HUGE tip if you want to be able to solo in the carrack and keep it parked in orbit while you use the Piceses to go down to a planet surface, normally there is no way to see where you parked your carrack once you get far enough away, and it's unbelievably easy to lose it forever or be unable to find it. A quick fix is to accept a delivery mission and go pick up the first package, and just keep the package on your ship. It will never despawn and will give you an easy waypoint to always find your carrack. This is super helpful because the Piceses is way easier than the Carrack to get in and out of orbit.
@@TastyChickenLegs TBH im not sure this is still a thing, but they didn't drop "waypoints" as such, but they did have markers you could see like your ship marker.
That ship has so much potential and that's why it's one of the most popular ships produced. They did actually have suits in the suit lockers in one of the PTUs last year I think, but you couldn't take them out. Think it was some kind of test and didn't survive into the PU. I am really looking forward to fully utilizing it once Pyro is in.
Yeah I thought I saw them working at one point - good to know I’m not going senile!! Tbh it’s been a lot of fun just rolling around in the carrack in between events and stuff for the past few weeks - took ages making this vid because I kept just having a good time as opposed to focussing on the visuals 😂
One of the people in the group I was playing with before the last wipe had a Carrack. We had a few long (6+hr) sessions were we never landed at the 4 main cities. We only landed for missions or at ports to refuel and restock. It was honestly some of the most fun I've had in the 'Verse and really made it feel like you were properly exploring. There was even a few times the Carrack owner just logged in while they were doing other things and some of us used it as an orbital outpost, taking the C8 down to the planet to run missions and stuff. For those reasons alone I'm going to grind my ass off to get one in 3.18
That’s epic - always great when you get a huge session like that. The carrack is one of those ships where if you get a full crew together it just feels amazing.
It's funny, I've had a Carrack for a long time now but I have never filled the gun rack, or seen it filled in any Carrack for that matter. It looks pretty awesome fully stocked
I moved in to my Carrack a few days ago and I'm loving it, got an STV and an Ursa in the garage, a C8R in the hangar, and a 135c on the exterior landing pad. Absolutely fantastic place to live!
This was an entertaining watch. It's exciting to think of all of the possibilities that might exist in game once we've got systems like Pyro in our hands. I can't wait to see these bigger ships really get a chance to shine
The largest impediment to this sort of gameplay is really the PU itself. The real issue is that you CANNOT depend upon the stability of the servers to not cause you to lose all of your preparation AND items. That and the current damage model. Your ship really has at bet 3 very static states. fine, damaged, destroyed and it is still far too easy to go from damaged to completely destroyed. We need deeper gameplay in that regard. That said, when the PU reaches a solid state of stability, this sort of thing will be so satisfying.
Yep it’s something I think I did because I was just looking for something a bit different to do - I’m at a point where losing money or gear is 🤷♂️. Definitely the game isn’t quite ready for this sort of gameplay to make much sense (would be far more efficient to live on a station) but it was so much more satisfying logging in on my ship floating in space or on a moon.
Yeah the money and gear is meh, but the multiple hours you spent obtaining it all and getting it stowed is the real sucky thing to lose when Star Citizen decides to be Star Citizen. The "Persistent Universe" does not have persistence and it's very easy to lose everything.
The inside of the carrac looks so good. I can definitely see certain play groups going off grid for long periods in one of these things. But for me it's going to be the reclaimer.
@@ahmedfarah4094 I really like the Connie’s but I want to love them. The reason I can’t is the social areas of the ships - for what is ostensibly a long hauler where the crew is meant to spend days or weeks together the rec areas appear to be an afterthought and the complete lack of any separation between sleeping and living quarters is a bit weird. I feel this is just a product of an older ship design and if we look at some of the newer medium sized ships we can see how much better they’ve got (Argo raft for example). The Connie’s just suffer from being a bit dated imo and could do with a refresh. Other than that though these ships are excellent and could be brought up to spec with only some minor tweaking.
No screaming into your mic?.. No irritating obnoxious laugh?.. No goofing around?.... Straight to the helpful stuff, with no fluff? Perfect for me! You just earned a subscriber! 😊
Yeah it’s been a really fun way to play for the last few weeks when not doing events! Can definitely get the feel for how powerful a vehicle it is and we’ve still got drones, modules, and proper scanning to come.
