Star Citizen - EPIC Capital Ship Takedown 

I wonder if ships get damaged from the jets of fire that appeared on both sides during the end phase of the explosion, like what you see from black holes/quasars. It would be cool to see that slice through a ship that’s in its range in a cinematic similar to that of the Star Wars Sovereign Class. That’ll give everyone a que to stay well away from a ship of this scale being destroyed

And a lot of it is still placeholder!

Yeah I wasn't really impressed. The turrets don't sound very impactful. I get that it's space but man..

@@NarasimhaDiyasena at least so far we got that ships staying to close to an exploding ship will also take the damage and explode in instances. Let's just hope they build more upon that so those core explosions are really dangerous if stating to close depending on size of ships

Realistically there shouldn't be any sound, I mean they could've at least made the sound a lot more muffled.

Major pucker factor

I still haven't found any video of that railgun hitting a ship. Would be nice to see it's affects on a Hammerhead or a 890 Jump.

Best video of being shot at by that size 10 I've seen.

@@Bland-79 One and Done ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h_-GTNDCSRM.html&ab_channel=CitizenOjciec

@@pspx2rock Thanks but I found this not to long ago.

STEERING WHEELS :D

I literally made a o face at 4:47. No matter what the state of the game in alpha. It is still a beautiful experience.

Just needs a bit more variation in explosion sound effects and it'll be almost perfect.

@@Baleur Dude, I meant joystick H.O.T.A.S. )) I have a very strange way of expressing my thoughts XD

That's epic despite the fact there is no sound in space

Unfortunately they’re not as effective as you would think. They sorta nerfed torpedos a while back so you couldn’t launch huge salvos. The result is having to launch them one by one. Before 3.12 it wasn’t too much of an issue, but now you can directly target them and shoot them down. I love that this is a thing, but they need to probably give bombers a bit more ability to rapidly launch them so it’s more of a challenge for the gunners to defend their ship. We had 3-4 retaliators shooting off size 9s and not a single one made it to the ship before the PDCs shredded them. The most effective method we found was to have small fighters come in first and take down the turrets, then somehow keep the shields low enough so that talis could come in late fight and drop their payload.

Well if you have the same amount of ppl from the HH in retailators that can launch 2 torps at a time, you get somewhere, but where are you getting so much torp bombers from ;) In the end it is all about alpha dmg VS shield capacity and dps VS regen.

Well... Retaliator/Eclipse really IS a joke when it comes to fighting reall big warships, so... Lol.

@@Morphologis Just one Retaliator can do a lot to the Idris, if you had 3 or more with some fighters to harass the Idris I'm sure it wouldn't last long at all.

@@Morphologis I disagree. Yes Tali's and Eclipses can be easily destroyed by that rail gun, but if you use them the way they were designed you could take out an Indris with them. Your torpedos got shot down because you didn't get in close enough before firing them off. And don't tell me you can't get in close enough with these ships because I personally know better. And no it doesn't require a fleet of bombers. Just 2 Tali's is enough to take out an undefended Idris.

What minute?

@@denix2006 It was about 1:35.

Nothing epic about any of it except Morph’s epic camera shots. NPC’s can’t aim or hit anything with turrets, much less steer a ship this size to be remotely impressive. They still got a long way for NPC’s to be useful.

@@tropicthndr And yet the NPCs still took him down and every torpedo his team fired at them.

@@tropicthndr other video show an Idris shooting down an upcoming S9 torpedo then using flares to avoid smaller missiles.

It's operated by the pilot?

@@Dumb-Comment Well it is nose mounted and fixed, so the pilot as to line up and lead the shot for it to land.

What makes it better, is that your home Idris won’t be on rails. It will have combat AI like any other ship, and it will be crewed in real time by dozens of NPCs.

Took me 4 torpedo with a retaliator and about 40 seconds.

Oh yeah when they increase server stability everything will just improve immensely. (That’s if it gets implemented perfectly)

There are 3 fighters max planned.

It varies between patches honestly man. They get better as time goes on, but your specs should be good. I used to run it on a 980 lmao

So I have a fair bit of experience flying the Hammerhead, it's one of my favorite ships to fly together with other org mates. The most powerful thrusters are its main engines, so in order to keep orbiting and keep away from the railgun, it's easier to maintain my distance by pointing the rear thrusters outward. Secondly, the optimal way to take advantage of all the turrets is to put the target at your twelve but nose down about 15-30 degrees. This gives the midship starboard and port turrets a firing solution which would ordinarily be blocked by the forward turrets. This attack strategy allows for 5 turrets to focus fire on a single target, but requires quite a bit of pilot skill to pull off consistently. The most you could get from a broadside is 4 turrets on target, so this really is best strategy to get the most firepower down range. The front on approach is also advantageous as it presents a smaller cross section for the enemy ship to shoot at. Actually, this is what I recall doing in world of warships to avoid broadside salvos so it seems naval strategy somewhat applies here. I hope this helps!! If you ever want to see it in action, I invite you to join our community and get in on one of the events.

@@Morphologis Thanks for the explanation. You basically described what I was thinking, but it occurs to me now that the viewer may have a problem in perception due to editing and the "camera angle", etc. It'll be interesting to see what you think of the layout of the Idris; from what I saw of an (admittedly) older floor plan, it's a hot mess (again looking at it as a former warship sailor). This may seem picky, but every time I look through these larger ships, I wonder if the people at CIG think that spacefarers will just carry their food with them at all times. Not a reefer or dry storage locker to be seen, and it's not like you can reliably forage while exploring space. On another note, your name comes up consistently in game chat when folks are recommending YTers to noobs (along with DigThat32, it seems), so you're getting some good recognition from the people that play the game. Maybe you should give the silky-smooth R&B DJ voice a try, eh? No? 😁 Ah well ... keep up the good work!