Ranking Star Citizen 3.23.X Ships for HRT, VHRT, & ERT | A Star Citizen's Ranking Guide 

The Buc really finally had some love given to it.

"it is durable until it isn't" was my favorite line and I totally understand what you are saying

I knew the, Connie and Corsair was going to be s-Tier when the only way to solo the xenothreat event was with those two ships.

dropping a like just because of the shear amount of work this required. Thank you for your service o7

The Corsair is great! if: - You can get it out the hanger without getting stuck on a glitched button - and if you don't accidently gently brush your wing against something and have them immediately snap off - also, don't loose an engine whilst transporting important cargo, it's not fun trying to get back to base with a single off-center engine!

Very nice! Was looking forward to this. I love bounty hunting.

This was a very welcome video. Funny that every time you stopped and updated your color codes on a ship (that I had) I was thinking the EXACT same thing at the time as you. Thank you SubliminaL!

I'd give the corsair a "green" in cargo space. if you ignore the grid, you can fit around 100SCU+ in that thing, including three 32SCU containers side by side. Best ship for "exploration", hands down.

Absolute king for uploading this 👌

Great stuff. With an extra S5 and the same amount of shields, the 600i really should be on par with the Hercules.

One thing to note about the Harbinger (know this was all done solo) is lots of people don't realize the turret on it has size 3s instead of the size 2s of the other Vanguards.

been waiting for this!

Imo the Taurus is the best Connie. The Tractor Beam is very underrated

Great video with a whole bunch of work put into it. One request for future videos is to please include ship names in the image and consistently say out loud which ship you're starting to review as I imagine I'm not the only listener.

Just saying I hope you are ok and everything is good with you and your family. Had not seen you post anything on any platform for a few months. Your content has always been great. Hope to see you back.

Enjoyed the video, but two things to note; 1 - the F7A has a higher burst DPS than the F8C, but lower sustained. 2 - the 600i has a tougher hull and total hp than the Redeemer, as well as being more maneuverable. Also, the turret capacitor is bugged and is the same as the polaris, giving turrets 100 shots per gun with omnyskys. The three M7A cannons will have 30 shots per gun with power to weapons and will send around 110,000 damage downrange in one mag, with 2 x S3 shields and 16 S3 missiles. I waltz up to hammerheads with the 600i and destroy them before they have a chance to drop my shields

43 Scu of Wavil + 7 Scu of Widow + 4 Altru + 3 Quant. Was my best load, filled up my Corsair nicely. Was like 5+ mil in loot from one ERT. I did around a 100+ ERT since 3.23.1 ( I cant get group Bounties, im bugged i think, so i just spam solo ERT ) There is like a good amount of loot every 10 or so missions. Usually the main target has 1-3 SCU of Weavil. Sometimes they dont have anything ( If its a redeemer youre out of lcuk. Or 890j, these somehow rarely have loot for me ) Its rarely to never worthwhile to check the other ships than the main target. I usually softdeath all 4 ships(I play with deadbolts on a corsair[even with 100% cap on weapons the recharge is too slow for me, and after selling i can quickly rearm at a mining outpost, without even landing as hovering over the pad is enough] so towards the kill i switch to staggered firing, to reduce the amount of alpha damage once soft death occours, to not overshoot the damage into a hard deat), and scan the main target to check if im lucky. After that i check my missions if my next bounty is around Yela ( space bounty ) or at the gundos around daymar ( space ). If its not, i DONT accept the mission, but loot the other ships for their altru and quant. And while i do i check every other minute if i get a mission refresh which hopefully offers space bounties. Dont bother with any planetary bounties. They are a time-waste because they are a gamble. Even if you kill the targets at around 100-300 meters height, they often explode and ruin the loot and/or land on the ground in positions which makes them unlootable.

Whow!! I was pleasantly surprised/shocked! I really did not expect to see the Avenger titan S Tier. Happy to see it!

Took a 2 year hiatus, the Titan was already my fav back then, most fun to fly, rapid, agile, amazing turn rates. Glad it is now S-Tier! Was hoping Vanguards are still up there as well, at least A-Tier.