The Carrack is the perfect setting for a death match amongst your org mates! Get some bright orange armor for the REF who owns it, fill the gun rack , have everyone set their respawn point at the med bay, and then let them go crazy hunting each other in the bowls of the ship
Great video Loud! I recently got a Carrack in my RSI hangar. This video shows how versatile this ship is and it's not done getting more features added! The one thing I wish/hope for is the ability to fuel the other craft stored on the Carrack. But that might require the modularity feature, using one of the bays to store the extra fueling equipment necessary.
Cheers Eric. Yeah I’d imagine there will be some form of “Jerry can” function in the future where you can hand refuel smaller ships like the Pisces. I didn’t go into the modularity of the Carrack in this vid because I wanted to keep it focussed on the now and near(ish) future but damn it’s exciting 😂
I like how to an extent they even marketed the Carrack as being kind of a bail-from-society-fuck-off ship. It’s specifically designed to be able to stay out in the vastness of space as long as possible with the added bonus of having the best cartography & scanning equipment of any ship in the game except for maybe the Telescope Endeavor.
Yeah I’m really interested to see the Odyssey when that’s available, maybe a bit more comfort and that perpetual motion element with the refuelling. But the scanning’s a big advantage of the carrack based on the current description.
The Carrack fully crewed with the turrets manned, is probably THE single best mobile base for traversing Pyro. I would probably opt to store an Arrow in the hangar for additional air support in the event of attack, and 4-5 ground vehicles/hover bikes in the garage. A general tip for people on components is understanding that the class (military etc) is the key to components, and very often the lower rating such as D can be more efficient, at the cost of time or speed. So for example, a military grade D drive would get quite a lot more fuel efficiency and range than the military grade A drive. I can see a civilian grade B or so drive being about right for the Carrack in Pyro because it’s so huge, and you don’t want to be refuelling too often.
Yeah it’s going to be hard to beat, although I do look forward to giving it a proper head to head vs the odyssey. The odyssey has that benefit of a much more flexible hangar and I like that all the turrets are remote. Plus the ability to source fuel on the move could be a big advantage in the furthest reaches of the verse.
Cant wait to use an 890 as an active battleship. Nova tanks on the pad and p 72s and a pieces tucked in the basketball court with some more pieces and ground vehicles in the cargo bay
Great video! I have an Odyssey CCU in my hangar that I plan to use in a similar fashion with the Nomad living in its hangar as my runabout. The carrack is the loaner ship and I might go ahead and apply that CCU upgrade and try out this nomadic lifestyle in stanton.
This video is exactly why I'm so looking forward to the 600i rework. Basically all the same benefits, but with big pilot guns instead of a snub hangar!
The 600i rework is just design and art, nothing will be changed, so the Carrack will still be the best ship. Way more cargo, many type of roms, 3d printing, drone section, big crew area. and Hangar
Of all the ships in Star Citizen, this is so close to ASC's mid-bulk Hauler, the Firefly class. I'd love to RP in the game as a medic. I must find some videos on that.
I love my carrack I use the buccaneer instead of the Pisces for the added firepower when I fly solo in the carrack. And the buccaneer is strong enough to do hrt.
Tbf my job is fairly easy - so many people in the community show me really cool tips and tricks and I just try to remember them and fit them into videos 😂
For me personally the availability of Tier2 med-bed is what makes Carrack an ultimate choice for all-round gameplay. There are other ships that can offer similar multi-purpose convenience, just at different scales. But it's still a med-bed which makes Carrack a ship of my dream) I wish we had at least some other affordable alternatives to it.
Great video, well done! So I keep my Carrack stocked to the brim just like this for our Org. Yesterday we did a new packaged collection mission from an old derelict outpost on Microtech. The one that is 40km away from NB. We landed and was just going down the lift when the whole ship just de-spawned. Lol.
Just yesterday I encountered the same thing - ships where I bed logged despawning after I got out of them. This sort of thing always seems to happen when the PTU’s go up unfortunately.
You know I never knew that the cyclone could hold that big container I guess I never really had a use for it. now I know I will def use it more .i appreciate the stream
My 890j is my solo home in the black ship. Terrapin and a P72 for exploration and rescue and a Greycat expedition and ursa for on the ground exploration.
Another amazing video from Loud Guns. The Carrack has been in my fleet for some time now and hardly ever gets used. Primarily because I played solo. But I'm happy to see this beautiful ship will likely get some love in the future.
I was just doing some experimenting this week with the Carrack doing a lot of the same sort of "Load up the ship for long haul" stuff, however I ran into a few issues trying to solo prep the ship with the C8 like every time I spawned the C8 with the Carrack out already, the Carrack would Despawn, or vice versa if I had the C8 out first. I'm jealous you were able to do this without help of others lol. Still, the Carrack is fantastic for bunker running in the chance you get picked off you can just respawn, refit, and rush back down. I do hope that Ship Storage persistence is something that also comes with the 3.18 changes. Losing everything when your ship despawns somewhere you can't pull it out, or you die and respawn somewhere across the map, is a bit of a bummer.
