for $50k rental fee per day.

I'd really like to see starter areas, really most areas, be able to support this. Starting with just basic clothes and nothing else and working your way up sounds amazing.

Wow - always forget how jaw dropping this game is. love seeing the ships overhead from ground perspective

Really good idea! For me, I like running all kinds of cargo so if someone wanted to start on foot like this and asked to have them and their Ursa dropped off somewhere, especially if I was headed that way, I would definitely pick them up. Then depending on how long it takes for me to load/unload cargo and if there's room, swing by once they are done to drop them off at a station or port

this is such a cool aproach. i hope this will be fleshed out so people can start the game without spending money on a starter ship wich makes the game more aproachable for players on a small budget, like students/kids. subscribed!

This is a problem I've noticed since day one of the PTU. If you permanently lost your ship or don't have one at the start, you're pretty much screwed as far as playing the game goes. CIG needs to add quests and farming locations at each starting zone that don't require a vehicle to complete in order to make progression at the start of the game much smoother.

A no ship community challenge race would be pretty cool. 20 people at a start line and the first to purchase an Aurora wins

This is great. In some ways, I think the game should require you to pick a starting vocation, and each one would give you different benefits and constraints. Personally, I like the idea that most of the starting vocations would NOT give you a starter ship, but you'd basically be a working stiff on a mining outpost, or on freight ship, or as a minor diplomat, or as a marine grunt (or whatever) ... each with their skill sets, and none of them would be in the position to own a ship at the beginning. (Or maybe the Marine or a space hauler vocation has the option to have a ship but basically has a lease to pay off ... so it's like ship rentals but it's pay-to-own or something.). The mining outpost vocation could start the game similarly to the way you did in your challenge. Or maybe if you don't start with a ship, you could have some kind of urban or rural housing or storage option that goes with your vocation, instead of the ship. Either way, more starting choices for things like this would be great ... so that people can customize their role-play or challenges easier.

This is one of the coolest challenges I've seen! I loved this!

I would love to start on foot, love fps and ROC mining already and I think it would have a much greater, more dramatic effect when getting your first ship... After hours or even days of work, you and your friends take the money you made and buy your first ship, going into the hangar area for the first time, claiming/spawning your ship for the first time, getting into the elevator with your friends and for the first time see what you guys worked for, getting into your new bird for the first time and talking to ATC. Would honestly sell the weight of these ships wayy better, they dont seem like something an ordinary "citizen" can just afford c:

We definitely need more on foot gameplay options. Maybe in the next couple of patches.

This was a super cool idea. I watch a lot of Runescape videos where they set themselves these kind of restrictions and it's always great fun. I especially like your reliance on other players to ferry you about. It makes it a lot more fun when you have to put your trust in other players and really shows off the possibilities of this game.

Loved this Challenge very much. Have been wanting to do something like this for a long time and you opened up some other ideas as well.

We should be able to have a game start of only being an FPS fore hire. Imagine.

I watched this stream and the whole time I thought "We have soooo many people with multi-crew ships that want CREW. Starting without a ship seems fine, but doing it solo, on foot, seems exactly what we don't want to happen."

This method of gameplay makes it even more atractive in my opinion, and increases the value of owning a space ship. I'm thinking of doing this for my first run on SC, great video.

This video and idea was awesome, such an emotional rollercoaster with the 30K and recovery 😂 Good stuff!

To be fair, I'd love if there was a free no ship option for people to start the game. I could make a literal living of ferrying my lads around.

Wait this fucking game doesn't have a compass....

This idea is great 😃 glad you tested it out, no ship starters would be great for crew once servermeshing is online

Been watching your vids off and on but this was worth subbing for future content. This was pulled off well and does show potential for future game loops.

Shipless Starts would be great, and really round out a lot of the multi-crew ships. Needs more stuff you can do, ability to get places and/or ways to get paid without a ship to get you there, but I'm all for it. More atmospheric transport would be good, though the definitely-not-speeder-bikes are a passable alternative if they actually have maps and things. Starting with a compact (hover?)bike with the option to upgrade to atmospheric flight seems like a good minimalist starting package, so you can get places as long as you're kinda close. Make it small enough to transport with any ship with an interior that'd be able to take a passenger anyway. Could actually make it limitedly space-capable like a space-taxi/space-sled, to allow near-station missions, in-orbit repairs, etc to be done.

When that dude Krimble realizes he was in this some day. Dudes gunna be all to his friends. "That was me. THAT WAS ME!? THAT WAS ME!!" I kinda wish I could be a fly on the wall to see that.

I love rough starts because they give so much more value to what you earn next! Starting on foot, even just a starter ship feels like a huge leap forward!

Big respect! Great Vid. Immersion is truly ingame

This was crazy, awesome idea and video!

great representation of how far the game has come. Thanks!

Fun Adventure! Didn't know an Ursa would fit on a Hammerhead. Also awesome 30k save. Great Video Berks.