Fantastic video! All the info you could ever need for 3.23.1!!

PVE is so different, larger ships are better because you want more hp, shields and firepower, mobility has the lowest priority while the PVP takes the mobility as the highest priority. Anyway very helpful video for someone who dont really play PVE bounty hunter a lot like me.

Just like to say thanks mate. I got two VKB's and your stick binds and GameGlass shard have improved my gameplay so much. I now enjoy the game far more and get to enjoy dog fighting and PvP a lot more. Keep up the grind, i'll keep watching.

The other thing is that if you look on Urkel, the Andromeda has twice the Hull HP as the Corsair. The Taurus has less than the Andromeda as well. So as far as survivability goes, Constellation Andromeda for the win. Andromeda Hull HP: 180,664 Corsair Hull HP: 91,000 Taurus Hull HP: 130,000

I kept reading people saying “dO eRtS iN 600I” I was looking for an alternate ship to my Taurus just to mix things up and the shield on 600i looked enticing. First ERT after purchase I die…. Next ERT after claim……die. Apparently none of these people have done ERTs in 3.23 bc had they, they wouldn’t be pumping up the 600i.

Can't wait for the Gladiator to finally get some love and attention. In my opinion super sexy look and very fun to fly!

The first ship I pledged was the Cutty black and then the Connie Andromeda which has everything and you actually feel like your in charge of a real ship. Even in arena commander I like to take out the snub and buzz around and dock etc. Then the Corsair which when you press the fire button all you see is an orange blaze of firepower. It's cool to look at especially with the red paint, the extendable wings configuration is so well done, if your hauling and want to be able to protect yourself you can especially if you have turret gunners. Very good review, many of those ships I haven't even tried and it's good to know if a person should even bother.

I have been an on again off again watcher. I just got back into Starcitizen, great to see you are still doing Videos, Nice work, keep it up mate.

Tractor on the Taurus is great

Hey man, great vid! I have some input on the ERT class torpedo boats. I have the Tali and Eclipse and they have different ways to be used. The Tali has a huge EM signature so I just boom and zoom the primary, launching at under 10km with Seeker IX torps..they lock-up fast. With the Eclipse I use Typhoon's and creep to about 12km away and send one. All targets including 890 Jumps went down with just 1 torpedo. With the Tali converted half cargo and torpedo bay you can stop and grab some weevil eggs if any also. And..before each size 9 torp was 10K each..now 3 Typhoons size 9s are just 11K. Which isn't too bad.

I've come to conclusion that the Corsair in basically ERT's in cheat mode, you can have virtually zero skill, use zero tactics, only know the bare basics of how to fire your weapons and fly around, and STILL defeat pretty much any ERT with little challenge. Unless you literally just come to a stop and sit there while an NPC ship hammers away at your shields its actually difficult to get destroyed. As long as you make even a basic attempt to dodge enemy ships, your shields and hull will be fine.

whoa, whoa, whoa... the Tana looks good man!

Thanks for your work! Subbed! I got two 890 in an ERT I was in Corsair and one died v fast, but the mission 890 was immortal. I brought my C2 emptied my ADB5 in it then rammed it 3 times and it died.

People like to complain about Corsair wings. But, the coolest thing about Corsair's mechanics IS its wings. When attacked from the sides, folded wing state acts as a shield and gives protection thus making it harder to take your ship down. Tested numerous times, super epic. Dunno how many times that has saved me from random AI ramming and sudden attacks from AI ships on Brio's. Saved a lot of time.

Great Guide! Thanks for the effort!

huge respect for you and your SC content. My VKBs and I appreciate you.

You need a 5th ranking “ability to survive ramming” as it lately seems to be the ai meta. The number of times I've been taken out from the side by a starfarer is ridiculous. Love my Connie for erts not so much the corsair as always losing wings, guess both a skill issue

I'm surprised by the number of times that people forget about the rear remote turret on the Cutlass Steel. Cutlass Black has the same pilot hardpoints as the Steel and Aegis Sabre and both of those were green on weapons.