Yeah I’ve recently found the rule of 3 is failing and it’s worked ok for me as long as I limit things to 2 ships at a time. The alternate way around it is to sit my alt in the co-pilot seat at all times on my laptop 😂 Tbf I like showing that these things can technically be done solo but with even 1 mate life gets 10x better!
@@LoudGuns God isn't that the truth. The Game probably will still be fantastic solo, but it has proven time and again that having even one friend to help out makes things 1000X more "Oops" Proof if things don't go absolutely perfect.
@@IM0001 I can be a bit stubborn asking for help making vids and try to get shots on my own, but then after I’ve banged my head against a wall for an hour or so a friend comes along and we get what I needed in 5 mins 😂
We need to start building our own outposts using our ships. If in 3.18 you leave your ship it stays there. So you land ship soft, blow it up until soft death and build a small outpost out of few of them. It could be good if some turrets would remain functional so you could defend from incoming attacks. Building real outposts that persist will take 10 more years.
It's funny, I used to think the Carrack would make a really nice solo/multi crew ship... Until I tried it in the last free fly event, It's just too big and unweildy for my purposes I think, that and the whole not being able to shoot anyone in the pilots chair. I did find that the 600i would be great though, what with being able to fly and fire as a solo player, also it's getting a medbay soon too, which would be handy in the long run. Swings and roundabouts as per usual. lol
I love using the C8 for box missions, small enough to land right on the step to the outpost and going in and out is fast. I have found myself struggling just a bit with motivation with a wipe recently and another coming, just feels bit like whats the point, but guess i wait a while then grind the cash to refit my mole once more and ..
Yeah this is a great time to either enjoy some loops you don’t usually do or make up some sandbox type stuff to do with your mates (or play that other game that’s been hanging around your steam library for years). Roll on 3.18!
Tbh it was the ship that in 2019 when I started seriously playing I just went “wow” at after walking around one at IAE. For someone who had backed in 2014 and kinda forgotten about the game it was an eye opener!
best vehicle for the Carrack is the ursa, the turret is slaved to the driver and it has an inventory like a small ship. plus you can do combat drops in it, its desighned to and basicaly doesnt tak fall damage once it levels out.
I definitely think the Corsair will be a contender for a more solo nomad experience, being able to bring a ground vehicle, easy access to parts (when that is needed in the future), big guns, easy access to the hull (for salvage repair tool in 3.18), some gun racks, etc.
Yeah the Corsair could be a good one for sure, and at least with that or a Connie you get some guns under pilot control. Still I think it’s probably best as with all things SC to grab at least one mate - particularly since you don’t have the lux of that med bed.
You dont just have to take JUST a cyclone or ONLY a roc rover. You can take a roc rover, a cyclone and an ursa rover all at once and get the pisces or even an aurora or fighter in the landing bay.
This is definitely one of the things I want to do long term, and is why my hangar has several large ships like this. I still have concerns about how well multicrew is going to work though if you are out in the black long term.
Awesome Video thanks you for giving me some fun activities to do with my Carrack - Grind for Military Components, Create a couple of Boxes, Raid some bunkers to populate my armory great stuff!!!
I was never interested in the Carrack, even when it was hyped, I couldn't care less about it. Then I won one from the N00bifier, and when I spawned it in game, the moment I stepped onto the bridge, I fell in love. Done a lot of off-gridding myself in that ship, though I mostly used mine to run cargo, occasionally serving as mothership when the org wanted to do bunkers. She's a great ship for those things, and lots of others, because of how much she has packed into that small hull. Really is an excellent ship for people who might be a little ADHD, and like to do lots of different things.
Pyro is no longer a desolate system. They have mentioned multiple space stations scattered about and outposts on surface of planets. It has changed from a hostile system into another stanton like system with multiple planets and stations to utilize. But I can't wait for my corsair to try similar things to this.
So while Pyro is less desolate than initially flagged it’s still going to contain less infrastructure than Stanton and is going to be 3X the size. Probably the right balance tbf.
cant wait to save up the $1100 to buy the carrack exp pack. having to grind after every wipe to regain my carrack is a drag, not having to do that would be amazing!