*This* kind of gameplay makes me excited for the game. I just wish it were more common. I'd love to be a hauler, or a miner. Either one of these player interactions would be awesome. Shit, even imagining roleplaying as a glorified taxi driver, asking players what brings them out their way. Edit: I'd legit love this as a starting option, btw. With that being said though, I think it'd be important for them to add a hub for ordering/accepting contract work from other players. How cool would it be to open up an in-game app, and request a job done for like 30k, and have others out there in the Citizen-space pick up your contract work, or get alerted to it if they were nearby.

Your intro made me chuckle because I've been playing for almost a year and never been in combat, I just ran packages until I could rent a prospector then mined until I bought one and literally just mine and explore 😂

Hell yeah, starting out on foot would be awesome! I'd 100% take up that challenge, I'm all for earning my way up.

I really enjoyed your video, and you're right - not everyone who plays Star Citizen plays it to fly a ship, where a shipless starter pack would be useful for many. As to issues with the Hammerhead co-pilot seat, the "unstuck" command usually helps.

I think a play through like this to the most expensive ship would be fun to watch.

Honestly, sometimes the most fun you get out of this games is from the detours ye take. I was playing with one of my friends and we were doing an HRT over Daymar. My friend challenged themselves to stay in that ship for as long as he can without reclaiming it at a station, manually repairing it from the material he can scrape off ship hulls. We were keeping track of where the ship we blew up was going to crash onto the surface when I noticed a strange hole in the ground from space that looked like a visual bug, but was surprised when he said he could see it too. We went down to investigate and realized it was actually a sand cave! We were really amazed we managed to find one by pure accident, and took home some rock bugs as a souvenir. The most fun I've had playing this game in a while.

Banger vid. Cracked my ass up when you gave Chris Robert's a shout out for recovering your loot.

This is exactly what the game was made for. such a cool idea. Of course, pledge ship not withstanding, we are all going to have to go the route of starting over soon via the wipe. so we'll just have to incorporate a little side venture like this. Thanks for the vid. This was awesome.

I always think about this scenario - would be very cool if you have to do a certain amount of stuff on a planet or space station, and only get your ship after a certain mission

Great Concept and Video !! How about taking the Starter Package ship, and it Crashes into Hurston or wherever, and you have to claw your way back into the stars, by doing either the Mining or Merc/Marine Loops or both... There would always be Claim jumpers or critters on the surface and inside these caves... Of course you could Play as a Stranded Pirate/BH/Merc, and have to stay 1 step ahead of the Law...

As a huge Wing Commander fan I backed this game way back in year one. Only the 40 dollar one though, I'm cheap. Seeing this kind of emergent gameplay spring from an idea and dream, and then a whole little adventure materialize, gives me so much hope for this game. And also an air of superiority when I can show shit like this to my friends and say, "see, I told you this will be awesome... one day." Well that day looks like it's coming.

This is the first actual gameplay video of SS that I have watched. All I knew previously was that the game was in permanent alpha since 2012, so even though i am a huge fan of Chris Roberts' games, I decided to stick with Freelancer and mods until SS was complete. AND IT CAN DO ALL THIS AND LOOK THIS AMAZING AND PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING THE GAME ISN'T CLOSE TO FINISHED?? This game could sell with this 1 system alone! in fact, I am buying it right frigging NOW. It's astounding to be able to do what I just saw you do, this is a game that is ready to play no question. I am not going to whale out several hundred, but for $45 or whatever it is to start? HELL yes.

Cool video! Motivated me to go multi-tool mining. Sorry, small paragraph as I brainstorm about the idea of no immediate ship ownership in the future: I think in the (far) future, access to the game - once it's "kinda done" - shouldn't require a starter ship at all. But this would obviously need many more mission options (even bad or mediocre ones in terms of payment) at starting locations. Right now you basically rely on a ship to get somewhere. But imagine they add the commercial flights as well. If you can't or don't want to ask strangers or associates to get you somewhere, buy a ticket off-world. Or have planetary shuttles get you to locations, like a taxi! Sit in the back, select destination, pay. All automated or with NPC operators. Now mentally go back to each starting location; the starting location itself should offer you ground based job opportunities as well. I'm not yet sure what those could be, but imagine a multitude of jobs you'd expect to be able to take in small towns or big cities. This would need additional locations. One simple thing I can think of is e.g. a warehouse job where you go somewhere and move things around and you get paid after completion of moving X boxes. You'd be a hired hand but that would get you credits. Or maybe you could apply the rep system as well, repeatedly finish jobs, rank up "rep" with the hiring entity, get better pay or job options. This is just one job example, in another you could, I dunno, work at the local hospital or a store, maybe local security, etc. All with simple but yet decently fleshed out tasks so it immerses you and doesn't feel too much of a chore. Or local jobs aside, try to become a crew member for someone, whether NPC or player. --------------------- Ok before I write an essay, you get the picture. It would be tougher than it is now but just imagine being a new player in a vast universe. It would automatically add quality and meaning to even an Aurora once you could obtain it. It would result in many fun or crazy experiences for new players as well no their way to their first ship. Or maybe some never really need to or want to own a ship and they get by without - on purpose. Can't wait to see if they go that route eventually.