Great video, I was really looking forward to seeing your list for the master modes update! I was super surprised how much fun the Titan was doing bounties. I used it from the free fly and now im considering re-buying one after having melting one many years ago.

I feel you don't understand the Sabre Firebird at all. Its a stealth missile boat rather than a fighter. Zoom in, zoom out with your superior speed.. get them to chase you with their shields off in nav mode. They will quickly lose sight of you due to your very low signature, then turn and melt faces as they fly right into your volleys of missiles. It's hilariously fun.

A firebird with Deadbolt III missiles has become my go-to light fighter for VHRT/ERT missions now. Its lack of cargo capacity is my only issue, but with all the missiles, I can unload on the main target real quickly and then finish them off with the cannons and be on my way before their wingmen can usually do much to me. Generally still better for when I'm not doing solo ops as aside from extra dps, whoever I'm with can bring something with some cargo capacity. I'd still understand not placing the firebird in S-tier there, but for me personally, it fits me like a glove. (That and I'm a dirty missile slinging commie. I literally just see them as a tool, and arguments against any given weapon type are silly. ya know?) Anyway good video, I like your reasonings. There's no denying that connies and corsairs are top dog when you're looking to bring home the bacon in bounties/assassinations.

This lines up with my experience. I had to swap my torps to EM for faster speed to land hits. Then to complete anything hard for Bounty Hunting I went to my Corsair. My brother went to his Taurus.

Great Guide , the hardest thing about the guide is building the rep to get the ERT bounties.

600I is a support cannonboat for doing ert's with at least 1 wingman, to this day before the cargo overhaul patch it has a tonne of hull hp, good support boat in my opinion

I love the Buc and I'm glad it is coming into a golden age for that airframe. I have to ask though why does no one ever cover the delta when it comes to the mustangs? I know it has all the flaws of the standard ship, but I always feel those rockets help it punch above it's weight when it comes to the bigger ships were it is easier to land shots on them.

Keep in mind fellas, if you put your tractor beam in "Traversal Mode" you can easily fit three 32scu containers or five 24scu containers in the corsair.

Thanks for the info. Glad I got the Corsair. Can't wait to test it out.

I love the Taurus. The tractor turret is actually nice just because you never have to leave the ship, though it's angle makes judging the back of the cargo grid a little tough. It's fine if you're grabbing one or two things, but it feels like having someone in the bay to help with final placement would be helpful if you're packing it. Though probably not super concerned with that here.

1:09:29 - So happy to hear you say this. My buddy's call me crazy for saying the AI don't fly the same ships as the players. I keep telling them to get their noses out of the dirt and try piloting; its annoying. This also is the reason I appreciate your rankings in addition to Av1's; PvP is not the same as PvE in any way right now. I guess its a little better since the dev's admitted that the AI was programmed to have infinite ammo and hit you with guns at 12km, and fixed that. That was a nightmare once the AI got gud in the EPTU builds. 1:10:40 - Unless they kamikaze you, which they still tend to do. That's usually the only way I die in a redeemer in PvE.

I'm a Taurus fan. Corsair's wings get hurt too often.

i had a couple buddies inform they found 62scu of eggs in a single 890j once. quantanium is decent enough to grab too

I was doing an HRT with the Redeemer, and I ignored the other ships and just slowly blew the ships apart one by one with 2 Deadbolt IVs on the fixed wing and 2 Attrition-3s on the pilot controlled remote turret. It just melts. Keep the size 5 gatling turrets or only replace one of the guns on each with an energy weapon for that extra sustainability.

Awesome Subliminal! Was waiting for your Ranking guide.

Great video mate! You seem like a very chill guy, keep up the good work!

Feels like the multicrew in the Redeemer has been absolutely slept on in this video. Its major shortcoming is the lack of cargo.

What are your thoughts on the C1 Spirit?