I believe it should be quite a chunk cheaper that $1100 - you may have been looking at the exploration pack which includes things like the Connie Aquila and Freelancer DUR. Also with ccu chaining you should be able to get a carrack / Pisces a lot cheaper than the list price.
Don't forget you can land a ship on the close hangar doors of the carrack the pisces is perfect to have on top you can store an m50 inside or another fighter
Yeah I’ve been really enjoying just rocking around on the carrack for the past few weeks when not doing events, and it got me doing stuff I hadn’t done before like some of the more weird and wonderful missions.
I think for a really long expedition and once all the engineering type gameplay is in you’d probably want to be rocking about 5-6 people on a carrack. Then it would really sing.
@@LoudGuns yes that is also another problem I have the Carrack but don't have the people LOL but would there be people that would just want to go around checking fuses? that don't sound like fun to me just like work for some Maintenace person. as for orgs I've joined your discord but my shift pattens keep stopping me form joining in on a lot and then family stop me the other times , so my lifestyle doesn't fit into some orgs or at least at the min
Yeah as a survival nut with more hours in Ark than I’d like to admit the appeal of a remote system without the safety net of rest stops every 10m km is huge!
@@LoudGuns DO NOT get me started on Ark, i host my own cluster servers and we are doing a story playthrough atm. getting all the notes etc. but yea id love to have a group of ships based at a random point in space. especially once docking collars work being able to link multiple ships together as well as being able to have personal static markers we can use to jump to specific points in space. in the meantime i spose could use an alt to keep things loaded and to lock onto.
I’m cruising the verse in my 600i. Heard they might update it to have a med bay but who knows how long that will be. I like the 600i due to having very good weapons that I can control solo. My goal is the 890 jump.
Very nice I could never save up enough to buy one but I do like living shipboard. Doing it with ships that don’t have a med bay it doesn’t really work because ships despawn to often.
Grind long enough and you can buy any ship in the game. Start out doing mercenary missions, when you get good with weapons do some bunker missions, then branch out and do box missions and then a bit of smuggling from Jumptown and Grim Hex, and you'll be able to afford a Carrack soon enough...
Thanks for the informative video Loud! One thing to note and I dont know if youve covered this elsewhere but following your advice I landed the Carrack on Clio at the research station, then went to spawn the Pisces which immediately de-spawned the Carrack losing everything I had put in it as I had to reclaim the Carrack? I thought this awful and annoying mechanic was a thing of the past but apparently not! I really do look forward to the day we can use the spawn console in the Carrack to spawn the Pisces into its ship bay!
Thanks! I found recently that when I get 3 vehicles out at the same time one could despawn, with 2 it was fine but I wondered if it’s to do with 3.18 in evo - PTU’s quite often cause issues with servers in live.
Nice video despite being far way in time for real utility. I guess the Odyssey could be even more fitting for this kind of gameplay due to the self refuelling and the larger hangar that could fit a lot of ships. I really like the idea of the 2SCU boxes and how they can be used flexibly I bought a 600i exploration early this year for the same reasons, as a Carrack would be overkill, without a backing org and knowing it will gain a Medbay for sure plus, possibly, snub ship as it was hinted by Jared a few months ago.
I'm really interested in doing this myself but everytime I get the urge to do it I remember the insane amount of bugs, glitches and 30ks that the game keeps throwing at us that filling the Carrack with gear for use feels like an exercise in futility, I hope one day the game will finally be stable enough to actually do something like this as it holds a really nice appeal especially when Pyro actually comes to the PU I would love to build a setup like this. Till then tho my dinky aurora is always going to be the cheapest option to do anything currently in game for a solo player even if it doesn't fly straight most of the time you fly it. Would love to be a crew on that ship now till I get one of my own someday :)
@@LoudGuns oh I dont doubt that its fun in fact should the game finally finds a way to stabilize itself it would be the intended loop for it, and I'll be there along with you living it out on a ship and just going to visit stations/cities to refuel and repair. I just dont have the patience right now to actually try it same with grinding uec since it gets wiped every patch along with any ship or gear you purchase with it. My hope is that CIG does release Squadron 42 so they can finally go about the business of fully focusing on Star Citizen and its persistent universe.
Great video. Couple of questions if you know the answers. 1) If you were solo for the purposes of this question, what is the range that the Pisces can go away from the Carrack, without having issues? Or was that something more specific to the Merlin and Andromeda? 2) How does bed logging work for other crew mates if they log out in your ship? If you're not online, I guess they just appear back at their home location?