I just started playing and found channel today! Funny stuff lmao, just makes me want to play more!😂

Well, I just loved every minute of this.

Wondered about that! That's amazing to know it can be done with some grinding. Seems like such a cool way to make it free to play (?) for the new comers like me. I wouldn't mind just doing contract fps 'dungeons' for a while before earning wings. The trusting the pilot factor is great extra suspense, and then just observing pilots and learning seems entertaining enough. If they can make the fps game loops fun enough this get me excited.

So many cool things they could add to this. Office jobs, being a marine or gunner for ships etc. Hope they add lots of similar concepts like these

Dude this looks awesome.. hiring a player, and having to man the turret, so bloody cool!

I haven't started playing yet but it seems like familiarizing yourself with the landrover things hud before you jump headfirst into a spaceship seems like a cool idea.

I would like it as an option. We do need nav display/compass and perhaps a short range radar on the suit's display however, you are correct in that. A local map would also be a solid addition. They should implement a tricorder like object that allows us to scan for a direction of a mineral we are seeking, and gives us a compass marker on where to go. It doesn't need to be super precise, just get us to an area and give us the ability to plant waypoints for on foot navigation.

Damn, this concept is amazing. It reminds me of Kingdom Come Deliverance, starting from absolute zero, like a normie real life person. Not sure they would want the difficult onboarding process of hardcore gameplay, but I think it would be such a cool way to introduce people to the small elements of the game. You could even have different "career" starting points like Army (FPS), Navy (Space Combat), Mining, Pirating, Trading. Could be a nice way to introduce people to systems and get them to really learn them.

Once again great video man. This was a very fun idea and something I may do on my own.

Super cool that you can do that. I wouldn't want to, personally, but it is neat that it can work.

Nice up vid.. honestly the best part was even though you got frustrated I heard no f bombs

Absolutely love this and I think I will probably do this come 3.18

Cool concept for a start, sort of story in the making as things develop.

Don't know if someone else already commented but 11:18, same thing happened to me, you can hold F and right click, navigate through the menus and there's an option to exit the seat.

Well to envision I had for the game when I first heard about it was being a foot soldier who didn't even own a ship that could leave atmosphere, just a plane and a car basically and was employed as a security guard.

That HH pilot is an absolute Gigachad and the man's even went and cosplayed as Major Anderson

Captain your concepst never fail to dissapoint, looking foward to amazing stuff from your channel in the future

Hammerhead guy's power distribution had me rolling

How fantastic was that!!!!! Captain Berk you rock. i tried the game during the May 2022 special and it was fantastic. When I can afford it I will buy into the game for real. For now I will subscribe and watch you do it.

its great that you can start out like that. i also look forward to see CIG make miners set up orders or other players can pick it up an transport it that will open up alot

I really like this idea 👌it can give another scale and kind of immersion in just one galaxy (for now), and the scenery in this game is worth the experience ❤️

I would like to see more tools for FPP engagements. Like an extendable ladder to use as a bridge or wall boost, a rope for repelling into caves and maybe like spike/grav boots so you don't get knocked over during storms and high G maneuvers. Also weight should effect your Toon more, in heavy armor you run slower sure, but you still get knocked over just the same and I'd argue that you'd be more solid with that amount of added weight. I've been looking for a small group to do this idea with, sounds like a real blast.

I did an MPUV only challenge for a while. The best income I found was lurking at the station above Loreville and taking bunker missions, then looting the NPCs for gear. I was able to afford a ship pretty quickly

mann star citizen community is one of the besst and dedicated one in all of the game i played.

I think it's by far the best idea there is for this game honestly. Like, for real think about it. The standard starter pack is about $45; make an on-foot starter pack where you choose your starting equipment or a blank equipment pack for extra in-game money for $35. Now, most people are just gonna fork up the extra money to have the ship too, but those folks that are really strapped for cash or just really like the challenge of building up...they're gonna buy that $35 pack. Not to mention, the folks that have already pledged, but just want the equipment packs too. On top of that these new packs and the lower entry point creates more players, but...these are more players that are actively engaging with other players to do this sort of thing. Call for rides, hire on as gunhands, shit like that. Seriously, it's probably the best fuckin' idea that Roberts isnt' doing.

I made the trip from a spawn location to Eager Flats on Daymar in an Ursa. Land navigation IS possible using the map and paying attention to what time of the day it is. I did forget to bring water and almost died of dehydration, though.

This would be awesome for like a 15 to 20 dollar buy in for the game. Maybe get like a ground bike or something instead of a personal carrier. Love the concept!

I would love to start on foot! Been thinking about finally getting the game and this would be a awesome way to start!