For being as cheap as it is, the corsair really is a great ship. Can do just about anything in it.

the F7A mkII has a "bug" atm that gives her twice the acceleration on side and up strafe! that makes her the absolute meta right now not just in PvP so it should be "S-ultra Tier" :P

One issue with the Taurus is it has a significantly lower hit point level which makes it more vulnerable than the other constellations

maybe it changes since this video, but the ion can one shot light fighters at 3km away. it takes 3 charged shots to kill a cutty steel, 6 to kill a connie, it feels very nice. I used this to take the shields down on the idris and the Hammerheads during phase 2 of XT. Would love to see an updated video!

Woot! My favorite ship is S tier! Huzzah for the Avenger! Still, sucks I can't do all levels of bounties in a Light fighter. They should make all tiers of bounties have missions for whatever type of ship you fly. Like there should be ERTs with like a whole squadron of ace fighters or something like that.

Perfect video, totally agree with Corsair as TOP, but, it has rockets as well, could you talk more about rockets and explainin them? It would be very appreciated for lot of people.. thank you man

For the Reliant Series to get out of the cockpit you must have your landing gear down, in space or not does not matter no gear down you can't get out of seat.

Off-topic, but I totally agree with ordering food. Delivery food is usually the cheapest trash out there, while at the same time being super overpriced. Might as well just get something properly prepared if you really want to order.

I would like to know where you would put the C-1.

Love the format! Great vid! and i agree, the corsair is a monster. it made xenothreat easy solo

Funniest thing about this patch is the armor numbers for the ship makers. DRAKE who was always said to have paper hulls. Yet they have more dmg reduction than EVERY other mfg in game. Aegis makes the UEE military ships and their armor is 8% worse than a DRAKE. Maybe duct tape is better at armor than simply holding wiring in place inside the ships.

Buccaneer bros we are so back.

I'm glad my girl the Talon is ranked so high. Looks like I need to actually check out the Buccaneer.

been doing them in Hammerheads with my friends, only picking up Vice or Quant, been super fun and the 40SCU cargo is reasonable

Kinda seems like everyone is copying everyones bullet point styles now, but still all very informative and I prefer Subs style

Interesting, ty. If you wouldn't mind next time, name the ships for us newbs. It'll help know what we are looking at.

Can confirm the C2 is perfectly capable of taking out an 890. It's not going to be speedy about it by any stretch of the imagination. But it can do it. Also, is bounty hunting still the best way to make money? Yes, as long as we're talking about Vaughn's bounties since the droprate for illegal cargo is a LOT higher than on regular bounties. Also, you can get exploity on those and save yourself a lot of time. Since they don't start out hostile and just sit in space not moving until you engage, a lot of the time you can just board the ship and kill the pilot. Skip the fight alltogether.

"The Khartu-al" 🤌🤌. Yes...draw me like one of your Xi'an girls, Sub. Good video man.😂

With the Titan, I usually lure npcs out of atmosphere to have an opportunity

Sabre + Strife Mass drivers Size 2'S x4 + 1 cooler, 1 powerplant and no shield, you let your ship dropping EM et IR, at 5,2 KM away you shoot standing still. Not detected, out of range of NPC'S but you hit them. Stealthy Sniper Loadout

The Taurus still have 1 offensive turret on top. And i have used the Tractor on moving stuff, very fun.

It'd be nice if ships slotted into respective tiers from here on out, but at some point I hope ERTs require multiple people.

Yeah, I knew my OG Avenger would be S Class 😄 I beat Vanduul Swarm twice with it.

2 bad C1 not on this list. Would love to see comparison with Cutlass Black

I just wish there was a ares version with a railgun/mass driver. I've been so so so close over the last few patches to just finally melt my ion

I’ve gotta see the f8c vs the 890j

When you do ERT for a living you will definitely put Ballistic Cannons on the Corsair, bro. Deadbolt all the way. Taking down Hammerheads and 890s in a few seconds... There is no alternative. Except when you do ERTs with others. Then you better go Energy and enjoy the never-having to refill.