Cheers Ezio - I’ll do my best (Q2 I know for sure / Q1 I’m more sketchy on). 1. As far as I know the ship should not despawn as long as the server stays up and it doesn’t bug out (which absolutely can happen). One thing to remember is that you don’t get a qt beacon for your ship (only for party members) so if you leave it somewhere you may have to navigate back to it manually. 2. If you’re bed logged on a ship that isn’t logged into the server you try to join the game will be unhappy with you. Best case - respawn at your home location. Worst case - infinite loading screen bug. Bed logging on a party members ship is fine and useful during a session (e.g. if you just all want to server hop together because missions aren’t spawning on the one you’re on) but it’s not a good idea to end a session logged out on someone else’s ship. Better to just stop at a station or exit straight to menu (which puts you back where you last set foot on a station or LZ).
As for the carrack, It was a military ship originally, so why does it only have a crew of 6? If you look at a post-WWII submarine in the same size category, you are looking at a crew size anywhere from 80-100. This thing is made for long range exploration. Think "our 5-year mission to explore strange new worlds..." Also, if it is made for exploration and study, 3 modular cargo containers isn't going to cut it. I'd say increase the length to do 6 cargo containers and possible increase the width about 20m to make two rows of 6. This would allow you to not loose the storage space used to run that stupid walkway through the middle of your cargo containers. It also means you can have a LOT more flexibility in cargo for long missions. Like, I could see one for mining drones, another for refining fuel and other minerals, a Maring module for security (holding a squad or two of marines), Ground vehicle storage/workshop, living quarters for science team, a Science pod, and one just for cargo. That's seven cargo pods that could be dropped on the surface of a newly discovered planet to do a survey. That's without even trying. So, no. 3 pods is NOT enough. I modified a floorplan to account for 12 cargo pods and a logical crew compliment. I think with the added length and width I went ahead and added another deck also so for the 40-some odd crew you'd have officers and crew separate, a gym, two galleys (again officers and crew) hydroponics, a longer deepter and wider shuttle bay for more than just one or two snub shuttles, and other things. Don't get me wrong, I love this ship, including the detail, but I think it could have been so much more with some thoughts on what you'd actually want in a military exploration ship.
I think it comes down to the ever present division of “what is totally realistic” vs “what is going to make a great gaming experience”, and quite a rightly imo CIG tend to steer a lot closer to the latter. Based on the beds this ship should be capable of supporting 7 of you, and if you assume in military style that your captain keeps their own quarters while the crew double bunk based on shifts that takes you up to 13. 13 people could make the ship really hum, with all of the bridge stations and turrets manned (9), an engineer for that station and a 3 person away team to fully man the Pisces. In gaming terms that’s a fairly sizeable group to have online rocking around the verse together at the same time.
@@LoudGuns I agree with you. I'm considering it from a more realistic standpoint as I'm considering using a ship like this in a novel, I did an exercise of what roles would be needed on a ship like this and which roles could be cross-trained (Gunner is not a full-time position, so that is something other people would fulfill only when needed). Then assuming three shifts, I think I came to somewhere around 60 crew. If you consider how big this ship is (longer and wider than an American football field) and 3.5 decks, 60 people would rattle around in a ship this size. Remember on my 'modified' version that is about 25 meters longer, 20 meters wider and an additional deck, that is even more the case. if we take that crew size and divide by 4, that would mean 15 people on any given deck at one time. Picture 15 people randomly placed around a football field. All that said, I agree with you that for a game you aren't going to get 60 people together to play, but if you consider just one shift even 20 people would be difficult.
Love this video! Keep up the great content. The amount of detail and quality in your game play is crazy good and smooth as hell! Is there a link to the specs of your rig?
You have taught this noob a great deal with your videos, thanks! One question: At about the 6:30 point in this video, you show how to get two boxes by putting several of the cold weather gear into the smaller ship and blowing it up. Are those armor suits now in the boxes, or are they lost? If lost, I guess they cost less aUEC that the two boxes. I am trying to ask fewer questions as I go on, but before I spend the money on the suits, I’m just curious. I just recently got my wallet up to 200K aUEC, and that took about two months of learning the game. (I did buy the Carrack because I love the game and that ship.) Thanks again for all your videos.
Hey mate glad they helped! Yep the suits are in there so you can infinitely recycle them if you want to make multiple boxes (you can actually just buy one suit if you don’t mind just making 1x 2scu box at a time). Ask away - there’s zero shame in asking Q’s.
I would love this but in an 890(as a pledge, I only want to buy in groceries a few times a patch, I don't want to grind) Wait, actually, the Endeavor would be perfect when the game releases as it's made to sustain with greens and such