Wooooo been waiting for this video. I don't care about the payouts but much more about the fun. When the servers are not kicking the bucket PvE ship combat is awesome :3

Right on great ranking guide

Once those computer blades come... that Scorpius is going S-Class... S for Scorpius ^_^

The 325a is even worse for PVE since it has a bug where you can't even get into missile operator mode.

C2 is currently my go to ERT VHRT ship, all to shields and it tanks alot, guns are neough to slowly eat away the other big ships!, just against fighters its pretty meh, but since ert and VHRT are only bigger ships, it dosent matter... plus i can get all the cargo

Bucc and the Penguin. Load up with railguns on the Bucc for fun.

Best SC Guide on RU-vid!! Keep it up :D

Thanks you for the guide 👌

sadly I jumped ship on the ares in order to upgrade a carrack to a polaris, after playing with other ships this patch, im not regretting it so far

Yeah man, they REALLY need to fix that weapon grouping issue with MM. Also, I've basically switch to using all ballistics for PvE. It just takes way too long to get shields down. You can do ERTs even with something like a Firebird with laser cannons. But, if you run into a Redeemer it can be a real bitch getting ahead of the shields. I don't know about still putting the Glad, Arrow and Blade in A. Definitely not over the Sabre Raven/FB. To start the Sabres have 3X the hp and are way faster.

they need to add different kinds of hrt/vhrt/ert some requiring multicrew, and some doable for small fighers maybe 1-2 people doing it.. some big targets sub capital size like now.. and some erts only consisting of fighters .. give them like 4-5 hornets attacking you or smth

I think the taurus is much better than the corsair. I'd rather have the better cargo and not loose a wing every second ERT and have better maneuverability than in a corsair. Besides having 4 size 5 guns is easier on the capacitor. Plus the corsair has a really annoying bug where it cant take off from the pad.

Sustain on f8c doesnt matter, parts just fall off of it in a fight. Last night i went from 8 guns to 2 in the first 10 seconds. With no QT and peices of wings missing. Most missiles inoperable

I know this was made 2 weeks ago, but some things have changed, and some things were not noted. First, don't expect to hit anything with a s9 torp. So, retaliator and eclipse should drop down to E rank. The torp nerfs were bad, but but even before the nerfs they were not in a good state. Just to note what they did. Torps are slower, need to be fired from further out, and are priority targets based on size, and tgey increased countermeasure power. For s9's thats 5k minum to fire, and they had their speed signifantky dropped, so youre looking at 9-10 seconds filight time before impact at a minimum. Next is the F7A MKII (hornet) this ship is in a real bad place. They removed the straifing bug, so now it has the worst manuverability of any hornet. The turrets have only 100hp front, and 275hp top. So, a single balistic hit to either of them, and you loose those weapons. (Even s1's can take them out without much effort.), the ship still bucks in atmo, and its flight time is abysmal since the ship consumes 4x the fuel of the MK1 hornets. It has a small qt tank than its MKI brothers. This is currently the worst of the Hornet series, seriously thete isn't a single area this hornet excells in compared to other hornets. (Definately not worthy of S tier. Though it may fit in A, maybe B. The ship is still good, just not worthy of a top spot.) If you happen to be one of the lucky ones who has a F7A MKI. Then your in luck. It has almost none of these issues. The only concern is that nebulas are rendering inside the cockpit, im told can make visability a serious pain, even to your own hud. (This ship is worthy of S tier.)

I'd love to see how you would rate ships for ERT's based on multi-crew only instead of solo play, unless nothing would change XD

thank you for doing this - loved it.

Generally when doing ERTs I use my F7A and my friend comes in either his corsair or connie taurus. Generally fast enough kill time, two of us skim the ships for high value loot, I guard my friend while he sells the loot, and the 50/50 split isnt so bad. Also 2 s4 and 4s3 deadbolts on the F7A is just plain mean.

All of the Gatac ships have great views. The C.O. ships have great views. Cutlasses have good views. Reliant has a great view. Fury has a great view.